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What to Expect When You’re Expecting UDR

  • Writer: richard-cadena
    richard-cadena
  • Jun 4
  • 1 min read

DMX512 is 40 years old this year. In technology years, that’s older than the combined ages of The Rolling Stones. Yet, to this day, we still use it. Why? Because it’s reliable, and if there’s one thing we value in live events, it’s reliability. DMX is hard to mess up. It can be done, but you have to work at it.



Still, it has its limitations. They were recognized as far back as the 1990s when lighting systems and devices grew large and sophisticated enough to need more than 512 control channels, which was annoyingly dubbed a “universe” of DMX. (Why not a “galaxy” instead of a universe, of which there can be only one?) That’s when the industry started using Ethernet in a big way....


 
 
 

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