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The latest developments from your AV Guru
AV expert Gary Kayye, CTS fills you in on all the latest industry news along with his own unique comments sprinkled throughout. In this installment, Gary catches you up on the latest projectors, displays, software and new devices that will make your work easier.
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AP/LCD, polysilicon LCD and DLP have important differences
Over the past five years the digital display industry has experienced innovation on an unprecedented pace, driven by companies developing totally new display technologies or by those bringing existing technologies into use where they had not previously been applied.
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30 sky effect brushes
This week for our series of free brushes for Adobe Photoshop, I've moved away from brushes designed to emulate traditional media. Instead, I've decided to continue a series of brushes I started a while ago focusing on sky effects--in other words, brushes designed to reproduce sky elements that might be useful for you in your compositing efforts. Last time around it was clouds and jet trails. This time I've expanded the brushes to include lightning, the moon, aurora borealis and, of course, more clouds.
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Canopus Corp., maker of high end video editing solutions for Windows, has brought a lot of technology that it has created for high end video editing down to the consumer/prosumer level with a series of entry level applications targeted at the consumer/prosumer. These applications are competitively priced with others for which they compete, and offer a lot of tools previously reserved for the high end offerings.
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Custom bevel creation
In our last installment on Adobe Illustrator CS, we explored the basic workings of the software's new 3D capabilities, with an extensive look at the Extrude & Bevel effect. What we left out though was one of the key features of this tool, namely the creation of custom bevels. In Illustrator, as in some other applications, custom bevels allow you to mold not only the edges of the face of your object, but also its sides, similar in some ways to putting your object through a lathe. It's a fairly straightforward process, but there are some limitations and caveats.
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New Projector Features Intuitive User Controls, Wireless Capabilities, and Advanced Networking
InFocus Corporation launched the LP640, the newest meeting room projector with high-end features that include a new breed of user-friendly controls, wireless connectivity, and remote networking capabilities.
Two Latest Models in PLUS Vision's U5 Series Add Brightness and Introduce an New Short-Focus Zoom Lens
PLUS Vision Corporation of America is introducing the U5-132 and the U5-232, 2000 lumen XGA (1024x768) projectors. Both the U5-132 and the U5-232 are equipped with a short-focus manual zoom lens. The new short-focus zoom lens allows users to project images in virtually any space.
Record Number of Entries Vie for Prestigious Awards
With more than 750 entries, the largest in its 14-year history, the Innovations Awards announced its 2004 honorees. Sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the Innovations Awards highlight product advancements in technology design and engineering. Winning entries will be showcased at the 2004 International CES, the world's largest annual tradeshow for consumer technology, January 8-11, 2004.
PCI combo adapter provides FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 interfaces
Akumen has started shipping "SuperCard," a PCI adapter that provides a combination of FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 connections. It will be available at the end of December for Mac OS X and Windows.
Prototype display has high definition television (HDTV) format of 1280 by 768 pixels
iFire Technology Inc., a subsidiary of The Westaim Corporation, today announced that it has successfully scaled its flat panel display from 17 inches to 34 inches using its proprietary thick film dielectric technology (TDEL). The 34-inch color prototype display has a truly native high definition television (HDTV) format of 1280 by 768 pixels and is the largest flat panel ever produced using inorganic electroluminescent technology.
Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced the industry’s most advanced PCI graphics card: the Parhelia PCI 256 MB. Ideal for PCI environments such as servers, Linux platforms, and PCI workstations, this addition to the award-winning family of Parhelia graphics cards boasts industry-leading image quality and trademark Matrox stability, and delivers the ultimate combination of quality and essential workstation features.
Honored by Society for Information Display/Information Display Magazine
LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd, one of the innovators of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) technology, today announced that it has received the prestigious SID/Information Display Magazine 2003 Display of the Year Gold Award for its 20.1-inch UXGA LCD panel featuring copper-based interconnect technology. This accolade recognizes those in the international display industry responsible for designing and manufacturing displays for TVs, notebook PCs, desktop monitors, stadium displays, point-of-sale terminals, cell phones, PDAs and other electronic devices.
LCD TVs Available in Two Screen Sizes, Boast High Picture Quality and HD Capability
GoVideo today announced its entry into the digital television market with the introduction of two new flat panel LCD TVs. The Liquid Crystal Display televisions are offered in two screen sizes and provide crisp, distortion-free images with superior exterior designs, creating elegantly styled sets with unmatched industry leading performance.
Kaga Receives First OEM License from QuVIS for its High Fidelity Digital Cinema Player
QuVIS, Inc., a provider of digital cinema servers with wavelet based digital motion imaging technology, today announced an agreement to license a high fidelity player incorporating Quality Priority Encoding (QPE) technology to Kaga Electronics Co. Ltd. Kaga Electronics will distribute and service these players for the emerging digital cinema market and Ikegami Tsushinki will provide the support as the partner.
When Panasonic introduced its breakthrough AG-DVX100 24p/30p/60i 3-CCD Mini-DV camcorder last Fall, it redefined the professional digital camcorder by offering an acquisition tool at an unseen performance and price level.
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