Planar Systems Clarity Visual Control Station VCS-1688

The Clarity Visual Control Station (VCS) is a flexible and easy to use video wall controller designed for the capture, display and management of visual sources on a video wall. With a compact design and powerful form factor, Clarity VCS supports a wide range of visual inputs and high resolution video walls. Clarity VCS is designed to be highly reliable and easy to set-up, use and maintain.

Clarity VCS processor
The VCS processor utilizes a 4U rack mountable chassis with high performance PCI express backplane. With its choice of powerful server-class CPUs, RAID 0, 1 hard drives and redundant power supplies, the wall processor is both powerful and reliable. By using the VCS expansion chassis, the controller can expand to support larger walls and numbers of sources. Clarity VCS supports the VCS graphics4 output cards each of which can drive 4 displays at up to 1920 x 1200 resolution.

Broad range of source capture
Clarity VCS is able to capture and display a wide range of visual sources. VCS captures standard definition video in composite and S-video formats. Higher resolution sources using DVI, HDMI, component HD, analog RGB, dual link DVI and SDI can also be captured. Using the VCS IP decoder, streaming video over IP is supported so that, for instance, IP-based CCTV camera feeds can be displayed and monitored on the video wall. Through different VCS configurations, varying combinations of these different sources can be displayed at the same time and managed in a unified fashion using Clarity VCS control.