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Contact: Michael Sherman                                             FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tel. 319-754-0604
Cell Phone: 901-351-9861
Email: msher@winegard.com

Winegard selects componexxTM
as commercial distributor
for new home runTM product line

ComponexX To Interface With Winegard and Multilet
To Ensure MDU US Component And Equipment Compatibility

Burlington, Iowa, December 31, 2005 – Winegard Company announced today that it has selected ComponexX, located in Sunrise Florida, to commercially distribute Winegard’s newest product line, the HOME RUN. Bob Howell, Director Signal Distribution/Off-Air Antenna Business Group, said “A technical communications and entertainment revolution is underway. Voice and data have converged and now other entertainment services are joining in. Seeing this coming, Winegard became part of this revolution. We bundling the most-wanted Triple Play services and more under a new HOME RUN brand, while developing sophisticated new technologies, aimed at helping MDU owners and residents take advantage of existing coax cable and networks in many new ways, including easy retrofitting, with piece-of-mind in the process and services. Selecting ComponexX as our commercial distributor for the HOME RUN is the latest step in getting this technology to market.”

Howell continued, “Over the years, I have interacted with dozens of individuals and companies offering products and services to Winegard. Because of his technical expertise and established contacts, I cannot stress enough the importance of Mr. Eddie Diaz, President of ComponexX, to achieving an immediate impact and timely market penetration of our new MDU HOME RUN product line.” 

ComponexX specialized in reliable, efficient and less expensive manufacturing of electronic components and accessories for the Structural wire, Data, Video, Satellite and Cable TV industries. With persistent efforts for over 8 years, ComponexX has established a worldwide reputation for top quality, competitive price and excellent service. Diaz said “I was please to receive the “Retailer Choice” JEM Award at Satellite Expo 2005, where installers got their first look at Multilet. ComponexX will not only supply Multilet to Master Distributors, but will interface between Winegard and Multilet to ensure that all newly designed MDU accessory component and equipment items will interface correctly with the Multilet line of products to the US markets I knows so well.”

Winegard Company announced on November 8, that it concluded an exclusive agreement with Macab AB for US rights for MultiletTM, providing Winegard the “Triple Play” platform for the distribution of Video, VoIP and Internet services to the multi-dwelling unit, delivering it on one existing coax cable. On December 8, Winegard concluded an agreement with Advances Media Services to be the exclusive supplier of these Triple Play services using this Multilet technology, while adding AMS’s QuantumAlertTM, a proactive web-enabled real-time 24/7 remote system that monitors the entire MDU IP physical signal distribution network, taking Winegard’s Multilet Triple Play to a whole new level.

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If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Bob Howell or Eddie Diaz, please call Michael Sherman at 319-754-0604 or send an email to msher@winegard.com.

About Winegard:
The Winegard Company is widely considered an innovator and pioneer in product design, performance and assembly and has consistently adapted to meet the challenges of the ever-changing electronics market. It remains committed to continuous improvement in the quality, cost and delivery of its products and services to effectively meet all of its customer’s needs and currently designs and manufactures more than 1,000 different products in seven product lines distributed in all states and worldwide, including:

• Bundled Signal Distribution: Video, VoIP and High Speed Data and More, on a single existing cable run.
• Satellite Antennas and Mounts: Residential antennas ranging in size from 46 cm to 1 meter.
• Mobile Television Reception Products: RV, Trucking, and Marine applications. Satellite systems ranging from manual crank-up models to automatic satellite tracking systems with GPS/DVB. Off-air antennas including bi-directional and omni-directional VHF/UHF/FM antennas. Ground Antenna Mounts and Accessories.
• Off-Air Antennas: From DC to 5.8 gigs AM/FM/VHF/UHF Antenna Systems, Distribution and Pre-Amplifiers, Power Supplies and Accessories
• Telemetry:  Medical and Data Antenna Systems, Distribution Amplifiers, Power Supplies and Accessories.
• Two-way Fixed/Transportable Mobile Satellite Internet Systems: offers real-time IP, video, voice, audio and data communications virtually anywhere, anytime.
• Wireless Remote Home Control System: Sends the entertainment you want, remotely, where you want it, when you want it.

About ComponexX:

ComponexX specialized in reliable, efficient and less expensive manufacturing of electronic components and accessories for the Structural wire, Data, Video, Satellite and Cable TV industries. With persistent efforts for over 8 years, ComponexX has established a worldwide reputation for top quality, competitive price and excellent service. ComponexX not only produces its own line, but also accepts OEM and ODM projects, including printing and packaging for the retail markets, including programs to aid in product design and development. Manufacturing capabilities includes sheet metal, plastic injection moldings, metal injection moldings, or a combination of these materials, including complete electronic and mechanical assemblies, electrical testing and packing. Special care is given to material analysis, pricing, specifications tooling and sampling. Systematic QC measures are applied during the production and shipping of finished goods to best meet our customer’s requirements, while assuring  fast delivery.

