Comprehensive Audio/Video System at University Of Buffalo Neurosurgery Department Includes Hitachi CP-X505 LCD Projector In Conference Room

In a unique demonstration of the high performance and ease of installation of Hitachi LCD projectors, voice and data solutions provider IPLogic recently helped elevate the University of Buffalo’s Neurosurgery Department with cutting edge technology, through the installation of an audio/video system that allows the department to stream video from its surgeries to two neurosurgery suites and an auditorium, which includes a Hitachi CP-X505 LCD projector, using a Hitachi UL-604 long-throw lens. The projector displays video from operating rooms, which allows large groups of students and doctors to view surgical procedures.

The system at the University of Buffalo includes broadcast, streaming video and wireless audio technologies. Footage of the surgeries is captured via broadcast cameras and, along with images from magnetic resonant angiography machines, is controlled with a Crestron AV2 control system. The AV2 allows operators to encode the material for global streaming video. Additionally, this material can be distributed to a Crestron MPS100 controller in the auditorium and to the Hitachi CP-X505 projector, which displays the video onto a 10-foot Da-Lite screen.
Based in Albany, NY, IPLogic is a rapidly growing voice and data solutions firm delivering voice and unified communications, network security, mobility and wireless applications, managed services, multimedia solutions, data storage and protection and IT staffing solutions.

According to Peter Grosskopf, manager of the MultiMedia Group with IPLogic, the decision to install the Hitachi CP-X505 projector was based on successful deployments of Hitachi projectors used in other projects. “For years we have been using Hitachi projectors for all our conference rooms,” said Grosskopf. “We have a long-standing relationship with Hitachi and always receive the best support from them and their technology outperforms other projectors in this size category Hitachi upholds the industry standard, so we always lead with them.”

For more information on IPLogic, please visit www.iplogic.com

Hitachi Showcases CP-A100 Short-Throw LCD Projector At InfoComm 08

Offering a new level of versatility and performance to the education and corporate markets, Hitachi Home Electronics (America), Inc., Business Group will be exhibiting the CP-A100 LCD projector at InfoComm 08. This revolutionary new model features a very short throw distance, eliminating the problem of presenters obstructing the projected image by standing in front of the screen. Additionally, the CP-A100 offers networking capabilities, allowing multiple projectors to be controlled and monitored from a single location.

The CP-A100 boasts an extremely short throw distance of 60 inches at 1.4 feet. This not only prevents image obstruction, but also means there are no shadows interfering with the image and eliminates light in the presenter’s face. The versatile CP-A100 can be placed vertically as well as horizontally, as well as inverted for ceiling mount applications, making positioning of the projector more convenient.

Adding to the user’s convenience is the network connectivity of the CP-A100, which allows for simultaneous monitoring and control of several projectors from a remote location. This is particularly beneficial for schools and large corporate environments, where projectors are located throughout a facility and the monitoring of each projector is a time-consuming task. With the benefits of networking technology, a technician can monitor details such as lamp life for each projector from his/her computer. The CP-A100 also offers a brightness of 2,500 ANSI lumens and a 400:1 contrast ratio.

Additionally, the CP-A100 addresses the issue of security with functions such as multilevel PIN locks, a security bar and a Kensington slot. Moreover, the CP-A100 is easy to use, featuring advanced connectivity and proprietary Hitachi functions including My Buttons, Input Source Naming and My Text. The CP-A100’s E-Shot feature allows users to transfer up to four still images from a computer to the projector.

Easy maintenance is another attractive function of the CP-A100, as its lamp door is on top of the model, and the filter is located on the back, allowing for easy access. The CP-A100 offers additional versatility with its Whiteboard, Blackboard or Day Time Modes.

“Hitachi’s introduction of the CP-A100 marks a major step forward in providing teachers and presenters an extremely short throw projector,” said John Glad, product manager, Hitachi Home Electronics (America), Inc., Business Group. “This groundbreaking feature, along with the CP-A100’s networking capability and high performance, allows users to fully concentrate on engaging their audience and lead with Hitachi.”

Dynaco Serves Venezuela’s Festival Movistar Musica 2008 With Powered JBL VERTEC® Line Array System

Showcasing the international adoption of JBL Professional VERTEC® line arrays, Corporacion Dynaco C.A. in Venezuela provided concert sound rental services for two of the largest events held during Festival Movistar Musica 2008. Movistar, a division of the Spanish telecommunications company, Telefonica sponsored the festival. More than 25,000 people were attracted to the production sites, which each featured eight major international artists from Venezuela, Spain, Argentina, and Colombia like Los Amigos Invisibles, Caramelos de Cianuro, Chino y Nacho, Diego Torres, and David Bisbal. The May 8 event was held at the Zulia State capitol of Maracaibo’s baseball stadium, and the May 10 event took place in Caracas, at the Universidad de Venezuela’s baseball stadium.

