Presentation Industry News:

Sharp Announces HD-1 DMD Home Entertainment Projector; TI Announces New Version of DMD
"This is the first home cinema-based projector using DLP technology. It uses the new 16:9 (1280 x 720) DMD chip and allows for 720p native HDTV resolutions as well as scaling NTSC and all other analog and digital signal formats. The price point, however, will be the thing that surprises everyone. It will be fun to see the reaction to this at CEDIA next month." -- Gary Kayye, CTS

Hitachi Sticking with CRT Monitor Market -- It's the tube manufacturing that's going

Kramer Introduces Multicoder Universal Transcoder

Director 8.5 To Be Bundled with Discreet 3ds max

August Microdisplay Report Available

NVIDIA GeForce2 Go Powers New Dell Business Notebooks

Avid Announces Special Educational Pricing for Avid Xpress DV

Panasonic Announces Seminars In HD Techniques

Hoffman Opens Denver-Area Office

KNews Weekly
For Europeans Only
By Gary Kayye, CTS
If you're heading over to InfoComm Europe next month in Koln, Germany, don't forget that the real benefit of the show, as with most shows, is the seminar schedule.

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Product Spotlight:
WebEx: A One-Stop Web Communications Service
by Denise Harrison, Producer
Web-based meetings and collaboration have been around a while and they really work well for those corporations who decide to take the scary plunge. The problem has been that different companies offer different services and if you want to have meetings you go to one Web service, and customer support you had to go to another. From what it seems, WebEx is aiming to be a one-stop shop for conferencing over the Web.

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Site of the Week
Mystics Bigger Than Life on Giant LED Videoboard
AV in sports venues is getting more sophisticated all the time. High-tech electronics are more than ever playing an important role in increasing crowd enthusiasm for the home team. Hornet Animation recently completed animated content for the center-hung videoboard and other LED arena signage boards for the Capital Arena where the WNBA Washington Mystics perform.

From the Five Minutes With archives:
Five Minuts With John Van Scoter
General Manager, DLP Products
Texas Instruments
"Who'd have thought that digital projection technology that could rival film or could be so close to reality today?"

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