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Publisher: CREACT KG, Linau, Editor in chief: Kai Kröger

Thursday, 04. May 2006

 

 

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Dear newsletter readers!

 

This issue of www.AVP-Newsletter.com presents you with latest news from the data- and video projection / presentation.

 

 

1)      Prolight + Sound: Event Goals Achieved In Full

The signs that this year's Prolight + Sound was going to be a success were evident from a very early stage: 766 exhibitors, an increase of 4.8 % over last year, presented their current product ranges from the fields of event & communication technology, audio-visual production and entertainment. And, with 26,487 visitors, the number of buyers taking advantage of this extensive product spectrum jumped by 20 % compared to the year before (2005: 22.003). Around a third of all trade visitors (9,029) came from outside Germany, especially from other European countries, such as the Benelux states (1,686), Austria (722), Switzerland (596), Sweden (408), Italy (393), Spain (387) and Great Britain (382). There was also an increase in the number of international trade visitors, in particular from Russia (286), the Ukraine (237), China (212), North Africa (136), the USA (92) and Australia (64). Evidence that it is also worth travelling a long way for Prolight + Sound is to be seen in the extremely good rating given by visitors: 97 % said they were satisfied with the results of their visit to the fair, an increase of 0.8 % on last year's already high level. Almost as many visitors (95 %) said they had achieved their goals for the fair. The bulk of exhibitors also gave a positive rating to the course of business at the fair: 80 % said they were satisfied in general and 87 % that they had achieved their objectives for the fair (2005: 82 %). Many also voiced their satisfaction with the number of trade visitors contacted (77 %) and the quality of these contacts (61 %) – hardly surprising given that around 59 % of visitors are from the middle and top managerial levels of their companies and have a correspondingly high level of decision-making authority. The next Prolight + Sound will be held in Frankfurt am Main from 28 to 31 March 2007, parallel to the Musikmesse. An important meeting place for the sector in Asia is Prolight + Sound Shanghai, which will take place from 18 to 21 October 2006.

More: http://www.prolight-sound.com

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Yours Kai Kröger

 

 

 

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1)    Prolight + Sound: Event Goals Achieved In Full

2)    IC: 4th International Marketing Conference

3)    NEC Introduces New NP Projector Series

4)    Mitsubishi’s HD4000 Projects without Dimming Lights

5)    Toshiba: Wireless Projectors tw95 and tw100

6)    HP: New Projectors in the MP3300 and the XP7000 Series

7)    Optoma: ThemeScene HD72i: HD Ready Home Cinema Projector

8)    BenQ W100 for Home-Entertainment

9)    Synelec: New Rear-Projection Cube Featuring SXGA+ Resolution

10)  Projecta Presents „Easy Install“

11)  Da-Lite Adds Plug and Play Designer Cinema

12)  UNICOL: A Number of New Products

13)  Samsung: 40“ TFT Featuring Windows XPe

14)  Toshiba Brings REGZA LCD-TV to Market

15)  G+B pronova: HoloPro at NASDAQ

16)  Comm-Tec: Two new innovative products

17)  Minicom: Audio/Video distribution technology on display

18)  TLS: IPL Active Module for Flexible Signal Management

19)  WATCHOUT 3.1 with internal warping

20)  Extron: New Serial Digital Matrix Switchers

21)  Analog Way: Octo-Vue FX - HD Seamless Switcher with Preview

22)  Polycom: SoundStation2 - Conference Phone for Avaya Customers

23)  ISE 2007: Change of 2007 Show Dates

24)  cinemateq: New Structure in the OEM Business

25)  Christie: 63 Digital Cinema in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

26)  Koelnmesse: Photokina with „Lifestyle Media“

27)  Clarity Visual Systems Announces Three Staff Additions

 

2)      IC: 4th International Marketing Conference

The 4th edition of the International Marketing Conference "Large Displays in Europe" will take place on May 16th 2006 in Düsseldorf. The organizer, the INTERCONNECTION CONSULTING GROUP, is a leading consulting and market research institute that has specialized on marketing and sales strategies, market analysis, key account management, customer relations management and personnel management. The conference will be held in English: 1. The Professional Flat Panel Display Market, 2. 10 Key Success Factors in the Home Cinema Market, 3. Distribution in the Commercial Market: Status Quo & Forecast, 4. The 10 Biggest Mistakes in Key Account Management and Ways to Avoid them, 5. Infotainment via Flat Panel in the Healthcare Sector, 6. Purchase Criteria of Large Display at the Airport. Referents are: Martin Schimetits, Consultant with INTERCONNECTION CONSULTING GROUP in Vienna and Dr. Frederik Lehner, managing director INTERCONNECTION CONSULTING GROUP in Vienna. More information on the programme, speakers, prices and more are available on the IC website (PDF).

