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| October 5, 2004 | By Jennifer Moline and Trevor Boyer |
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Table of Contents Quote of the Day Coming up in the October Issue of Sound & Video Contractor Hot Off The Wire Auction Benefits H.E.A.R., HEI Sound Partners Sabine Wireless and Crestron Team Up Fits and Starts Productions Spreads the Audio Word Syn-Aud-Con Offers Texas Training Gains for $5,000-Plus Models for Upscale Home-Theater Market Sound & Video Contractor eClassifieds Are Here! How Do You Like Us Now? Direct Line Upcoming Events What's New Looney Productions, LLC MOAEC Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems Company AJ-SD93 Covid CVD 3200 Jeron Electronic Systems Sentinel Quote of the Day Coming up in the October Issue of Sound & Video Contractor "The sound requirements for a political convention fall in line with those for a rock concert: prime seating is on the floor, and robust, full-range music reinforcement is required throughout the arena." - from "Conventional Wisdom" by Bruce Borgerson. To read the rest of this article, check out the October 2004 issue of Sound & Video Contractor, available soon! Hot Off The Wire Auction Benefits H.E.A.R., HEI Sound Partners The Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio will present the TEC Awards Music and Sound Auction (members.ebay.com/aboutme/hear) on eBay, starting on October 21 and running through November 2, 2004. The auction will coincide with the 20th Annual Technical Excellence and Creativity Awards (www.mixfoundation.org/TEC20), to be held on Saturday, October 30 at the San Francisco Marriott. The online auction will be managed by Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers (H.E.A.R.; www.hearnet.com), a nonprofit dedicated to informing musicians and the public about the prevention of hearing impairment in the music environment. Proceeds will benefit H.E.A.R., as well as the Sound Partners campaign of the House Ear Institute (www.hei.org) in Los Angeles, a hearing conservation program cofounded by the Mix Foundation (www.mixfoundation.org/news.html) in 1997. For information about auction items, go to www.svconline.com/newsletters/avinstall_extra1005_auction. Sabine Wireless and Crestron Team Up Sabine (www.sabine.com) and Crestron (www.crestron.com) are partnering to unite Sabine's 2.4 GHz Wireless software and firmware into a Crestron system environment. "This partnership gives system designers the opportunity to control our wireless in a whole new way," says Rob Rothschild, Sabine's sales and marketing director. "Specifiers can now call for dedicated signal processing on every wireless mic, all at the touch of a Crestron panel." Crestron says it believes in an open platform approach, which allows partner manufacturers' products to perform as plug-and-play devices in a Crestron system. Sabine's new SWM7000 2.4 GHz Smart Spectrum wireless microphone systems are for the broadcast, theater, presentation, teleconferencing, and music industries. For more about this story, go to www.svconline.com/newsletters/avinstall_extra1005_sabine. Fits and Starts Productions Spreads the Audio Word Fits and Starts Productions (www.fitsandstarts.com) is heading down the aisle into churches to marry technology and education. Partners Hector La Torre and Mike Sokol tour the United States each year to over 36 sites in 6 regions, preaching the gospel of technology and the importance of knowing how to use it. Host sites include Full Sail, Tempe Conservatory, New York University, Peabody Conservatory, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Institute of Audio Research, Seattle Art Institute, Berklee College of Music, and NARAS (Grammy) chapters. Fits and Starts Productions began educating consumers five years ago, when it realized that the sophistication of audio technology was increasing rapidly, but manufacturers weren't spending the time or the money to educate their consumers. Although equipment sponsors change from tour to tour, current sponsors include DTS, Steinberg, SRS, Sennheiser, DPA, Turbosound, Rane, Electro-Voice, Crown, Midas, and Tannoy. Two types of audio workshops are offered during the year: HOW-To Surround Audio Workshops and HOW-To Church Audio Workshops. Both workshops offer participants the opportunity to touch, feel, and hear live audio systems. For details about the workshops, go to www.svconline.com/newsletters/avinstall_extra1005_church. Syn-Aud-Con Offers Texas Training Synergetic Audio Concepts (Syn-Aud-Con; www.synaudcon.com) will be offering five days of audio training in Houston on October 18-22, 2004. System Optimization (www.synaudcon.com/optimization.htm) will be held October 18-19, and System Design (www.synaudcon.com/design.htm) will be held October 20-22. For travel and hotel information, go to www.synaudcon.com/Houston04.htm. To download a brochure, go to www.synaudcon.com/Brochure.PDF. Gains for $5,000-Plus Models for Upscale Home-Theater Market Front projectors intended for use