BLOSSOM LEARNING DEBUTS WORLD’S FIRST SMART BOARD ONLINE TRAINING COURSE FOR K-12 EDUCATORS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS

Breakthrough eight-chapter “Online Applied SMART Board Course� is available for immediate purchase for the revolutionary low price of US $69.95, allowing teachers, administrators, and students to join a movement that fundamentally changes the way training is delivered to K-12 school systems.

Hosted by an avatar named Mrs. Blossom, the course comes with built-in LMS (Learning Management System) administrative facilities that allow administrators to allocate courses to individuals and groups and track progress to completion. more

January 26, 2010 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — today announced that Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has chosen Digital Rapids’ StreamZHD high-definition media encoding system to enable new live HD streaming capabilities from Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

Lincoln Center is the world’s leading performing arts center, located on 16.3 acres in New York City. The center’s 12 resident organizations combine to present thousands of performances, educational programs, tours and other events each year on the Lincoln Center campus. StreamZHD is part of a complete HD production environment at the Center’s Alice Tully Hall, which also features four robotic HD cameras linked over fiber to servers, routers and switchers in the facility’s data center. The StreamZHD system, supplied by systems integrator HB Communications, encodes content in real time for external distribution as live streams or on-demand files. more

Two major AV dealers recently cited multiple factors driving the growing popularity of the REALiS brand of multimedia LCOS projectors from Canon U.S.A., a leader in digital imaging. more

SMART Technologies Products on Display at AVI-SPL Booth

AVI-SPL, the largest global integrator of audiovisual systems and services, today announced it will exhibit at the Ohio Educational Technology Conference, which will be held Feb. 1-3 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio. more

Polynesian Cultural Center installs dV-DOSC for new show at Pacific Theater

LAIE, Oahu, Hawaii – January 2010 — Three years and $3 million in the making, Ha: Breath Of Life has now made its premier as the new production staged nightly at the Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC) on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Presented in the redesigned 2,675-seat Pacific Theater, the 90-minute show features over 100 performers — many of whom are students at neighboring Brigham Young University Hawaii — an active backdrop of volcanoes, waterfalls and fountains, and a new amplifier and loudspeaker package from L-ACOUSTICS. more

Jacksonville, Florida – January 2010… With an enrollment of more than 16,000 students and over 500 full-time faculty, the University of North Florida (UNF) is comprised of five separate colleges with noted business, coastal biology, nursing, and jazz programs. The school’s Andrew A. Robinson Theatre is a multipurpose venue and is home to a wide range of on campus activities. The facility serves as a venue for lectures, presentations, small theater, film showings, and music performance—perhaps most notably as the home to the Great American Jazz Series, which is sponsored by UNF’s Department of Music. To support these programs, University personnel wanted a versatile sound reinforcement system. They found exactly what they were looking for with a new Variant setup from D.A.S. Audio. more

Comprehensive is proud to announce the addition of our new CHE-2 HDMI Extender to our 2010 product line. This extender is the low cost solution when an HDMI signal needs to be extended up to 60 Meters or 200 feet (Using Cat6 Cable). The CHE-2 has signal transfer rates of up to 2.25Gbps with a full 1080p video signal. more

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INTEGRATED SYSTEMS EUROPE, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, February 2, 2010 — Xantech Corporation, a leading provider of whole-house entertainment and automation systems, will be holding an extensive series of training seminars at Integrated Systems Europe 2010. Held during show hours on February 2, 3 and 4, the free seminars are open to all attendees of ISE 2010, and they can sign up for most sessions directly when they register for the show. more

Comprehensive is proud to announce the addition of our new CHE-2 HDMI Extender to our 2010 product line. This extender is the low cost solution when an HDMI signal needs to be extended up to 60 Meters or 200 feet (Using Cat6 Cable). The CHE-2 has signal transfer rates of up to 2.25Gbps with a full 1080p video signal. more

Delivering unprecedented power and flexibility while offering clear sound and the widest dynamic range possible, Crown today introduced the PIP-USP4, the fourth generation DSP-based PIPâ„¢ (programmable input processor) module for CTs Series 2-channel amplifiers. The USP4 is a Harman HiQnetâ„¢ series component and connects to the audio control/monitor network using 100MB Ethernet hardware. The single plug solution contains audio distribution, control and monitoring. more