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Communications Specialties, Inc. (CSI) is an award-winning, Long Island based company that manufactures and sells a variety of products for the distribution, conversion or transmission of television and computer video signals, including fiber optic transmission systems, scan converters and video scalers. The company was founded in 1983 by veterans of the broadcast industry. Since then, CSI has managed to consistently design innovative products that are used worldwide by Fortune 500 Companies in a variety of markets such as Broadcast/Professional A/V, Videoconferencing, Education, Home Theater, Security, ITS, Industrial Monitoring, and more! The Pure Digital Fiberlink® line offers an extensive and affordable family of fiber optic transmission systems for the Professional A/V marketplace and includes several ground-breaking products for the transmission of high-resolution RGB signals. Systems for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint signal distribution make these products highly desirable for digital signage applications. New products include a plug-in receiver card for plasma display panels (PDPs) and a transmitter/receiver pair that supports video, stereo audio, data and ethernet signals over a single fiber optic cable. The award-winning, Deuce® video scalers convert NTSC and PAL to high-resolution, non-interlaced video and offer a far superior and affordable alternative to line doubling and quadrupling. The new generation of Deuce products offer a wide range of non-interlaced resolutions and refresh rates for every application, from professional A/V installations to home theater, including a model designed especially for use with HDTV displays. Our premier product line, the Scan Do® family of computer to video scan converters, has redefined industry standards in computer video to NTSC/PAL technology with unsurpassed performance in its price range. All models support high resolutions and refresh rates and are VGA and Mac® compatible. The feature-rich and versatile Scan Do family offers the widest range of scan converters on the market. In addition, CSI manufactures a comprehensive selection of distribution amplifiers, VGA monitor, keyboard and mouse extenders and accessories for our entire product line. Communications Specialties and its products have been the recipient of numerous industry awards. In 2005, the Pure Digital Fiberlink® 7220 Series for high-resolution RGB and Stereo Audio was honored as one of the AV industry's best technological innovations of the year by receiving a "rAVe Radical Product of the Year" award as "Best New Analog Signal Processing Product". The rAVe email newsletter is published by professional audiovisual industry veterans and is read industry-wide. Among CSI's many other awards are AV Video Magazine's Platinum Award (given to Scan Do Ultra and Deuce) and the Video Systems' Vanguard Award (given to Deuce). The company is headquartered on Long Island, NY, with Sales Offices in Florida, Indiana and Virginia. Research, development, design, engineering, manufacturing and customer support operations are performed at the NY headquarters. Other locations include Communications Specialties Pte Ltd (CSPL) - a wholly owned subsidiary office in Singapore that provides support to distributors in the Far East and Pacific Rim. Our in-house sales department handles complete product-line sales directly to end-users as well as to an international network of representatives and resellers. All of our products are backed by an exceptional warranty.