More: http://www.interconnectionconsulting.com

 

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Alphabetical index of companies:

 

Analog Way (21), BenQ (8), Christie (25), cinemateq (24), Clarity (27), Comm-Tec (16), Da-Lite (11), Dataton (19), Extron (20), G+B pronova (15), HP (6), IC (2), ISE 2007 (23), Koelnmesse/photokina (26), Minicom (17), Mitsubishi EVS (4), NEC (3), Optoma (7), Polycom (22), Projecta (10), Prolight + Sound (1), Samsung (13), Synelec (9), TLS GmbH (18), Toshiba (5) (14), Unicol (12)

 

 

 

3)      NEC Introduces New NP Projector Series

It is a well-known fact that nothing is more damaging to a projector lamp than turning it off too early during the cool-down phase. The new NP projectors from NEC are now here to solve that problem. The NP1000 and NP2000 projectors have a so-called “direct power-off function.” Thanks to a built-in energy storage feature, the device is sufficiently ventilated even after being separated from the outlet, protecting the lamp from damage. Impatient users can thus disassemble the projector immediately after holding a presentation without having to wait for the inconvenient cool-down phase. The NEC NP projectors will replace the MT predecessor models. Especially well-suited for permanent installation, these high-quality projectors offer numerous convincing features, optimized presentation quality and improved operability. The number of lenses, for example, was doubled from three to six. This permits an image ratio of between 0.8 and 7.0:1, thus offering far more flexible usage possibilities. The brightness of the NP1000 has been increased by 300 ANSI lumens to 3,500, guaranteeing brilliant colours.

More: http://www.de.nec.de/home.php/lang/ENG

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4)      Mitsubishi’s HD4000 Projects without Dimming Lights

In late March, Mitsubishi Electric has introduced a new certified HD-ready projector with an excellent price-performance ratio, the HD4000. Thanks to its high level of brightness and contrast, the versatile unit delivers optimum image quality even without dimming lights. With its different individually adjustable picture formats, the HD4000 can be used virtually anywhere. It is not only a source of great entertainment at home, in restaurants and hotels; it also ensures trouble-free presentations for customers or staff. Brightness of 2,000 ANSI lumens and contrast ratio of 2,500:1 make the HD4000 the perfect partner for home cinema, presentations or restaurants and hotels. The projector features a DarkChip2, with DDP3020 signal processing and high-speed LVDS, as well as BrilliantColor technology. This improves the colour intensity throughout the spectrum and ensures best-possible illumination of images and light density in the complementary colours. Its HDMI input port and WXGA resolution of 1,280 x 768 pixels guarantee state-of-the art projection in outstanding quality.

More: http://www.mitsubishi-evs.de/en/home.asp

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5)      Toshiba: Wireless Projectors tw95 and tw100

Toshiba Projection & Display Technology (PDT) presents two wireless projectors designed specifically for business applications: tw95 und tw100. In addition to featuring Toshiba’s new “easy to use” concept and compact design, the DLP technology-based projectors deliver outstanding image quality thanks to their impressive brightness of 2,200 and 2,600 ANSI lumens respectively, their high 2,000:1 contrast and Toshiba’s newly optimized NCE II (Natural Colour Enhancer) chip for enhanced natural colour reproduction. Ease of operation is guaranteed by features including auto-focus, digital power zoom, keystone correction, wireless functionality and instant shutdown. Both models have password protection. Both the DLP-based projectors use a 0.55-inch DMD chip. The tw95 generates its 2,200 lumen brightness with a 210-watt lamp; while the tw100’s additional 400 lumens require a 275-watt lamp. In addition, the wireless LAN function (802.11b/g) enables both projectors to be used anywhere in the conference room, without messy and complicated cables.

More: http://www.toshiba.de/projectors

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6)      HP: New Projectors in the MP3300 and the XP7000 Series

HP offers small and medium-sized companies two new solutions that are dedicated to both mobile applications and presentations in conference rooms and lecture halls. The HP digital projector MP3300 series: Featuring 1.7 kg and compact measurements both models, MP3320 and MP3322, are ideal for presentations on the road. The projector is set up and ready to use within a few moments. A maximum brightness of 2,400 ANSI lumens, a contrast ratio of 2,000:1 as well as an innovative 5-segment colour wheel allow for optimum presentation. The HP digital projector XP7000 series: Presentations for a large audience – that’s where the new HP digital projector XP7000 series offers a lot of power. At a brightness of 3,500 ANSI lumens, a native XGA resolution of 1,024 x 768 pixels and a contrast of 2,500:1 presentations will always succeed even in large conference rooms and lecture halls.

