RE: Video Distribution

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <tony.butler@xxxxxxx>]

>                
Just a suggestion for anyone whos running 
> lots of Cat5 to
> use with the Kat5 equipment in mind. I would run a figure 8 
> cable (speaker
> type cable) back to node 0 from each outlet .This cable would 
> supply the dc
> voltage eg 12v  that the modules require . Otherwise those 

Too late for me as cable already run, but would the voltage drop on
long
runs not be too great for this?

> Tony has the Kat5 switcher specs been released ?

There's some stuff on the kat5.tv site about it, but I think it's all
in
keiths head really.
Every now and then one or another of us asks if it will be able to do X
and
the answer invariably is 'yes, already thought of that and not only will
it
be able to do X, it will be able to do Y and Z also that you never
thought
of :-)

So far I have gathered it will:
- Switch 8 sources to 8 outputs independently
- Have two way IR capability
- Provide widescreen switching on pin8/line23
- Be controllable via a web interface/HV/IR
- Have the ability to feed any of the 4 inputs on a source to any output
-
so you could feed the left audio of your CD player to the right audio
TV
destination, feed your Tv with audio from a CD and video from your PC
controlling the Slinke you have attacked to your PC and CD jukebox etc
- I think there will be a feature to overlay video from the switcher
itself
on your output device
- Possibly there will be amplification built in/available as an addon so
you
can do distributed amplified audio
- Detect if more than 50% of the screen is green (ie sports) and
automatically switch to a more interesting tv/sky channel :-)


This is not gospel, just stuff I have gathered from various
posts/emails
over the months



Tony


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