Ultralink/XLO Products, the industry's fastest growing manufacturer of audio/video interconnects, cables and power products, brings two new series of cables to CEDIA 20006. The Ultralink CS1 Series and the Challenger-2 Series are designed to bridge the gap between superior A/V performance and affordability.

VizionWare, a new Texas-based audio and video digital interconnect manufacturer, has created advanced digital interconnects. The company's award-winning digital technology delivers numerous advances leading to improvements to HDMI digital cables and adapters. These advances and improvements overcome the limitations of passive, analog HDMI cables, enhancing transmission between the source and sink cable ends, lowering EMI radiation and interference with other wired and wireless connections, while delivering theater quality signals from the source to the display independent of cable length.

One of the major factors in the death of high-resolution audio formats like SACD and DVD-Audio was the not-so-simple fact that consumers needed as many as nine cables to connect a player to a preamp in order to get high-resolution surround sound, video and lower-resolution audio into their receivers or AV preamps. Factor in the pathetically small amount of software made for 5.1 surround (only a few 100 titles for both formats) and you can easily see why people said, “No, thank you.”

TRIBUTARIES Cable, manufacturer of high-end audio and video cabling and accessories, has debuted a new enhancement for the rapidly spreading HDMI™ digital-audio-video interconnect standard. The new DSR-701 Digital Signal Restorer from Spectrum Electronics, ensures full performance from HDMI™ connections over cable-runs as long as 45 meters/148 feet. HDMI™ (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is rapidly becoming the universal standard for interconnecting digital televisions, including HDTV monitors and sets, with digital-video sources such as digital-cable set-top boxes, DVD players, and DTV tuners, and will be the connection of choice for forthcoming high-definition DVD standards.

With television manufacturers showcasing their latest 1080p displays and more high-definition content available to audiences, HDMI connections are becoming increasingly important to home theater systems. Viewers want the highest resolution they can get but many high-definition TVs only have one digital input which makes switching between satellite receivers, cable boxes, TiVos, DVD players and gaming system difficult. Dtrovision’s one company trying to solve many of the connection problems users might be facing. Its PureLink™ brand offer solutions that include a two-in, one-out ($299) and a four-in, one-out switch ($549). Consumers who want to connect multiple HDTVs to the same DVI source can use one of PureLink's™ distribution amps that range from one-in, two-out ($349) to 18-in, 18-out for professional users ($29,999). They also offer fiber optic cables that can carry HD content to displays up to 330 feet away from the source, allowing for a lot more flexibility than copper cables that lose fidelity when ...