AV SVI MULTIROOM ENTERTAINMENT
ALL AROUND Deliver the dream of omnipresent AV to your clients with the most multifacted multiroom gear known to man…
There are few things more awesome than having access to endless AV all over the house, whether it’s the same source playing house-wide, or all manner of entertainment in all rooms, multiroom is the miracle of the modern domestic age. So, if you’re going to do multiroom, you should ensure you do multiroom well. Fortunately, the tech powers that be have made achieving that gloriously easy for you…
YAMAHA MUSICCAST SPEAKERS
Yamaha’s MusicCast system was one of the first to exploit network power to deliver audio around the home. Now integrated with Yamaha’s AV Receivers, SoundBars, streaming amplifiers, hi-fi components and systems, as well as two new wireless speakers, MusicCast makes multi-room audio easy to enjoy. You simply connect all MusicCast devices to the same network and start sharing audio throughout the home, controlled via the free MusicCast app. Recently the system has evolved to include Alexa voice control. The new MusicCast 50 and MusicCast 20 smart speakers are scaled for larger and smaller spaces but offer the same intuitive MusicCast operation and control. They can be used as standalone speakers, in pairs, or as wireless surround speakers with a compatible MusicCast AV receiver or sound bar. habitech.co.uk
WYRESTORM AV DISTRIBUTION The quality and practicality of 4K video distribution is elevated to a new level with Wyrestorm’s NetworkHD™ 600 Series 4K HDR Premium AV over IP SDVoE TX/RX modules. The system offers the ultimate AVoIP platform, supporting highly scalable, high-bandwidth, secure video content alongside multi-channel audio and a plethora of connectivity and control options. Utilising SDVoE compression tech, the NHD-600 offers easy plug-and-play scalability alongside lossless and latency-free video distribution over IP networks.
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Meanwhile Wyrestorm’s NetworkHD™ 400 Series 4K AV-over-IP JPEG 2000 modules deliver 4K HDR video, 4K/2K auto-scaling, multi-channel audio and audio matrixing to residential and commercial IP network applications. Utilising JPEG 2000 compression the system seamlessly handles mixed resolution sources, content and display devices for high quality, low latency, easily scalable performance over IP. And WyreStrom’s injected its market-leading HDBT copper matrix technology with the range and speed of fibre connections. When you need
to target the 4K telly in the summer house, the new TX-H2X-OM3 card for its H2X Series modular matrix platform replaces the HDBT with a 10G optical fibre output sending 4K HDR content up to 300m! Alternatively the new EXF300-H2 extender set harnesses any mirrored HDMI 2.0 input or output on the matrix to connect a distant 18Gbps 4K source to the switch, or send the latest full-fat 4K signal out to a display device over fibre within a 300m range using a plug-and-play TX/RX system. habitech.co.uk