ComponexX offers a complete line of:

• Bundled Signal Distribution: Video, VoIP and High Speed Data and More, on a single cable run
• Digital wiring infrastructure components from 5 MHz to 3 GHz
• Data and video combiners from 5-2400 MHz: CFU-1 Combining filter units for 4 apartments, CFS- Outlet wall outlet for TV and Data, DTS- Outlet Digital wall outlet for TV and ITO- Intermediate TV outlet
• Commercial Grade Satellite High Frequency Digital Components 5 – 3000 MHZ: Splitters, Taps, Diplexers, Amplifiers, Multi-switches, Power inserters,Attenuators, Voltage blocks and Grounding blocks
• Commercial Grade Cable TV Digital Components 5—1000 MHZ: Digital splitters, Directional couplers, Outdoor trunk line passives, Digital amplifiers, Fixed value equalizers, Attenuators, Voltage blocks and Terminators
• Accessories: Connectors RG-6, RG-59, Hard-line connectors, Wall plates, Coaxial cable, Installation tools, Telephone and data jacks and all components for coaxial and data infrastructure installations   

Contact: Michael Sherman                                             FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tel. 319-754-0604
Cell Phone: 901-351-9861
Email: msher@winegard.com

Winegard turns the triple play
into an mdu or residential home runtm ,
Adds triple stacked hdtv technology
and remote mdu system monitoring

All On One Existing Coax Cable,
 Distributing Throughout Multi-Dwelling-Units
From One Connection Point

Burlington, Iowa, November 5, 2005 – Installers and builders will get their first look at Winegard’s newest product, the HOME RUN, at EHX in Anaheim on Wednesday. Bob Howell, Director Signal Distribution/Off-Air Antenna Business Group, said “Winegard has taken the Triple Play one step further, by incorporating all the Triple Play services and much more, in one delivery system and bundling them in a new HOME RUN structured wiring box that distributes this package on a single existing coax cable.”

First in the box is MultiletTM, with the ability to offer multi-dwelling unit installers, the enormous advantage to network or retro-fit an entire MDU project on existing RG-6 coaxial runs. Second is Winegard’s new TRIADTM triple-stacking technology for total HDTV reception. Third is AMS’s QuantumAlertTM, a proactive web-enabled real-time 24/7 remote system that monitors the entire MDU IP physical signal distribution network. And fourth is the Triple Play itself, an HDTV Video rich environment, distributing satellite signal combined with free Off-Air HDTV signal, a highly reliable new High Speed broadband data network, with Modem-free Full Duplex Ethernet high speed Internet and Voice-Over-IP incorporated into the High Speed bundled connection.

Multilet allows the installation of a new MDU Residential Star Network without running new cables. From the entry point into an MDU or home, this highly reliable system distributes Video (HDTV), VoIP and High Speed Broadband Data, on a single cable run within and between residential buildings and/or rooms in a home. This provides easy of installation. One central distribution point saves time and money, makes retrofits easy, inexpensive, fast and cost efficient. There’s no need to rewire for LAN or Cat-5 to distribute to each room/unit and cross technology capabilities make it completely transparent to fiber, copper cables, satellite or xDSL broadband
Winegard’s HOME RUN with Multilet offers MDU unit installers, the enormous advantage to network or retro-fit an entire MDU project onto a single or existing RG-6 coaxial run, eliminating the necessity to pull additional coax or CAT-5 wire-runs. To the consumer, Winegard can now offer a product to easily network their home.

Winegard’s TRIAD takes Dual Stacked LNB Technology to the next level. Before TRIAD, a minimum of 2 cables had to be pulled to provide full satellite HDTV signals. TRIAD allows new installations and retrofitting of MDUs and SDUs to receive all HD channels from all three satellites, by stacking all 3 signals and combining them onto a single coaxial cable run.

QuantumTM Services provided by AMS will exclusively deliver the Triple Play bundle throughout MDUs from point-of-entry, while QuantumAlert simultaneously monitors entire properties, single buildings and/or individual users. Chris Silk, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at AMS said “AMS’s web-enabled QuantumAlert™ provides real-time information to the AMS Network Operation Center, allowing AMS technicians to monitor, manage and troubleshoot MDU system status from signal source, through distribution and amplification, to the modem. This network management capability allows AMS to achieve optimum performance with minimal service disruption, minimizing repair time and costly outages, while maximizing optimum user performance and fast resolution. AMS will provide customized Triple Play design options for each property and attractive revenue sharing programs for MDU owners, while offering outstanding customer service, providing the necessary peace of mind that property managers and owners expect and Winegard requires. And we guarantee it.”

