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Every now and then I hear the demand for uncompressed video and I must admit, I do allow myself a little smile. I suspect what is meant is ‘lossless’. It goes without saying that we don’t want to [...]

Clearly, the work SDVoE is doing for the pro AV world sparks an interest from this community. Perhaps they are envious of our simple full-stack solution for AV distribution over Ethernet and [...]

Fiber Optic Cable: Singlemode vs Multimode Bandwidth usage is intensifying. The costs of fiber optic cable and related components continue to decrease. And emerging technologies demand faster [...]

Hands on with the New Matrix Switch 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 [...]

When Marketing is Lossy 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 [...]

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 [...]

Moving AV Processing Beyond the Matrix Switch 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, [...]

What can SDVoE Learn from the Matrix Switch? AV professionals have relied on the matrix switch for over 90 years – since television was invented. In that time, the matrix switch has evolved [...]

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 [...]

Why doesn’t the internet use operators? There are two well-known architectures used for switching electrical signals from sources to destinations: circuit switches and packet switches. A [...]