Fall 2007 Newsletter

Fall 2007 Newsletter

Fall has arrived.  I hope everyone had a nice Summer.   Things have been relatively calm in the electronics world over the Summer.  I personally am ready for hockey season to start, can't wait to see the new jerseys in HDTV win games this season!


New Arrivals

 $2,500.00

Wireless Touch Screen Version 2

Experience the ease and beauty of home automation technology with the Control4® 10.5” Wireless Touch Screen. This cost-effective automation solution is setting a new standard in touch screen technology. With rich color graphics and an easy-to-navigate interface, the Wireless Touch Screen allows a homeowner to take full advantage of the sophisticated Control4 technology and state-of-the-art Navigator software. With advanced feature like photo screen saver and IP camera monitoring in addition to complete home control capabilities, this new touch screen provides a superior home automation interface in a high-performance, portable, touch screen design.
Finally, a single device that allows users to adjust the volume, turn on the lights and check in on the baby, all while having a quiet dinner on the porch. It’s all part of the Control4 vision. We bring the benefits of a truly automated home to more people with solutions that are affordable, easy to install and designed to adapt to any home or lifestyle.

Home Controller HC-300

The Control4® Home Controller HC-300 makes it easy for everyone to add intelligent control to their home at an affordable price. The HC-300 allows users to automate their entire home, including their home theater, multi-room music, lighting, temperature, security and more.
In the home theater, users are no longer tied to a coffee table cluttered with remotes. Around your home, adjust and control the lights either individually or collectively. Free your digital music collection and easily stream it to any room throughout the home. Check the status of your doors and windows, and adjust the thermostat. All this is available from the intuitive Control4 interfaces.

$900.00

 $9,000.00

PRO-150FD 60" 1080P Plasma HDTV

With the deepest of blacks creating contrasts never seen before, colors so rich will endlessly inundate you with details beyond belief. And when you consider the average retina has over 150 million light-sensitive cells, you're going ot need all of them to process a picture so pure, so powerful and so new it will leave your heart dealing with emotions you never knew you had. The highest expression of sight and sound comes only from a passion for accuracy. The new Elite 1080p plasma television is a testament to that passion and the result is the most remarkable high-definition experience available today.

50" 1080P Plasma HDTV, PRO-110FD

With the deepest of blacks creating contrasts never seen before, colors so rich will endlessly inundate you with details beyond belief. And when you consider the average retina has over 150 million light-sensitive cells, you're going ot need all of them to process a picture so pure, so powerful and so new it will leave your heart dealing with emotions you never knew you had. The highest expression of sight and sound comes only from a passion for accuracy. The new Elite 1080p plasma television is a testament to that passion and the result is the most remarkable high-definition experience available today.

Elite PRO-1410 REG

$7,000.00

$2,000.00

AVR-280, Home Theater Receiver

The AVR280 is Arcam’s highest performing entry-level 7.1 channel home cinema receiver to date. It delivers 80 watts per channel into all seven channels and 100 watts into two channels with the kind of audiophile reproduction you’d expect from Arcam.  A host of audiophile quality components and design techniques are used within the AVR280, making it perfect for a combined movie and music system. 

Movie lovers will be thrilled at the dynamic power and sound-staging the AVR280 delivers, while music enthusiasts will be enraptured by its passionate performance. Its feature list is perfect for mid-size cinema systems, even incorporating the latest HDMI switching for DVD players, set-top boxes or gaming systems.

The AVR280 excels in both audiovisual performance and connectivity, making it the choice for the discerning enthusiast.

BDI

 LCD Mount Swivel AV Stand, Aspect

Everybody knows good things come in small packages. ASPECT is what we call a good thing FOR small packages. It's the flat panel TV stand we engineered for smaller flat screens. To be sure, ASPECT has more than a few interesting aspects. Its central steel tube features a universal mounting bracket that fits most flat screen TVs and it swivels at the base so the screen can be viewed from anywhere in the room. Neat, clean, and innovative, that's ASPECT.

Recommended TV Size:
up to 32" Flat Panel TV

$700.00

$110,000.00

 

PlasmaWall™ XP-103DHD, 103" Plasma HDTV

Runco is proud to present the latest addition to our PlasmaWall™ product line with the addition of the biggest one yet. The XP-103DHD, with full 1080p resolution, is the world’s largest plasma display at 103 inches! It is supplied with the external DHD™ Controller/Processor featuring our renowned Vivix II™ video processing for stellar performance and custom installation versatility.

The XP-103DHD elevates image quality to the highest levels, boasting impressive brightness and contrast ratio, deep black levels and the most accurate colorimetry yet available. Additional engineering enhancements include sophisticated 16-bit digital video processing resulting in 4096 steps of graduation for seamless images, completely void of the "solarization" and "stair stepping” characteristics previously plaguing digital flat panels.

Balanced Stereo Pre-Amplifier, P-5.3

The MOON P5.3 Preamplifier follows in the footsteps of the legendary and award-winning P-5. Representing a complete overhaul of earlier MOON Classic series preamplifiers, it employs numerous technologies from our Evolution series; Call it "trickle down technology" if you will - the audio circuitry is based on the MOON P-7 preamplifer. Featuring five line-level inputs, a user-configurable “home-theater ready” input, an IR input for external control and a 12V trigger for convenient operation, the MOON P5.3 Preamplifier offers a level of sonic performance and flexibility that the competition can only hint at. Raising the bar even further, an optional internal phono preamp is available with adjustments for gain level as well as capacitance and resistance loading. The bottom line is a balanced stereo preamplifier that is virtually impossible to beat at its respective pricepoint.

 

$4,000.00

 $12,000.00

RS-900, 1080p DLP Projector

Runco once again seizes the competitive advantage with the introduction of our new Reflection Series™ RS-900 DLP™ projector, a full 1080p model. Runco's award winning heritage is on full display with these installer-friendly, high performance products.

