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precedent january 2009 | headlines Get Smart NSCA’S 2009 BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE Discover new ideas and strategies that are more important than ever to help you deal with the current economic situation. At NSCA’s 2009 Business & Leadership Conference, you’ll learn from experts and professionals who’ve been through tough economic conditions before. Formerly the Fall Business Conference, this year the popular event will be held February 26-28, 2009, at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort in Phoenix, AZ. Hear from experienced professionals and industry experts on marketing, HR, and more. Interact and network with industry experts and leaders to get fresh ideas, tips, and techniques and find out what works for them at events that are new for 2009. Call 800-446-6722 or email blc@nsca.org to register. Visit www.nsca.org. winner from the five categories with the best approach to achieving distinctive results through the use of video. Winners will receive a free trip for two for two nights in Orlando — including airfare and lodging at the Gaylord Palms Hotel — for the Tandberg Video Champion Awards Dinner, plus a $250 cash prize. In addition, their winning video submission will be featured prominently on the Tandberg web site. The Call for Entries period will run from December 2, 2008 through February 13, 2009. Entries must be in the form of a video not to exceed two minutes; creativity is encouraged. For more information about Tandberg’s Video Champion Awards including rules, regulations and directions for submitting your entry, visit www. Tandberg.com/videochampionawards. Video submissions will be highlighted on the Video Champion Awards channel on YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/VideoChampion Awards. New Video Champion Awards For Innovation in Video Communications T andberg announced the Call for Entries for the first-ever Video Champion Awards (www. Tandberg.com/videochampionawards), giving companies and organizations across the U.S. and Canada the opportunity to creatively showcase their applications and achievements in the use of video communications. The Video Champion Awards will honor organizations that are demonstrating positive impact and influence in video communications. Entrants will be awarded for innovations that break through conventional processes and highlight new ways of using video communications to help organizations, teams, or individuals achieve their goals. Reviewed and selected by an independent panel of judges comprised of videoconferencing industry experts, five category winners will be invited to the Tandberg Awards Gala held in conjunction with VoiceCon 2009 in Orlando (March 30-April 2, 2009). An overall “Video Champion of the Year” will be awarded to the YAMAHA COMMERCIAL AUDIO SYSTEMS TRAINING GROUP OFFERS DIGITAL SR101 COURSE Back by popular demand, and beginning in January 2009, Yamaha Commercial Audio Training Seminars (YCATS) will offer Digital Sound Reinforcement 101 (DSR101) as part of the course selection now offered throughout the year both regionally and at the Buena Park, CA headquarters. The two-day class, which was instituted about two years ago, will provide complete audio system design and networking solutions. Sponsored in part by Shure Microphones, the seminar will focus on set up techniques ranging from microphones to large-scale speakers. Topics include gain construction, attenuator settings, SPL estimation, and spec analysis, all using Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, NEXO, and Shure products. Dates, locations and applications are posted two to three months prior to actual seminar dates so those interested in attending the seminars should periodically visit the YCATS training web site at www.yamaha.com/ycats/schedule_0809.asp or the YCATS blog at www.trainersontheroad.blogspot.com. www.avtechnologyonline.com QUICK FIX Need to direct sound over “there,” but not over “here”? Tannoy’s new QFlex is a digital beam-steering array product that offers control over the widest possible audio bandwidth — delivering intelligibility and musical fidelity in even the most acoustically imposing spaces. QFlex uses multiple channels of amplification and DSP to produce beams of acoustic energy, which are directed to user-defined target areas. This ability to focus acoustical output in target areas where needed brings with it better speech intelligibility in highly reverberant spaces. Prices start at $5,000 U.S. list. Visit www.tannoya.com. If you’re upgrading to digital HDMI signal, but you’ve got preexisting 5-coax RGBHV cabling, Altinex has a solution. The DR446-103 provides a digital bridge between legacy coaxial systems and newer HDMI systems. The new DR446-103 consists of two devices — a transmitter and receiver. The transmitter converts HDMI to 5-coax cables and the receiver converts the 5-coax signals back to HDMI. The transmitter/receiver combination enables HDMI transmission lengths of 300 ft (91 m) using high-quality coaxial cable. The Altinex DR446-103 HDMI Video Over 5-Coax Transmitter-Receiver carries an MSRP of $395. Visit www.altinex.com. 8 | AV TECHNOLOGY | january 2009 http://www.Tandberg.com/videochampionawards http://www.Tandberg.com/videochampionawards http://www.nsca.org http://www.youtube.com/user/VideoChampionAwards http://www.youtube.com/user/VideoChampionAwards http://www.tannoy-speakers.com/ http://www.yamaha.com/ycats/schedule_0809.asp http://www.yamaha.com/ycats/schedule_0809.asp http://www.altinex.com http://www.trainersontheroad.blogspot.com http://www.avtechnologyonline.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

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