Bodelin ProPrompter is Award Winner at NAB.Business & Entertainment Editors/High-Tech Writers NAB2003 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2003 The Bodelin ProPrompter is the little engine that could. At under three pounds the ProPrompter is a serious teleprompter that utilizes a Pocket PC to deliver text to on camera talent in the field or in the studio. From the tiny 10X10 booth at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters), The Bodelin ProPrompter quickly became the talk of the show and won Digital TV Magazines Editors Pick of the Show, Government Video Salute, and the Viddy Award 2003. A complete turnkey See turnkey system. package was officially launched and demonstrated at NAB that includes a pocket PC preloaded with the proprietary ProPrompter software, a USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. mouse to control the pace of the scroll To continuously move forward, backward or sideways through the text and images on screen or within a window. Scrolling implies continuous and smooth movement, a line, character or pixel at a time, as if the data were on a paper scroll being rolled behind the screen. See auto scroll. , a foldable USB keyboard to make changes to the copy on the Pocket PC, and the ProPrompter hood with beam splitter A beam splitter is an optical device that splits a beam of light in two. It is the crucial part of most interferometers. In its most common form, a cube, it is made from two triangular glass prisms which are glued together at their base using Canada balsam. glass and Pocket PC tray. It all packs neatly away in a small custom case. Bodelin also displayed their LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) A display technology that uses rod-shaped molecules (liquid crystals) that flow like liquid and bend light. Unenergized, the crystals direct light through two polarizing filters, allowing a natural background color to show. model, which utilizes a 5.6" LCD screen that mirrors any prompter software run from a laptop Same as laptop computer. laptop - portable computer . Both models are only $1695 each. "Having used teleprompters for 25 years, I had my doubts on whether this would actually work," said Bodelin Sales and Marketing Director Peter White. "I tested our final version last fall and was amazed a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. that it not only works but works extremely well in the field or in the studio." Bodelin believes the interest shown by the NAB crowd at their booth was due to posting a video demo which can now be viewed on the home page of the ProPrompter site: www.proprompter.com. About Bodelin Bodelin Distribution is a division of PowerMax and PowerDV. Bodelin is also the exclusive distributor of the ProScope, a handheld digital USB microscope used in science education and law enforcement. Product photos available electronically. peter_white@bodelin.com |
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