Dynaco deployed 36 JBL Professional VT4888DP-AN midsized powered line array elements equipped with JBL DrivePack® technology for the main left/right arrays and four VT4888DP-AN elements as near fills. Each side also featured eight VT4887 compact line array elements in use for out fill arrays, and a delay tower at the back of the front-of-house area included six VT4887 loudspeakers powered by Crown I-Tech 6000 amplifiers. Other Harman products in the system at the front-of-house position included BSS 366T loudspeaker management systems, BSS Varicurve and FCS960 graphic equalizers providing options for program EQ, along with Lexicon PCM96, PCM70, PCM60 and PCM42 effects processors. Additional signal processing available to band sound mixers included dbx 903 compressors and BSS DPR-901 II dynamic equalizers.

The stage setup was comprised of several rolling risers and the four drum sets were pre-mic’ed at all times. There were also two complete percussion setups with everything available on multi-pin sub-snakes, which enabled the sound crew to roll out the exiting band and roll in the next band in 10 minutes or less.

Harman Pro's HiQnet™ System Architect™ software was used for remote control and monitoring of the powered loudspeaker system arrays, along with traditional power amplifiers used for supplemental speakers in the system. System engineer Guillermo Sanchez of Dynaco noted the highly useful characteristics of JBL VERTEC powered DP Series speaker systems by describing the ability to have direct control of the DSP in each speaker as well as load-monitoring capability for everything in the entire sound reinforcement system during the show. “Combined with the Crown amplifiers in use on the same network, this gave our audio team performance confirmation for each zone of the system, including things not in the direct listening field for the technicians, such as near fills, out fills, signal delay arrays and such," Sanchez said. “The remote control and monitoring system and internal DSP features gave the sound team a high degree of control over the entire system, including the subwoofer arrays, which provided smooth, even low frequency coverage throughout the venue.”

Throughout the festival, Dynaco’s JBL VERTEC line array system received compliments from musicians, band engineers, and promoters for the outstanding performance and versatility of the system, Sanchez noted.

“Technically, the system achieved +/- 3 dB from 100Hz to 8KHz behind the mix position, 40 meters (131 feet) from the stage, with significant amounts of low-frequency output available as required,” he explained. “The system’s H.F. response was measured to be 114 dB at the mix position, slow-response mode with C-weighted filtering.”

"With Festival Movistar Musica 2008, the audio team at Dynaco has demonstrated their ability to provide high-quality sound in demanding outdoor environments for large audiences," observed David Scheirman, Vice President, Tour Sound, JBL Professional. "Multi-act festival events add another level of complexity to major outdoor concerts, and Guillermo Sanchez and his crew are well-positioned with both system inventory and technical procedures to succeed in this area."

JBL Professional is a unit of Harman International Industries, Incorporated (www.harman.com).
Harman International designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of audio and infotainment products for the automotive, consumer and professional markets, and maintains a strong presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia, employing more than 11,000 people worldwide. The Harman International family of brands includes AKG®, Audioaccess®, Becker®, BSS®, Crown®, dbx®, DigiTech®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson®, Revel®, QNX®, Soundcraft® and Studer®. Harman International’s stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “NYSE: HAR.”

Victory Plaza At American Airlines Center Shines With JBL Professional Loudspeakers

Showcasing the versatility of JBL Professional loudspeakers for multi-use and mixed-media environments, Victory Plaza, a commercial development located adjacent to the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, installed a JBL loudspeaker system to support its wide variety of uses. This unique retail and entertainment venue not only hosts pre-game and post-game activities held at the Center, such as Dallas Mavericks basketball and Dallas Stars ice hockey games, but is also an attraction itself, drawing shoppers and diners daily throughout the year.

