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Runco Dedicated To DTV Education

Seminars Series For Runco Sales Team

19-May-00

Runco International, the leader in video technology, is conducting a series of digital television (DTV) educational seminars designed for their sales representatives and dealers to be held in eight major markets across the country. Some of the important seminar topics will include, ""What Is DTV - History And Future,"" ""What Makes A High Definition Picture,"" ""How Will We Receive Pictures,"" ""System Requirements,"" ""Adding To An Existing DTV System,"" ""NTSC Signal Processing"" and ""Integrating Runco Products With Third Party Products Such As DTV Tuners And Progressive Scan DVD Players."" ""As with any new industry platform there are always questions and uncertainties that we need to address with our customers,"" says Greg Caves, Runcoís National Sales Manager. Our focus is to educate our dealers so that these concerns can be addressed properly. We want our sales team to be able to accommodate any platform presented and provide product that is ideally suited to a customerís need, for today and tomorrow. Runco products have been compatible with high definition formats for over a decade - our goal is to be certain that every Runco dealer knows how to integrate state-of-art Runco projectors into DTV systems to obtain the highest quality picture possible in the home."" Jim Burns of Burns Digital Consultants will conduct the seminars. Burns presently addresses DTV issues as an instructor at the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF) seminars, and contributes to industry publications. Runcoís National Sales Manager, Greg Caves will be demonstrating the newest products in the Runco line. The seminars will take place in the following locations: May 9, 2000 LaGuardia Courtyard 90-10 Grand Central Parkway East Elmhurst, New York May 11, 2000 Hilton Hotel 1726 Reistertown Rd Pikesville, Maryland May 18, 2000 The Westin Hotel 400 Corporate Drive Fort Lauderdale, Florida May 25, 2000 Marriot Quorum 14901 Dallas Parkway Dallas, Texas June 8, 2000 Sheraton Gateway, Atlanta Airport 1900 Sullivan Rd College Park, Georgia June 14-15, 2000 Sheraton Arlington Park Hotel 3400 W. Euclid Rd Arlington Heights, Illinois June 20, 2000 Embassy Suites 1325 E. Dyer Rd Santa Ana, California June 22, 2000 Crowne Plaza 1221 Chess Drive Foster City, California Founded in 1987 and currently headquartered in Hayward, California, Runco International is a market leader in state-of-the-art front- and rear-projection televisions, flat-panel plasma TVs, video processors, and source components for the consumer market. Runcoís innovations have won numerous awards and citations from the world press. Runco was the first video company to introduce a multiple-aspect-ratio controller, the ARC-IV, to the home theatre market and also the first to introduce and market a line doubler with a multi-frequency projector in 1990. For more information on Runco International visit them on the Web at www.runco.com.

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