AMX Creates PosiTrack Solution for Broadcast Camera Control: New PosiTrack 20 Camera Positioning Controller Employs Digital Sensing Technology.

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 1999--

AMX Corporation (Nasdaq:AMXX) announces the AMX PosiTrack(TM) 20 -- a new kind of camera positioning controller for automated broadcasting applications.

Introduced at the NAB 99 show in Las Vegas, the robotic camera pan/tilt head is the first to incorporate million-step digital position sensing. By constantly monitoring speed and position, the PosiTrack 20 can move pan, tilt, and lens in sync -- and arrive at a shot preset with a +/- 3 arc minute accuracy. That's an impossible benchmark for the analog teleconferencing camera heads presently available in the PosiTrack 20 price range. Additionally, as broadcasters are employing more automated cameras to their studios, the new digital technology allows them to add broadcast-quality performance at a teleconferencing-level price.

Broadcasters will also appreciate PosiTrack 20's superb integration capabilities. Each head is fully self-contained, providing onboard control of camera pan and tilt, lens zoom/focus/iris, and RS-232 controlled camera setup and diagnostics. In addition, built-in processing and memory stores up to 128 presets per unit and software-set pan/tilt limits. Heavy-duty motors and precision gears support camera loads of up to 20 lbs. (9 kg). Up to 250 heads (that's 32,000 possible presets!) can be combined with multiple panels, sources, and routing switchers -- all linked by a four-wire AMX AXlink control bus, fiber optic cable, an RS-232 data link, and/or a LAN/Internet connection.

States AMX PosiTrack engineer Jeff Allen, "As an integration control company that also designs and manufactures robotic camera equipment, AMX is in a unique position to take advantage of new opportunities in the broadcasting marketplace. We discovered that broadcasters were looking for a positioning solution somewhere in the teleconferencing price category, but with far better specifications. Since conventional designs deliver good, but conventional results -- we went outside the box and merged digital tracking with analog motion control."

AMX Corporation, in concert with its wholly owned subsidiary PHAST Corporation, is the worldwide leader in integration network systems, innovations that bring people in touch with their technology. Specialists in the science and art of control, AMX Internet-active systems harness the power of electronic media, mechanics, and information so that technology behaves as a natural extension of our lives. Located in Dallas, with offices around the world, AMX stock is traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol AMXX. For more information, contact AMX Corporation, 11995 Forestgate Drive, Dallas, Texas 75243, 800/222-0193, or visit AMX on the Internet at www.amx.com and www.phast.com.