— Company acknowledged at The Recording Academy’s® Special Merit Awards for its contribution of outstanding technical excellence to the recording field —

KNOXVILLE, TN, February 28, 2011 — During this year’s GRAMMY® Week celebration, Waves Audio was presented with a prestigious Technical GRAMMY Award, honoring its innovative professional music production software. The special invitation-only ceremony was part of The Recording Academy®’s Special Merit Awards, which took place in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 12, 2011, at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre. A formal acknowledgment was also made during the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast, which was held at STAPLES Center on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, and broadcast live on CBS.

This Special Merit GRAMMY is awarded by vote of the Producers & Engineers Wing® Advisory Council and Producers & Engineers Wing Chapter Committees and ratified by The Recording Academy’s National Trustees. The award more

Kramer’s Jay Kelleher

Kramer Electronics is pleased to announce Jay Kelleher will be responsible for the newly formed position of Consultant Relationship Manager. In this role, Jay will be responsible for providing product, technology, and application support to A/V Consultants throughout the U.S.

A 20 year industry veteran, Jay spent his first 15 years working for a system integrator in varied roles, including Account Manager, System Designer, and Control System Programmer. Upon joining Kramer as their National Product Training Manager, Jay was responsible for providing general technology and product specific training to Kramer’s dealer network. This allowed him to gather insight into the challenges facing designers and integrators in today’s A/V systems, while offering excellent solutions available from Kramer Electronics.

As Kramer’s Product Manager for video over twisted pair and HDMI products, Jay gained an in-depth knowledge of key technologies used by today’s system designers. As an expert on digital more

Following on from the success of its world leading ‘Glue-Tastic’ GlueBox™ Series system, Oxygen DCT has launched GlueBox™ Mio, a new range of stand-alone compact interfaces, converters and distribution products that are ideally suited to budget conscious customers who don’t want to compromise on quality.

GlueBoxâ„¢ Mio consists of 14 highly competitively priced boxes for analogue video and audio through to 1080p HD-SDI, DVI and HDMI. These robust boxes are self-contained, stand-alone units that can be powered from either a 6v DC or 12v DC camera battery, or used with the AC to DC power unit supplied with each box.

Within the range there are some very useful, practical and unique products that address the everyday and ever changing requirements of video conversion and interfacing. There is a handy HDMI extender system that allows HDMI signals to be sent over 100m on a single cable. Many customers have more

Feature-rich DVI KVMP switch shares video on two 30�+ dual-link DVI monitors with a single console while supporting audio, 3D Graphics and the highest resolutions for commercial or home settings.

Foothill Ranch, Calif. – March 1, 2011 – IOGEAR announces the 2-Port Dual-View Dual-Link DVI KVMP Switch with Audio (GCS1642), advancing KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) functionality to new heights.

A DVI KVMP switch by name, the new IOGEAR KVMP (keyboard-video-mouse- peripheral) product does more than just share the highest resolution (up to 2560 x 1600) or widescreen video on two dual-link DVI monitors with support for 3D graphics. The GCS1642 also features two USB 2.0 peripheral ports for asynchronously sharing USB devices between computers, while a powered USB hub can be attached to the peripheral ports for added functionality. Audio and microphone support for sharing speakers and a microphone are an added convenience.

Coupled with a more

Company’s TM9 TouchMonitor Part of Redesigned 3D/HD-Enabled TVN-Ãœ2HD

COLOGNE, GERMANY, 1 MARCH, 2011 – RTW, a leading manufacturer and distributor of professional audio metering and control devices for studio recording and radio and TV broadcast applications, today announces the first TouchMonitor installation worldwide. A TM9 featuring a touch-sensitive 9″ display was recently installed in the audio-control area of the TVN-Ãœ2HD 3D-enabled production truck. more

Charlotte, NC – SnapAV, a manufacturer and exclusive source of more than 1,000 high-quality solutions for the custom A/V channel in the US and Canada, today announced the expansion of its product development team with the hiring of Amit Kulkarni, formerly of Sunfire, and G. Paul Hess, formerly of ELAN Home Systems. Both will report to Product Development Director Eric Harper, who joined the company last year from ELAN.

