Vaddio, the global leader in robotic PTZ cameras and camera control systems, will donate all remaining furniture to K-12 and higher education facilities beginning April 24th, 2012. The remaining furniture includes a variety of media carts, lecterns, teaching stations and equipment enclosures. Each piece was designed to integrate modern form, function and style for any classroom or training facility. More information on the specific pieces available can be found at http://www.vaddio.com/category/furniture-systems.

Shipping is not included. Each campus location is limited to two pieces of furniture, but a waiting list will be available for those who want more than two. Items are available while supplies last and electronics are not included. For more information contact Leanne Waschbusch at (763) 971-4403 or by email at lwaschbusch@vaddio.com.

Today Vaddio and Blue Jeans Network, the leader in interoperable video conferencing services, announced a partnership allowing customers who use Vaddio’s EasyUSB tools and popular soft codecs such as Skype and Cisco Jabber to transform their personal computers into effective, affordable videoconferencing systems, to interconnect these systems into multiparty video conferences using the Blue Jeans service.

For a limited time, Vaddio customers will receive a special 30-day free unlimited trial of Blue Jeans.

Whether consumers are looking to create a simple videoconferencing system or a fully integrated boardroom, Vaddio gives them the tools needed to make your software codecs work in a real enterprise environment.

“When we launched our EasyUSB Tools, we knew that we were going to transform everyone’s expectations about the quality they could achieve from a soft codec,� explained Rob Sheeley, President of Vaddio. “so hHaving solved the quality issue, we now next looked at possible solutions that would allow these soft codec systems to interoperate with other videoconferencing systems. Blue Jeans Network, we discovered, hasd this amazing cloud-based service model that not only provides multipoint bridging services, but also allows a soft codec user to be able to connect to any other systems such as Polycom, LifeSize, Tandberg and so on.�

Blue Jeans Network is the leader in interoperable videoconferencing. By offering interoperability between so many popular business and consumer platforms, Blue Jeans Network has solved the interoperability issue plaguing the videoconferencing space and is enabling more people to communicate easily with each other. As a result, they are expanding the reach of video communications beyond corporate boardrooms and across the enterprise to telecommuters, remote workers, travelers, suppliers, partners and customers.

Vaddio’s EasyUSB tools include an HD USB PTZ camera, a USB audio mixer/amplifier, USB Professional quality microphone options – and for control, a web-based control system. For those legacy and traditional AV systems, Vaddio introduces the AV Bridge – your gateway from analog to digital. The AV Bridge lets you connect your existing audio and video equipment into your computer through a USB connection, so if you want to add Skype to an existing room system, the AV Bridge get’s the job done.

Blue Jeans is the leader in interoperable videoconferencing. By offering interoperability between so many popular business and consumer platforms, Blue Jeans is enabling more people to communicate easily with each other. As a result, they are expanding the reach of video communications beyond corporate boardrooms and across the enterprise to telecommuters, remote workers, travelers, suppliers, partners and customers.

Blue Jeans Network and Vaddio have partnered to offer a special 30-day free unlimited trial for up to 25 users. No software download is necessary.

When added to your PC, the combination of EasyUSB tools and the Blue Jeans service creates a complete group AV solution that allows users to engage in any type of collaboration and videoconference activities.

Today, increased bandwidth and affordable cloud-based services give even the smallest businesses and educational facilities the ability to offer on-demand content, real-time collaboration, and streaming media.

There are many advantages—increased productivity, reduced costs, and new business opportunities, to name a few—to high-quality audio visual (AV) capabilities such as video conferencing, lecture capture, conference calls, and web meetings. Traditionally, each of these AV capabilities is considered a specific application, requiring a separate appliance-based solution. For example, video conferencing requires a video codec, lecture capture requires a recording system, audio conferencing requires a conference phone, and web meetings need a PC with a web camera.

