Tips From The Top

You know that scene in movies when the technology master brings up a screen with lots of tiles and chooses what they want? And then chooses something else? And controls the fate of the universe – or at least the next two hours of their entertainment – with unlimited tiles at their fingertips?

Now you can do the same thing: unlimited video tiling is available in Savant automated homes.

Savant – our primary home automation platform here at Jackson Hole A/V – now offers high-resolution video tiling in the IP Video product line. With video tiling, you can view multiple sources simultaneously on a single display. An endless number of sources can be connected to the IP Video distribution system, bound only by your network’s size. Because all the features are built in, you can access and see every available source in tile-form on the same display as long as it’s in the IP video network.

Video tiling is available at no added cost, and with no additional equipment. And, like all Savant programs, it’s easy to use with the Savant Pro 8 App. The drag-and-drop gesture interface adds new “favorite channel” icons for streamlined channel selection, and the app perceives the number of existing sources and displays predefined tile designs. To accompany Savant Scenes, you can create tile presets to quickly access your favorite sources depending on the moment. For example, “Family Movie Night” will bring up the video tiles you pre-set for the channels you use to find family movies.

It’s not surprising that Savant – a world leader in comprehensive whole-home controls – offers advanced video tiling of the highest quality available today. Savant’s advanced video tiling is premium quality 4K UHD video distribution, delivering lossless 4K/60 4:4:4 video at zero frame latency with HDMI 2.0 support. There is no compression at any resolutions below 4K/60 4:4:4 and a ratio of only 1.4:1 at full 4K/60 4:4:4. Savant’s broadcast quality IP video solution operates by transmitting video and audio data over standard 10Gb networks. (In contrast, non-IP 4K video distribution systems only support 4K/60 4:2:2 or require extreme compression to fit over 1Gb, as much as 800:1, introducing video artifacts and jitter.) Savant’s IP video solution allows integrators like Jackson Hole A/V to offer clients leading high-definition video distribution with video tiling features at premium performance levels throughout the entire smart home.

To learn more about how your home’s A/V system can advance with Savant’s unlimited video tiling, call us at Jackson Hole AV. We’d love to discuss the possibilities of Savant’s comprehensive whole-home control system.