Victory Plaza also serves as an entertainment venue, with four large, high-resolution LED screens on each side of the Plaza, which move along horizontal tracks creating a variety of configurations and motion video. The screens are also occasionally combined into sets of four to create 31 x 53-foot HD screens. Recognizing the key role in which audio/video atmospherics play in creating a shopper-friendly retail environment, systems integration firm The Whitlock Group installed a visually discreet yet acoustically pristine audio system, designed by Vantage Consulting of Los Angeles. Ten zones of audio comprise the system, with each zone containing one JBL AM6212/95-WRX loudspeaker, one AM6212/64-WRX loudspeaker and one ASB6128-WRX subwoofer. The JBL loudspeakers are flush mounted to the buildings behind a curtain wall that creates a backdrop for the LED screens.

While the large amount of glass and concrete—not to mention the curtain wall in front of loudspeakers—would seem to pose some large acoustical challenges, Steve Whittle of The Whitlock Group found the system sounded great from the start. “Because the loudspeakers are flush against the building, the building actually acts as a baffle for the whole system,” he said. “There’s so much glass and hard surfaces that you would expect a lot of echo, but the curtain wall actually softens the audio as the sound passes through it.”

According to Whittle, the AE Series loudspeakers, which were designed to order with weatherized coating, proved to be an ideal fit for the application. “From a fidelity and output power capability standpoint, that’s what these loudspeakers are made for,” he said. “They offer a lot of flexibility and are very easy to install.”

An additional large video screen is located on the side of the American Airlines Center at the end of the Plaza, which is used for 15-minute entertainment programs held every hour from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. To support the content displayed on the screen, seven stereo pairs of Control 30 loudspeakers are mounted to poles throughout the Plaza. Additionally, 10 JBL Control SB210 subwoofers are mounted in sealed stainless backboxes within the granite flowerpots around the Plaza. “We have the Control 30 speakers all pointing towards the center of the Plaza so people can hear the audio accompaniment to the video screen,” said Jeff McGinnis, Audio Engineer for the American Airlines Center.

Because a variety of events are held in the Plaza (often accompanying the events taking place inside the arena), McGinnis said versatility and performance of the system are of equal importance. “We have a lot of pre-game parties, after-parties and exhibitions, with lots of DJ’s and performers,” he said. “The system can either be run by itself or we can use a rolling rack that has a mixer, limiters and a CD player. We have BSS London processing that can be controlled via PC from the rolling rack, so we can actually configure the system from the Plaza area.”

JBL Professional is a unit of Harman International Industries, Incorporated (www.harman.com).
Harman International designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of audio and infotainment products for the automotive, consumer and professional markets, and maintains a strong presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia, employing more than 11,000 people worldwide. The Harman International family of brands includes AKG®, Audioaccess®, Becker®, BSS®, Crown®, dbx®, DigiTech®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson®, Revel®, QNX®, Soundcraft® and Studer®. Harman International’s stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “NYSE: HAR.”

New Line Array System Owners In Oklahoma And Texas Power Into Busy Summer Season With JBL VERTEC®

NORTHRIDGE, California – Four southwestern regional rental production and staging companies have each recently chosen JBL's VERTEC® line array systems for use in their audio rental business operations. With each firm adopting the same midsize powered models from JBL Professional's industry-leading VERTEC family of line array systems, a significant new rental pool of compatible sound systems is now available to meeting planners, touring productions and event managers in the nation's heartland. The Dallas headquarters for AVW-Telav (a Freeman company), Ford Audio-Visual Services (Oklahoma City), Gemini Sound (Dallas, Texas), and Backward Audio (Salina, Oklahoma) have each recently selected JBL's new VT4888DP-AN midsize powered line array systems with VT4882DP-AN powered arrayable subwoofers.

While each firm serves different markets and has its own approach to rental sound reinforcement, the establishment of a large common inventory of similar loudspeaker systems provides some significant new options for rental customers in Oklahoma, Texas and beyond. A total of 72 new powered midsize JBL VERTEC line array elements with 36 supporting powered subwoofers will all now be located within a few hours' drive of each other in the southwestern United States. AVW-Telav services Fortune 500 firms and is part of Freeman, the world’s leading provider of integrated services for expositions, conventions, corporate events and exhibits. Ford Audio-Visual primarily supports civic events and business meetings including entertainment events, while Backward Audio services a loyal concert and special-event clientele that includes religious associations and gospel musical groups. Gemini Sound provides integrated staging, lighting and video services along with rigging equipment and production services nationwide from its base of operations in Dallas, Texas.

