How will SMPTE’s move into IP help AV developers and integrators? Phil Ward finds out.
The goal of IPMX is to deliver the performance that the Pro AV world needs for any application of audio and video, including live production and presentation workflows, and to do it in the real world where training, equipment, and budgets are not always optimized for success.
Audio networks have played a major part in AV installations and productions since the days of analogue. Now, in the days of digital and IP, with multiple devices and locations involved, the stakes are much higher. Kevin Hilton looks at the current state of the technology and how interoperability is now a deciding factor.
Enter a world where video is just video and we pick the devices that suit our needs best. Making AV over IP software friendly.
Along with the ever-increasing variety of devices added to networks, the complexity of commercial audio systems has skyrocketed. Audio and IT engineers need technologies that enable them to provide users with the most cutting-edge experiences while maintaining ease of use.
IPMX is built on SMPTE ST 2110 and is supported by a large base of manufacturers. Critical announcements from some new adopters of IPMX were showcased in live demonstrations, not possible with any other AV-over-IP protocols.
Built on ‘foundational’ standards work by SMPTE, VSF and AMWA, the IP Media Experience (IMPX) initiative – supported by AIMS, SMPTE, AMWA, VSF and JT-NM – looks poised to go mainstream during the next 12 months, writes David Davies.
The promise of IPMX is that it will change everything about Pro AV by meeting the market requirements of multi-vendor interoperability that only open standards can guarantee.
Leigh Whitcomb, architect at Imagine Communications, aims to take some of the confusion out of Precision Time Protocol.
All you really need to know about SMPTE ST2110 and IP video will be revealed today at 10:00 in the IP Showcase, in a session aimed at “anyone who has to talk intelligently about IP video and feels they don’t know enough”, according to Andrew Starks, Marketing Workgroup Chair at AIMS and Director Of Product Management, Macnica.