Finally!! HDTV over IP

[aud19]

http://www.netstreams.com/ProdDesc.aspx?ID=42#specs

Benefits
The NetStreams Panorama is flexible to accommodate a variety of residential and commercial applications. Use Panorama to distribute video to multiple displays in a bar or restaurant. Combine Panorama with a Multi-Room Audio System and distribute audio and video. Combine two (2) Panorama PAN6400’s to distribute Component level video and multi-channel audio to multiple zones or distribute up to 12 Composite video signals via one Panorama PAN6400 in a security application. With Panorama, the applications are endless.

Panorama can be used as a stand alone Multi-Room Video System or integrated with NetStreams Musica™ MU5000 series Multi-Room Audio and Control System, or other control systems via RS-232 or IR, as the PAN6400 features IR inputs and outputs for IR routing. Panorama can also be utilized to distribute S-Video and multi-channel audio (coaxial digital audio) to multiple home theaters.

Features
• Distributes HDTV quality video up to 1000 feet
• 4 video source inputs
• 6 ~ 18 display outputs
• Enhanced IR routing and control capabilities
• Compatible with Musica
• Multi-Room Audio and control system

[Kevin D]

They may be the "IP leader" but I don't think what they are doing it HD over IP. It looks to me like a switcher with built in component to UTP converters. Hell, we've been sending HD over CAT5 for a few years now.

If it was IP based why not 1 output that goes to a standard switch, why do you need to put the appropriate attenuator card in for different lengths (as long as it's within the max distance, IP doesn't care how far away it is), why not have a network in on the main unit and network out on the jacks?

Seems like a nice product, but they shouldn't cram marketing all over it.

Kevin D.

[aud19]

D'oh! Looks like you're right When I saw all of their "The IP Based Distributed Entertainment Company" and associated "sloganisms" I assumed this was IP based which would have been WAY cooler :cry: