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Kenwood and Good Guys Offer L.A. Auto Show Visitors 30-Day Free Trial of Sirius Satellite Radio

January 4, 2003 by

L.A. Auto Show visitors who stop by the Good Guys exhibit booth January 4 – 12 can obtain a coupon entitling them to a 30-day free trial of Sirius Satellite Radio service when they buy a Kenwood Sirius-ready receiver, or Kenwood Sirius-ready FM Adapter, Sirius antenna, and get the system installed by Good Guys before March 1, 2003.

Sirius broadcasts 100 channels of the best music and entertainment coast-to-coast. The new sales promotion, dubbed the “Sirius Free Ride Deal” offers consumers the chance to sample the Sirius service for one month without obligation.

All visitors to the Auto Show, running January 4-12 at the L.A. Convention Center, can qualify for the Kenwood Sirius Free Ride Deal promotion simply by visiting Good Guys’ booth and receiving the Sirius upgrade coupon. When customers purchase their new Kenwood receiver or FM Adapter and antenna from Good Guys and have it installed between January 12 and March 1, they can use their coupons to receive a Kenwood Sirius tuner at no extra cost.

“This is a terrific, risk-free way for people to test out Sirius and experience what they’re missing,” said Dan Navarro, director of merchandising for mobile and wireless, Good Guys. “There’s only so much you tell from a showroom demonstration. After you have the Sirius service and drive around with this amazing product for a few weeks, we think you’ll be hard pressed to go without it.”

“Once listeners experience the superior programming, signal coverage, and sound quality of Sirius, they won’t want to go back to ordinary radio,” said Sally House, director of marketing for Kenwood.

Sirius broadcasts 60 channels of 100% commercial-free music, as well as 40 channels of sports, news, and entertainment, all in clear, quality digital format. To initiate service, buyers simply need to have Good Guys activate the service when the equipment is installed. Once activated, listeners will enjoy all Sirius programming free for the next 30 days. Should they decide to continue their subscription, users will then be charged a $15 activation fee and $12.95 per month. Those deciding not to continue must notify Sirius to cancel the service.

Kenwood USA Web Site

Good Guys Web Site

Sirius Satellite Radio Web Site

Filed Under: Car

Arturia Announces the Release of Its Cutting-Edge Emulation of the Legendary Modular System 3C

January 2, 2003 by

Announced and shown for the first time at Winter NAMM, the new Arturia Modular System is a faithful reproduction of one of the most legendary synthesizers of all time: the Moog Modular.

The Modular System is based on a new set of algorithms created by Arturia’s engineers, which they are calling TAE® (True Analog Emulation). It brings a superior quality of sound when reproducing analog circuits. In particular, TAE avoids any sort of aliasing; it also emulates the typical instability of hardware oscillators and brings the warm sound of the vintage synthesizers.

In addition to the replication of all the functions of the original, the Modular System comes loaded with more than 400 presets made by a selection of the most famous sound designers.

The new Arturia virtual synth will be available in March 2003 at a suggested retail price of $329 (US).

Platforms and Requirements:

Windows: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
28 Mbytes RAM – 500 MHz processor

Mac OS classic: Mac OS 9.x
128 Mbytes RAM – 500 MHz processor

Mac OS X: Mac OS X.2 or higher
128 Mbytes RAM – 500 MHz processor

Arturia Web Site

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Filed Under: Home Recording

Rockford Corporation to Introduce 2003 Products at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

December 30, 2002 by

Rockford Corporation will introduce its new product lines for 2003, for the mobile, professional, and home theater audio markets, at the CES Show in Las Vegas on January 9-12.

Gary Suttle, president and chief executive officer commented, “This should be a very exciting show for us. We have five great mobile audio brands introducing many new products. We have been awarded five Innovations 2003 Design and Engineering Honoree Awards and one Mobile Audio Best of Honoree Award for our new Omnifi product co-designed by Rockford Fosgate and SimpleDevices. We are very proud to introduce Omnifi, which we believe offers the next generation of connected consumer electronics providing unsurpassed performance and convenience. Simply explained, Omnifi uses the popular Wi-Fi home-networking technology to stream digital music from the PC to the home stereo and to deliver digital music and information to a hard-drive based entertainment system in the car.”

