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XANTECH DINKYLINK™ IR RECEIVER NAMED TO CEDIA PRODCUCT HALL OF FAME
INFOCOMM ASIA, HONG KONG, November 17, 2010 — Xantech (booth 16A08), a leader in the field of audio/video remote control and distribution for 40 years, is proud to announce that its DL/DinkyLink™ IR receiver has earned one of the industry’s highest honors, being inducted into the CEDIA Product Hall of Fame. Introduced in 1990, the Xantech DinkyLink Infra-Red receiver has been the go-to control product for custom installers for 20 years. As the owner of the first IR repeater patent, Xantech is the de facto standard in this category and continues to advance the technology for IR and system control for all A/V products.
Originally introduced in its first version in 1990, the DinkyLink was a revolutionary IR receiver developed as a response to a request from custom installers: “Make a reliable IR receiver with as small a footprint as possible without sacrificing performance.” To accomplish this, the radical DinkyLink design incorporated ultra-miniature noise-canceling electronics and superior build quality, which greatly improved range and performance – all in a component 2 1/8" long. As the custom installation industry took off in the 1990s, the DinkyLink found a growing number of applications where its unprecedented size and performance made it the IR receiver of choice for control systems.
All that changed in the later part of the decade with a revolution in TV display technology: flat-screen TV’s. Suddenly everyone wanted to put the TV on a wall and hide all connected A/V components elsewhere — and Xantech’s DinkyLink was, and still is, the ideal form-factor to do the job.
Today, Xantech sells more IR receivers than any other brand. More important, after refining the “form,” Xantech concentrated on improving the function. With the advent of plasma and LCD TV’s, combined with the drive for residential energy efficiency with compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs), the average living room now has an unprecedented amount of interference from light sources hostile to infra-red. Xantech has refined the circuitry inside the DinkyLink and other receivers to maintain immunity from interference under any circumstances.
Through continuous technical improvement, the latest generation of the DinkyLink, Xantech’s all-new DL95, boasts an operational range of over 120 feet. With Dinky Link’s unique combination of size and sensitivity, installers could hide IR receivers in out-of-sight places, such as behind speaker grills, while maintaining reliability. In addition, DinkyLink’s increased efficiency allowed up to 12 audio/video components to be controlled using a single power supply. A talkback LED signals when Infrared commands are being accepted.
In effect, Xantech invented its own competition to the shelf- and wall-mounted IR receivers that were (and still are) staples of A/V system control two decades ago — and anticipated the coming revolution in on-wall video technology with flat-screen high-definition LCD and plasma televisions. Since its release, the DinkyLink has been used by thousands of installers as the go-to solution for simple, reliable IR control. With the DinkyLink, Xantech set a standard in IR performance and design still copied by other companies today. This unassuming little device is one of those innovations easy to take for granted, yet nearly impossible to design a good A/V system without.
For more information, please visit www.xantech.com.
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About Xantech
Established in 1969, Xantech (www.xantech.com) designs and manufactures an extensive range of audio, video and control products and systems, many of which have become de facto industry standards. Xantech IR products are specified into more audio/video installations than any other brand. Xantech also supplies hi-definition HDMI video solutions, touch-panels and IP control systems for residential and commercial applications, multi-room audio/video systems, audio source components and processors, and software programming tools.Products are sold to professional installers and distributors directly from Xantech. Xantech’s products are marketed in North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe. Xantech is a part of The AVC Group in Carlsbad, California. For additional information about Xantech and its innovative products, please visit www.xantech.com.
About The AVC Group, LLC:
Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, The AVC Group, LLC is a portfolio of pre-eminent manufacturers and marketers of state-of-the-art consumer and commercial audio, video and control system solutions. The AVC Group is comprised of the following industry leading brands: NILES® Audio (www.nilesaudio.com), ELAN® Home Systems (www.elanhomesystems.com), Xantech® (www.xantech.com), ATON® (www.atonhome.com), and Sunfire® (www.sunfire.com). The AVC Group, LLC is a subsidiary of Nortek, Inc.’s (www.nortek-inc.com) Home Technology Group.
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Xantech is exhibiting at booth 16A08 at InfoComm Asia 2010 in Hong Kong.
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