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Friday, April 09, 2010

A few years ago before the commodization of flat-panel TVs, thin was a big buzz word used to describe the sleek appearance of these products.

Today the word thin can now be used describe the accessories that make a flat-panel TV-based system stealth within a client's home.

A good example of the sleek industrial design that's occurring within the accessory market can be found in products like Ultralink/XLO's Ultra Flat HDMI cables. This new cable line uses a proprietary design to achieve a thin appearance and it features 30AWG oxygen-free copper conductors and a low-capacitance, gas-injected dielectric insulation.

Ultralink/XLO says the cable, which is available in 1-, 2- and 3-meter lengths meets the current standards for high-speed data transmission, and its available in a color choice of black or white.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The latest racking option for installers from Middle Atlantic is designed to provide a visual upgrade to a rack mounted electronics system.

Middle Atlantic's Series Residential Designer Rack (RDR) is the company's new aesthetic option for integrating small to medium-sized home entertainment systems, and the company says the single part number rack is factory-configured and ships loaded with the necessary accessories to install a fully loaded rack.

Included with each RDR Series rack are vented shelves and panels that facilitate airflow, built-in cable management to enable system performance and service calls, and a filtered, surge-protected power strip. In addition, the RDR ships with trim strips and hidden casters to enhance its aesthetic design, and four-point mounting shelves pre-installed for fast equipment integration.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

With the news that Blu-ray players will soon do away with analog component outputs, CE Pros are going to have to deal with the problems of the HDMI format whether they like it or not.

Sencore's new MP500 HDMI Tester has been updated with new features to enable electronics professionals to troubleshoot systems that incorporate HDMI cabling connections.

Highlighting the tester's list of features are a cable test function, which uses pseudo-random noise to test HDMI distribution paths for bit errors to determine whether a problem is caused by the source, cable, display or repeater, and an expansion of the tester's pattern generator to accommodate multichannel HDMI audio systems. This option provides the patterns required for room acoustic measurement and analysis, including pink noise, impulse, polarity and sine waves.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Cable management products from Legrand/Wiremold now can integrate more easily with audio/video (A/V) after the company has adopted a new "open architecture."

Legrand/Wiremol, headquartered in West Hartford, Conn., manufactures a variety of products in wire and cable management systems category, including metal and nonmetallic raceways, power-poles, poke-thru devices, floor boxes, plug-in outlet centers and firestopping systems.

Selected Wiremold perimeter raceway systems, floor boxes, and poke-thru devices, as well as its Vista Architectural Columns, deQuorum Worksurface Portals, and in-wall products now feature open architectures that accept devices from Legrand/Ortronics, Extron Electronics, Crestron, and other manufacturers, representing over 80 percent of A/V devices on the market today.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Engineered for the growing commercial A/V market, which includes schools, universities, hospitals and boardrooms, Atlona's new 100-foot Plenum Male/Male HDMI cable is UL-Listed and designed to reside within a wall or ceiling.

The cable employs 24AWG copper connectors and a triple-shielding construction to protect the signals it carries from EMI and RF interference noise.

Atlona also builds a signal booster into the cable to eliminate any potential signal loss and to enable it to support resolutions up to 1920 x 1080, as well as the Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio high-resolution audio formats.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Legrand/Wiremold's six-compartment Resource RFB6E floor box features the same 8-inch round cover as the company's Evolution Series Poke-Thru product and allows installers to mix and match Evolution Series and Resource Series products.

The Resource RFB Series floor boxes can accommodate power, communication, and audio and video cabling runs to open areas and workstations.

The Conn.-based manufacturer says the RFB6 Series products are available with its FloorPort rectangular activations covers and round Evolution covers.

Thursday, January 07, 2010

The Anthem BLX 200 Blu-ray Disc Player is engineered to complement the company's Anthem Statement-based home theater system. It plays DVDs and CDs, and supports 1920 x 1080p screen resolutions via HDMI v1.3.

Additionally, the player incorporates Deep Color and x.v Color video standards. Anthem trims the component out with a brushed aluminum faceplate and Anthem-blue lights to match its standard industrial design.

The BLX 200 also features:

• 1GB of built-in memory
• Ethernet port
• Additional 2GB USB Flash Drive for access to Web-based content available through BD-Live (Profile 2.0) functionality
• Compatible with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD
• 1080p upscaling through HDMI
• 12-bit video pipeline

Installers can set up the player to output 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p. It can be configured to output DVD at its native 480i resolution to bypass the BLX 200's internal de-interlacing to allow a connected Anthem and Anthem Statement A/V pre/pro to handle the video processing duties.

On its back panel, the BLX includes connections for Ethernet, as well as component and composite video outputs, plus digital optical and coaxial audio outputs and 7.1 PCM audio output via HDMI.

MSRP is $799.

Installers who are running HDMI as part of a complex A/V installation should look at Aurora's ASP-88 HDMI Matrix Switcher to route HD audio and video signals to multiple zones. The switcher can be used to address multiroom A/V installs in the home and commercial digital signage installations. The 1U high unit has eight HDMI inputs, is HDMI 1.3C compliant and offers IR, USB and RS-232 control options.