Convergent Design Nano Flash Shipping!

The Convergent Design nanoFlash is hot! The world’s smallest, lowest-power HD/SD recorder/player is clearly a home-run. This palm-sized wonder records stunning video at bit-rates up to 220 Mbps (I-Frame-Only, 4:2:2 full-raster) or 100 Mbps XDCAM 422 onto affordable Compact Flash media . Near universal NLE support (FCP, Avid, Vegas and soon Premiere) opens up a wide potential customer base. We encourage our dealers to visit our website, http://www.avalive.com/Convergent-Design/199/0/productList.php for all of the details.

Don’t let the diminutive size fool you, as this baby is feature packed with HD/SD-SDI, HMDI and analog audio I/O. Unique features such as pre-record buffer and over/under crank further separate nanoFlash from similar products. But, it’s the super small size (camcorder mountable) and miserly power (under 6 Watts) that really sets nanoFlash apart and makes it a very useful tool for both studio and field recording applications.

Applications include upgrading tape-based cameras to file-based editing, POV camera recorders, client presentations, video assist, underwater video, SDI switcher recorders, and other high-quality video recording and playback venues, including output to film.

AValive Provides Final Cut Pro Rentals to Yum Brands

AValive recently provided 1 Final Cut Pro HD Rental and 1 Mac-Windows dual boot Apple Mac Pro Adobe Premiere HD System to Yum Brands Inc in Louisville KY. These were used in the marketing department and also included a Sony Beta Deck. Mike Theobald of YUM Brands. said" AValive hit it dead on they turned a complex rental in 24 hours and were able to do something no one else could do ,provide us a dual boot Mac and PC Adobe Premiere System running Aja Kona LHe cardsets which worked flawlessly.




About Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Ky., is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants with more than 35,000 restaurants in more than 110 countries and territories. Four of our restaurant brands - KFC, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell - are the global leaders of the chicken, quick-service seafood, pizza and Mexican-style food categories. A&W Restaurants is the longest running quick-service franchise chain in America. In 2007, Yum! Brands generated more than $10 billion in total revenues, including company sales and franchise fees.

Pro Tools Multimedia Studio For Sale Wilmington NC Owner Financing 3995.00 Per Month

Beautiful 1700 Sq Foot Fully Equipped Pro Tools HD and HD Video Studio For Sale in Wilmington NC close to Screen Gems Film Studios. This Unit was built custom and includes Floating Floor Control Room ,Vocal booth,Acoustically Treated large room ,lounge area and office, This facility is a perfect project studio and mastering facility and can double as a small video set and foley effects facility. Built around The Yamaha DM2000 mixing Console and Digidesign Pro Tools HD this facility is one of the most advanced digital recording rooms in all of NC. Price can include: Neumann mic sets, DW Drum Kit, Drum Mic Kits ,DM2000 Console ,Pro Tools HD, Panasonic HD Cameras,Avid HD Editing Equipment ,Apple Final Cut Pro Editing Equipment and much more. This would make a great business opportunity while living on the beautiful NC Coast. Call 910-790-0324 for details !

AValive offers new vendor products

Here is a list of some of the newest vendor products we offer. Click on the name to see all the products we offer for each:

Azden

Bella Keyboards

Contour Designs

Rapco Cables

Sorenson Video

Waves Audio Software

Link: See all of our vendors at AValive.biz

AValive now offers Luxor Furniture for sale

Luxor offers a wide variety of stylish and durable audio visual and computer furniture. Our new 2006 - 2007 Full Line Catalog showcases our complete line of furniture plus over 20 new products

Link: AValive Luxor Products for Sale

Link: Luxor Furiture

Apple and Cisco battle over new iPhone

Cisco is claiming that they have patented the name 'iPhone' since 2000. Both parties are currently in a legal battle over the name...only time will tell.

Link: iPhone

Apple announces iPhone at Macworld Conference & Expo 2007

Well, it's finally been announced - Apple Computer, Inc. ...er..well, now it's Apple Inc. will begin shipping their latest and greatest, the iPhone in 2007.

