Essential Install | Habitech
AV On Target
When shifting standards in AV distribution represent something of
a moving quarry, you’ll enjoy greater success at longer range with
the proven combination of WyreStorm tech and Habitech support.
Take aim with Habitech’s product manager for video, Jay Brand…
For Jay the hotshot team in AV
distribution is
Wyrestorm’s earlybird deployment
and innovation
supported by
Habitech’s awardwinning back-up
The new EX-70H2X extender set
supports HDMI 2.0
video, HDCP 2.2
content encryption,
HDR and internal
re-clocking
Within months of the launch of HDBaseT, Wyrestorm was
shipping its first products: a range of high performing,
feature-laden HDBaseT extender sets. Three years later
with the advent of Power-over-HDBaseT and the Alliance’s
5Play convergence of video, audio, Ethernet, USB and
control and power, Wyrestorm responded with PoH
extenders and matrices with 5Play capabilities. In 2015,
the year of 4K penetration, HDMI 2.0 and the UHD Blu-ray
standard, Wyrestorm was busy readying its H2 line of 4K
matrices and extender solutions. Now, with all the focus on
HDR, the company has tweaked its H2s to accommodate
the feature under HDBaseT’s 10Gb/s ceiling.
Since 2010, Wyrestorm has weaponised the race to
achieve high performance and reliability in AV distribution
by combining the rapid deployment of key enabling
technologies with the power to innovate. As an early adopter
and major proponent of rising HDBaseT and AV-over-IP
standards, it’s mobilised considerable resources to unite
rapidly evolving high resolution video and audio formats
with affordable real-world convenience – and crown it all
with a better user experience. In other words the secret to
Wyrestorm’s campaign success is not just the ability
to react, it’s the capacity to understand,
augment and enhance.
We’re living though challenging times in AV
distribution and while we’ve every reason to thank
the gods for HDBaseT, the bandwidth demands that
4K HDR video places on a CAT network represent the
equivalent of squeezing the proverbial quart into a pint
pot. Given that nothing available beats the reliable quality,
distance, cost and simplicity of our industry HDBaseT
workhorse, the challenge for integrators is to reconcile
the expectations of our customers for high performance
over longer distances with the complexity of preserving
high pixel resolutions, refresh rates, chroma subsampling,
colour depths and standards components.
Armed and ready
Wyrestorm’s rapid implementation of the latest Valens’
tech in the upgraded H2 Series of 4x4, 6x6 and 8x8
HDBaseT 4K matrix switchers now gives you HDMI 2.0
video for 4K@60Hz with chroma subsampling rates 4:4:4,
outputting at 4:2:0 8-bit @ 60hz, or 4:2:0 10-bit HDR
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