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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 [...]

Bandwidth usage is intensifying. The costs of fiber optic cable and related components continue to decrease. And emerging technologies demand faster speeds and more reliable connectivity.

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 to compare the two with their [...]

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 [...]

SDVoE systems deliver AV processing capabilities far beyond that of a matrix switch. Many SDVoE devices include a powerful AV processing unit which enables advanced functionality that is [...]

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 [...]