Some of the more prominent features of the new phone are:

Widescreen iPhone - 3.5-inch widescreen
Cover Flow - browse your music library by album cover artwork
Visual Voicemail - view all your voicemails in a list format - touch the screen to listen to it
One touch calling - simply touch the name of the person you want to call and it dials them for you
Touch Screen / Scrolling Navigation - no external buttons or keypads; scroll through lists using your finger
Portrait or Landscape Viewing - auto adjusts to landscape view when you rotate the iPhone
Google Maps - with satellite views
Store and view images, music, full length movies, podcasts, tv shows.
SMS text messaging
Full scale Safari web browser
Widgets - stocks, weather, etc.
Multi-touch - zoom in and zoom out using 'the pinch'
Runs on OS X
Multicensors throughout iPhone detect ambient light, proximity and iPhone position for landscape veiwing
Quad-band GSM, Cingular's EDGE network, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR

Bill comments on the iPhone:

As a certified Apple User since 1990 and a stock holder since 2000 this one has a few holes. First it uses Cingular which getting any web or email on sucks big time. Verizion and Sprint have much faster data rates almost times 4. So a better wireless data choice would be cool.

2) It should of been able to use IP telephony when a wireless airport etc is found. Would have been much tighter integration with exsisting products would of been nice.

I will have one as an Apple dealer no doubt but I was a bit dissapointed on the features .

Link: Apple iPhone

Link: AValive Apple products

Link: Pre-order your Apple 8GB iPhone today!

Hitachi announces 1 TB hard drive

Hitachi this morning was first out of the gate to announce details about a 1 TB hard drive, which the company said will ship during the first quarter of this year. The announcement follows a brief statement by Seagate, which yesterday confirmed that it will also deliver a 1 TB drive within the next three months.

Link: Full article

AValive offers new vendors in 2007

AValive is now selling HHB, Mack Extended Warranty and Sennheiser on the avalive.biz

Link: HHB
Link: Mack Extended Warranty
Link: Sennheiser

Google Press Center gives top 10 lists

Google Zeitgeist gives the year end top 10 for 2006

Google.com - Top Searches in 2006

1. bebo
2. myspace
3. world cup
4. metacafe
5. radioblog
6. wikipedia
7. video
8. rebelde
9. mininova
10. wiki

link: Google Zeitgeist

AValive.biz offers Draper products

View our complete line here:

http://www.avalive.biz/Draper/92/0/productList.php

AValive.biz offers GizMac XSERVE, XRackPro

View our complete line here or view each product individually:

Gizmac XR-NRE2-25U-US XRackPro2 25U Noise Reduction Enclosure



Gizmac XR-NRE2-25U-US-BLK XRackPro2 25U Noise Reduction Enclosure Racks Black

Gizmac XR-NRE2-US X Pro2 12U PLAT 12 Space Rack for XSERVE

AValive.biz now offers Citidisk products

View our complete line of Citidisk products here:

http://www.avalive.biz/Citidisk/91/0/productList.php

Citidisk pro, citidisk dv, citidisk firewire hard drive

AValive.biz offers Chrosziel 440-03XLH1K3 XLH1 K3 KIT

http://www.avalive.biz/Chrosziel/440-03XLH1K3/24004/productDetail.php

Chrosziel’s 4x4 sunshade system brings professional shading and filtering solutions to the Canon XL-H1. Loaded with the benefits operators have come to expect from Alfred Chrosziel, features include a housing that covers both 16:9 and 4:3, filterstage for 2 filterholders (one rotating & one fixed), a full-size French flag, a 104:72 step-down ring that clamps onto the Canon lens.

AValive.biz now offers Steadicam/SteadyCam products

You can view our complete line of Steadicam/SteadyCam products here:

http://www.avalive.biz/Steadicam-SteadyCam/89/0/productList.php

FAQ's On BlackMagic Design Intensity

From http://www.avalive.biz/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2

Product can be purchased here:

http://www.avalive.biz/Black-Magic-Design-Blackmagic-Design/BHDINT/18451/productDetail.php


Hey all,
There have been a few questions that seem to be repeating themselves several
times about the HDMI capabilities of the new Intensity and Decklink HD
Studio cards. To help clear up some confusions I'd like to just clarify two
of the most common questions.

Q. Can I copy my "Hollywood Movies" -like HD DVD, Blu-Ray, or even DVDs- by
capturing via HDMI.

A. NO! We do not allow you to capture copy protected footage!
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=173

HDMI uses a copy protection form known as HDCP. Many new devices that are
built with HDCP are generally 'HDCP Compliant' which means they support this
copy protection format.

Our products RESPECT HDCP, which means they will not allow you to capture
protected footage.

So, for example, a customer might call saying he can't capture HDMI from his
DVD player. Generally this will be because they are trying to capture from
a protected 'hollywood' movie. However if they were to put a home made DVD
in the device they would indeed be able to capture the video via HDMI.

Q. Can I convert DVI to HDMI with a converter (similar to the bender that
comes with HDLink/Multibridge Extreme) and capture that HDMI video signal
with these new cards?

