San Francisco, California, October 17, 2008 – Conference Rental USA adds video tracking capabilities as an additional rental offering to the push-to-talk conference microphones; now hotels and AV companies can offer their clients a push-to-talk mics with PTZ cameras creating a complete sound reinforcement system with the camera-follow-audio feature.
The PTZ camera moves to preset positions based on microphone activation, so the audience in either a panel discussion, or video conferencing application can watch the video of the current speaker instead of a wide shot of the whole room. “Adding the video-tracking to our rental offerings takes the events to the next level of technology and sophistication, “ says Naoufel Bakkouri, Director of Business Development. “ And yet, our AV clients can offer a unique off-the-shelf solution with minimal setup time and no extra hardware�.

The Taiden main control unit is connected directly to the camera. �Our HCS-3600 main control unit is equipped with built-in video switch and protocols for controlling Sony and Panasonic cameras,� says Emily Tang, Product Engineer at Conference Rental USA. �The camera presets can be set by an operator using a laptop with Taiden software (included in rental price).�

About Conference Rental USA
Based in San Francisco, California with operations in Las Vegas, Toronto, Phoenix, New York and Washington, DC, Conference Rental USA is the wholesale rental provider for conference microphones both wireless and wired daisy-chain, and simultaneous interpretation systems; available to audio visual rental and staging companies. More information on available rental solutions and products can be found at Conference Rental USA