Exemplary Dedication and Support Are Recognized

Van Nuys, Calif. – September 17, 2007 – AVAD, LLC, America‘s leading distributor of custom home electronics products, named Blake Richetta from Lutron Electronics as Vendor Representative of the Year. The announcement was made at AVAD‘s Annual Vendor Party on September 6 during the 2007 CEDIA EXPO in Denver, Colorado. Richetta is Lutron‘s home theater distributor sales channel supervisor – US and Canada and is now also the first-ever recipient of AVAD‘s prestigious Vendor Representative of the Year Award. more

Extraordinary Sales and Program Implementation Performance Recognized

Van Nuys, Calif. – September 10, 2007 – AVAD, LLC, America‘s leading distributor of custom home electronics products, announced today that Wayne Ortner, vice president of AVAD metro east, was recognized by Lutron Electronics with a Radio RA Sales Excellence Award for Exemplary Sales Growth and Program Implementation. The award was presented at the annual Lutron AVAD PSP (Preferred System Providers) Reception on Friday, September 7 during the CEDIA Expo in Denver. more

Experienced Industry Professional Joins AVAD-Canada

Van Nuys, Calif. – September 2, 2007 - AVAD LLC, America‘s leading distributor of custom home electronics, announced today the appointment of Scot Kerek to the position of sales manager for eastern Canada. With over twenty years of experience in the audio/video industry and an excellent command of the Canadian custom installation market, Kerek brings a wealth of knowledge to help ensure the success of AVAD-Canada, which is opening the doors of its Toronto facility in November 2007. more

LIFE|WARE READY PROGRAM SETS BENCHMARKS FOR MEDIA CENTER CONSOLES

First-of-its-kind program establishes performance, environmental and product feature ratings for Life|media servers and third-party Windows Media Center-based consoles.

Columbus, OH – October 4, 2007 – Life|ware™, the leader in Microsoft Windows® Media Center hardware and software development, has created the Life|ware Ready™ program to rate vital aspects of their own Life|media™ servers as well as third-party Microsoft Windows Vista® entertainment-based consoles. more

Germany, October 2007: Audio and video metering specialist DK-Technologies has appointed Carsten Rauhut to the position of sales manager for its German office, with immediate effect.

Rauhut has extensive experience within the professional audio and video sector, having previously worked for many prestigious companies including Sony Deutschland, Sony Broadcast, AVID and SAT-1, Germany‘s first privately owned TV station. more

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA — Listen Technologies Corporation will host a special presentation on Wednesday, October 24 in celebration of AV Week.

The AV Industry from an Entrepreneurial Perspective presentation will be offered as part of Salt Lake Community College‘s lecture series. The presentation will be given by Russell Gentner, CEO of Listen Technologies. The presentation will provide an overview of the AV industry and Mr. Gentner‘s personal entrepreneurial experience. more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Oct. 3, 2007 — ATON, a premier provider of home audio and video signal routing and distribution products for the custom installer market, today announced that its Dynamic Level Adjustment (DLA) series of speaker level audio routers received an Exc!te Award from Custom Retailer magazine. The award was presented at the CEDIA EXPO 2007 show in Denver on Sept. 6. more

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States, showcasing masterpieces of painting, sculpture, works on paper, decorative arts and architectural settings from Europe, Asia, and the Americas. However, when it came to displaying moving images for a fixed installation in its video gallery, the Museum required a state-of-the-art display technology that could accurately reproduce the changing colors, varying brightness levels, and other unique subtleties of each artist‘s video visions. This need for a higher-resolution display device with precise color matching was the impetus for the museum‘s purchase of a Canon REALiS SX6 Multimedia Projector. more

BUENA PARK, Calif.-Production Resource Group (PRG) New York is supplying two Yamaha PM5D digital sound reinforcement consoles to the Today Show Concert Series sponsored by Toyota for the outdoor concerts held through November on the Plaza at Rockefeller Center. more

Unprecedented Functionality and Innovative Design Take Presentations to a New Level

BEAVERTON, Ore. — Oct. 1, 2007 — PLUS Vision Corporation of America, a premier provider of DLP® projectors and electronic whiteboards, today introduced the CaptureBoard™, an entirely new tool for meetings and presentations. The CaptureBoard allows the user to project an image and write on the board‘s surface, and then capture the projected image along with the written information into a single digital file. more