Larry Bloomfield brings his famous Taste of the NAB roadshow to San Diego Tuesday, May 22 at noon at TV Magic. Come see wares from some your favorite vendors and win a door prize.

Exhibitors this year:

• Omneon media servers
• Leader Instruments test gear
• Blackmagic Design edit system media I/O cards
• ESE timekeeping and interface products
• AJA video interface and terminal equipment
• Telecast fiberoptic transmission equipment
• InPhase Technologies holographic storage
• Network Electronics fiber, terminal, and compression gear
• Henry Engineering interface devices
• Telecast fiber systems
• Clark wire and cable
• DSC Labs test charts
• SMPTE standards publishing
• Verbatim blank media
• ADS Tech video capture devices
• Key Digital computer cables
• Canon lenses

Plan to eat a free lunch provided by Canon. Lucky engineers will walk away with one of multiple door prizes donated by the roadshow sponsors. Larry’s giving away polo shirts, DVI cables, capture devices, CD media, gift certificates, and standards CDs, and other goods at the show.

Those attending will also be entered into a national drawing for prizes that include a Fluke multimeter, Burst Electronics digital video switcher, Coaxial Dynamics RF wattmeter, a copy of VidCAD software, a Radiosophy HD table radio, and a genuine Chuck Pharis Indian Head TV test pattern.

Members and guests welcome to TV Magic, 8112 Engineer Road, May 22 at noon.

Thanks to all for attending. 20 local radio group engineering executive and friends ate a fine lunch and heard a few words from Al Jason of Dielectric on their RF Scout and tower LED beacon products. Craig Caston of Salem Communications won the Sangean HD-Radio provided by SCMS. Thanks to Doug Tharp for the lunch and radio!

In a presentation of interest to both TV and Radio engineers, Jamie
Dunn, Studer’s Western Regional Sales Manager will introduce two of
Studer latest technologies with the opportunity to see Studer’s
complete digital console product range installed in their 53 foot
mobile demonstration truck.

Studer is one of the oldest and best known worldwide audio companies. Formed in 1948 by Dr. Willi Studer in Zurich Switzerland, Studer Professional Audio became famous throughout the world for its high quality and robust tape machines. Even today, a Studer tape machine can still be found in practically every studio or broadcast facility. Studer, however, was also a major manufacturer of mixing consoles for both production and on-air applications. For the past 15 years, Studer has been at the forefront of digital technology and now has a product portfolio dedicated primarily to digital mixing consoles focussed towards Radio and TV applications.

Vistonics is Studer’s patented technology of mounting rotary encoders and switches onto a TFT Screen. It forms the basis of the revolutionary and award winning user interface of both the Studer Vista 8 and new Vista 5 Live Broadcast consoles. The presentation will give a brief insight into the philosophies that make Vistonics the Return of the Human Interface.

The OnAir 3000 is Studer’s 3rd generation of digital on-air console and is based on a modern router based architecture and flexible hardware concept. Jamie will introduce the underlying concepts and philosophies behind the product.

Jamie relocated to Los Angeles in July of 2005 with his wife and 2 year old daughter to take on his present role of Studer’s Western US Regional Sales Manager. Previously living and working in Zurich, Switzerland at the Studer Headquarters, he had been working for Studer for 6 years as Product Specialist and Sales Director for North and South America. Originally from the UK, Jamie is a “Tonmeister” (Sound Master) graduate and prior to working for Studer, worked as a classical recording engineer and editor for an independent production company based in London.

Members and guests, please join us Monday, October 23, at 6 PM for snacks and a social hour, and 7 PM for the demonstration. It all takes place at TV Magic, 8112 Engineer Road in Kearny Mesa, San Diego.

Last month’s meeting at MediaFLO headquarters not only introduced the concepts involved in a graceful degradation of digital mobile TV signals, but of new ways of integrating hardware, including monitored rack outlets and personal laptop docks in the giant Network Operations Center. Their impressive graphic realtime U.S. map of operating metropolitan transmitter sites calmly glowing green was driven by this month’s presenter, Statmon Technologies.

Statmon introduced a couple of years ago the next generation of transmission site remote control hardware and software–highly scaleable, readily networked, web accessible, and customizeable. Ken Dillard visits us on June 21 at TV Magic and will give a presentation on their technology. He’ll inform us about both the EIF-32 embedded control product line and its large scale environment known as the Axxess control and facilities management system.

Join us Wednesday, June 21, at TV Magic, 8112 Engineer Road, at 6 PM for a social hour and snacks, then the 7 PM meeting and presentation. Guests welcome.

TV Magic hosts an open house June 28th from 9 AM till 3 PM with Grass Valley products, including Turbo, Kayak, K2 server, Canopus, and RevPro drives for the Infinity news gathering system. The open introduces TV Magic’s new role as integrator and dealer of GV products.

Snacks, soft drinks, and coffee will be served. Please notify TV Magic of your plans to attend to sales@tvmagic.tv. TV Magic is located at 8112 Engineer Road in San Diego.