V1.3 System: smaller, more affordable now available with optional repeater

Orlando, Florida—July 31, 2009—Tributaries®, the acknowledged leader in value-high-end connectivity for home and professional A/V systems and custom installations continues to mark its territory in the accessories category as well. The HXC6 HDMI over CAT6 Extender is another handy problem solver for today’s modern home theater systems.

The HXC6 provides a simple solution for sending an HDMI signal over distances of up to 45 meters (147 feet) virtually loss-free. Providing pure digital signal transmission and receiving, the new model is half the price and roughly a quarter the size of its predecessor, the HXC5. The HXC6’s small footprint allows it to fit easily behind flat panels or inside single-gang mudrings, offering flexible installation options so critical in custom designs. The HXC6 requires a double run of standard CAT5E or CAT6 network cabling. CAT5E will provide more

Revolabs, the leading provider of wireless audio products for enhancing collaboration, today announced that its Executive HD Wireless Microphone System was used as the primary microphone system at Wainhouse Research Collaboration Futures Summit held July 28th and 29th at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Considered to be the industry’s premier conferencing and collaboration event, the Wainhouse Research Summit brought leading industry experts and analysts together with business managers, IT and A/V managers, service providers, and vendors to discuss the future of voice, video and unified communications. Sponsors of the event included videoconference equipment providers, Tandberg and Lifesize, as well as major AV distributors, such as AVI/SPL and York Telecom. The presenters wore the Revolabs HD Wearable Wireless Microphone on his/her lapel, tie, or suit pocket, or on a lanyard. Several times throughout the more

GLENVIEW, Ill.⎯Gand Concert Sound of Glenview, Illinois recently provided a NEXO GEO T, GEO S, CD18 subs, PS15, PS10 and PS 8 monitors for the Evangelical Lutheran Youth of America Gathering held at the Superdome in New Orleans, LA. The event ran from July 22 thru 26, in addition to a five-day load in and set up, and was attended by 38,000 teenagers from all over the world. Music acts included Skillet, Group 1 Crew, the Katinas, rapper Agape, and Peter Mayer from the Jimmy Buffet Band. Sunday morning featured a musical mass with Lutheran Bishop Mark Hanson including communion for 37,000.

Known as ‘The NEXO Guys’, the event utilized the largest NEXO GEO T Tangent Array system ever flown in North America, beating the previous record set by Gand at the Atlanta Dome for Elton John. The rig consisted of 60 more

Fredrikstad, Norway, July 30, 2009 – Better colors, more contrast, and a greener future will all be featured at this year’s CEDIA EXPO in Atlanta, GA, thanks to avielo by projectiondesign®. The Norwegian manufacturer is set to demonstrate its investment in the custom installation industry and wow attendees with their biggest ever booth in history at CEDIA EXPO which will showcase a string of brand new product and technology innovations, each one designed to raise the bar in terms of home theater image quality.

The company will host regular technology and innovation presentations at the booth inside a giant dedicated home theater throughout the EXPO.

avielo kroma – showing for the first time
Making its US debut at CEDIA EXPO 09 is avielo kroma, the first home-theater projector to use projectiondesign’s RealLED™ technology – based on solid-state LED illumination. The RealLED light source provides a wider and more

First U.S. Showing of avielo kroma at CEDIA
GREEN TECHNOLOGY PROJECTED TO BE A WINNER

Teterboro, NJ, July 30, 2009 – The eco-friendly avielo kroma by projectiondesign makes its exciting U.S. debut at CEDIA EXPO in Atlanta. The new kroma HD projector uses revolutionary ReaLED™ illumination technology delivering better colors, more contrast and a greener future.

The kroma’s ReaLED light source provides a wider and more consistent color gamut, with richer and better color rendition than any competing illumination technology. ReaLED technology gives an incredible contrast ratio with a pure color spectrum. Consistent peak performance is typical for the life of the kroma, and has an operating life time of 100,000 hours.

In addition to high performance, the avielo kroma leads the way to a genuinely greener future on two significant fronts. First, the kroma uses less more

Rapper Jay-Z began a 5-city summer tour with Ciara accompanied by grandMA. Lighting designer Patrick Dierson and Justin Collie of Performance Environment Design Group selected a pair of grandMA consoles, one controlling lighting and one controlling the show’s video. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of grandMA in North America.

Since the logistics of the tour required Dierson to cover large areas with equipment that had to be erected quickly each day he simplified the lighting design to a standard three-truss set up. “The main thing the lighting had to achieve was filling in negative space around the video elements,” he explains. “Elation’s new Design Wash LED Pro, a standard moving-head LED wash fixture on five custom-made octagonal arrays, filled in the gap of the negative area.”

Dierson also employed Coemar ACL units and Main Light MF3s for audience lighting. “Because the more