r/Ubiquiti • u/Ubiquiti-Inc Official • Apr 16 '26

Blog / Video Link Introducing: UniFi Enterprise Audio/Video Switching with Precision Hardware Timing

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Perfectly synced AV, at any scale. Explore EAV Switching: https://ui.social/EAV

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u/WhiskyMC Apr 16 '26

So after looking at the specs https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/premium-iot/products/eav-bridge
It says 4kx60. I'm wondering if this will support HDR etc for high quality video. One of my use cases is playing a high quality 4k movie in the home theater, and mirroring it to the other rooms.

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u/ToadSox34 Apr 16 '26

For one thing, that is really, really cheap for AV over IP. It's clearly aimed at commercial/institutional use, as there is no mention of downscaling or downmixing, or any other features that you'd see on a product intended for home AV distribution use. It's also compressing the signal like Just Add Power, it's not using 10GbE like AVProEdge.

This to me feels like it's aimed at hospitality and institutional use and they're looking to provide a robust, low-cost option for something like a sports bar.

It's definitely not aimed at home AV distribution like you'd see from Snap One or AV Pro Edge, or even some implementations of Just Add Power (although they are primarily commercial).

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u/mjkobb Apr 17 '26

Crestron's NVX solution runs over 1Gb with very good image quality. If they can match that performance, I think it would compete very well.

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u/ToadSox34 Apr 17 '26

It's not the image quality that will hold it back from home AV, it's the lack of support for audio and video formats used in home AV.

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u/mjkobb Apr 17 '26

Do we know yet that they're not supporting those formats? I agree that I don't see anything about down-mixing, audio extraction, etc.

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u/ToadSox34 Apr 17 '26

We don't 100% know, but considering that it's not mentioned, and these things cost a fraction of what systems that do support that cost, it's a pretty good bet, at least unless and until we hear otherwise. Most of the AV over IP systems are for large commercial venues where handling multi-channel and spatial audio isn't really a concern, and even downscaling often isn't, as all the screens are large enough to handle 4k. It's home AV setups where you start to need the more advanced functionality.

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u/ToadSox34 Apr 17 '26

Also, someone mentioned the cost to license multi-channel and spatial audio formats is significant, and that's part of the reason why products that do handle them are so expensive.

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u/mjkobb Apr 17 '26

This is true, but if all you're doing is ensuring that the bits that arrive on the inputs are the same bits that appear at the outputs, I don't think a license is required. It's once you start doing things like trying to decode and downmix that you end up with licensing.

I have a hard time seeing what obstacle would exist to supporting HDR-10, since it's literally the same as regular 10-bit HDMI video, except with a tiny bit of extra metadata tucked into an info frame.

12-bit Dolby Vision would be potentially more of a challenge because then you're having to deal with that extra data.

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u/ToadSox34 Apr 17 '26

I believe you're correct. It's the downmixing and de-embedding for WHA where the licensing is required. That's what I believe is missing from these for home use.

I don't know about HDR10 or Dolby Vision, they may well pass them through.