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precedent NOTABLE PROJECTS MEETING THE CONTENT STORAGE CHALLENGE: The Voice of America (VOA) has selected Front Porch Digital’s DIVArchive to facilitate secure storage and efficient identification and retrieval of its video assets as part of a transition to a tapeless, filebased workflow. The VOA is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government, required to abide by the federal government’s recordkeeping requirements. At VOA, DIVArchive will move assets between Omneon media servers and a Spectra T950 tape library under the direction of Dalet media asset management. Initially, the workflow will be configured with 13 TB of nearline SAN and 3,500 hours of storage on LTO-4 datatapes. Three LCD Firms Plead Guilty in Price-Fixing Scheme T hree Asian electronics firms have agreed to plead guilty and pay $585 million in fines for conspiring to drive up the prices of LCD screens used in computers, TVs, cell phones, and other electronic devices. LG Display Co. Ltd., Sharp Corp., and Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. agreed to cooperate in an antitrust investigation headed by the U.S. Justice Department. The plea agreement was filed in federal court in San Francisco. Assistant attorney general Thomas O. Barnett said the scheme cost not only consumers, but also Dell, Motorola, and Apple Computer. He did not have a cost value for the losses, and said the investigation is continuing. “These price-fixing conspiracies affected millions of American consumers who use computers, cell phones, and numerous other household electronics every day,” Barnett told reporters at a Justice Department briefing. “By conspiring to drive up the price of LCD panels, consumers were forced to pay more for these products.” There is a $70 billion worldwide market for LCD screens. Regulators in Asia and the European Union also have opened investigations into LCD pricing. The Justice Department said LG Display, a South Korean company, and its LG Display America Inc. unit agreed to pay a $400 million fine for participating in a conspiracy to fix the price of certain LCD panels from September 2001 to June 2006. That is the second highest criminal fine ever imposed by the Justice Department’s antitrust division. The Clean Machine. Get up to 3000 hours of maintenance-free projection, with the new EIKI LC-XS30. With an estimated lamp life of up to 3000 hours, and air filter capacity also estimated at up to 3000 hours, this 3100 ANSI Lumen, 3LCD XGA projector puts a great image on the screen while keeping maintenance costs down. We're so confident the LC-XS30 will perform as expected that we'll cover it for one year of normal use. Should either the projection lamp or air filter require replacement during the first year of ownership, the replacement is free. LC-XS30 XGA, 3100 Lumens, 3LCD (Also available as the 2600 Lumen LC-XS25.) For more information about The Clean Machine please call 1-800-932-8703 or visit http://www.eiki.com. Projectors and more! 2345 http://www.eiki.com http://www.eiki.com

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AV Technology - January 2009 Contents Precedent Corporate: Hunkering Down Government: The Great Unifier Education: Technological Self-Sufficiency Integrating Communications into Your Business Process DVI/HDMI Signals over Twisted-Pair Cable AV Helps Explain the Unexplainable AV Enhancements at the Coliseum Product Forum Tech Horizons Product Spotlight New Products Ad Index AV MO

AV Technology - January 2009

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