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Celebrate SBE’s 50th Anniversary at April 8th Meeting and Reception

March 14, 2014
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The SBE will celebrate its 50th anniversary during the NAB Show next month with two events. On Tuesday, April 8, beginning at 5:30 pm, SBE members and guests are invited to the spring SBE Membership Meeting, in room S-225 of the South Hall, Las Vegas Convention Center. The meeting includes recognition of SBE chapter certification chairmen who have achieved milestone services years, updates on implementation of the society’s strategic plan, programs and government

relations efforts and a visual look back at 50 years of SBE history.

 Prizes will be given away, including three $25 dinner gift cards and a $350 gift card to Fry’s Electronics. Must be present to win. The first 150 people in attendance will receive a SBE 50th anniversary commemorative poker chip. The meeting is sponsored by Vislink Broadcast.

March 13, 2014
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Random Noise – March 2014

March 11, 2014
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Dennis Thompson

Dennis Thompson

Beginning this month and concluding on May 31st, is the SBE’s annual Membership Drive.  Now is the time to find the individuals that you work and do business with who can benefit from being a SBE Member. more…

January Meeting Photos

February 27, 2014
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February Meeting: February 27, 2014 Thursday 12:00 PM

February 21, 2014
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ENSEMBLE  D E S I G N S

http://ensembledesigns.com

Presentation and Hosted Lunch

at the Clovis HomeTown Buffet

Presentation by – John Pichitino, Technology Evangelist

 

       Hands-on demonstration of the Ensemble Designs

     BrightEye NXT 410 Clean HDMI Router

 
The new BrightEye NXT 410 Clean HDMI and SDI Router cleanly and instantly switches your HDMI sources. Your monitor will never go to black when switching between HDMI sources! The HDMI output switches instantaneously, never a glitch or pop. Feed the BrightEye NXT 410 routing switcher with cameras and other HDMI sources and take the output to projectors, flat screens and production equipment. The built-in frame synchronizer provides two clean switched outputs. The HDMI output always clean switches and you can assign the NXT’s second clean switch to one of the SDI or SFPoutputs. Great for fly packs, video conference rooms and anywhere you need a small router, this new BrightEye has incredible power in a small, less than a half rack 1RU high by 1/3 RU wide footprint – small enough to hold in one hand. The exclusive front panel LCD displays realtime full motion video of your HDMI and SDI router sources.

 

  John Pichitino, Technology Evangelist for Ensemble Designs and founder and CEO of PichPix, will be this months presenter at the Central Valley SBE February meeting. Based in Nevada City, California, and founded in 1989, Ensemble Designs is a leading provider of signal processing and infrastructure products to the professional broadcast industry, and other government and commercial applications.  This presentation will outline the characteristics of HDMI connections (which differ greatly from SDI connections) routing switcher architecture to incorporate HDMI as well as SDI sources and the proper frame sync design to provide consistent, instantaneous, clean and quite switching using HDMI and SDI sources in a routing environment.
Before he started PichPix, Pichitino was the Director of Marketing for ImMIX and Scitex Digital Video, and Senior Applications Specialist for Grass Valley Group. He’s also an award-winning video editor and served as Production Manager at broadcast facilities in the Miami and New York markets.
Your chance to meet John Pichitino is Thursday, February 27th at noon at the HomeTown Buffet in Clovis.

Random Noise – February 2014

February 19, 2014
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Dennis Thompson

Dennis Thompson

So much for the old saying about “being glued” to the TV set.  Some studies are showing that about half of Americans are watching other devices while they watch TV. more…

January Meeting: Thursday January 30, 2014 7PM

January 25, 2014
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It’s the SBE66 Annual BIG PIZZA BASH at Luna’s Italian Restaurant in Clovis

— Hosted by SBE66 —

Great Food – Fine Fellowship – Officer Elections

 

It’s TASTY  !!

http://lunasclovis.com/

 

 

 

 

EAS Update: Sage Digital ENDEC Model 3644 Requires Update

January 18, 2014
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Many of you with SAGE EAS Units have already seen this alert from SAGE, but for those of you who have not, please note this email, below, released  January 15,  from SAGE: more…

Still Time to Register for the Advanced IP Networking Webinar

January 11, 2014
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Thursday, January 30 is the SBE Advanced IP Networking webinar. more…

Happy New Year

January 5, 2014
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Welcome to all SBE 66 Members in 2014