Kramer Electronics user manual Overview, About the VP-23RC

Overview

3 Overview

This section describes:

￿Using shielded twisted pair (STP)/unshielded twisted pair (UTP) (see section 6￿ .3)

￿The VP-23RC(see section 3￿ .1)

￿Presentation Switcher section (see section 3￿ .1.1)

￿Media / Room Controller (see section 3￿ .1.2)

￿Means of control (see section 3￿ .1.3)

￿An example of how to connect the VP-23RC(see section 3￿ .2)

￿Recommendations for achieving the best performance (see section 3￿ .3)

￿Terminology used in this user manual (see section 3￿ .4)

3.1About the VP-23RC

The VP-23RCis a high quality all-in-one Presentation Switcher and Media/Room Controller, which lets you control A/V equipment and room items such as window blinds, room lights, and a projector lift. The VP-23RCincludes two major sections: the Presentation Switcher section and the Media/Room Controller section, each of which can be operated independently, or in tandem.

3.1.1Understanding the Presentation Switcher Section

The Presentation Switcher section includes three independent 4x1 audio/video switchers1, and a master audio switcher2.

The VP-23RCPresentation Switcher section features:

￿Three sets of four selector buttons (for composite video and audio, s-Video and audio, and VGA/UXGA and audio), and four master audio selector buttons (CV, s-Video, VGA/UXGA and Mic). Each of these 16 selector buttons lets you select the inputs to switch to the outputs and can be configured3 to carry out a sequence of up to 15 commands (a macro) so that when pressing a configured button, the switching action is followed by a macro sequence

￿VGA/UXGA video bandwidth of 350MHz to ensure transparent performance even in the most critical applications, and is HDTV compatible

￿Composite/SDI video bandwidth of 650MHz, an s-Video bandwidth of 385MHz, and a CAT 5 bandwidth of 158MHz

1 A 4x1 switcher for composite video and audio, a 4x1 switcher for s-Video and audio, and a 4x1 switcher for computer graphics (VGA/UXGA) signals with audio

2 That routes one of the pre-selected audio inputs (from these three switchers) to two separate outputs 3 By the system integrator

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