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ISE 2010
Monday, 1st February 2010ISE 2010 grows even bigger.
S.Y., Electronics partner companies report healthy visitor levels and interest in CatX products. The event drew a total of 28,489 attendees – a 14.4% increase on 2009’s record figure of 24,912.
Symon Dacon (USA)
As digital signage ‘comes of age’ and requirements become more sophisticated, AV integrators will need to access a wider pool of resources in order to satisfy growing demand. The Symon Dacon Partner Program will provide this and more; from consultancy, hardware and software solutions to professional services and technical support.
New AVP Repeater
Friday, 13th November 2009As a further enhancement to the CatX AVP range, SY Electronics announce the addition of the AVP Repeater units to the CatX Video and Audio extender range.
This Cat5 splitter unit will accept a single Cat5 UTP cable from any CatX transmitter (or AV Rx2) Receiver output) and re-transmit to either 4 or 8 cat5 outputs up to 150m.
This product offers yet more flexibility when planning or extending your digital signage network.
New CatX Mini
Friday, 21st August 2009The worlds first self-powered Mini VGA extender range
SY Electronics have launched the world’s first self powered CatX Mini extender. This unique product is only the size of a VGA plug and the trasnmitter will connect directly to the VGA output of any player or PC.
CatX Mini VP (Video + Power) transmitter and receiver are completely powered directly from the VGA source. Low power consumption (less than 0.25Watts per unit) makes this product very easy to install.
SY Events
Tuesday, 21st July 2009SY Electronics had a very successful exhibition at Screenmedia Expo Europe 2010, Europe’s largest & longest running dedicated trade event for Digital Signage & Digital Out Of Home Media.
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Why Choose CatX?
Thursday, 1st January 2009Cat5 cable is a good choice for long distance transmission of PC VGA video within a building. Many buildings are already wired with structured Cat5 cable for the computer network and Cat5 or Cat6 UTP cable is cost effective and manufactured to an industry standard. It is also very easy to install compared with high quality SVGA cable.
Extenders that use Catx UTP cable as the transmission medium can be referred to as Cat5 extenders, VGA extenders or Video extenders. KVM extenders refer to extenders that transmit Keyboard, Video and Mouse data over Catx UTP cable.
CatX extenders are now widely available and work by converting the analogue RGB signal to differential analogue signals for transmission over 3 of the twisted pairs within the cable. The fourth pair in the cable is used for transmission of power or audio and sometimes also for serial data transmission.
CatX extenders include the CatX Mini VP. This transmitter/receiver pair can be powered entirely by the VGA source output, a unique extender product.
CatX extenders work very well in most applications for distances from 1 meter to 300 meters (depending on the model) and at resolutions up to 2048 x 1536. CatX extenders also include receiver that can be daisy chained together using Cat5 to an overall distance of up to 2000m.