The challenges to appliance-based and often proprietary solutions are many. First, the financial investment to purchase these separate systems puts the full array of AV meeting tools out of reach for most small- to mid-sized businesses and educational facilities. Second, supporting and maintaining disparate, nonintegrated systems is an IT nightmare. Finally, since it isn’t practical to outfit a single room with all the equipment required to accommodate every conceivable AV usage scenario, multiple rooms need to be available.

In this white paper, we’ll discuss how to provide a simple and affordable solution to these challenges using a device that is already in most meeting rooms—the PC.

All Vaddio EasyUSB components can be controlled through the WEBBi, a single web-based server appliance with a universal browser-based control panel designed to control all of your EasyUSB devices. Instead of installing a complex custom control system, all of your cameras, video sources, audio – even powering on and off your TV can be done through the WEBBi controller.

“Because all of our new EasyUSB products connect to the PC, we really needed a way to control all of our EasyUSB Devices through the PC,� explains President of Vaddio, Rob Sheeley. “So now with the WEBBi you can control your room with the same mouse and keyboard that you use to run your computer – and you can control using any mobile device, such as an iPad or Android phone, that supports a browser.�

The WEBBi Browser Control Panel screen allows the user to adjust the speaker and microphone output levels; switch video sources; enable PIP Picture-in-Picture functions; pan, tilt and zoom your PTZ camera and store and recall camera presets. It even powers on and off your television monitor – all through your browser. Because it’s controlled through a browser, you can use a PC, tablet, smartphone, wireless mouse, keypad – it doesn’t matter. The WEBBi controls are activated via mouse or touchpad – so if you have a browser, you can control it.

Designed as a truly plug-and-play solution, simply plug the WEBBi into your Ethernet network, follow the easy setup menu in the startup screen to activate the devices you want controlled, and you are now ready to start controlling your system. It is that simple.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (March 15, 2012) – Vaddio’s EasyTALK USB is a suite of professional audio components that allow integrators the ability to get professional-grade audio performance from their computers. With USB connectivity, you now have an easy way to add high quality microphones and loudspeakers to your computer system. Because the EasyTALK audio devices use a standard UAC driver, no special USB drivers need to be installed. As a result they work seamlessly with any software application running on any OS that supports USB 2.0 devices.

“Our EasyTalk audio systems were designed with the goal of achieving high-quality audio from a computer,� explained President of Vaddio, said Rob Sheeley. “This required us to optimize the USB audio stream to professional audio wideband standards and develop both microphones and audio amplifiers that could deliver the highest quality performance.�

The EasyUSB Mixer Amp supports up to two EasyTALK MicPOD microphones. In addition, analog line level I/O interfaces allow for integration with external AV equipment such as videoconferencing codecs, external amplifiers or LCD displays. The EasyUSB Mixer Amp also has a 2 x 20 watt integrated audio amplifier for connection to external 4/8-Ohm speakers.

The EasyMIC MicPOD microphones deliver the performance of three microphones built into an elegant tabletop or pendant hanging enclosure. With ultra wide 360-degree pickup coverage, one MicPOD is capable of providing excellent coverage for an average size meeting room table. For those larger tables a second MicPOD can be added for additional coverage.

Each Microphone element is equipped with integrated echo cancelation and Digital Signal Processing, including compression, equalization, filtering and AGC or automatic gain control. They are offered in both tabletop and ceiling configurations to meet your installation needs. Because of the plug-and-play design, installation is as simple as connecting Cat. 5 cable between the EasyUSB Mixer Amp and the EasyMICs. Power, control and audio are all incorporated into the single cable.

When added to your PC, EasyTALK audio solutions create a variety of professional-grade audio systems that allow users to engage in any type of capture, collaboration and conference activity.

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About Vaddio:
Vaddio is the leading manufacturer and OEM distributor of specialty PTZ cameras and high-end camera control systems in the broadcasting, audiovisual and videoconferencing industries. Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, Vaddio also has operations throughout the Americas, as well as sales and support partners throughout the world. More information can be found on the Vaddio website, www.vaddio.com or at (800) 572.2011.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (2012) – The EasyTALK Wireless USB Mic System is the worlds first professional-quality wireless microphone system designed to plug directly into your PC. It features a high-quality unidirectional lavalier microphone and belt pack transmitter with up to ten hours of battery life. And the 2.4GHZ full frequency spectrum is based on a wireless digital transmitter and receiver that offer interference-free operation and wide-band sound quality.

