The Harris Platinum™ Matrix Switcher series features a robust architecture that ensures your investment is future-proof, providing unparalleled value for your large-scale matrix system needs. All Platinum frames offer independent audio and video signal paths and crosspoints, maintaining full versatility regardless of matrix size. The Platinum is designed to support high-quality matrixing of all analog and digital video and audio signals, seamlessly integrating the capability for separated audio infrastructure into a fully embedded video device without the need for auxiliary audio frames.
Harris continues its tradition of innovation with the highly acclaimed Platinum Matrix System — an eight-channel frame sync input card that can synchronize up to eight active video signals to a local reference signal without the need for external chassis or wiring. This optional card can de-embed up to 16 channels of embedded audio from each video signal, allowing for independent routing and distribution.
The design goal of the Platinum matrix switcher is to support 24/7 continuous operation, making it highly suitable for environments such as networking, local broadcasting, mobile production, cable television, telecommunications, military, government, and corporate applications—any setting that requires matrix distribution and processing of large volumes of audio and video signals.
Features
• Mixed Signal Matrix (SD, HD, 3 Gb/s, and Audio)
- Up to 256x256 video (up to 512x512 separate video/audio) in 15RU
- Up to 512x512 video (up to 1024x1024 separate video/audio) in 28RU
• All Platinum frames provide independent signal paths and crosspoints for video and audio signals.
• Support for audio processing in multiplexing/demultiplexing
- Reusable/demultiplexed 16-channel audio for each video signal
- Fully supports mono separated audio signal matrix
– Seamless integration between audio unembedding and separation
- Embed 16-channel audio into each video output
• The optional eight-channel frame synchronization input card can capture and filter valid input signal sources, as well as demultiplex the embedded 16-channel audio from each video signal.
• Modular I/O in groups of eight supports coaxial or fiber optic connections.
• The modules are front-loaded, hot-swappable, and support continuous operation.
• Redundant power supplies, controllers, and signal pathways
• Enhanced monitoring capabilities
- Complete range of hardware control panels
- Powerful control integration capabilities, easy to install and configure
- Software and web-based applications feature user-configurable graphical user interfaces.
- Provide protocol support for CCS Navigator™, SNMP, and third-party vendors.
- Secure access permissions can be set with access restrictions based on levels, sources, and destinations.
• Video matrix support
- 1080p (3 Gb/s) signal matrix (unlimited size)
- Supports nearly any size of the following digital video signals (from 3 Mb/s to 3 Gb/s):
– HD-SDI, SD-SDI, ASI, SMPTE 310, SMPTE 305, etc.
- Supports SMPTE-compliant analog by performing SD-SDI digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversion on I/O.
Video Input and Output
• Supports separate audio matrix
- Supports digital audio signals, including balanced and unbalanced AES
- By performing AES digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversion on the I/O module, it supports analog stereo.
Mono audio input and output
- Supports up to 16 embedded AES data streams per video input.
- "Quiet Switch" and provides transition effects
• Built-in multi-screen monitor integrated with HView™ SX
- Each HView SX module displays 32 picture-in-picture windows.
- On-screen control
- Computer graphics and text display
- Clocks and Timers
- Teleprompter and UMD
- Audio Measurement and Phase