UK-based audio visual design and manufacturing company Smart-e has expanded its range of HDMI and DVI products through a partnership with California-based Smart-AVI.The two companies, who have collaborated on projects in the past and share similar branding, have agreed to become sales and distribution channels for each others products in their respective territories. Surrey-based Smart-e has become Smart-AVI’s European distributor whilst Smart-AVI is now selling Smart-e’s equipment across the USA.
The two companies have re-established their partnership to collaborate and share technology, to widen each company’s product portfolio, access new regions, and to offer 24 hour technical support across European and US time zones.
As Jon Lane, founder and managing director of Smart-e says “We have worked with Smart-AVI in the past – it is no accident that their branding is similar to ours. Their product range complements ours perfectly, and allows us to widen our offerings to the European market substantially. This will be especially attractive to multi-national corporations looking to create global solutions that need to be supported across international time zones.
He continued “Smart-AVI share the same focus on research and development as we do, and we look forward to collaborating with them to create some great new products in the future.”
Albert Cohen, SmartAVI’s owner added “I know Jon Lane the founder of Smart-e very well and have always been impressed by his personality and knowledge of the AV field. This partnership will trigger further success and enable both of us to expand our customer base, product lines and technology applications.
The first Californian products to be launched in the UK by Smart-e are two cost-effective HDMI CAT6 compact transmitter and receiver extenders with simple ‘plug and play’ functions. The HDX-400 broadcasts high-definition content from a comms. or media room over CAT6 cabling to three remote displays plus one local monitor up to 60 metres away and is ideal for digital signage solutions and home entertainment distribution. The second product, the HDX-100, is a straightforward point-to-point HDMI extender distributing signals over a single CAT6 cable over distances up to 60 metres. Both these products are also available with bi-directional infrared and RS232 passthrough. All products are available direct from Smart-e, for more information visit their website at www.smart-e.co.uk.
About Smart-e Limited
Smart-e designs and manufactures high quality audio and video distribution and switching equipment which delivers the most comprehensive and technically advanced solutions for multimedia equipment over CAT5-8 structured cabling. Capitalising on its broadcasting heritage, Smart-e has a wide range of proven point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and multi-point to multi-point products to accommodate all formats of analogue and digital video, and audio signals, providing high performance, content rich links from DVDs, digital TVs, cameras, laptops and PCs to projectors, HDTV, PC monitors and speakers.
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