As just one example, Gemini Sound in Dallas has chosen the JBL VERTEC DP Series as their first adoption of a powered line array system, after many years of experience with other systems. "We service a very wide range of clients, and we need rental inventory that is both reliable and flexible," observed Gemini co-owner Tim Cain. "We have found this new system to be very effective, and our first use at an outdoor sports-venue event showed that it had the power, coverage and fidelity needed to serve discriminating concert acts. The integrated power modules, the remote control options and the light weight of the VERTEC arrays along with the rider-friendly aspects of JBL all helped make this a good business decision for our company."

Like Gemini's new system, AVW-Telav, Ford Audio-Visual and Backward Audio each have adopted new midsized powered VERTEC systems equipped with JBL DrivePack® technology, with onboard power amplification developed in coordination with Crown using Crown's exclusive BCA (Balanced Current Amplification) technology and Class I circuitry with temperature-compensated modulation. Precision bandpass limiting, pre-equalization filters and automatic self-test functions ensure optimized performance. With optional network modules installed, all systems are HiQnet™ compatible for remote control and monitoring via Harman Pro's HiQnet System Architect Software. Each system user has remote access to system functionality and digital speaker presets, enabling a variety of configuration and monitoring functions through software control panels that address not only JBL DrivePack-equipped loudspeakers, but also other HiQnet-compliant audio products from Harman Professional brands that can be integrated into the same sound system.

"The southwestern USA now has a suite of professionally-deployed rental sound systems able to meet the needs of a wide range of entertainment and business events," noted Jim Bumgardner, Sales Director for JBL's Central Region. "AVW-Telav, Ford A/V, Backward Audio and Gemini Sound, each serviced by JBL's regional representative, Dobbs-Stanford Professional, have all seen the integrated-system advantages of JBL's midsize powered system models, and are now prepared to serve the sound reinforcement needs of the corporate/AV and concert market segments with high-performance sound reinforcement solutions."

AVW-TELAV
Dallas, Texas
Contact Mark Podany, 214-623-1315
www.avwtelav.com

BACKWARD AUDIO
Salina, Oklahoma
Contact Wayne Backward, 918 434-3461
backward@sstelco.com

FORD AUDIO-VISUAL SYSTEMS
Oklahoma City
Contact Claire Ford, 405-946-9966
http://www.fordav.com

GEMINI SOUND
Dallas, Texas
Contact Tim Cain, 214-341-4822
http://www.gemnilightsoundvideo.com

JBL Professional is a unit of Harman International Industries, Incorporated (www.harman.com).
Harman International designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of audio and infotainment products for the automotive, consumer and professional markets, and maintains a strong presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia, employing more than 11,000 people worldwide. The Harman International family of brands includes AKG®, Audioaccess®, Becker®, BSS®, Crown®, dbx®, DigiTech®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson®, Revel®, QNX®, Soundcraft® and Studer®. Harman International’s stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “NYSE: HAR.”

Taking No Chances: Celine Dion Tours World With Two Studer Vista 5SR Consoles

She's one of the best-selling recording artists in history, but she hasn't toured since 1999. Following a record-breaking 5-year engagement at the Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, Celine Dion is back on the road with her 'Taking Chances' production tour, the first major artist to carry two Studer Vista 5SR digital audio consoles to handle front-of-house and monitor mixing.

Dion’s world tour kicked off in South Africa on Valentine’s Day 2008 and is due to run until the end of January 2009. Audio for the tour is being supplied by Canadian PA company Solotech, which has had a long relationship with Celine Dion; in fact, most of the tour’s key personnel have worked with Dion for nearly 20 years, including tour manager Denis Savage, front-of-house engineer Frankie Desjardins and monitor engineer Charles Ethier.

Frankie Desjardins took over front-of-house duties last year, replacing Denis Savage who has stepped up to become tour/production manager. Together with Charles Ethier, they began the search for the tour’s control systems while Celine Dion was performing in Las Vegas, determined to find one model that could be used for both front-of-house and for monitoring.

“The priority was to find a small desk,” says Desjardins. “We needed something compact to carry all over the world, which would work in testing environments like the humidity of an outdoor show in Kuala Lumpur. And we wanted the same console on monitors. This makes it much easier to train people, especially our support techs, and it means that if we want to switch engineers, there is no problem.”

After spending so many years at front-of-house, Denis Savage knew exactly what he was looking for. The critical test involved recording a Dion show and playing it back. “We were very picky – we set the bar very high!” says Desjardins. “The Vista was one of the best-sounding consoles, and it had a very small footprint and weighed just 30 kilos.”

