Crestron Press Release April 23, 2010
Crestron, the world leader in touchpanel control, announces its new iPad™ app, a seamless merging of iPad resolution and Crestron innovation. Exciting interactive features include browsing your Blu-ray collection, adjusting the lights and checking to see who’s at the door while you’re walking from the fridge to the home theater. Crestron introduced wireless, Web-based and mobile control before most of its competitors were in business, perfecting the ability to re-create personalized touchpanel control and user-defined backgrounds on virtually any device from any location. Now users can enjoy the magical iPad experience with the power of Crestron control.
“iPad is the hottest new thing right now, and Crestron is out in front with the most flexible and feature-rich control app available,” said Vincent Bruno, Crestron Director of Marketing. “Crestron fully embraces the iPad and Apple® integration, and we have lots of cool new features coming next, including landscape view and gestures navigation.”
The Crestron Mobile Pro™ G iPad app comes pre-loaded with a standard graphic template, and supports user-defined interfaces as well. If a Crestron dealer has its own, branded interface being deployed on touchpanels throughout the house, the same look and functionality can be used on the iPad. Just like the other Crestron apps, Mobile Pro G provides direct communication to the control system without any third-party software or external servers. Updates and changes to the control program are automatically sent to the iPad when the Crestron app is launched. Using the home Wi-Fi network locally or the powerful 3G and EDGE networks remotely, total control is always at your fingertips.
By: HomeTheaterReview.com
November 1, 2009
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Runco just introduced a new series of LED HDTV front projectors including their QuantumColor™ Q-750i and Q-750d. The QuantumColor projectors maximize the benefits of Runco’s new InfiniLight™ lampless LED illumination technology and pair it with proprietary engineering to create energy-efficient systems that deliver high light output.
“LED-based projection is incredibly complex and Runco has significantly invested to lead in this category,” stated Runco CEO Gerry Perkel. “QuantumColor is a revolutionary solution that maximizes LED performance and offers a never-before-seen color gamut. But, having these features is only part of the magic. To make this a revolutionary new platform, Runco created proprietary technologies that harness the impressive color gamut to create images that are nothing short of stunning.”
Working in close collaboration with Texas Instruments, Runco has invested considerable time to create new color options for home theater projectors. QuantumColor projectors offer the most astounding arsenal of colors ever available in front projection, including DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative), Adobe RGB, sRGB, REC 709 and REC 601, to enable exact reproduction of any content. To harness these incredible color gamuts, Runco introduces its revolutionary new Personal Color Equalizer™ (PCE), a six-axis (R, G, B, C, Y, M) color adjustment that works like an audio equalizer and allows colors to be individually dialed up and down for every video source and multiple personal preferences. Runco’s PCE enables custom integrators to achieve unprecedented colors that include those exactly defined by Hollywood’s cinematographers and the color preferences that each individual viewer chooses for each source.
Color equalizing is revolutionary, but such a large color gamut can distort images if not coded properly. To eliminate unrealistic distortion, Runco developed Runco SmartColor (RSC™), which is a proprietary hue compensation curve and gamut mapping technology that preserves lifelike, accurate flesh tones by increasing color saturation, without sacrificing the purity of other colors. True to Runco’s Installer Dependant™ legacy, RSC enables custom installers to create color preference settings for their clients who, for example, want REC 709 perfect HD encoding when watching Blu-ray, but prefer incredibly green grass that pops off the screen when watching football–all without sacrificing or adjusting other colors, which leads to unrealistic flesh tones and oversaturation. QuantumColor projectors never lose color alignment as they automatically assess and adjust color calibration every time they are turned on.
“Runco has been innovating and changing projection technology for years,” says Joel Silver, founder and president of the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF™). “An LED lampless light source is clearly the next step in front projection, and Runco’s investment in color gamut and customization puts its QuantomColor projectors well ahead of the pack. The innovation offered by Runco’s Personal Color Equalizer easily enables accurate color gamut for all current sources.”
Runco’s proprietary technologies enable the Quantum Series to achieve a new level of customized HD video performance that, until now, has been unachievable. QuantumColor enables the projectors to produce immeasurable black/white contrast and new color standards, redefining projector specifications as we know them and demanding new ways to be measured. Runco’s QuantumColor projectors are the first to measure ColorContrast™, the ratio of a single color at its darkest (black) to its brightest by utilizing an incident light meter. The difference between these measured colors is greater than lamp-based projectors and ColorContrast enables colors to be “turned up” to achieve greater realism and dimensionality. The result is an unsurpassed visual experience that must be seen to be understood….
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April 02, 2010 | by Jason Knott
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Control4 has introduced its Control4 My Home iPad App, which will allow users to control lighting, temperature, music, video, security systems, Web cameras and more.
Control4 says the Control4 My Home iPad App is different from the iPhone version of the application.
“It’s totally unique. We built it from the ground up,” says Control4 COO Glen Mella, who added that Control4 maintains the look of its Navigator GUI in all its interfaces. “There are lots of cool things on the iPad app that are not on the iPhone app.”
Mella cited, for example, the ability to access and control home lighting from the entertainment screen vs. having to jump to another screen.
The Control4 My Home iPad app can be downloaded for free. Users need to have the app authenticated to their system with a Mobile Navigator license, which can be obtained from a Control4 dealer.
Control4 says “later in the year” homeowners will be able to use the iPad app with a Control4 4Sight remote monitoring subscription “to turn lights on and off, lock or unlock doors, or access IP video cameras and security systems from the Internet.”
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