NEWS UNITED STATES/WORLD NEWPARTNERS
dBTechnologies has announced the appointment of Glasgow-based CUK Audio as its exclusive distributor in the UK. The appointment is part of the company’s European strategy to move from direct sales to independent distributors in all markets except Italy, Germany and Benelux.
www.cuk-audio.com www.dbtechnologies.com
Effective this month, UK residential distributor Habitech is now handling AMX control systems – focusing primarily on NetLinx processors and Modero touchpanels – and digital media signal management systems, principally the Enova DGX Link platform.
www.amx.com www.habitech.co.uk
Peavey Electronics has been named Earthworks Master Distributor in the APAC region. Peavey will oversee all sales, marketing and technical support for Earthworks audio products along with their local distributors in the Pacific Rim region.
www.earthworksaudio.com www.peavey.com
Audio supplier Tonspur has been appointed DiGiCo’s exclusive Swiss distributor. Tonspur first encountered the console manufacturer at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2009, and began selling the consoles to the Swiss and Liechtenstein markets in 2010.
www.digico.org www.tonspur.ch
HDBaseT 2.0 spec launched
THE HDBaseT Alliance has launched the HDBaseT 2.0 specification, which includes the HomePlay feature set. Based on HDBaseT’s 5Play capabilities (video, audio, Ethernet, power and controls), HomePlay promises to make it simpler and more cost- effective for consumers to turn their homes into multimedia entertainment centres. HDBaseT 1.0 only addresses
the physical and data link layers, and defines a point-to- point connectivity standard. HDBaseT 2.0 adds networking, switching and control point capabilities as well as defining point-to-multipoint connectivity, providing multi-stream support.
UNITED STATES Paper still rules in the boardroom
DESPITE the increased availability of technology designed to facilitate the sharing of information in meeting rooms, the majority of business leaders still use paper copies of documents in meetings, a survey has found. Sixty-nine percent of
executives typically rely on hard copies of presentations during meetings, with only 28% using a presentation device to share content and just 23% using a tablet, the Barco-commissioned survey found. So what is inhibiting companies from fully migrating to a digital meeting environment? Sixty-two percent of respondents said they face technical issues when trying to show or share information in meetings, while 48% said they were challenged
with effectively sharing information or visuals. Among executives who have a smartphone or tablet, only 7% say they can easily project content from that device during a meeting. Fifteen percent can “sometimes” do this, with another 10% able to only if they have the correct adaptors to hand. The vast majority, 68%, lack the technology completely. Just over half (52%) of
respondents expressed the desire for cable-less connectivity to the room’s projection screen or LCD. The 2013 Survey on the Obstacles to Effective Business Meetingsis based on a blind survey of 572 North American business leaders conducted in summer of 2013.
www.barco.com
The 2.0 spec adds inherent support for USB 2.0 and other native interfaces, so that manufacturers do not need to include the multiple interfaces and conversion components required by HDBaseT 1.0 products. This, according to the Alliance, means that HDBaseT 2.0 switches will be smaller, simpler to implement and cheaper to produce. “We have leveraged our
experience working with the pros to ensure that HDBaseT 2.0 will enable consumers to enjoy the same benefits and user experience: highest video quality, reliability and multi- room support all over a single inexpensive cable,” said Micha Risling, marketing chair of the
HDBaseT Alliance. “HomePlay features an elegant, affordable plug-and-play solution that will allow the average consumer to experience the same multimedia benefits of HDBaseT that the professionals have become accustomed to.” Eyran Lyda, HDBaseT Technical Committee
chairperson, commented: “The HDBaseT 2.0 specification defines the required adaptations across all seven layers of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) model to support time-sensitive, high- throughput video/audio and
UNITED KINGDOM
HoloVis wins BIM project funding
A CONSORTIUM featuring immersive and virtual environment specialist HoloVis has won £185,000 funding for a three-year collaborative research programme to develop an affordable Mobile Immersive Visualisation Suite for use on building sites. Other partners in the Immersive Visualisation in Construction (iViC) project are Cullinan Studio Architects, Hyde Housing and WMG at the University of Warwick. The project aims to improve the communication of design data, helping to achieve the UK government’s targets of buildings being delivered more quickly, at lower cost, and with fewer defects.
other time sensitive applications. The HomePlay switch is designed to provide all required services for the multimedia home, such as delivering time-sensitive high- throughput video, including 4K, audio and USB to all the rooms in the house.”
www.hdbaset.org
Stuart Hetherington, CEO
of Holovis, said: “We are delighted to be working with our partners to encourage a radical rethink of the build process and supply chain relationships in the construction industry through the deployment of immersive, collaborative technologies.” Stuart Hetherington is
interviewed in this issue – turn to page 20.
www.holovis.com
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