“We wanted to have a wireless USB microphone system we could plug directly into a PC,� explained Rob Sheeley, President of Vaddio. “As a lot of our products are used to support computer applications like lecture capture, streaming and video conferencing, we saw a real need for a professional-quality audio system to support these applications.�

There are two audio outputs to connect directly with your room’s existing audio system and with the enhanced DSP functions; you can customize the audio for specific room and speaking conditions. Besides the two balanced and unbalanced outputs, the wireless mic system also incorporates a USB audio output.

The USB audio output can be directly connected to a PC as a microphone input. Whether your application is streaming or lecture capture – even video conferencing – adding professional audio is no longer an issue. And because it uses a standards-based UAC USB driver it’s truly a plug and play device so no software, drivers or configuration is needed – resulting in an easy system setup.

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About Vaddio:
Vaddio is the leading manufacturer and OEM distributor of specialty PTZ cameras and high-end camera control systems in the broadcasting, audiovisual and videoconferencing industries. Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, Vaddio also has operations throughout the Americas, as well as sales and support partners throughout the world. More information can be found on the Vaddio website, www.vaddio.com or at (800) 572.2011.

The ClearVIEW HD-USB is the world’s first broadcast-quality HD PTZ camera with USB and Ethernet streaming built right into the camera. Now you can directly plug an HD PTZ camera directly into your PC – without the need for a separate capture device. Because the ClearVIEW HD-USB uses standard UVC drivers, no special USB drivers need to be installed. As a result it works seamlessly with any software application running on any OS that supports USB 2.0 devices.

“For the last two years we have been inundated with requests for a professional-quality high definition PTZ camera,â€� explains President of Vaddio, Rob Sheeley. “As more enterprise videoconferencing users adopt soft codecs such as Skype and Microsoft Lync, they are demanding better performance than what a webcam can deliver. With our new camera they can finally achieve broadcast-quality video from a USB camera.”

The ClearVIEW HD-USB also supports H.264 video streaming. With a built in Ethernet network interface you can now do both IP control and IP Streaming directly from the camera. It supports either RTSP or HLS streaming protocols.
The camera features a 19x optical zoom lens with a 58.1-degree wide angle of view – wide enough to view everyone at a standard conference table, as well as capture an individual from a long distance at 3.2 degrees in a larger room. The zoom range provides great flexibility for a wide variety of applications.

Add the optional USB Quick Connect cable system and extend the USB, power and control up to 300 feet. This way you can mount the camera anywhere and not worry about the cabling distance from the computer.

Vaddio’s AV Bridge provides a USB gateway from your traditional analog AV components to your PC. Based on UVC/UAC USB standards, no special USB drivers need to be installed, and as a result, it work seamlessly with any software application running on any operating system that supports USB 2.0 devices. Whether you want to do a Skype video call or need to set up lecture capture using Panopto’s software lecture application, the AV Bridge provides the USB connection to your AV system.

“We designed the AV Bridge to provide our integrators with the ability to integrate professional video and audio products into any PC application,� explained Rob Sheeley, President of Vaddio. “Enterprise users are demanding high-quality audio and video performance from their computers, so whether you want to record, stream or even do a video conference, the AV Bridge encodes your analog AV signals into a digital USB stream that can be used with any application and on any OS.�

The AV Bridge can support switchable balanced or unbalanced audio – and switchable HDMI, RGBHV, SD or HD component video inputs. Video inputs can be up or down converted as required. Outputs include USB 2.0 with HD UVC/UAC device support and an Ethernet network interface for both IP control and streaming, supporting RTSP and HLS streaming clients.

The AV Bridge makes it simple to encode, capture and stream your AV content through a variety of PC applications or directly to the network. You now have a true digital gateway to capture, record and stream those legacy analog solutions.

