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RGB Communications sees in the New Year with new itron control solutions (5/1/2010)

RGB Communications have begun 2010 with a new and more diverse range of control solutions.

Based in Hungerford, RGB Communications is the UK’s leading technical distributor of audio visual connectivity and control solutions. It has an impressive portfolio of brands including ClearOne Communications, Chief, Denon, Kramer, Lutron, Middle Atlantic, projectiondesign, Sharp and Samsung to name but a few.

Caroline Britt, Managing Director, explains, “As a value add technical distributor, we are constantly monitoring the market to look for new and advancing products. Because of the recession, people are looking very hard at what they need to spend their money on. We have seen the effects of this with sales of high value touch panel solutions that require expensive programming decrease significantly in the last eighteen months.” She continues, “People are also questioning why they need a bespoke AV solution, when there is a cost effective way to integrate AV over IT.”

The Berkshire based company has created an IT/PC server based control solution called ‘itron’. Stardraw Control and Global Cache products will form the heart of ‘itron’, which will help customers who are looking for increased efficiency and a more cost effective way to integrate AV over IT networks.

Gordon Innocent, Chairman of RGB, continues, “With the advent of Stardraw Control software, touch screen PCs and IT hardware costs falling so much, the market no longer needs to rely on traditional, bespoke touch panel control solutions, like AMX or Crestron. IT based control solutions, such as ‘itron’ are not just a viable alternative, they represent great value for money, by making use of an existing IT networks so therefore saving time and money on installations. PC hardware and touch screen PC costs are a fraction of the cost of a bespoke touch screen system and they can be used for many other things too. The simple drag and drop design software from Stardraw drastically reduces the programming costs, and last but by no means least, should your touch screen PC fail for some reason, the end user doesn’t have the inconvenience of the room being non functional, you can simply log in and use another PC.”

In addition to ‘itron’, RGB are introducing a simple low cost room control solution from Xantech, who design, engineer and manufacture a multitude of innovative custom control devices from the IR receiver, high definition video distribution, to room control.

Gordon Innocent concludes, “We are excited to work with Xantech, Stardraw and Global Cache, who all share our passion for providing reliable and technically superb products. We look forward to bringing our new solutions to market and have extensive training and product road shows planned.”

www.rgbcomms.co.uk/products/iTron/control.htm