Essential Install | Wyrestorm
WyreStorm Looks To
Deliver Rock Solid 4K Over IP
WyreStorm’s NetworkHD goes 4K with the Launch of the 400 Series
for low-latency 4K over IP for commercial and residential applications.
The latest in WyreStorm’s NetworkHD AV over IP line, the
400 Series, offers HDR, multi-channel audio and 2K/4K
auto scaling alongside PoE, separate audio routing and
16x16 video wall capabilities, offering a strong variety of
4K over IP functionality.
Supporting HDMI 2.0a and HDCP 2.2, WyreStorm says
the 400 Series handles the delivery of visually lossless
4K UHD with HDR enabled content and multichannel
audio up to Dolby Atmos and DTS:X with ease, making it
suitable for AV distribution around the home.
In commercial applications NetworkHD is already
established in hundreds of colleges, universities,
hospitality venues and corporations to provide 24/7
distribution of mission critical content.
James Meredith, WyreStorm NetworkHD and Enado
product manager, says: “With the 400 Series intended
for both commercial and residential applications where
low latency, multi-channel audio and our highest quality
picture with HDR is essential in the modern installation,
we feel we have developed a solution that addresses all
our customers’ AV over IP installation needs.
“When combined with our groundbreaking free
NetworkHD Touch App for iPad, we are confi dent that the
400 Series 4K NetworkHD systems deliver best-in-class
picture, sound and ease of use that our customers expect
and deserve.”
The 400 Series has been designed to feature the latest
generation AV technology to increase image quality and
content security, whilst almost eliminating end-to-end latency.
Unlike a traditional fi xed matrix, WyeStorm says the
adaptable modular matrix design of NetworkHD allows
for a system to be expanded quickly and easily by adding
more sources or displays without requiring an update to
existing network architecture. Using standard networking
technologies, NetworkHD enables any point on the network
to support 4K video and HD audio, with PoE providing
power to all components from the switch, eliminating power
supplies and potential points of failure from a system.
The maker adds that mixing the latest 4K displays
and older 1080p screens will never be a problem as
the scaling features of the series enables NHD-400-RX
decoders to automatically scale incoming video signals to
match the maximum capability of the connected display.
The video wall capabilities of the 400 Series offers
bezel correction, image rotation and portrait video walls,
as well as traditional landscape modes for video walls up
to 16x16. Content can be up and downscaled to fi t each
display and a custom ‘No Source’ idle image graphic
overlay can enable branding or customer messaging to
be displayed even if no video is being received at a zone.
New to all NetworkHD Series components, the 400 Series
features compelling audio matrix functionality with audio
able to be routed separately from video to any decoder
to leverage networked AV distribution to its full potential.
NetworkHD 400 is also described as a control
powerhouse, with bidirectional IR and RS232, for
control of displays and sources from remote locations
and CEC support for triggering displays on and off, all
accomplished with the tap of a button. Intuitive control
can be achieved with the free NetworkHD Touch App for
iPad to create a drag and drop switching experience with
live video previews of all connected sources and displays.
With the available drivers, integration with third party
control systems, including the WyreStorm Enado control
solution, is straight-forward.
Worth noting also that the WyreStorm management
suite is available with support for the NHD-220-RX and
NHD-SW-0501 and is also accompanied by NetworkHD
Touch v2.0 which adds a raft of new functionality to AV
over IP distribution and control.
All of this, says WyreStorm, makes the 400 Series the
perfect 4K UHD, 1 Gigabit, low latency AV signal management
solution for any commercial or residential application.
More Inf ormation: WyreStorm +44 (0)1793 230343,
www.wyrestorm.com
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