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Sure MIT Cables One Wire install system is easy and quick to use (no soldering is required) but the bigger sales point is MIT's patented Network Modules that give a wider bandwidth of frequency through the cable and allowsfor very long cable runs with almost no signal loss.

If that doesn't catch your interest, then maybe we should mention MIT Founder Bruce Brisson began designing audio cables in the 1970's ad in the 1980s he licensed his "Bandwidth Balanced" technology to Monster Cable. Later he also licensed other phase correct, or time coherent designs to Monster, which have become some of Monster Cable's most enduring and successful products. Ha! Got your attention now…

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"It's all about metadata now." That's what Simon Spears, International Sales Manager at Niles Audio, told us at CEDIA in London where Niles was showing its iRemoteTS, an easy-to-use wireless system control remote with color touch screen. 

Simon Spears (right) of Niles Audio at CEDIA with ECI's Bob Snyder (left) The iRemoteTS is an elegant user interface for operating the IntelliControl ICS whole house distributed audio/video system. It employs reliable ZigBee 2-way wireless technology to provide users with all the necessary metadata to scan, select and play program material from menu-based digital sources, like iPods, music servers, HD Radio, XM and Sirius satellite radio, from their whole house audio/video system.

That's why Simon brought up metadata and his comment reflects an acute understanding of industry direction: the more we expect to get our music and videos anywhere and anytime, the more you need "metadata" to recognize and aid the movements.

The iRemoteTS integrates with Niles HT-MSU Home Theater Main System Unit to manage all components in a home theater system including TV, home theater receiver and up to 14 additional sources like digital video recorders, DVD players and cable/satellite receivers with the single press of its touch screen interface.

"The combination of the iRemoteTS, HT-MSU and Intellicontrol ICS make a powerful addition to the integrators•' tool kit," says Frank Sterns, president of Niles. "With the introduction of the iRemoteTS, it is now possible for Intellicontrol ICS customers to control their entire distributed audio/video system and home theater from a single color touch screen remote."

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Sony showed at CES a new wireless data transfer system capable of sending pictures, video and data over a range of a few centimeters.
Transfer Jet is a near-field communications technology that Sony wants to build into its range of portable devices to enable transfer without wires. With effective data rates of about 375M bps over a 560M bps physical layer, it’s faster (on paper, at least) than USB 2.0 and IEEE1394 FireWire.

Transfer Jet uses a 4.5GHz system (similar to UWB) and has no security or encryption (as Sony assumes it is safe enough when you transfer line-of-sight over a distance of centimeters.) The technology isn't related to Sony’s Felica system, used in smartcards across Asia but lacking the throughput for demanding applications.

For example, a digital camera equipped with Transfer Jet could transfer images quickly to a Sony's photo reader box and those could be viewed on a Sony TV seconds later.

Transfer Jet is still a year away, but looks to join the ranks of Sony proprietary technology that make Sony-only customers happy but frustrate the rest of us.

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The latest multi-player gaming consoles, NAS network drives, high-end media servers, high-speed networking devices, and other home technologies…what kind of network does a home really need?

“With the modern workplace thoroughly connected and networked, people now have higher overall expectations when it comes to computing and entertainment experiences,” says Jack Merrow, director of marketing for Leviton Integrated Networks products and systems.

Leviton’s integrated Gigabit Network System consists of Leviton’s commercial-grade Category 6 patch cords, QuickPort jacks, new Category 6 Data Board and Module, Gigabit Ethernet Switch, and Gigabit Router. All the devices snap into Leviton’s award-winning Structured Media Center enclosures, available in 14-, 28- and 42-inch sizes to support any size installation.

The new 10/100/1000Base-T 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch includes an auto-detect uplink to easily cascade additional switches and routers from any of its 1-Gbps ports. The Switch features high-performance store-and-forward switching architecture with CRC and Runt Filtering. It connects to Leviton’s new Category 6 Data Module with Category 6 Patch Cords.

The 10/100/1000Base-T 4-Port Gigabit Router includes a WAN port and 4 Gigabit Ethernet Switch ports, which allows multiple users to share a single, secure, DSL or cable Internet connection.

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