At CEDIA this week, DISH announced integration with Key Digital and Logitech, as well as partnerships with Middle Atlantic Products and D-Tools. Key Digital adds DISH to Compass Alliance Partner program: Key Digital has added DISH to its Compass Alliance Partner program with the development of a two-way driver for the Hopper. The two-way driver […]
Key Digital’s newest is the KD-HD1x4ProK — a one-input, four-output HDMI distribution amplifier that’s spec’d to handle 4K resolution signals (4096×2160/60/30/24 or 3840×2160/60/30/24). The 3D-ready KD-HD1x4ProK can de-embed audio from the HDMI input and send it to external digital or analog audio outputs and manages TMDS re-clocking / signal re-generation, HDCP authentication to source and […]
This admittedly took me a little longer to get around to writing. Most of what I write is stream of consciousness, so it takes little time and effort to crack my brain open like an egg and spill it onto the keyboard. This post however required a little more thought, reflection, and some research, and […]
Today marked the official grand opening of Primeview’s New York showroom. Primeview, for those not familiar with them, are a manufacturer of commercial flat panel displays, focusing on video-walls, digital signage and interactive applications. For their demo space they partnered with several of the manufacturers with whom they work on projects: Haivision, Vista Systems, TVOne, […]
Key Digital and IC Realtime have announced that several of IC Realtime’s surveillance DVRs, including the Flex Series, Elite Series, NVR700N and NVR700S2P, now integrate natively into Key Digital’s Compass Control system. IC Realtime was already a Compass Allaince Partner and worked with Key Digital to develop bi-directional drivers that offers DVR control and feedback […]
Key Digital introduced today a new line of HDMI cables, called the Champion Series Hi-Fi Commercial PRO HDMI Cables, designed specifically for commercial applications. The cables range from 1.5 feet up to 75 feet. The Champion Series cables are equipped with the latest HDMI features, including 4K resolution support, 3D, HDMI Ethernet and Audio Return […]
Key Digital says its new Compass Control is a one-hour programmable control system that uses its Compass Navigator software, a step-by-step process utilizing simple ‘drag and drop’ gestures. In fact, you actually program a system using an iOS 5 device and the Compass Control App for the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. A Compass Control […]
Key Digital announced this week a new solution for the problem of managing audio via its KD-HD8X8BT Digital IQ HDMI Matrix switcher. With the proliferation of a wide variety of audio formats and the increased demand to be able to utilize all of these various formats, it is becoming increasingly difficult to both manage all […]
Key Digital, in conjunction with Compass Alliance Partners (CAP), has created a fully integrated control system called Compass Control with driver support for hardware from the following brands: Aprilaire, Boston Acoustics, ClearOne, Denon, Furman, ICRealtime Security Solutions, iPort, Key Digital, LG, Lutron, Luxul, Marantz, MechoSystems, Onkyo, Panamax, Primeview, Russound, SurgeX and Wolfvision. The company is […]
This issue seems to be all about weird names and marketing-speak. Here we go again with Key Digital announcing a new line of HDMI cables called Red Iguana. With specs like “precision internal windings” and “14.9 Gbps Super Sonic Speed,” the new line does include Plenum CL3 Rated cables and they say 12-bit color depth […]
Key Digital’s new KD-HDMI2x4P and KD-HDMI2x8P can accommodate up to two HDMI inputs and distribute these signals into four (KD-HDMI2x4P) or eight (KD-HDMI2x8P) video outputs. Both switchers are HDMI 1.3 compliant with the capacity to handle all video signals from standard definition 480i to HD 1080p. They support coaxial digital audio, optical digital audio (Toslink) […]
