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NeoPro Introduces NeoStar Fiber Optic Matrix Switcher

The ultimate in multiroom A/V: send up to eight streams of encrypted HDMI video to eight zones ... as far as 1,000 feet over single fiber optic cables


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NeoStar fiber optic switcher complements NeoPro’s LightSpider device introduced last year. Both use fiber optic technology from OWLink.

If you want the very best audio and video distributed throughout a very large house, you'll want to use fiber optic cable.

At CEDIA 2009, NeoPro will debut NeoStar, a fiber-optic switch designed to deliver eight streams of 1080p HDMI video and six additional audio sources to eight video and four audio-only zones.

The audio/video content can reach as far as 1,000 feet over fiber optics.

Last year, NeoPro introduced LightSpider, a point-to-point fiber optic solution. This year, the company is going all the way, again using Digital Light Interface (DLI) technology from OWLink Technology, Inc.

DLI uses advanced optical wave division multiplexing (WDM) to transmit uncompressed video/audio and other data. With OWLink’s patented technology, DLI allows the transmission of high-speed HD digital video, high quality digital audio, IR remote control information, USB, LAN, RS232 and other control and data information, all through a thin, single fiber.
The NeoStar can serve as a hub for NeoPro's LightSpider nodes.

“Digital video is obviously the future, but until now, it has not been practical to use as a whole-house solution," says NeoPro CEO Bill Paul. "We believe that the basic cabling infrastructure of the home can be completely fiber with DLI."

Pricing has not been finalized for NeoStar, but Paul says it will likely list betweent $10,000 to $12,000 -- probably what you'd pay for fancy HDMI extender kits, and a whole lot easier.

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Julie Jacobson, Editor-at-large, CE Pro
Julie Jacobson is co-founder of EH Publishing and currently spends most of her time writing for CE Pro, mostly in the areas of home automation, networked A/V and the business of home systems integration. She majored in Economics at the University of Michigan, earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and has never taken a journalism class in her life. Julie is a washed-up Ultimate Frisbee player with the scars to prove it. Follow her on Twitter @juliejacobson.

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Posted by Chris Nicholson  on  09/08  at  06:38 PM

What up with the picture of the Beta Version Lightspiders?

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