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Monday, April 8, 2013 BLONDER TONGUE PROVIDES COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS Jeff Smith, Vice President of Sales at Blonder Tongue Laboratories Inc., takes time out of his busy schedule to share some company news with Broadcasters Show Daily. Oser Communications Group PROTECT YOUR CABLES WITH CHECKERS' NEW GRIP GUARD JS: Blonder Tongue has been a pioneer in the cable industry since its inception in Checkers is excited to introduce its new Grip Guard® 5-Channel Cable Protector with multiple patentpending features. These cable protectors feature Checkers' "Gripper® Connectors" and a lightweight design. At a weight of only 12.75 pounds, Grip Guard is up to 60 percent lighter than other leading polyurethane 5-channel cable Continued on Page 65 Continued on Page 65 BSD: What would you say makes your company unique? FOR 'IMPOSSIBLE' TASKS, SEEK THE WIRE GUYZ An interview with Dave Bright, Owner, The Wire Guyz. REELDATA, PANASAS OFFER HIGH PERFORMANCE PARALLEL STORAGE By Jeff Spalla, C o - f o u n d e r, Reeldata, Inc. Las Vegas VISION RESEARCH ANNOUNCES THE PHANTOM FLEX4K LEMO PROVIDES THE PERFECT CONNECTORS highLeading speed camera manufacturer Vision Research has announced the next member of its award-winning digital cinema product line, the Phantom Flex4K. This new 4K camera system offers excellent image quality, a variety of workflow options, a new camera control interface and improved performance at standard LEMO has been producing the highest quality push-pull electronic, fiber optic and hybrid connectors since the technology was first introduced in the early '50s. Over the past half-century, design engineers around the world have turned to LEMO whenever they've needed a new solution in high performance circular connectors. Continued on Page 65 Continued on Page 48 LETUS INTRODUCES THE MASTER CINEMA SERIES 2.0 DB: The Wire Guyz is a full-service wiring integrator. We do anything from broadcast commination and surveillance trucks to post-production machine rooms and editing facilities. We also do 'cable to order' if you need For the second year in a row, Reeldata is working with partner Panasas Storage to demonstrate the world's fastest parallel file system storage at NAB. Last year, the focus was on the AS12, the world's fastest parallel file system storage at the time. This year there is a new player, but again it's from Panasas, the ActiveStor After two years of working with the DSLRs cameras (which constitutes 75 percent of the footage on the movie Act Of Valor), Shane Hurlbut, ASC, a Hollywood veteran, teamed up with Letus, a premier camera gear manufacturer to create the Master Cinema Series (MCS). The MCS is a camera support system that is a marriage between field experience, brilliant engineering, a coupling of time-tested Continued on Page 63 Continued on Page 48 ZIPPY TECHNOLOGY CORP. DELIVERS QUALITY POWER SUPPLIES An interview with Ric Allen, Sr. Project Manager, Zippy Te c h n o l o g y Corporation. Continued on Page 48 BSD: Tell our readers about your company. What's your main line of business? ERICSSON LAUNCHES AVP 4000 COMPRESSION PLATFORM An interview with Dr. Giles Wilson, Head of TV Compression Business, Ericsson. THE CAN BY ACCELERATED MEDIA BENEFITS BROADCASTERS Broadcasters Show Daily recently spoke with Lesa Bannon, CEO of Accelerated Media to find out more about the "CAN" and how it works for broadcasters. OPTIMIZE YOUR BROADCAST WITH DOLBY LABORATORIES GW: The AVP 4000 is the most powerful compression platform of its kind and offers a truly multi-platform solution BSD: Accelerated Media has been known for iTV as an advanced advertising agency. What's changed? Dolby Laboratories advances the science of sight and sound to help partners deliver the best in audio and imaging for entertainment, regardless of where and how consumers enjoy their content—at home via TV, on-thego via mobile or in the cinema. Dolby's end-to-end approach is one of its key differentiators: Dolby develops the best tools for content creators, provides best-in-class solutions for mobile, broadcast and cable distribution Continued on Page 63 Continued on Page 48 Continued on Page 63 BSD: Ericsson has launched the AVP 4000 here at NAB 2013. What is it and what does it enable? BSD: Tell our readers about your company. What's your main line of business? RA: Zippy Technology Corporation manufactures server grade switching power supplies for a variety of system Continued on Page 63 MUSICBOX HAS THE TUNES YOU WANT, WHEN YOU WANT THEM An interview with Aaron Davis, MusicBox's Vice President of Music Licensing. BSD: What is MusicBox? AD: We are a collection of about 30 unique production music catalogs combining to offer nearly 150,000 tracks in styles that literally span the breadth of humanity, in musical terms. We own Continued on Page 65