The RS-900 has been engineered for the top quality 1080p picture performance and installation flexibility heretofore associated with projectors costing far more.

The RS-900's 1920 x 1080 native resolution DLP™ light engine features Runco's powerful SuperOnyx™ technology for bright, pristine, high definition images at today’s highest available resolution.

Contrast ratio and dynamic range extend to new boundaries with the inclusion of Runco's exclusive Reflectance Volume Regulation™ (RVR) including a new electronically controlled iris system. Two precision optics lens options are offered giving a choice of a longer throw 1.85:1 – 2.20:1, or a shorter throw range of 1.25:1 – 1.60:1. With either, a power zoom control and motorized vertical lens shift adjustment make installation smooth and easy.

Power Conditioner, M5500

  • AVM AC Monitoring

  • AC Regeneration Transformer

  • New Noise Elimination Design

  • Blue Digital LED Volt and Amp Meters

  • Outlet Bank Isolation

$1,160.00

 

Sonos System, Multi-Room Digital Music System

Sonos is the first wireless, multi-room digital music system that lets you play digital music all over your house—and control it all from the palm of your hand. With a wireless Sonos® Controller in hand, you'll have plug-and-play access to millions of songs—from music services, Internet radio, your personal digital music collection, or all of the above.

And, with Sonos® ZonePlayers in the rooms of your choice, you can play the same song in different rooms, or different songs in different rooms. To start listening, just grab the full-color Controller and simply pick a room, pick a song and hit play.

Entertainment and Electronics news


Race to Mars blasts off in high definition

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Space Age initiated by Sputnik, this weekend the Discovery Channel will be premiere two new television programs in high definition - Race to Mars and Mars Rising.
The original 10-hour, $20-million dollar Canadian television production is the most expensive science television project in production this year worldwide and will also be seen by audiences in the U.S., France and Japan later this fall.  More...


1 in 4 LCD TVs not made by the company that sells them

Nearly one in four LCD televisions shipped worldwide in the second quarter of 2007 were not manufactured by the company whose name is on the front of the set according to a recent report by DisplaySearch.

 The report, which analyzes the relationship +between LCD TV module suppliers, LCD TV manufacturers and LCD TV brands, found that 22% of LCD televisions shipped during the quarter were outsourced to subcontracted manufacturers. More...


Finally: the lightsabre comes to the Wii

A new weapon will soon join Nintendo’s armoury: a lightsabre.

Internet gaming sites across the web today cheered news of a new Star Wars game for the hit Wii console in which players will wield the Jedi weapon of choice using Nintendo’s motion sensitive “Wiimote” controller.  More...


MP3 players could replace stethoscopes: researchers

STOCKHOLM (AFP) — MP3 players/recorders detect some respiratory sounds better than traditional stethoscopes and could prove handy replacements in the future, two researchers told an international conference on respiratory diseases.

With better quality sound from MP3 players/recorders, some clinical sounds can be better heard and even recorded, stored on computers and fileshared, according to Neil Skjodt of the department of medicine at the University of Alberta and his audiologist colleague Bill Hodgetts. More...


New Pioneer Elite Blu-Ray Disc Player Sets Benchmark For High Performance Video And Audio Playback

High resolution picture and sound performance come together in the new Pioneer® Elite® BDP-95FD Blu-ray Disc® player introduced at the CEDIA Expo today. Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. is showcasing its highly anticipated player, the industry’s first to offer bitstream output of all advanced audio formats including: Dolby® TrueHD, Dolby® Digital+, DTS-HD™ High Resolution and DTS-HD™ Master Audio. The BDP-95FD ensures a near cinematic experience with its ability to handle 1080p 24 frames per second (fps) reproduction rate preserving a feature film’s original sequence. Taking advantage of HDMI® 1.3 connectivity, the new player provides smooth, pristine imagery and dynamic 7.1 surround sound to deliver the full emotional impact of Blu-ray Disc feature films as the director intended.... More...


Superchannel set to launch October 19th

Superchannel, Canada's new national English-language pay television network, will launch on October 19th after Allarco Entertainment announced today the signing of a long-term pay television agreement with MGM studios.
The agreement allows Superchannel to air the latest feature films, original movies and television series from MGM and United Artists.  More...


Alaska Air hoping to add in-flight WiFi in 2008

Joining Shenzhen Airlines, Qantas, and a whole host of others, Alaska Air is the newest airline to promise us in-flight WiFi when coming onboard. Reportedly, the firm "will test a system from Row 44, a provider of broadband communication for airlines, on a Boeing 737 in spring 2008," and if all goes well, it will then equip its 114-aircraft fleet with the goods. Notably, Alaska Air also stated that it had been working with Row 44 "for two years to bring in-flight broadband to market," so here's to hoping that all that hard work pays off early next year.. More


3D Holographic Displays a Reality

The USC Institute for Creative Technologies has developed a set of rendering techniques for an autostereoscopic light field display able to present interactive 3D graphics to multiple simultaneous viewers 360 degrees around the display... More...


New Product Reviews

Moon i7

Runco

Elite BD-P94

Arcam DV137

Monitor Audio Gold

Canton Vento

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Music

White Chalk

PJ Harvey

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Kill to Get Crimson

Mark Knopfler

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The Very Best of Diana Krall

Diana Krall

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Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild

Eddie Vedder

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Shine

Joni Mitchell

Yana Imaginative Audio Video Solutions is located at 1872 Marine Drive West Vancouver, BC. V7V 1J6  Map

Phone 604-922-0107   Fax 604-922-0174

Store Hours:

 Monday - Friday 9:30am to 6:00pm, Saturday 10am to 5pm, Closed Sunday and Holidays

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