I’ve made a huge mistake. Last week at InfoComm in Orlando, the SDVoE Alliance delivered a demo that put an SDVoE system on display right next to a matrix switch. Visitors to the booth got [...]

I remember when I was a kid looking at a Hot Wheels TV commercial, boy I wanted that track! When I finally received one the next Christmas, my disappointment was noticeable. TV commercials are [...]

Ask any system designer or technician how to connect two network switches in separate buildings, install a video camera, or extend a video display over 100 meters. Nearly every time, the answer [...]

In our last installment, I explained some great features of the matrix switch that SDVoE has learned from. With these lessons at the front of mind, it should be clear how SDVoE delivers matrix [...]

AV professionals have relied on the matrix switch for over 90 years – since television was invented. In that time, the matrix switch has evolved advanced and useful features above and beyond mere [...]

Seven years ago I speculated right when I co-founded AptoVision. My intuition was telling me that pro AV needed to switch to signal distribution over Ethernet rather than continuing to use [...]

There are two well-known architectures used for switching electrical signals from sources to destinations: circuit switches and packet switches. A circuit switch is the simpler of the two. A [...]

If you type “color space” into Google and spend just 5 minutes of research, it gets really complicated really quickly, and yet in the world of pro AV we can’t avoid it. New terminology is [...]

Generally speaking, pro AV people know that fiber optic cables use light instead of electricity to carry signals, and if asked which is the most reliable option between copper and fiber, I [...]

I’m writing to make one thing clear: adding AV over IP to your existing network will always require new infrastructure. This is true whether you choose SDVoE and 10G or products limited to 1G [...]