by individual consumers as opposed to organizations have reached a worldwide quarterly total of 96,500 units, a year-over-year growth of 134 percent, according to Pacific Media Associates (PMA; www.pacificmediaassociates.com), a market research firm that tracks the worldwide large-screen displays market. These newly released figures, which are updated quarterly in the Market Outlook reports component of PMA's Large-Screen Displays Industry Service, include all models designated by their makers as intended for home cinema, home theater, home entertainment, or other home uses, regardless of the distribution channels by which they are sold. To hear some analysis, go to www.svconline.com/newsletters/avinstall_extra1005_pma. Sound & Video Contractor eClassifieds Are Here! The Sound & Video Contractor eClassifieds are the user-friendly, affordable way to connect buyers, sellers, job seekers, and employers. Don't pay fees for auction sites -- for a limited time, eClassifieds are FREE! svconline.com/emarketplace How Do You Like Us Now? We'd love to hear from you! How does Sound & Video Contractor Extra help you? How can we improve it? Please send us your thoughts: s&vc@primediabusiness.com. Direct Line Upcoming Events October 5-7 TECHXNY New York City www.techxny.com 6-7 Government Video Technology Expo Washington, D.C. www.gvexpo.com 9-13 Telecom '04 Las Vegas www.ustelecom04.com 11-12 Digital Retailing Expo San Francisco www.digitalretailingexpo.com ADVERTISEMENT  Magenta Research is the recognized leader in A/V signal distribution and switching over CAT5-type UTP cable. Using proprietary filtering and sync technologies, the MultiView Series delivers 1920x1440 video at 1500 feet (457m), QXGA (2048x1536) at 1000 feet (305m), and can fit any installation footprint with its "building-block" approach. Versions include analog or SPDIF digital audio, simplex or duplex serial, and composite, component and S-video. Multiple-output transmitters and daisy-chain receivers make distributing to hundreds of displays easy and cost-effective. What's New MOAEC (Music Organizer and Entertainment Center) from Looney Productions (www.moaec.com) combines the key features of cable, satellite, CD players, jukeboxes, burners, radio stations, disc jockeys, and music software programs in one, user-friendly entertainment center. The technology automatically organizes and then stores audio CDs and digital music files onto any computer for immediate playback and custom programming. MOAEC increases productivity and sales while enhancing atmosphere for businesses, homes, automobiles, and so on. The invention is positioned to organize and play back all forms of digital media, including music, videos, movies, books, pictures, and games. Panasonic (www.panasonic.com/broadcast) has made available the AJ-SD93, a multiformat digital VTR for standard-definition IEEE 1394-based editing applications. Designed to offer a step up in robustness and quality compared with existing DV and DVCAM-based products, the AJ-SD93 is facilitates 4:2:2 quality video transfers at 50 Mbps over IEEE 1394 to nonlinear editing systems. Its 48kHz, 16-bit, 4-channel digital audio delivers high-quality sound. With optional analog and SDI inputs and outputs, the AJ-SD93 is a flexible, easy-to-use production tool. Covid CVD 3200 Covid's (www.covid.com) Plenum 14 conductor cable, the CVD 3200, combines three miniature low loss coaxes, two twisted pairs, and seven auxiliary wires into one bundled cable. The color-coded wires are protected with an overall braided shield, both foil and serve shields over each miniature coax, as well as braided shields over each twisted pair. The CVD 3200 maintains signal strength and image quality and is manufactured for applications requiring the interfacing, distribution, and routing of video, audio, or control signals. Applications for the CVD 3200 include termination of VGA cables that require the passing of ID Bits or call for accompanying audio signals in one cable, as well as 13W3 terminations for workstation use. Jeron (www.jeron.com) has released the Sentinel sound detector substation for the Spectrum 430/460 intercom system. Calls from the Sentinel station to the master station are placed upon recognition of a qualified audio event, such as a scream, a yell for help, or another distress call or by pressing the call button. The tamperproof speaker and call button combined with heavy-gauge, stainless-steel construction make this station ideal for use in parking garages, correctional facilities, and other areas where the station may be subject to physical abuse. Programmable attributes such as sensitivity range, frequency range, sound event qualification and call window times, extended sound reject and ambient adjust times, and the number of detected sound events work together to help eliminate the placement of erroneous calls by noises such as car horns or sirens and ensure that screams or other distress signals are recognized and place calls. |
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