Hamish Neale, director of sales and marketing, UK & Europe, provides an insight into the key abilities offered by Leaf's LU1082 Ultra HD Video and Audio Matrix and LU1E HDBaseT Receiver with Ethernet...
The 5U 32x32, on show at ISE, can be fitted with any combination of up to four input modules and four output modules (each with eight connections per board)....
Former Harry Potter stuntman David Holmes refuses to let a life-changing accident define who he is or where he lives. With install company Custom Sight & Sound Ltd, he designed a home automation system to ensure: "...my brain moves as fast as my body wants to."...
Melco, the audiophile division of Japanese computer peripheral company Buffalo Technology, has announced the launch of its Digital Music Library range with its first two products – the N1A and N1Z....
In his keynote address at LG’s CES press announcement, Dr. Ahn explained how LG innovations such as HomeChat and webOS are driving the IoT ecosystem to make consumers’ lives more convenient and more productive....
The launches cover a dozen products for residential and commercial sectors, including a new series of 4K/UHD extenders, switchers and matrixes and Atlona’s first residential components supporting HDCP 2.2....
An expanded family of 4K ULTRA HD TVs, CES 2015 will provide the first outing for the company’s ColourPrime series which produces greater realism and depth either with Wide Colour LED or Quantum Dot technologies....
D-Tools, Inc., provider of system integration software, is introducing installers to its newest version of the System Integrator Software, SI 2015; offering live demos of its iPad Mobile Quote App and making new partnership announcements with SpringDeck, SupplyStream and others....
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