With Vaddio’s EasyUSB tools you now have Pro AV quality computer peripherals you need to transform your personal computer into an effective, affordable meeting room system. Whether you are looking to design a small videoconferencing system or a large integrated lecture capture classroom, Vaddio gives you the tools you need to make your software applications work in a real world AV environment.

“Until now, audio and video products designed to work with a computer have produced fairly low-quality sound and images,� explained Rob Sheeley, President of Vaddio. “We wanted to create a new standard for computer peripherals based on professional AV quality performance. We believe we have delivered just that with our new line of EasyUSB products. Now you can build an enterprise-quality videoconferencing system with affordable soft codecs like Microsoft Lync, Skype or Google Talk.�

Vaddio’s EasyUSB tools include an HD USB PTZ camera, a USB audio mixer/amplifier, USB microphone options – and for control, a web-based room control system. For those legacy and traditional AV systems, Vaddio introduces the AV Bridge – your gateway from analog to digital. The AV Bridge lets you connect audio and video inputs to your computer through a USB connection, allowing the integration of legacy AV systems into group collaboration software.

And Vaddio’s EasyUSB tools are based on UVC/UAC USB standards, eliminating the need for custom software drivers or a particular OS to be installed on the PC – so they work seamlessly with any soft client conferencing systems including Skype, Google+, Movi and Microsoft Lync, as well as lecture capture software systems such as Tegrity and Panopto. When added to your PC, the combination of EasyUSB tools create a complete group AV solution that allows users to engage in any type of collaboration and conference activity. The USB revolution is here.

Vaddio announces new enhancements to the ProductionVIEW HD MV all-in-one camera control console with multiviewer capabilities, digital inputs/outputs, HD, RGBHV and SD video mixing, transitions, lower screen graphics and automated control functionality.

New Multi-View Input Screens allow the user to select between screen layouts that display four, five or six inputs. When set up with four or five preview windows, the preset video thumbnails become larger on the bottom of the screen. In addition, the Preview and Program windows can be swapped on the multiviewer output. With Vaddio’s TeleTouch touch screen monitors, all live video feeds can be selected and up to 12 video thumbnail presets can be created, recalled and stored by simply touching the monitor. The thumbnails are a snapshot of what the camera preset shot looks like, to make storing and recalling presets even easier. Simply touch a thumbnail and the camera will pan, tilt and zoom to that position. The Cut, Wipe and Fade buttons illuminate on the multiviewer display, giving a visual indication of which effect is active.
An additional capability of the system is Dual Bus Multiview output. “A big request from our integrators was to add greater flexibility in allowing them to configure the system output options,� explained President of Vaddio, Rob Sheeley. “As a result of this feedback we now allow the system to be configured in several different ways including a Preview/Program mode, a Split Bus mode, where the system can be configured as two independent 1 x 6 switchers, and a third discreet multiviewer output for control and display.�

All inputs are autosensing for video resolution, control and camera type. Video inputs include five analog HD YPbPr video, RGBHV, SD (Y/C and CVBS) and a single DVI-I input on channel six that allows for multiple formats (DVI-D, YPbPr, RGBHV and HDMI) with 36 additional input resolutions. The Program and Preview outputs have both analog (YPbPr, RGBHV, Y/C and CVBS) and digital (DVI-D or HDMI) outputs. HD resolutions up to 1080/60p are supported.   

An additional capability of the system is Dual Bus Multiview output. This allows the user to switch the Preview and Program buses as discrete outputs – with one output going to an IMAG Projector and the other going to a recording device. The control surface includes a broadcast-style 3-axis Hall Effect Joystick with twist-handle zoom control and separate Pan, Tilt and Speed control knobs. Get an all-in-one camera control console with video mixing, built-in multiviewer and broadcast-quality effects.

This firmware upgrade is available at no charge for any customer who currently owns a ProductionVIEW HD MV. Contact Vaddio Tech Support at +1 (763) 971-4400 for assistance in loading the new firmware.