Artistic Licence Engineering Showcases dVnet at ISE 2013

	Artistic Licence dVnet

Artistic Licence Engineering will be demonstrating dVnet, its innovative new digital video-to-network converter, at Integrated Systems Europe 2013, running January 29-31, Amsterdam, RAI. Visitors to the company's stand 8-R232 will see active visual display as dVnet drives Pixel Pad, the LED array product from Abstract.

The latest addition to Artistic Licence Engineering's Rack Pack range, the company says dVnet is aimed at retail and architectural applications in which a media facade or light sculpture is to be controlled by video, and the complexity of a media server is not required.

dVnet is all a user needs to convert a video creation to light. The digital video input is in HDMI format. Configuration involves less than ten mouse-clicks to render video to a media wall.

dVnet can also play-back video clips manually loaded onto its internal hard drive, or via the incorporated play list manager which facilitates easy management of video clip content. Output is via a gigabit network connection with protocol support for Art-Net 3, sACN, and both variants of KiNet.

Two versions of dVnet are available dependent upon the size of the project. Standard dVnet handles 20,000 pixels, while dVnet extreme is capable of controlling a massive 50,000 pixel array.

According to the company, dVnet is already gaining fans because it provides a cost-effective, user-friendly solution that requires no specialized programming skills. Wayne Howell, technical director of Artistic Licence Engineering, comments, "At dVnet's recent launch at LuxLive 2012, various potential clients had particular installations in mind, and were keen to understand whether the product was suitable for their needs. The great thing is that, in pretty much all cases, dVnet already checks all the boxes -- practicality and versatility were very much to the fore when we designed it."

Like its counterparts in the Rack Pack range, dVnet is housed in a 2U 19" rack case for easy integration into existing rack-mounted systems.