Key Digital KD-BBTX Cat-5/6/7 Balun Devices

Now with HD video fully entrenched in millions of American households the next wave of video appears to be 3D content. A recent study from iSuppli predicts that 3D software sales will grow through 2014 and as Americans and the rest of the world start to embrace this latest iteration of stereoscopic images, custom installers will have to adapt to handle this new technology.

Key Digital's new KD-BBTX Cat-5/6/7 balun is designed to allow installers to handle the bandwidth requirements of today's standard 1080i broadcast content and impending technologies such as 4K video (4096x2160 24fps) and 3D. Key says the balun can be used with HDMI and DVI sources and that it can be controlled with IR or RS-232.

The N.Y.-based company adds the balun is HDCP and 12-bit compliant and it's also capable of supporting the lossless Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio formats. The KD-BBTX can be used for commercial and residential installations and its capable of transmitting 1080p/60 up to 150 feet and 1080p/24 as far as 260 feet over a single Cat-5/6/7 cable.