Desjardins is using 96-100 channels for the show, mixing groups and input VCAs. “The Vista 5SR is really different from other consoles. You have to use it to get used to it, but that only took me about a week. Now I find it very fast to use, very powerful and overall a straightforward tool. I’m confident that it was the best choice for this tour. If there are any compromises to be made, we just remind ourselves of the amazing footprint of the desk!”

Because the ‘Taking Chances’ show is staged in-the-round, monitor engineer Charles Ethier typically sets up his ‘office’ in a remote location. In London, for example, there were some 300 feet of cable between the stage and monitorland. “At first, it was a bit of shock! It is totally another world. Of course I have audience mics to give me an idea of what’s going on, but I miss feeling the SPL, the resonance of the room on my body.”

Ethier presides over a very clean stage. All performers are using in-ear monitors and wireless mics, requiring some 60 frequencies between them. The complexity of output routing, more than 120 buss out to handle the 24 stereo in-ear mixes and 12 click tracks, was a big test for Studer’s new Vista 5SR design. “I sent my spec to Studer, and they sent me Jamie Dunn who stayed with us for 3 days.”

The free configurability of the Studer Vista 5SR DSP engine allowed Ethier to custom design the channel/bus architecture of the console to solve a number of key requirements for his monitor application. The first of these was the very large number of stereo in-ear mixes that he needed to provide – 24 in total. “The ‘Contribution’ feature of the desk allows me to handle this number of complex mixes quickly and easily, without compromise and with great speed and comfort, even though the console’s control surface footprint is small.”


Ethier didn’t want to hear the click tracks in his mixes, preferring to inject them ‘downstream’. The flexibility of the DSP allowed him to configure 24 additional stereo Matrix busses, with a single Aux (Monitor mix) feeding to each one. The click tracks could then be fed into the appropriate Matrix busses, without interfering with Ethier’s monitoring. The matrix channels also allowed for additional EQ processing, giving 8 band parametric EQ in total for each monitor path. The powerful DSP Configuration Tool is available as standard with all Vista 5SR systems.

Studer is a unit of Harman International Industries, Incorporated (www.harman.com).
Harman International designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of audio and infotainment products for the automotive, consumer and professional markets, and maintains a strong presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia, employing more than 11,000 people worldwide. The Harman International family of brands includes AKG®, Audioaccess®, Becker®, BSS®, Crown®, dbx®, DigiTech®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson®, Revel®, QNX®, Soundcraft® and Studer®. Harman International’s stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “NYSE: HAR.”

Pic Captions: 9530: Monitor eng - Charles Ethier; 9578: Frankie Desjardins (FOH) and Mario St Onge (systems); 9655: Frankie Desjardins in rehearsal. All pics taken at the O2 Arena.

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Museum To Unveil Exhibit Featuring Studer Tape Recorder Used On Seminal Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Album

NEW YORK CITY, New York – Beatles enthusiasts and recording buffs will now have the opportunity to view one of the pair of original Studer J37 Multi-Track Recorders used in the recording of the Beatles’ historic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. The J37 recorder, on loan from Studer’s own museum, will be included in the newly renovated exhibit dedicated to the Beatles at The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, scheduled to reopen later this month. The timing of this contribution to the museum coincides perfectly with Studer’s 60th anniversary in the professional audio and recording business.

The Studer J37 originally went into production in 1964 and became the first 4-channel studio-quality tape recorder on the market. The two recorders used on the album were located in Studio Two at the legendary EMI Recording Studios in London (later to become known as Abbey Road Studios).

“The Beatles exhibit has always been one of our most popular exhibits and Studer’s J37 multi-track recorder will make an exciting addition ,” said Jim Henke, Vice President of Exhibitions and Curatorial Affairs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

Bruno Hochstrasser, Executive Vice President of Sales for Studer remembers that period well, having served 37 years with the company. Also celebrating his 60th birthday this year, Hochstrasser noted, “The J37 made history as the first studio-quality, multi-track recorder to be produced. The Beatles use of it in the recording of the Sgt Pepper’s album was confirmation of the J37’s innovative legacy. Studer has an amazing heritage in the music business, with numerous major albums having been recorded on Studer tape machines. Loaning this piece of history to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame reminds us of Studer’s long association with the recording industry and especially Rock and Roll music.”

Andy Trott, President of twin companies Soundcraft and Studer (and a self-confessed Beatles ‘addict’) added, “A few years ago, when I visited one of Studer’s studios in our offices near Zurich in Switzerland, I saw this J37 for the first time and got a thrill at the thought of John, Paul, George and Ringo standing alongside it forty or so years ago listening to a take of Sgt Pepper’s! I hope visitors to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will enjoy the experience of being in the presence of a piece of music history as much as I did”.

