Toshiba Introduces New Cell TV Technology
PRO AV Editors
Toshiba America Consumer Products has unveiled a new home entertainment technology in the form of the ZX900 Series Cell TV. According to the company, Cell TV will provide consumers with a new level of home entertainment experience....
Smart-AVI Cat-6 Extender Moves HD to Multiple Displays
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Smart-AVI, a provider of digital signage content creation, management, and delivery solutions, have released the HDX-400, a new HDMI signal extender that the company says can transmit 1080p video and embedded audio as far as 150 feet over Cat-6 cabling to three remote monitors and one local display for real-time monitoring....
Planar Launches POS Products
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Planar Systems has added two touchscreen displays for retail, healthcare, and government/education applications, to its product lineup, the new PA1575R touchscreen system and PT22755SW touchscreen LCD....
Samsung and TI Debut Cell-Phone WVGA Projector
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At CES, Samsung Electronics and Texas Instruments unveiled the W9600 Samsung Projector Phone, a mobile phone with an embedded DLP Pico WVGA Chipset that reportedly projects DVD-quality images. The pico projection feature allows users to share pictures, watch videos, play games, view e-mail attachments, and give presentations....
NetStreams Snags Patent for Streaming AV over IP
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NetStreams, a newly acquired subsidiary of ClearOne, announced that it received a patent for its Audio Network Distribution System from the United States Patent Office. The patent is for streaming synchronized time-sensitive audio and video over local area networks....
Middle Atlantic Appoints New President
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Middle Atlantic Products has promoted Mike Baker to be its next president. Company founder Bob Schluter will continue as chief engineer and CEO. According to the company, these changes are the latest steps to ensure Middle Atlantic continues to respond more effectively to customer and marketplace needs....
Vaddio Appoints New Channel Manager
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Vaddio, which makes robotic PTZ cameras and camera control systems, announced the appointment of Steve Johnson to channel manager for portions of the East and West Coast regions....
CEI Expands Staff
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Communications Engineering (CEI) of Newington, Va., announced that it has added three new engineers and a sales representative to its staff....
Bretford Names New CEO
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Bretford Manufacturing has appointed Chris Petrick as its new chief executive officer. In his new role, Petrick is responsible for leading the 61-year-old business, which comprises nearly 350 employees, 450,000 square feet of production space, and thousands of technology furniture products for schools and businesses....
Pro Media/UltraSound Welcome New Project Engineer
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Pro Media/UltraSound, a west coast-based AV integrator, special event, and tour sound company, has hired Erik Larson as project engineer. Larson will be responsible for engineering design-build projects in the contracting department and developing new installation business in the performing arts, convention center, and sports facility market segments....
Sensory Technologies Launches VTC Solution
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AV integrator Sensory Technologies, a provider of videoconferencing and collaborative AV solutions, has launched a new mobile videoconferencing product called Meeting on the Move. This unified communications product will be sold via the company's newly formed channel business unit....
TV One Releases 3G-SDI Multiviewer
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TV One released the CorioView C2-6204, a four-window, 3G-SDI processor. When used on its own, the C2-6204 accommodates four 3G-SDI inputs, allowing the user to place up to four windows in any position on a single screen. Each window is powered by a Corio2 scaling engine, which provides picture-in-picture flexibility....
Community Adds Pole-Mount Speaker Brackets
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Community Professional Loudspeakers said it has introduced new pole mount brackets for mounting their smaller R-Series and WET Series loudspeakers to poles, posts, or columns....
New Intelix Twisted-Pair Extender Transmits HD Video
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Intelix announced the release of its latest twisted-pair solution, the Digi-V3SD extender set.Digi-V3SD transmits HD component video (YPbPr), stereo audio, and IR or RS-232 over a twisted-pair cable, such as Cat-5 or Cat-6....
L-Acoustics Names New RSM
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L-Acoustics U.S. has appointed Paul Shiner to regional sales manager. In his new position, Shiner will be responsible for directing the company's sales efforts in the northeastern U.S. corridor from New England to Virginia and west to Indiana....
AVI-SPL Hires Education Vet
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AVI-SPL has chosen Rob Moss as its new vice president of sales in educational technology. Moss, who is CTS-D certified, brings more than 20 years of experience in the AV market to the global integrator....
Harman Rolls Out System Architect 2.1
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Harman Professional recently launched its new System Architect 2.1 for HiQnet users worldwide. The upgrade allows System Architect to automate some of the more time consuming system design tasks based on the application's greater embedded understanding of how a user constructs a system....
Crestron ADMS Now Shipping
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Crestron has begun shipping its new ADMS Intermedia Delivery System, a media server that accesses any type of entertainment or information from a variety of content providers and displays selections in 1080p HD video with digital surround sound....
Sennheiser to Coordinate Olympics RF
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In a coordinated effort with Sennheiser Germany, Sennheiser Canada has opened an RF/equipment service and sales facility in conjunction with the XXI Olympic Winter Games to be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, next month....
Scala Partners with Audience Measurement Co.
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Scala, a digital signage provider, has partnered with TruMedia Technologies, a provider of real-time audience measurement and proactive advertising solutions, to provide the AlliO audience measurement system and AlliO Proactive Marketing Solution to Scala Certified Partners....
AV on a Global Scale
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Randy Lemke, the executive director of InfoComm, tells a story of how he was in Hong Kong several years ago and was asked by a journalist about the size of the AV market....
Avoiding Digital Signage Pitfalls
PRO AV Editors
For many AV integrators, digital signage is still new to their repertoire. But over the past several years, Multi-Media Solutions in Knoxville, Tenn., has come to specialize in digital signage installs....
Q&A with Jim Clements, Extron Electronics
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Jim Clements, head of education at Extron, explains the strong demand within the industry for education and training....
Greening AV Systems
Brian Huff, CTS-D
Green AV is a two-pronged initiative. Sure, energy efficiency is key. Just don't forget the environmental impact of the AV systems themselves. But greening AV systems requires a life-cycle architecture that incorporates recycled materials in manufacturing, an extended serviceable life, and the ability to easily and cost-effectively disassemble and recycle components. With few exceptions, this is something unattainable in the pro AV industry as we currently know it. Read the second in a two-part series....
Here Come the Lasers
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It may surprise some to learn that the next big thing in displays might have nothing to do with light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Prysm, a private company founded in 2005, recently unveiled its own technology of the future?laser phosphor display (LPD)....
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