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HDTV Matrix from ComputerCableStore™. Integrate 4 HDTV Sources with 4 HDTV Displays. The 4x4 HDTV Matrix is perfect for integrating multiple high definition video sources with multiple displays, for optimal behind-the-scenes control of multi-room or multi-location high definition video systems. You assign each source to a display with a remote or wire control with each source accessed immediately upon selection. It works with all HDTV sources and displays equipped with
DVI (digital visual interface). It requires no complex networking and is simple to install and operate. Beautiful high definition video is fully supported.The 4x4 HDTV Matrix switcher has four DVI inputs and four DVI outputs. You connect your four sources to the 4x4 HDTV Matrix's inputs using supplied cables, then connect your four displays to the Matrix's outputs. There are four DVI outputs connecting to four different displays. To use with
HDMI devices, Gefen supplies DVI to HDMI Adapters for video only.
DVI, or Digital Video Interface Technology came about in 1999 as a result of the formation of the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG) a year prior. Their original mission was to create a standard digital video interface for communication between a Personal Computer and a VGA monitor. Recently, however, the consumer electronics industry began implementing DVD players, set-top boxes, televisions, and LCD/plasma monitors with DVI technology.
HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed digital data. It represents a digital alternative to consumer analog standards such as Radio Frequency (RF) coaxial cable, composite video, S-Video, SCART, component video, D-Terminal, and VGA. HDMI connects digital audio/video sources such as set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, personal computers (PCs), video game consoles, and AV receivers to compatible digital audio devices, computer monitors, and digital televisions. HDMI supports, on a single cable, any TV or PC video format, including standard, enhanced, and high-definition video, up to 8 channels of digital audio, and the Consumer Electronics Control signal. It is independent of the various digital television standards such as ATSC and DVB as these are encapsulations of compressed MPEG video streams (which can be decoded and output as an uncompressed video stream on HDMI). A Digital Visual Interface (DVI) signal is electrically compatible with an HDMI video signal; no signal conversion needs to take place when an adapter is used, and consequently no loss in video quality occurs.
High-definition television (or HDTV) is a digital television broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems (standard-definition TV, or SDTV). HDTV is digitally broadcast; the earliest implementations used analog broadcasting, but today digital television (DTV) signals are used, requiring less bandwidth due to digital video compression.
- Save time by enabling all four sources readily accessible at all times to four displays
- Maintains 480p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p resolutions
- Maintains high resolution video - beautiful HDTV resolutions up to 1080p are easily achieved
- Discrete IR remote (included); contact closure controllable
- Supports VESA Standard and HDTV resolutions
- Supports DDWG standards for DVI monitors
- HDCP compliant
- Rack mountable
- Installs in minutes