Vision - January/February 2008 - (Page 45) The Official Press Preview of the International CES CES Booth: Sands #IP237 www.yourergo.com Forget scrolling through endless lists of search results. Ergo enables you to gather information from a wide variety of sources simply and in a single step. Ergo can group your results intelligently in new ways. Through Ergo, you also can share your thoughts on things you’ve found with other people. Ergo (a division of Invu Services Ltd.) Gennum. This new high-performance solution gives consumers confidence that disparate multimedia products will connect and stream content at the highest specifications available today at distances previously unattainable in a single, low-cost cable. Gennum’s ActiveConnect™ solutions support all versions of HDMI through 1.3 and is also fully compatible with single and dual-link DVI interfaces. CES Booth: LVCC South Hall #36200 www.etoncorp.com Innovation, passion, creativity and commitment define Etón’s mission to develop a range of unique, world-class radios and audio equipment and to provide customers with a complete line of listening options. Now celebrating 20 years in business, Etón started out as the licensee for Grundig shortwave radios, a partnership that continues today. Etón’s products are made to fit your lifestyle. Whether you are out on your boat, camping with your friends, lounging on the beach or snowboarding in the Sierras, Etón has a radio for you. You can listen to radio stations from around the world, tune into the weather forecast, play MP3s, and even get satellite radio stations from Sirius and XM. Etón also offers a specialty radio for adventure travel and emergency situations. No batteries? No problem. A hand crank powers this radio. Even if catastrophe strikes, you won’t be cut off from the world. Etón understands that radio is a powerful, global medium. Eton Corp. CES Booth: LVCC South Hall #25705 within the HDMI TechZone www.hdmi.org Developed by Sony, Hitachi, Thomson (RCA), Philips, Matsushita (Panasonic), Toshiba and Silicon Image, the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is the de facto leader in digital connectivity for high-definition consumer electronics, including TVs, set-top boxes, DVD players and A/V receivers. With more than 725 adopters worldwide, the HDMI specification continues to experience rapid growth in the game console and PC markets, as manufacturers meet consumer demand for multimedia convergence. Nearly 200 million devices incorporating HDMI are expected to ship in 2008, with an installed base of nearly one billion HDMI-enabled devices projected by 2010, according to market researcher In-Stat. A wide array of new products that include advanced HDMI 1.3-enabled features such as xvColor, Deep Color and high bit-rate audio have come to market from major players including Denon, Mitsubishi, Onkyo, Panasonic, Pioneer, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Toshiba and Yamaha, with more products expected to be introduced this year. HDMI Licensing CES Booth: Las Vegas Hilton Suites #1469 and #2975, DisplayPort TechZone Booth #71857 in the Sands, HDMI TechZone Booth #25705 in the LVCC South Hall www.gennum.com Gennum is enabling a new category of consumer HD connectivity with its ActiveConnect™ technology, which will be featured at CES Unveiled. The next-generation features of HDMI 1.3 require full rate cable performance in order to reap the benefits of this advanced high definition technology. To date, longer range cables have been expensive and not all cables support full rate performance, negatively impacting the consumer viewing experience. Gennum’s ActiveConnect™ technology enables leading cable manufacturers to provide full rate, HDMI performance at up to 100 meters over low-cost coaxial media. This represents the longest reach multimedia interface currently available for consumer applications, according to Gennum Corp. CES Booth: LVCC North Hall #1831 www.hdradio.com iBiquity demonstrates the new, free HD Radio™ feature made possible by FM radio broadcasters, Apple® and the digital HD Radio system: “iTunes® Tagging with HD Radio Technology”. Designed to make music discovery, purchase and listening even more fun and simple for all, iTunes Tagging lets listeners buy the songs they hear on the radio. iTunes Tagging enables consumers using HD Radio receivers that have been equipped with a special Tag button to “tag” songs they hear on the FM dial for subsequent purchase via iTunes. iBiquity presents the first product featuring iTunes Tagging for HD Radio technology: the I-Sonic Entertainment System 2 from Polk Audio. The product also features four-speaker I-Sonic technology, delivering rich, room-filling stereo sound 360-degrees as well as an advanced acoustical system. It accepts all iPod models with dock connectors. S-Video and composite video outputs allow connectivity to televisions, to view iPod® videos. HD Radio 45 http://www.yourergo.com http://www.yourergo.com http://www.hdmi.org http://www.etoncorp.com http://www.hdmi.org http://www.etoncorp.com http://www.hdradio.com http://www.hdradio.com http://www.gennum.com http://www.gennum.com
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