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July 21, 2005

Crestron Introduces New TPS Series Touchpanels

Crestron's New Isys TPS Series Touchpanels: Brighter, Faster, Cheaper

Crestron introduces its next generation of Isys® TPS touchpanels, offering enhanced graphics capabilities and faster processing speed at breakthrough pricing. Isys TPS touchpanels are available with a 12" or a 15" display, or a 17" widescreen display in a variety of styles including desktop tiltcase and wallmount designs. Crestron TPS touchpanels feature composite, component and S-video inputs, bi-amplified speaker system, built-in microphone, and both standard CAT5 and Crestron QuickMedia® (QM) connectivity up to 300 feet using inexpensive UTP wire.

TPS touchpanels feature a 32-bit Motorola ColdFire® Microprocessor to produce astonishing full-color graphics with lightning-fast performance and incredible versatility. TPS touchpanels now offer 24-bit graphics and brighter displays with excellent contrast at any viewing angle. Crestron's new TPS Series supports enhanced GUI capabilities such as high-resolution graphics and images, dynamic text, full-motion video, animation, multimode objects, translucency and transition effects. The ultra-efficient operating system and generous onboard memory ensure optimum performance. Graphical objects appear instantly, pages redraw faster, and new pages open quicker than ever.

TPS touchpanels accept composite, component and S-video inputs standard with no expansion cards required. The display window on all TPS touchpanels is scalable up to full-screen. Video signal enhancement features such as the built-in scaler with motion adaptive deinterlacing, gamma correction, time-base correction and 3:2/2:2 pull-down maintain the optimum, high-quality video image on the touchpanel display.

Complementing the impressive video display is the high-powered, biamplified speaker system onboard the new TPS touchpanels. These latest Crestron panels pump out high-quality audio over a 10-watt 2-way speaker system. The built-in microphone provides intercom functionality.

Crestron's new TPS Series of touchpanels are fully compatible with standard CAT5 connectivity and Crestron's exclusive QuickMeida (QM) transport. QM is Crestron's innovative technology that streamlines presentation system design and simplifies installation by transmitting virtually all audio and video signals, and standard 10/100BaseT Ethernet over a single CAT5e or CAT6 type cable.

For more information about the new Isys TPS Series touchpanels go to www.crestron.com or call 800-237-2041. For high-resolution photos go to www.crestron.com/news_room.

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For 40 years Crestron has been the world's leading manufacturer of advanced control and automation systems, innovating technology to simplify and enhance modern lifestyles and businesses. Offering integrated solutions to control audio, video, computer, and environmental systems, Crestron streamlines technology, improving the quality of life in commercial buildings, universities, hotels, hospitals and homes.

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