Mr. Suttle, continued, “We are also very pleased to be introducing new home theater products at the show for Fosgate Audionics, MB Quart and NHT. NHT is our most recently acquired brand for home theater and we are excited to have it as part of our family of brands. With superior electronics products from Fosgate Audionics and outstanding speaker products from MB Quart and NHT, we believe we should see a lot of momentum in our home theater lines this year.”

About Rockford

Rockford is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of high-performance audio systems for the mobile, professional, and home theater audio markets. Rockford’s mobile audio products are marketed under the Rockford Fosgate, Lightning Audio, MB Quart and Q-Logic brand names. Rockford’s home theater products are marketed under the Fosgate Audionics, MB Quart and NHT brand names. Rockford recently completed an investment in SimpleDevices, which licenses its standards-based SimpleWareT and SimpleMedia ServicesT software to consumer electronics, PC, automotive and network equipment OEMs.

Rockford Corporation Web Site

Filed Under: Events

Bantam Interactive Scoops Third And Fourth CES Innovations Awards

December 29, 2002 by

For the second year running, Bantam Interactive has been selected as the Consumer Electronics Association’s Innovations Design and Engineering Award Honoree, this time for both its BA50 and BA1000 portable MP3 devices. The Innovations Awards program recognizes products that exhibit excellence in design and engineering at the International CES. Bantam’s products will be on display with other Innovations winners at the Las Vegas Hilton during the show on January 9-12, 2003.

The BA1000 is a full-featured portable hard drive player with a built-in MP3 encoder for in-line stereo recording directly from a cassette, CD or album, without a PC. Combined with FM radio and voice recording capabilities, it offers the first customizable horizontal or vertical LCD with white backlight. The BA1000 includes USB 2.0 technology to transfer files up to 40 times quicker than standard USB 1.0 port connections.

Bantam Interactive’s fist-sized BA50 is a multi-format digital audio player with FM radio and voice recording capabilities. Priced at $79.99, the device comes equipped with 64MB of built- in flash memory and a SD (Secure Digital) card expansion slot. It uses a single AA battery for 12 hours of playback.

“Being consistently recognized by CES is a positive endorsement that our MP3 players are a cut above our competitors,” said Santosh Patel, president of Bantam Interactive, Inc.

“Last year, we were the first company to bring home two awards in the same category in the same year. Our reputation is built on innovation and consumers will continue to see cutting edge technology and design in our next generation digital audio and video products.”

About Bantam Interactive

Bantam Interactive Technologies, Inc. is an emerging developer in Web-enabled audio and visual technology. The company’s mission is to develop, manufacture and distribute market leading personal audio and video devices that provide customers with performance, value, unique features and innovative, ultra compact bantam-sized design. The company is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Bantam Interactive Web Site

Filed Under: Mobile

RCA’s Elvis 30 #1 Hits DVD-Audio Debuts at No. 1

December 25, 2002 by

BMG says that the DVD-Audio version of the RCA Records remix package of Elvis Presley hits, Elvis 30 #1 Hits, made its debut on sales charts in the number 1 spot when it was released on December 10.

The CD version of the new compilation of the 30 definitive #1 singles of Elvis Presley came out on September 24, and it made history by becoming the first album ever released by Elvis Presley to debut at the top of the charts in the U.S. To date Elvis 30 #1 Hits has sold over 8 million albums worldwide.

The DVD-Audio, which was recorded in 5.1 audio for optimal sound quality, features 30 of Presley’s No. 1 singles as well as the No. 1 JXL remix of “A Little Less Conversation.” As added value for the consumer, the release also includes never before heard outtakes of Presley recordings and a special a:b test of three songs which demonstrates the before and after versions of the Presley recordings used to create the 30 #1 Hits package.

DVD-Audio takes advantage of the digital technology originally developed for DVD-Video. It uses the format’s vast data storage potential to deliver astounding multi-channel sound enriched with the nuance, warmth and subtle overtones of a live musical performance. This extensive storage space not only allows for extended-range audio, but a lineup of interactive features such as MPEG-2 video, still images, and text, which together serve to make “listening” a more active experience.

BMG is the global music division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the world’s leading media companies. BMG owns more than 200 record labels in 42 countries including Ariola, Arista Records, J Records, Jive Records, RCA Records and RCA Label Group – Nashville. In addition, BMG’s music publishing operations are the third largest in the world.

Filed Under: Biz
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