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Notable Award Winners from infoComm

TV One C3-540 Series CORIO®master "Winner of the Commercial Integrator Magazine Video Components and Processors Award"
Digital Projection Titan WUXGA Quad 3D "Winner of the Commercial Integrator Magazine Projectors Award and Winner of the Rental Staging Systems Award for Best New Projector
Clock Audio CRM 100 & 102 "Winner of System Contractor News Most Innovative Audio/Videoconferencing Product"

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Atlas Technology ControlKom 2.0 is the latest release of Atlas' popular IP-based paging system software. ControlKom 2.0 incorporates solutions for the task of managing campus messaging, bell scheduling, security, synchronizing clocks, and intercom/paging. Unicast over WAN/Multicast over LAN, emergency call buttons, text message, phone application and more. Use your network to communicate to your entire campus.
BTX Are you tired of the complexity and cost of the A & C control systems? Then take a look at the new control software from Stardraw Control from BTX. Control anything, from anywhere, on anything, including your IPAD and IPhone. Its open-architecture approach means that it maximizes flexibility and minimizes costs, allowing you to employ off-the-shelf hardware as core components in your control system and extend functionality almost without limitation.
Brightline So your customer wants to keep his Green numbers up, then think about ordering T-Series fixtures for all his teleconferencing needs with LED lights. More brightness and less electricity. All the same control, dimming and aiming of lights you have come to expect from Brightline plus the new lights are so bright we can now light the talent from 30 feet away. Think about lighting a city council chamber and dais as well as teleconferencing requirements.
Clockaudio Winners of the System Contractor News Most Innovative Audio and Videoconferencing Product for the CRM-100 and 102 microphones. Clockaudio has now topped that award by taking the 100 and 102 and making it motorized. That is right; you can now raise and lower your microphone by the touch of a button on your Touchpanel. More products, more unique solutions is the Clockaudio name. If you have a need for a special microphone, contact us, Clockaudio relishes the challenge. Plus don't get too excited yet, but Clockaudio was showing some single receiver wireless, encrypted solutions in a back area. Stay tuned.
CSI/Brahler The Digimic Solution is still the most complete wired and/or wireless Audio Conferencing solution on the market today. Single cable or Single Wireless Receiver allows you to have up to 100 mics easily on a system. And now with the Digimic flush plate solution you can choose any finish, any engraving, or any color so your mic matches the aesthetics of any room or table. Simple installation requiring no programming or DSP and only one cable.
DIGITAL PROJECTION Fantastic news, all Digital Projection products have a 3-Year warranty as standard for normal use (8 hours a day, etc.). You now can meet consultant specs without asking for a special dispensation. And you now have this warranty for two new projectors: the award winning Titan Quad 3D and Highlite Cine 660 series. The Titan Quad is a radical new projector that offers 16,000 lumens in brightness by using 4 UHP bulbs and not a Xenon bulb. What do you get from UHP: longer life, less expensive replacement costs, and slower decay times. A new starting point for large venue and rental solutions. How would you like to offer your client an 8000 lumen 3 DLP projector for a price of under 30K, well you can with the new Highlite Cine 660. Perfect for Boardrooms, Auditoriums and Churches. Plus both of these new projectors offer Warping, Blending, PIP, POP and PAP as standard features. If picture quality matters then Digital Projection should go in.
DNP Screens What do you get when you combine the highest contrast, ambient light rejection screen technology with an affordable electric screen solution? You get the new DNP Supernova Flex Classic from DNP. Triple the contrast to dramatically improve the image from your existing projector and save money in the long run. If you noticed at Infocomm all the projector manufacturers' screens had draping around and above their booths, but not DNP, totally open and the projectors in their booth looked brighter. Bring your installations out of the dark ages and into the light of the 21st century with DNP Supernova screens. Now, try to hold your excitement but they were showing off a new 240" electric screen as a new product.
Digital View Take every Digital Signage Solution you ever thought about: External players, players built-in to the monitor, touch screens up to 65", touch screens, button control, flush mount open frame LCD's, double sided 55" kiosks, hardware that works with all the major signage software companies and more. Then you have Digital View. If you can think of it they have built it. 150,000 signage installations worldwide gives you a large knowledge base to work from, and that is Digital View. Hardware for any signage application is the name of their game.
NCAST NCAST already the leader in supplying media streaming products for the education, corporate and medical world brings the next generation of product to the Market. The Presentation Production Server is unlike other video portals, it supports both video and graphics presentations, making it ideal for content delivery. An advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system extracts text from all sources, even graphics, creating a comprehensive, searchable index. Key frames are created from slide changes. H. 264 or Mpeg4 are recording choices. Closed Captioning support is integrated for the hearing impaired. It can be purchased as a hardware server or a virtual version can be purchased so all storage, access, and on-demand can be housed safely on Amazon's EC2 secure and un-equaled bandwidth availability. If you don't have the staff or storage to maintain the site, let NCast and Amazon do it for you.
PRESENTATION SWITCHERS In the airport in Orlando I heard a Higher Education AV Manager complain about the number of formats he still has to deal with and where his organization is going. Well, I told him about the approach from Presentation Switchers and he was sold. Why the PS 500 series. It has 7 open slots, all modular that can be populated with any of 7 different input modules: composite, s-video, component, hdmi, dvi, rgb, and display port. If you change your input, only swap the module, not the entire switch. Totally flexibility for now and the future. Plus you have a mirrored output making it 7 x and it comes with a built in amplifier. This is the piece to capture the installation for now and in the future.
RCI Custom RCI Custom was first to market with online CAD capabilities in PanelBuilder 1.0, first in letting you work offline in Panelbuilder 2.0. Now RCI is first again with its new CAD version Panelbuilder SE. It offers the ability to create one file of all your plate drawings, one quote, one bill of materials and one price. Plus in addition to standard sizes it now offers custom sizes as well. Now create one file that puts all your plate drawings on one page with list of materials. Use for bid docs, ordering, submittals or customer sign-offs.
TV ONE TV one was showing its new C2-8000 series switchers/scalers This uses TV One's DVI-U unique connectors, these connectors can be one of 7 different signal types by choosing a connector adaptor. You have versions with between 6 or 12 inputs, 2 outputs and choose HD-SDI versions as well. Perfect for training rooms, churches and auditoriums. The really exciting news is the C3-340 Series CORIO®matrix and C3-540 Series CORIO®master. Built on the same chassis style both units have 32 I/O ports, you configure, DVI-U inputs and outputs so all I/O's can be of one of 7 signal types. Plus DVI-U ports can be traded out for 3G-SDI. Outputs can have separate scalers so you can output multiple resolutions. C3-340 lists in the mid-20K range. The Corio master has all the sames I/O's as the Corio matrix but add to that warping, blending, up to 20 Windows, multiviewer, 360 degree rotation, videowall processing, brightness control, and edge blending. List price starts around 34K. Your imagination is the only limitation when staging a show with the C3-540 from TV One.
Magenta Research & TV One Voyager has had a long voyage but has finally landed and is shipping. Fiber optic solutions for all signal types and resolutions including HDCP... With the prices of Fiber and the ease of installation coming down it should be the transport mechanism of choice for all of your digital installations. Chassis's available starting 4 I/O's up to 160 I/O's. Add to that scaling, RS-232 codes, transcoding, interchangeable modules on the transmit and receive side and you have the most complete and flexible package on the market today.