More: http://www.hp.com

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7)      Optoma: ThemeScene HD72i: HD Ready Home Cinema Projector

The ThemeScene® HD72i uses the latest DLP® chipset by Texas Instruments featuring Faroudja DCDi Image Processing, a 7-segment colour wheel and 10 Bit colour processing per channel. Its shiny elegant design makes every room look special. The ThemeScene® 7-segment colour wheel with BrilliantColor™ and TrueVivid™ 10-bit per channel colour enhancement technologies simultaneously enables high brightness and astonishing deep saturated colour. Native High Definition, exceptionally bright 1300 lumens of video optimised light output and Image AI™ technology produces a staggering 5000:1 contrast ratio enabling sparkling, crystal clear images with fantastic detail. Thanks to BrilliantColor processing technology the HD72i delivers a better brightness and creates natural, lively colours. Critically acclaimed Faroudja DCDi™ processing technologies provides superlative de-interlacing and image optimisation to ensure that any image source delivers exceptional performance and superb images. Motion Adaptive Noise Reduction and TrueLife™ enhancement intelligently identifies image detail and if required, applies subtle enhancement to ensure outstanding detail from all sources. A patented wind tunnel cooling system lowers noise levels to near silent (27dB) operation.

More: http://www.optomaeurope.com and http://www.themescene.tv

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8)      BenQ W100 for Home-Entertainment

In its snow-white housing, the W100 offers a wide array of entertainment features. Its 7 segment colour wheel provides superior image quality, and with 1300 ANSI Lumens and a contrast ratio of 2500:1, an amazing movie experience is guaranteed, even in bright environments. Because of the W100's 16:9 native resolution, movie formats will not be distorted, and with a whisper silent 25 dB (eco-mode), this home cinema projector gives viewers the chance to appreciate movies as if they were in a real cinema. Featuring a size of 260 x 85 x 220 mm and a weight of merely 2.9 kg, this BenQ projector is a lightweight partner for every soccer fan. Compatible with HDTV and with a double DVI-I input, the W100 is the projector for the future. If connected to DVD-players, game consoles, and many other multimedia devices, it allows for maximum entertainment. By choosing one of the 10 preset modes users quickly benefit from the best possible setting for each device.

More: http://www.BenQ-eu.com

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9)      Synelec: New Rear-Projection Cube Featuring SXGA+ Resolution

On Interkama in Hanover, Synelec Visual Systems presented the recently designed, high-resolution rear projection element, ID Cube Multi 1400. As the latest Synelec device that is part of the company’s flexible rear-projection product portfolio, the SXGA+ DLP cube can implement all advantages of Texas Instrument’s revised SXGA+ chip set. It was developed by Synelec Visual System’s engineers to be used in control rooms where high performance digital signal processing is vital. The ID Cube Multi 1400 product series uses single chip DLP screen technology with high SXGA+ resolution (1,400 x 1,050 pixels). The new characteristics implemented in the ID Cube Multi product series offer a dual lamp system with easy maintenance thanks to modular setup in the ID Cube Multi 1400. Synelec is proud to be able to design its products with regards to flexibility; and the ID Cube Multi 1400 directly profits from this innovative approach. This flexibility allows that the ID Cube Multi 1400 is available in three sizes: 50”, 67” and 84” picture diagonal.

More: http://www.synelec.com

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10)  Projecta Presents „Easy Install“

The Easy Install mounting system ensures that Projecta's top quality projection screens Elpro (RF) Electrol, Cinelpro (RF) Electrol and Hapro Manual will now be even easier to install. Thanks to the Easy Install plug-and-play technology assembly is easier and, due to the flexible mount system, hassle free. It’s an easy principle: two mounts are fixed to the wall or the ceiling, and then a large or small screen is put into the mounts and fixed with screws. Most Projecta projection screens are now available with the Easy Install system. All screens featuring a square 115 mm case as well as the Elpro (RF) Electrol, Cinelpro (RF) Electrol and Hapro Manual will be delivered with the new system. The parts are designed in a way that an electrician is not required.

More: http://www.projectascreens.com

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11)  Da-Lite Adds Plug and Play Designer Cinema

Da-Lite Screen Company is pleased to announce the addition of the Designer Cinema to its front projection screen line. Designed for ease of installation, the Designer Cinema features a pre-wired inline power cord with a three position control switch on the power cord. The Designer Cinema can easily be ceiling or wall mounted with the included adjustable mounting brackets. The Designer Cinema features a white, two piece curved aluminum extruded case or choose the optional graphite case finish for a contemporary look. Available in Video, HDTV and square formats up to 8’ wide, the Designer Cinema is available with five front projection screen surfaces.

More: http://www.da-lite.com

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12)  UNICOL: A Number of New Products

UNICOL presents a number of new products in their recently publish