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Crestron DigitalMedia™

Technology and HDBaseT

Agenda

The world is digital

HDMI problems; HDBaseT solutions

What is DigitalMedia™?

Why HDBaseT?

Leading the HDBaseT charge: DigitalMedia™

Crestron DigitalMedia™ Technology and HDBaseT

The world is digital


Consumers and Hollywood are aligned

Consumers want the latest features

» 1080P

» High resolution multichannel audio

» 3D

Hollywood wants content protection

No analog formats can offer any of these features


Consumer sources have fully transitioned

Bluray – only 9 of 45 at Bestbuy.com offer component out

Satellite and cable TV, TiVo

Playstation3, XBox

AppleTV, Boxee box, Roku

Home Theater PC’s


HDMI problems

HDBaseT solutions


HDMI system problems

Distance limitations

Cable installation, infrastructure

Control for remote displays

System verification


Distance limitations

Standard HDMI

» Approximately 30 feet

DigitalMedia™ 8G+

» 330 feet on standard twisted pair cable


Cable installation and infrastructure

HDMI cables are prohibitively difficult to terminate in field

HDMI cables with connectors can’t pass easily through conduit

HDMI connector has tiny pins which can be fragile

HDMI connector may easily come disconnected

Testing HDMI cables requires specialized equipment


Cable installation and infrastructure

HDBaseT is compatible with standard category cabling

Easy, well-known terminations

Easy to pull through walls over long distances

Easy to terminate and manage CAT5e with DM 8G+



The farther your display gets from sources, the farther it (likely) gets

from your control system

Depending on display, control may be IR, RS-232, Ethernet, or CEC

Swap TV? May need to swap control line in the wall

Where will you find enough ports on your control system anyway?



DigitalMedia™ endpoints (TX/RX) all feature control ports

» IR RS-232

» Relay Digital sense input

» CEC Ethernet LAN port

Backbone for the control network is the Ethernet LAN enabled by

HDBaseT

Control system communicates to DM via standard TCP/IP


System verification

Your system is up and “working” but now what?

What if the content changes resolution?

What if a new source gets plugged in?

Are your cables good enough?

How are you going to find out?

» You’ll find out when your customer calls one night…


System verification

DigitalMedia™ system commissioning report

Simple report providing detailed info

» HDBaseT link quality

» EDID config

» HDCP problems


What is DigitalMedia™?


DigitalMedia™ backbone: large HDMI matrices


8X8 16X16 32X32

Getting signals into a DigitalMedia™ system


DigitalMedia™ transport technologies


DM 8G+ CAT5e – up to 330 feet

DM 8G Fiber Multi-Mode – up to 1000 feet

DM 8G Fiber Single-Mode – up to 12 kilometers

DigitalMedia™ transmitters

Transmitters connect to DM inputs

» Available with analog and digital inputs

» Include control interfaces for source devices

DM TX’s come in 12 varieties, including 3 with HDBaseT


DigitalMedia™ HDBaseT I/O cards

Input cards receive HDBaseT signals

» Strip out HDMI and give to matrix

» Connect to Ethernet backplane

Output cards convert HDMI from matrix back to HDBaseT


DigitalMedia™ room controllers

Converts HDBaseT back into

baseband signals

» HDMI

» LAN

» RS-232, IR, relay, sensor

Available in 7 varieties, including 3

with HDBaseT


New DM-MD6x6

All features of the large DM switches in a smaller, cheaper package

» Full matrix routing

» Local HDMI output

» Five HDBaseT outputs, compatible with all 8G+ room controllers

Two rack units tall


Why did Crestron use HDBaseT?


Benefits of HDBaseT

Single wire solution

Carries everything important

» High resolution audio and video

» Ethernet

» Low speed serial communication

» Power

Standard infrastructure – category cable

» DigitalMedia™ upgrade and buy-back program


Moving to a standards based world

Interoperability is important

Competition on an even playing field

Standards needed for control

Overcoming HDMI hurdles with DigitalMedia™

DigitalMedia™ is the established leader in HDBaseT

Since inception, over 13,000 DigitalMedia™ switches have been sold

That represents over one quarter billion dollars in revenue

We have been shipping this product for three years

» That is an eternity in the digital world!


HDBaseT is taking over in DigitalMedia


Dec-08 Mar-09 Jun-09 Sep-09 Dec-09 Mar-10 Jun-10 Sep-10 Dec-10 Mar-11 Jun-11

8G+ RMC DM RMC

Wrap up


This is just the beginning…

The A/V industry is now the digital A/V industry

This is a new opportunity to be the best

HDBaseT and Crestron DigitalMedia™ have already set the standard

for digital A/V distribution – don’t be left behind


Q&A

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