Emerging Technologies that will Change the Future of AV

Moore's Law postulates that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. This has often been extrapolated to imply that our ability to handle large digital files and integrate ever more complex digital systems into our society also doubles at about the same rate. The reality is that some changes are happening even faster than that. The changes happening in the A/V community will have profound consequences on the expectations we have regarding communication technology. Over the next few years we will witness the final extirpation of 20th Century analog systems such as composite, component and VGA video signals. In the same way that the HDMI connector fundamentally disrupted the industry, emerging technologies such as USB Type C, USB 3.1, USB Power Delivery v2.0, HDBaseT, HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 2.0 and embedded active chipsets in unexpected places will land an impactful blow. But unlike HDMI, these changes won't take 12 years to settle in. Prepare to see a new industry in half that time!

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1. 5 Emerging Technologies That Will New Ideas and Technologies That Will Change The Way You Create, Communicate, Collaborate and Work! Change The Future of AV Joseph D. Cornwall, CTS-D Middle Atlantic® l C2G® l Wiremold®
2. Let’s Start With Some AV History… “Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.” - Emo Phillips
3. Evolution And Revolution
4. It’s A Digital World Phones, Phablets, Tablets, Ultrabooks and Televisions all deliver interactive HD touchscreen capability Technologies for home and work are no longer differentiated The demand for device-to- device connections will continue to increase
5. The Next Generation Are Digital Natives • Intuitive integration of mobile and stationary assets • Unfettered integration of work and personal technology • Sensible integration of cloud, premise and local storage • Uninterrupted access that blurs the lines between content and carrier
6. So Where Does This Leave A/V? A/V lives in the last 100 meters - between the network drop and the human being. This is where detailed images, sound, interactivity and emotional impact are everything!
7. It’s Not Going To Be A Network Connection Today, over 50% of North American Internet traffic consists of YouTube and Netflix content Enterprise IT networks are struggling to keep up with bandwidth demands There’s no simple way to shift the total connectivity of “the last 100 meters” to the LAN
8. “PERFORMANCE IS YOUR REALITY. FORGET EVERYTHING ELSE.” ─ HAROLD GENEEN Changes In The Market Are Being Driven By Changes In Resolution
9. UltraHD Is Bigger Than 8 Million Pixels • Shipments of 4K sets will surpass 5% of total annual TV shipments in 2017 • Installed base will rise to 66.2 million screens by the end of 2018
10. The Revolution Is Rooted In The Devices In Your Pocket And The Connections On Your Desk!
11. The Technologies That Will Change A/V
12. One Connector To Rule Them All? “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” − Steve Jobs
13. Symmetrical, Compact, Powerful… The USB Type System • Designed for 10,000 plug/unplug cycles • Robust enough for laptops and tablets; slim enough for personal portables “This next generation of USB technology opens the door for the invention of an entirely new, super thin class of devices that consumers haven’t even seen yet”
14. USB, DisplayPort, Power, Analog Audio Makes This Possible! The USB Type C Connector
15. Apple, Google, Microsoft…
16. DisplayPort’s Exponential Growth “Our job is to make change. Our job is to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they’d like to go.” − Seth Godin
17. There is No VGA, There Is DisplayPort DisplayPort is the global format for accessing AV content from IT devices DisplayPort can move seamlessly into (and out of) the HDMI format for unified connectivity 100%+ market growth for 2015 over 2014 At least 30% CAGR thru 2018
18. • More efficient power use • Ideally adapted to high- volume fabrication techniques • Inherently capable of multi- streaming • Scalable Why DisplayPort? Copyright 2014 by InfoComm International®
19. HDMI Still Has A Bright Future “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” – Thomas Edison
20. High Definition Multi-Media Interface HDMI remains the standard for accessing AV content from multimedia devices HDMI industry growth is projected to be nearly 20% CAGR Installed base is nearly 4 billion units, will double to 8 billion units by 2018
21. The Newest IEEE Standard! “The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.” − Andrew S. Tanenbaum
22. HDBaseT HDBaseT is the IEEE standard for advanced digital media distribution 100 meter connectivity based on TIA practices NOT ON THE LAN! Any HDBaseT certified product will work with any other HDBaseT certified product Installed base will more than quintuple by 2016!
23. Scalable Structured Connectivity • Digital video and audio at UltraHD performance levels • Up to 100 watts of power • Control  IR  CEC  RS232  USB • Fast Ethernet
24. Embedded Technology “I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included.” – Steven Wright
25. Embedded Chip Sets Embedded media conversion fundamentally changes the signal to leverage a completely different optical or electrical topology Some examples include RapidRun Optical, Celerity Optical Gateway, FSR RedMere Embedded conditioning is used to extend carriage length or reduce conductor size
26. Cutting Cords “The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.” - John Naisbitt
27. Airplay, Chromecast, FireTV, etc… Network Connection
28. WiDi and Miracast
29. Internet of Things “In many cases, it is no longer the industrially manufactured product that is the focus, but rather the web-based service that users access through that device.” ─ Stefan Ferber
30. Faster Highways… Passive optical LANs use optical splitters to divide the optical signal to allow up to 32 devices to be connected to one port on the optical line terminal. Passive components - fiber optic cabling and a splitter - between the main equipment room and the work area
31. Better Local Roads A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communications network made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology. ZigBee is a specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols used to create personal area networks built from small, low-power digital radios Data will hop from one device to another until it reaches its destination
32. The conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking… “If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.” - John Alejandro King
33. What We’ve (Hopefully) Learned… • Network connectivity will not replace “the last 100 meters” of connectivity to the user/operator any time soon • UltraHD will place new and unexpected demands on A/V design and integration performance • USB Type C will have a profound impact on many categories of devices including portable and fixed A/V assets - particularly the desktop environment • DisplayPort killed VGA and there’s no life after that death • HDMI is the most ubiquitous port for accessing A/V content • HDBaseT is the new IEEE industry standard for connecting digital media devices at length over category cabling • Embedded technology such as media conversion and signal processing will elevate connectivity to the status of components!
34. Questions?