Valens updated HDbaseT by announcing the Colligo HDBaseT family of chips at ISE recently. They now support native USB 2.0, HD audio, transmission of 4K video over Cat-5/6 cables up to 100m in length, and add single- and multi-mode fiber transport over distances up to 10km. Not a bad spot to ask whether HDbaseT is becoming a[…]
In March 2011, the IEEE 1733 standard was approved for publication. It specified how to transport Layer 3-encapsulated AV data. The awesome Layer 2 Quality of Service (QoS) provided by the IEEE 802.1 AVB standards is one of the best things to come with this standard. Also big: the standard is reliable, well known, what[…]
So how does AVB work? Timing is everything in AV. . In your office or conference room, you have become accustomed to video and audio that behave in a certain way. You will not, for example, put up with video that takes 10 seconds to begin playing, nor would you accept video if it’s audio was delayed even a[…]