What do stadiums, arenas, casinos, entertainment venues, as well as civic, church and corporate video systems around the country share in common? The sites have many displays, TVs, and video projectors already connected together over the RF coax cable system. To create an integrated display control system, one could run new Ethernet or control wires to all the sets - but that's an extremely expensive proposition. With Display Express, you have all the benefits of Web-driven Ethernet control, but uses the control wire that's already there - the existing RF cable.
Display Express sends commands over an RF control channel. The channel operates in all types of cable and off-air systems without affecting existing channels. Combined with other RF channels, the control channel can reach thousands of displays, traveling over miles of RF coax and fiber pathways.
Four Basic Components
The system architecture is simple, employing four types of system components.
- Display Express PC - resides at the RF head end, the PC delivers Web browser-based control pages that can be accessed anywhere over your network. Compatible with IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari browsers, Web control is available from iPhones or other Internet-enabled phones.
- ICC-HE Head End. Inserts RS-232 commands from Display Express into the RF system at 74.7 MHz, in between channels 4 and 5. The ICE-HE Ethernet Head End can communicate with Display Express over IP.
- RF Controllers. Only Display Express offers open-architecture control for a wide variety of makes and models. Typical controllers include:
- ICC1-232 RS-232 Display Controller. Use with RS-232 controlled displays with integral HDTV tuners, including LG, Revolution HD, NEC Museo, and others.
- ICC1-IR IR Display Controller. While RS-232 control is the best solution, this controller can integrate existing TVs, and consumer IR-driven displays. Displays without discrete power commands will need an optional power current sensor.
- ICC1-ZS2 LG/Zenith Smart Card. Inserts into LG and Zenith Smart Displays.
- ICC2-ATSC HDTV Tuner/Controller. Use with flat-panel monitors and video projectors. Provides integrated RS-232 control and HDMI/Component/RGB HD video and audio.
There are also special-purpose controllers, including:
In short, Display Express systems can integrate virtually any make and model of display, TV, and projector through the RF coax.
Proven Performance
The technology in Display Express systems has been in continuous use in major sports, worship, college, K-12 schools, and civic sites across the country. Many are now in their second generation, and have upgraded to many different makes and models of TVs and displays. Our list of installations include:
Many Solutions
The Display Express through-the-RF technology is easy to install, easy to use, and answers the need for many facility-wide display control applications:
- Sports Venues - Display control and management for new sites, migration from old TV network to new flat-panel systems. We've updated our own systems, as well as obsolete Philips Smart TV sites.
- Corporations - Display Express controls displays and TVs across the campus, tuning some displays to digital signage channels, others news broadcasts, scheduling power, and triggering emergency and weather alerts.
- Worship Centers - Worship can be heavenly, but managing all those displays facility-wide - not so much. Display Express makes it all happen with a click of a Web button.
- Schools - Several districts use our interactive ABC-Net software to share media, perform video paging, broadcast live video, and schedule TV power and channel operation.
- Prisons - Prisoners can view TV, but Display Express controls what channels they watch, and when.
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