�In 2010 SnapAV brought to market over 300 new products – a true testament to our commitment to equip dealers with nearly everything they need to complete today’s custom job,“ says SnapAV Founder and President Jay Faison. “In 2011 we intend to maintain that same momentum, adding to existing lines and continuing expansion into new categories. Having accomplished product development specialists like Amit and G. Paul onboard is essential for our research and development and directly benefits SnapAV dealers.“ more

New QRC-MBPA Gold Mount Allows for Additional Power Options, Leading to Longer Run-Times for On-Location and Remote Productions

LAS VEGAS – Anton/Bauer, a brand of The Vitec Group, and the world’s premier provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, will introduce the QRC-MBPA Gold Mount power solution for the Apple MacBook at the 2011 NAB Show in Las Vegas (Booth C7032). Now, MacBook users who are on-location or working on remote productions can connect to longer-lasting battery options via the new QRC-MBPA. more

February 2011 – Analog Way, a leading designer and manufacturer of image converters and presentation switchers, is pleased to announce that Eikos (Ref.EKS500), its powerful Multi-Layer Mixer Seamless Switcher, was awarded “Most InAVative Commercial Video Processing or Distribution Product” at the InAVation Awards 2011 held during Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam, NL.
Eikos by Analog Way is a powerful Multi Layer Mixer Scaler Seamless Switcher. Thanks to innovative functionalities and impressive effects, Eikos is particularly adapted to rental & staging applications and advanced integrations.
Eikos offers up to 12 inputs including 4 fitted with SDI and 2 fitted with DVI-D. With state of the art 100% digital processing, Eikos outputs Digital and Analog Signals in DVI and VGA (RGBHV) simultaneously with a selection of many formats from HDTV to Computer 2K. Eikos offers 3 different operating modes: Multi Layer Mixer, 12 by 2 Seamless Native Matrix and QuadraVision modes.
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February 2011 – Analog Way, a leading designer and manufacturer of image converters and presentation switchers, is pleased to announce that Eikos (Ref.EKS500), its powerful Multi-Layer Mixer Seamless Switcher, was awarded “Most InAVative Commercial Video Processing or Distribution Product” at the InAVation Awards 2011 held during Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam, NL.
Eikos by Analog Way is a powerful Multi Layer Mixer Scaler Seamless Switcher. Thanks to innovative functionalities and impressive effects, Eikos is particularly adapted to rental & staging applications and advanced integrations.
Eikos offers up to 12 inputs including 4 fitted with SDI and 2 fitted with DVI-D. With state of the art 100% digital processing, Eikos outputs Digital and Analog Signals in DVI and VGA (RGBHV) simultaneously with a selection of many formats from HDTV to Computer 2K. Eikos offers 3 different operating modes: Multi Layer Mixer, 12 by 2 Seamless Native Matrix and QuadraVision modes.
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February 2011 – Analog Way, a leading designer and manufacturer of image converters and presentation switchers, is pleased to unveil Smart Quad (Ref.SQD200), a new High Resolution Seamless Switcher dedicated to Quadravision. This new release completes Analog Way’s Smart Series with a total of 6 products well adapted to the integration market (Smart Quad, Smart Edge, Smart MatriX / Smart MatriX LE, SmartVu / SmartVu LE). Smart Quad was unveiled on Analog Way’s booth during Integrated Systems Europe 2011 in early February in Amsterdam, NL.
Consisting of 6 products, this comprehensive range of solutions was designed to offer A/V integrators the best of a given functionality with the optimal price-performance ratio: Multi-format Quadravision with Smart Quad, Seamless Edge Blending with Smart Edge, Scaled Seamless Matrix Switching with Smart MatriX / Smart MatriX LE and Multi-format Mixing with SmartVu / SmartVu LE.
Franck Facon, Marketing & Communications Director at Analog Way more