A. UNLIKELY- as Intensity cards are looking for YUV video and supported
television frame rates and resolution.

This request generally comes from folks looking to take the DVI output of
their computer and convert it to HDMI to be captured as video. The problem
here is that while DVI and YUV share a similar pin out structure they are
not the same entirely, particularly in color space. DVI coming out of the
computer is going to be RGB 8 bit, and HDMI can actually be YUV or RGB. The
'bender' is going to convert the DVI RGB signal to HDMI RGB and technically
so long as you have a video frame rate and resolution (like you would with a
HDLink) you can feed that to most HDMI monitors. However the Intensity
cards can only take YUV video signals and will not be able to take in the
RGB signals (video frame rate and resolution correct or otherwise).

As always if you have any questions about these notes please feel free to
reach out to me at any time.

Thanks

Dan

--
Dan May
President
Blackmagic Design Inc

AValive provides AV installs in Wilmington NC

AValive has been providing clients with state of the art Audio Visual technology for over ten years. Our clients include Touchstone Energy, Lucent Technologies, NFL Films, The US Postal Service, The University of North Carolina, and many more. We strive to provide the highest quality Audio Visual integration with Support Services after the sale. We at AValive are able to provide turnkey service including system/facility design, equipment sales, installation/integration, and training and post sales support.

http://www.avalive.biz/about_us/installs.php

AValive offers audio visual and multimedia services

Check out our full line of multimedia services here at AValive:

Audio Production
CD and DVD Services
Corporate AV Services and Staging
Corporate Presentations
Corporate Video Production
Digital Imaging
HDTV High Defination Video Production Services
Mobile Phone and PDA Services
Standard NTSC Video Production Services
Webcasting-Webcast Streaming Video

http://www.avalive.biz/services.php

AMD 4x4 is now available

AMD's response to Intel's Quad Core processors released a month or two ago may not be all it's cracked up to be.

Full article here:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=2693130

infoComm offers AV Certification programs

infoComm now offers three certification levels for you and your staff:

General Certification (CTS)
The CTS designation is for AV professionals who have demonstrated knowledge and comprehension of the science and technology used in communications including audio, video, display and systems. Technicians, engineers, designers, salespeople, customer service personnel, managers and executives are eligible for taking the general certification (individual) testing. InfoComm's general certification is recognized by the National Certification Commission.

Specialized Certification (CTS-D,CTS-I)
A CTS-D or CTS-I indicates at least two year's industry experience and a higher skill level than the CTS (general) designation. Although no specific courses are required for certification, InfoComm International offers courses through InfoComm Academy that can help candidates focus and refine their skills and knowledge. Testing for specialized certification is offered at various locations throughout the year.

Company Certification (CAVSP)
CAVSP is awarded to organizations who have demonstrated their commitment to professional excellence. Companies can achieve General, Silver or Gold CAVSP levels based on the proportion of their technical sales and customer service personnel who earn General or Specialized individual certification.


http://www.infocomm.org/Education/certification/

Wireless Energy Transfer

Just read an article on The Christian Science Monitor that a new technology is being developed where energy is being transferred between two electronic devices via airwaves.

So, let's say you're walking down the street and your cell phone starts to die on you because your battery is low. Soon, you might be able to walk to your nearest recharging station and just stand there as your cell phone recharges.

Quoting from the article:
"His idea involves "electromagnetic resonances," in which energy jumps between two locations, as it does for very short distances inside an electric motor or transformer. "It's a very general phenomenon in nature," Soljacic says. "In quantum mechanics, it's called 'tunneling.' In electromagnetics, it's called 'evanescent coupling."

You can read the entire article here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1116/p14s01-stct.html

AValive is Expanding to New Markets

AValive announced today that they are expanding to new markets in the United States. Frank Fugazi, COO, said "We have been testing the waters the past 6 months and with the decline of dedicated VARs and Resellers in the Broadcast and AV Markets, we feel that we are focusing on some highly serviceable areas."
AValive began their expansion out of NC/SC by opening their West Palm Beach Service Center in 2004, and have proven very successful in servicing both Video Professionals and Corporate AV Customers in and around South Florida as well as the Orlando area.
AValive is committed to sales and services in the following new markets: Atlanta, Georgia and surrounding cities; Nashville, Tennessee and surrounding cities; Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC; as well as Los Angles and Hollywood, California.
Customers can expect the same great service and excellent prices found on AValive.com along with manufacturer certified installers, trainers and service professionals for both pre- and post-sale support.

For more information, please call the city nearest you, or toll free 1-877-387-5464.