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Radio World's 2008 CoolCast
Video Demos On Your Desktop

Back by popular demand! Radio World delivers an up-close look at this year’s “Cool Stuff” Award-winning products from the 2008 NAB Show. It's the next best thing to being there!

The Radio World “Cool Stuff” Award, radio’s most prestigious technical honor, is given by a panel of engineering judges at the annual NAB convention in Las Vegas. Now you can experience up close and personal demos from the manufacturers and product gurus who bring exciting new tech to market at the show. Be among the first to see and hear why you may want to put these tools to use at your station today.
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25-Seven Systems
Program Delay Manager

In baseball they talk about the "sophomore jinx," the difficulty of repeating rookie success. 25-Seven Systems came to NAB with other ideas for its second product introduction.

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Array Solutions
PowerAIM 120 Vector Impedance Analyzer

Users involved in adjusting and commissioning AM HD Radio systems will benefit in particular from this $2,995 software package.

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ATI
DM500 Digital Audio Monitor

The DM500 is both a digital audio monitor and a digital-to-analog converter in a portable carry case.

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AudioScience
ASI8914 HD Radio Tuner Adapter

Four channels of digital HD Radio or analog AM/FM can be received and recorded simultaneously from a single antenna input.

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Broadcast Devices
PWM-200 RF Power Monitor/VSWR Protection System

This system provides accurate forward and reflected power measurement of analog or digital power; it also provides three-strike protection due to reflected power faults for protection of vital transmitter systems.

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Broadcast Electronics
XPi 10esp Embedded Exporter

Features include encoding for Arbitron PPM measurement of main as well as new multicast channels. 

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Continental Electronics
800EXP Embedded Exporter 

The 800EXP Embedded Exporter is based on embedded DSP technology for a more accurate and reliable HD Radio broadcast experience.

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Fraunhofer
MPEG Enhanced Low Delay AAC (AAC-ELD)

It's hard to overstate the impact of work that has been done over the years by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits.

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Google
Google Radio Automation

It essentially combines the power of Maestro and ease of use of SS32, and it is the first to offer an open architecture and a user-configurable widget-based screen.

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Harris
FlexStar HDE-200 Embedded HD Radio Exporter

It better supports delivery of multiple HD-R programs over a dedicated IP connection.

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Henry
SixMix USB Broadcast Console

A "missing link" that turns a PC or laptop computer into a broadcast studio.

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HHB
UDP-89 Professional Universal DVD/CD Player 

An alphabet soup of formats: CD, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-Video, SACD, DVD-Video, DVDD-Audio, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW.

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iBiquity Digital Corp.
Embedded Exporter Initiative

NAB and iBiquity were saluted for their roles in the embedded exporter initiative, which will bring down hardware costs to broadcasters that choose to adopt HD Radio.

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Izotope
ANR–B Adaptive Noise Reduction

A tool for removing ambient and path noise automatically to help problem situations like cell phone call-ins and noisy AC units.

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Nautel
NX50 50 kW AM Transmitter

The NX50 is the next generation of the company's 50 kW transmitter for high-power AM broadcasting.

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Nautel
Exporter Plus 

Nautel's next-generation IBOC Exporter for encoding HD Radio signals replaces PC-based Exporters that have been used in Exgine-based HD Radio systems.

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Neutrik
ConvertCon

It's a real gender bender!

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CRL/Orban
Orban Loudness Meter

The company intends this as the first in a family of meters. Judges liked Orban's entry into the niche as well as the no-charge price tag.

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Studer
Call Management System

CMS uses VoIP technology to supplement or replace physical telephone hybrids and codecs.

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Yellowtec
m!ka Microphone and Monitor Arms

An optional "on air" signal indicator is built into the unit.

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You/Com
Parrot Recorder

This is a communication and transmission device that can go live on-air because it acts as a digital hybrid when connected over Bluetooth to the mobile phone in your pocket.

   
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Radio World CoolCasts

Take a virtual booth tour of the products that won the 2008 Radio World "Cool Stuff" Award.
Radio World’s 2008 Source Book & Directory... ...is now available in a special digital edition. In response to many reader requests, our handy annual resource is now online for free. (A 12 MEG PDF)
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