The eighth studio album for The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was recorded over a 129-day period using a pair of Studer J37s. The album was released on June 1, 1967 in the U.K. followed by the U.S. debut on June 2nd.

Geoff Emerick, the audio engineer behind the success of the album was asked to re-engineer a tribute album marking the 40th anniversary on June 1, 2007. For this recording, Emerick used two of the original Studer J37 multi-track recorders as well as two of the original EMI mixing consoles provided by Mark Knopfler and Lenny Kravitz. Additionally, Emerick borrowed essential vintage AKG microphone models from the AKG Museum in Vienna, Austria.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is the nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through its library and archives as well as its educational programs.

The Museum is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On Wednesdays, the Museum is open until 9 p.m. Museum admission is $22 for adults, $17 for seniors (65+), $13 for youth (9-12), $18 for adult residents of Greater Cleveland. Children under 8 and Museum members are free. The Museum is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. When you become a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the world of rock and roll becomes yours to explore. Call 216.515.1939 for information on becoming a member. For general inquiries, please call 216.781.ROCK.

Studer is a unit of Harman International Industries, Incorporated (www.harman.com).
Harman International designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of audio and infotainment products for the automotive, consumer and professional markets, and maintains a strong presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia, employing more than 11,000 people worldwide. The Harman International family of brands includes AKG®, Audioaccess®, Becker®, BSS®, Crown®, dbx®, DigiTech®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson®, Revel®, QNX®, Soundcraft® and Studer®. Harman International’s stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “NYSE: HAR.”

Hitachi Offers Networking Capability And Lower Cost Of Ownership With New LCD Projector

-- The CP-X206 and CP-X306 3LCD projectors offer remote
monitoring and management functionality and a new 2,000-hour hybrid filter. --

Hitachi America, Ltd., Ubiquitous Platform Systems Division today introduced the CP-X206 and CP-X306 3LCD projectors, offering versatility and performance for a variety of environments. The CP-X206 and CP-X306 offer remote control and maintenance via a LAN connection, while Hitachi’s proprietary My Image technology allows administrators to send still images to every projector on the network.

The Hitachi CP-X206 and CP-X306 projectors feature Hitachi PJMan® software, allowing users to control and monitor multiple projectors via a web browser without having to download and install application software. This allows administrators to monitor for functions such as lamp life on every projector on the network from a single, remote location. Additionally, the timing of switching the projector’s power on and off can be automatically scheduled from a computer.

The CP-X206 and CP-X306 projectors feature a new hybrid filter, allowing for 2,000 hours before replacement, located on the side of the chassis, making it accessible no matter how the projector is mounted. Both models contain a top door lamp, enabling easy replacement when the projector is ceiling mounted.

Addressing the issue of security, administrators can transfer still images to every projector on the network, thanks to the My Image function. The images will be automatically displayed on every projector, regardless of whether or not they are in use at the time. This is particularly useful in emergency situations when a notification needs to be sent immediately across a large area.

The CP-X206 projector offers 2,200 lumens of brightness, while the CP-X306 offers 2,600 lumens. Both models weigh 7.7 pounds and feature a 500:1 contrast ratio. They also feature 7 Watts of built-in audio, eliminating the need for external speakers. The CP-X206 and CP-X306 boast a low noise rating of 29 dB in Whisper Mode.

The CP-X206 and CP-X306 also offer anti-theft features such as a Transition Detector (requires a password to operate the projector when moved from a fixed position). Both projectors also offer PIN Lock and MyScreen Lock, as well as a security bar.

ABOUT HITACHI
Hitachi Home Electronics (America), Inc., Business Group, subsidiary of Hitachi America, Ltd., markets LCD projectors, interactive panels and whiteboards and security and observation system products through value added resellers, system integrators, distributors and OEM.

Hitachi has a unique position in the marketplace by manufacturing and developing its own core technologies to provide consumers and businesses with optimal product performance in each of Hitachi's product categories. For Business products go to www.hitachi.us/digitalmedia. For consumer products, please visit www.hitachi.us/tv.

Hitachi America, Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., markets and manufactures a broad range of electronics, computer systems and products, and provides industrial equipment and services throughout North America. For more information, visit www.hitachi.us.

Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 390,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2007 (ended March 31, 2008) consolidated revenues totaled 11,226 billion yen ($112.2 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials, logistics and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at www.hitachi.com