Dealer: HDMI over IP is ‘Game Changing’

Thanks guys, David, Nice install (picture) BTW.

For a return path for IR, couldn’t you just split out the brown and blue pair at each end. Ethernet just uses the Orange and Brown pair.

josh

I think you mean the Orange and Green pair Josh.

Your right, didn’t proof the post.

Thanks..

FYI. I stopped by their booth at cedia and they had multiple sources and multiple displays. Everything looked good. I didn’t see any problems with picture quality or anything else. Sure looks like a product that can solve some issues and not empty the clients wallet. I am getting ready to order a couple to try them out… I can’t wait.

Hi guys I have never senn or followed a thread with so many different opinions. If I may add my 10 cents. We are non US based and much as I would love to sell crestron or amx, i am lucky to get to specify one of these systems in a two year period.
Even in Italy you may not see a ferrari on the road more than once a month.My business is built on lower priced systems for the real world and I personally think that this product is a game changer. I was called into a house two years ago with 7 hi-def LCD`s on the walls and asked because the guy who mentioned me seemed to think i knew what i was talking about why the picture quality was nowhere as good as the shop he had seen them in . All the screens were being fed off air analogue ( old fashioned tv ) through rg7 and when he queried the dealer a long established firm he was told that the sets were not set up right and a technician would be sent out to adjust them at a cost of 50 euro per set.
My point is there are a lot of people who think because it says hi-def on the set they are watching hi-def. A box like this where you can go back to a client and show him hi-def on the cat5 you ran more in hope than anything else 5 years ago when hi-def was 790 ( sorry my eight key is locking up ) is going to bring a smile to the client and money to me. I would be the first to agree you get what you pay for and personally am not prepared to sell anything that i cannot stand over but not everyone can travel first class or even business but the guy in coach deserves the best he can be given and to be able to send hdmi over a single cat 5 in this fashion is actually something I have been expecting just not this soon.

Well, 6 weeks have gone by since the CEDIA launch of HDMI over IP.  There seems to be 3 distinct groups of opinions regarding the HDMI over IP solution.  In one corner we now have several dealers who have put their own hands on the product and are now installing HDMI over IP using Control4, Crestron, AMX, RTI, Pakedge, and several other automation solutions.  In another corner, we have some die hard sceptics who have never touched the HDMI over IP product, but are quick to respond with numbers and formulas to defend their total disdain for our innovative solution.  In the third corner, are the Pros standing on the outside, who are sending us emails and calling Just Add Power to ask more and more questions.  The recent article in CEPRO has done nothing to resolve the strong difference of opinion. 

I would continue to invite those of you in the third group to give HDMI over IP a try, that way you can make your own informed decision about the products strengths and limitations.  While the technology isn’t necessarily a match for every HDMI distribution opportunity out there, unless you learn what this product can do, you will never know what business you lost because you didn’t have this solution as an option to put on the table.

We are happy to announce that the HDMI over IP family has been expanded to include a Rackmount Transmitter with 3 HDMI inputs and 3 Ethernet outputs.  Details are available at http://www.justaddpower.com/vmchk/VBS-Suite-for-High-Definition/90-HDMI-over-IP-Rackmount-Transmitter/flypage.tpl.html

The box is built on a TaifaTech 600/630 reference design.  I also have an Acoustic Research HDMI over Powerline box built off of the same reference design plus a Toshiba HDPLC module.  The Explore Semiconductor HDMI chips seem to leave a little to be desired.  Both boxes fail to connect to the Sigma-based set-top box and Toshiba TV in my test setup.  The STB is from the same reference design as some of the Popcorn-hour stuff.

It is game changing… IPTV is the future. funny pictures

HAHAHAHAHAHAH!  This thread is incredibly entertaining!  But on a more serious note:

This product seems to be EXACTLY what the custom integration market has been waiting for!  (Unless they ruin it by making it TOO accesible to opinionated DIY consumer at internet whore prices.)

Good stuff!