Currently, lighting communication protocols have remained stagnant and operate on a low speed, low adaptability communication platform. SACO is continuously evolving its product lines and control protocols. SACO believes that to extract the most out of lighting and media applications and products, high speed communication is a minimum requirement. Utilizing a video protocol backbone, SACO is able to feed more data per second to devices in the field, resulting in better control and color fidelity.

The communication backbone also operates with the latest standards in the broadcast and broadband market, making it adaptable to any type of device, including lighting, media, camera, sensors etc. By using a common communication backbone it is easier than ever to design easy to use GUI’s making the systems easy to use for the client base.

In DMX, each color only has a total of 256 levels, whereas in video, each color has 65,536 levels. The result is directly related to the smoothness of color transitions. With the SACO VIDEO system, color transitions are extremely smooth, precise, and provide the ability to create a lot of subtleties in the content. In DMX there are only 51 levels of brightness available in the lower 20% of the brightness curve. This results in choppy color transitions meaning that you visually observe the dimming steps.

With the SACO VIDEO system, in the lower 20% of the brightness curve, there are over 13,000 levels of brightness, thus resulting in very smooth dimming. The result is a much more precise, much more elegant and rich presentation of the content, thus enhancing the project as a whole.