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Welcome to the High Definition Digital community sponsored by the Avocent business of Emerson Network Power. The Avocent business of Emerson is a leading provider of open, secure and modular solutions that enable customers to simply manage IT complexity.

The High Definition Digital community will focus on three specific areas – broadcast and post production environments, Pro-AV and digital signage – and how they all tie back to high definition digital. More specifically, the community will highlight how built-in WiFi connections and Ethernet cables play a key role in delivering high definition videos and services for retail, hospitability, financial, educational and professional environments.

The High Definition Digital community is your source for a variety of breaking news, case studies, video interviews and white papers.

What is High Definition Digital?
High definition has taken the world by storm as high definition televisions, in particular, become ubiquitous. According to reports, HD first hit the mainstream US market in the 1990s by way of the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance, a group of television companies ... Read More ››
High Definition Digital Featured Articles

VIVOTEK Enhances Pan/Tilt Camera Series with PT8133/33W

VIVOTEK recently announced that it is launching the PT8133/33W, which is a new, improved and advanced version of the PT7135/37. The new release will now add to its series of user-friendly pan/tilt network cameras. [ Read More]

LG Pulls Wraps off Optimus 3D Cube and 3D Max Phones

Ahead the Mobile World Congress, Korean technology manufacturer LG has unveiled two new phones, the Optimus 3D Cube and 3D Max. [ Read More]

Imagination Technologies Offers Game-Changing Products

Imagination Technologies, an international creator and licenser of semiconductor System-on-Chip Intellectual Property (SoC IP), designs processes: graphics processes, video processes, communications processes, and even its own central processing unit CPU. [ Read More]

AGT Completes Video Conferencing Testing for FATHOM HD

Applied Global Technologies (AGT) FATHOM HD is a complete IP based application used for video testing, certification and live call quality tracking. The company has now successfully implemented 10,000 FATHOM HD ports to demonstrate the application's competence for large video deployments. [ Read More]

iBAHN and Bang & Olufsen Bring Entertainment System to Hotels

iBAHN, one of the leaders in Internet Protocol-based (IP-based) systems and networking for the hospitality industry, has partnered with Bang & Olufsen, a company specializing in audio and video. This new partnership will enable both companies to offer a full digital entertainment and broadband package to the hospitality market. [ Read More]


Pro-AV Featured Articles

Cisco Plans to Sell Scientific-Atlanta Division

With set-top boxes becoming outdated, Internet equipment giant Cisco Systems is planning to sell the Scientific-Atlanta division, which the company acquired some six years ago for about $7 billion. A source recently told The New York Post that the declining set-top box business has prompted the Internet equipment maker to put Scientific-Atlanta on the chopping block. [ Read More ]

HD Walls Launches New Website to Simplify Custom Digital Printing

HD Walls, which provides custom digital printing services for retail, hospitality, corporate, and healthcare clients, has launched a new website that features easier navigation capabilities. The website, hdwalls.com, adopts a simple approach to custom digital printing by keeping various functions such as media production, design team and printing all under one roof. While the main feature of the website is simplicity, it also offers high quality design and production. [ Read More ]

Telestream Gets More Content to More Screens

Telestream has announced solutions targeted at broadcast, post-production, cable IPTV, and Internet OTT workflows. [ Read More ]

PV Inverter Market Achieves Record Shipments in 2011

Results from IMS Research showed that the PV inverter market touched a new high in 2011 and despite a huge inventory overhang from 2010, inverter shipments showed an uptrend, increasing by 10 percent in 2011. [ Read More ]

Leviton Introduces an Enhanced Shielded CAT 6A Connector

Leviton Network Solutions, a division of Leviton Manufacturing announced enhancements to its popular QuickPort eXtreme CAT 6A Shielded Connector. [ Read More ]


Broadcast & Post Production Environments Featured Articles

Entropic Debuts Multi-Band Ethernet-to-Coax Adapter Reference Design

Entropic, a fabless semiconductor company, announced that its first-ever multi-band Ethernet-to-Coax Adapter (ECA) reference design, based on the MoCA (Multimedia over Coax) standard, is capable of supporting new 'virtual' set-top functions being enabled on connected CE devices. [ Read More ]

Emerson Network Power Unveils EAL2+ Certified Eight-Port KVM Switch Series

Emerson Network Power has just unveiled the Avocent SwitchView 680 and 780 switch series which, the company claims, is the industry's first National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL)2+ certified eight-port KVM switch series. The new switch series enables access to secure and non-secure networks, while also giving the ability to keep private data completely separate and secure at all times. It enhances desktop data security and conserves space for federa… [ Read More ]

AT&T Announces MSG HD and MSG+ HD for U-verse TV Customers in Connecticut

AT&T has announced that the company's U-Verse TV customers in Connecticut now have access to MSG HD and MSG+ HD in their channel lineup. [ Read More ]

OOBAXS Brings High Definition KVM DVI Draco Matrix Switches to U.S

OOBAXS is bringing high definition (HD) KVM DVI Draco matrix switches capable of mixing both CATx and fiber optic connections between source and target to the U.S market. IHSE Germany, a developer of HD DVI and KVM/Video extension and switching solutions, has manufactured the switches, while OOBAXS will provide installations, support and guidance on deployments at numerous post-production facilities. [ Read More ]

IMT Delivers Wireless Solutions for Turkmenistan TV Tower

Integrated Microwave Technologies (IMT) has delivered its Nucomm CamPac2 and Newscaster DR2 wireless equipment for the Ashgabat Tower. [ Read More ]


Product Showcase

Matrix switching for any environment.

    The AMX® analog KVM switching solution provides simultaneous, real-time user access to all major server platforms and serial devices. By connecting two AMX matrix switches to your desktop user station for switch redundancy with automatic failover, you can maintain access to your mission-critical servers and serial devices.
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Digital extension and matrix switching for any environment.

    Desktop over IP solutions are designed for desktop administrators who need to physically separate the computer from the user in the work environment. Physical separation of computer and user provides solutions where security and/or environmental issues are major concerns.
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  • The Scoop on High Definition Digital
    From the huge onset of Internet streaming to the introduction of wireless video at the gas station to heightened demand for HD video, one thing came across loud and clear in 2011 - high definition digital is here to stay. The Avocent business of Emerson Network Power, a division that offers infrastructure management software and hardware to help the world's top organizations manage their IT complexities, is constantly introducing new technology to the market that is keeping pace with high definition digital demands.

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    As we look out into future of the IT infrastructure landscape, it is becoming ever clearer that we are reinventing our past. The legacy of the IT industry took shape around the concepts of centralized computing, in which the computing intelligence was warehoused in a consolidated fashion in data centers filled with mainframes, and the user was relegated to the large “green screen” entry terminals where the data was entered at the desk but stored back in the data center.
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Analog to Digital Migration

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