Kramer Electronics announces availability of Kramer Control, the company’s cloud-based platform for control and management. Kramer Control lets IT/AV managers control, monitor and support AV systems, infrastructures and any third-party devices. The platform is scalable and leverages existing IP network infrastructures. The platform also features automatic data gathering and reporting on space usage, system activity, device health, and energy consumption. From […]
Barco Silex is announcing new features on its Viper OEM AV-over-IP solution. The new features include PTP synchronization, support for video wall, HDMI 2.0, and fine-tuned video compression. The addition of these functionalities enables Barco Silex customers to address more use cases and applications in the professional audio/video market. The Viper OEM solution is a fully functional stand-alone hardware […]
TechLogix Networx is debuting the TL-RKPS-01 low voltage power hub at InfoComm in Orlando, Fla., on June 14th. It joins several other recent product releases, including their Share-Me collaboration line and TLXpress AV over IP line. The TL-RKPS-01 eliminates the need for “wall-wart” and “line-lump” power supplies that traditionally clutter the audio-visual rack by providing channel-selectable 5, 12 and 24 […]
Altinex just debuted the new TP115-401 and TP115-402 HDMI Over IP Transmitter / Receiver System. Part of the company’s Homerun Series of products, the new TP115-401 and TP115-402 are designed for digital signage applications and enable users to easily create an AV Over IP matrix system incorporating up to as many as 60 TP115-401 transmitters and 120 TP115-402 receivers. The new TP115-401 […]
AptoVision today announced that the latest firmware release for its BlueRiver NT2000 AV-over-IP chipset is now available and includes a new mode that enables video to be transported and scaled without latency (aka: latency under one tenth of a millisecond over 100 meters of CAT‐x or 30 kilometers of fiber). The new release also includes what they are calling an “advanced chroma […]
The Atlona OmniStream product line is their first foray into the its first line of AV-over-IP products. The OmniStream family consists of five products to integrate and distribute 4K/UHD video (@60Hz 4:2:0 Chroma Sub-sampling), audio, and RS-232 control over Gigabit Ethernet networks — albeit compressed. The OmniStream line has dual-channel encoding and decoding, redundant AV networks and streams, encrypted content distribution, broadcast-quality 4K video compression (if you […]
Aurora Multimedia just introduced a 4K60Hz 4:4:4 (8-bit color) AV over IP signal transceiver, utilizing their IPBaseT technology. Aurora says the IPX-TC2 Series is the world’s first 10Gbps IPBaseT transceiver capable of 4K60Hz 4:4:4 with extremely low 1.3:1 real time compression and zero frame latency. That includes scaling, windowing and videowall modes up to 16×16, […]
The BlueRiver NT1000 from AptoVision is the newest AV-Over-IP chipset reference redesign — we wanted to be technically accurate and everyone else in the press is reporting it as a chip, but it’s not. Expanding the BlueRiver NT+ Series it is able to transport uncompressed, zero-latency Ultra HD/4K HDR over Ethernet. AptoVision says that the NT1000 can reduce material costs […]
HARMAN Professional Solutions today announced support of AES67 across networked audio and video product families. AES67 is a standard to enable high-performance audio-over-IP streaming interoperability between various IP-based audio networks. New Soundweb London BLU-806DA, BLU-326DA and BLU-DA devices will support both Dante and AES67 natively and will replace the BLU-806, BLU-326 and BLU-DAN devices respectively. […]
At ISE 2017 (Amsterdam RAI, Feb. 7-10, Stand: 12-E38), Matrox will be presenting its complete ecosystem of AV-over-IP and video wall products, offering system builders and integrators a preview of how easily Matrox products can drive their content distribution, processing, and display needs. IP-Based Content Distribution and Decode System The latest generation of Matrox’s Maevex […]
Didn’t we just have Analog Sunset? And, what the heck is Digital Sunset? Yes, it’s true that it seems that we just completed Analog Sunset — the retiring of everything analog (in mainstream technology, that is) and the realization that all things will become digital. That ended, believe it or not, like six years ago […]
RTI today announced a two-way driver for MuxLab’s ProDigital series of AV over IP products. The new driver allows integrators to easily incorporate MuxLab AV devices into RTI automation and control systems, providing powerful yet simple video control for commercial and residential applications. Developed by RTI through MuxLab’s partner program, the two-way driver allows direct […]
One comment I frequently hear about HDBaseT is that it’s a “bridge technology” between the old days of simple point-to-point connectivity and a future in which AV joins the rest of our data on those great big IP networks which dominate the rest of our lives. Are we ready for this paradigm shift? Is the […]
On October 1st of this year, Crestron Electronics sent out a press release that its DMCO 7-series streaming card for DigitalMedia was now shipping. This card was not a huge surprise to the industry, as it had been rumored/discussed since InfoComm of 2012. In addition, the technology had been seen by many people in Crestron’s […]
ClearOne is trying to get manufacturers to integrate their AV-over-IP technology into their products (e.g., projectors, monitors, lighting control, etc.) by launching the StreamNet Ready Partner Program. StreamNet is ClearOne’s patented technology (basically, what they acquired from NetStreams) used for streaming audio and video, as well as sending control, over a local area network (LAN). […]