ComponexXTM has been supplying products and services to Winegard for over three years. He has consistently stood out among other vendors in his ability to understand and support the technology Winegard desired in penetrating new markets. These efforts were paramount to the success of new Winegard products. Eddie Diaz, President of ComponexX said, “Critical to reaching maximum market potential for the HOME RUN product line will require the development of additional MDU component accessory items for effective signal distribution.” “In addition to Winegard’s relationships”, continued Howell, “Eddie has working very successfully with the engineers and business development executives in the satellite and telephone industries and he will be an invaluable resource in assisting Winegard in achieving product acceptance for the HOME RUN. For these reasons, ComponexX has been picked as the commercial distributor for the HOME RUN.”

Winegard’s Multilet product will be introduced at the EHX Show in Anaheim, November 9 – 11 in booth #810 and at CES 2006 in booth #26135.

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If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Bob Howell, Eddie Diaz or Chris Silk, please call Michael Sherman at 319-754-0604 or send an email to msher@winegard.com or access Winegard at www.winegard.com, ComponexX at
www.componexx.com or AMS at www.ams-llc.com.

About Winegard:
The Winegard Company is widely considered an innovator and pioneer in product design, performance and assembly and has consistently adapted to meet the challenges of the ever-changing electronics market. It remains committed to continuous improvement in the quality, cost and delivery of its products and services to effectively meet all of its customer’s needs and currently designs and manufactures more than 1,000 different products in six product lines distributed in all states and worldwide, including:

• Bundled Signal Distribution: Video, VoIP and High Speed Data and More, On A Single Cable Run
• Satellite Antennas and Mounts: Residential antennas ranging in size from 46 cm to 1 meter.
• Mobile Television Reception Products: RV, Trucking, and Marine applications. Satellite systems ranging from manual crank-up models to automatic satellite tracking systems with GPS/DVB. Off-air antennas including bi-directional and omni-directional VHF/UHF/FM antennas. Ground Antenna Mounts and Accessories.
• Off-Air Antennas: From DC to 5.8 gigs AM/FM/VHF/UHF Antenna Systems, Distribution and Pre-Amplifiers, Power Supplies and Accessories
• Telemetry:  Medical and Data Antenna Systems, Distribution Amplifiers, Power Supplies and Accessories.
• Two-way Fixed/Transportable Mobile Satellite Internet Systems: offers real-time IP, video, voice, audio and data communications virtually anywhere, anytime.

Contact: Michael Sherman                                          FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tel. 319-754-0604
Cell Phone: 901-351-9861
Email: msher@winegard.com

Winegard signs exclusive contract with multilet us
to market inexpensive, fast Solution
For Combining high speed Internet And TV 
On A Single exisitng coax cable

And Distributing Both Signals
Throughout Multi-Dwelling-Units
From One Connection Point

Burlington, Iowa, November 8, 2005 – Winegard Company announced today that it has concluded an exclusive agreement with Macab AB, Trelleborg, Sweden for its new MultiletTM Internet Protocol (IP) on a single coax technology. This agreement provides Winegard Company with IP technology necessitated in supporting its customer base with a “Triple Play” platform for the distribution of Video, VoIP and Internet services to the multi-dwelling unit (MDU) installers across the nation.  Bob Howell, Director Signal Distribution/Off-Air Antenna Business Group, said “Winegard now has the ability to offer these MDU unit installers, the enormous advantage to network or retro-fit an entire MDU project onto a single or existing RG-6 coaxial run, eliminating the necessity to pull additional coax or CAT-5 wire-runs.  To the consumer, Winegard can now offer a product to easily network their home. The savings in time and money to these installers, builders and homeowners will immediately be self evident and undeniable”.

An international manufacturer, Winegard Company currently supplies products and services to other OEMs, aftermarket retailers, master distributors and dealers in all of the markets targeted by Multilet US, several of which, Winegard currently experiences over a 90% market share. Winegard’s presence and dominance in the market, its 51-year highly regarded reputation, the Winegard team of highly trained professionals and its tradition in leading the industry with new technology innovation and quality built products, exemplify its ability to get this product to market and accepted quickly. Winegard’s staff of professional and technical support services will serve to ensure the correct training, installation and reliably of these products to the consumer.

Stefan Johansson, Managing Director of Macab said “Although we’re currently selling some Multilet product into the US market, specifically to the cable industry, Multilet US sees this exclusive agreement with Winegard Company as an opportunity to create a new and highly targeted Winegard product line and expand our effort into additional markets. Macab sees this agreement as a giant step forward for our Multilet product”
 
Howell continued “TV and Ethernet use signals at different frequencies, so they can be combined and transmitted on the same existing cable using the new Multilet system, providing High Speed Internet, local VHF/UHF TV broadcasts and Satellite TV (DBS) programming, even HDTV onto a single existing coaxial cable run.

There’s no need to rewire a building with multiple cables to support incoming signals from an “Off-Air” Antenna for local broadcasts and satellite dishes for DBS programming from DIRECTV® or Dish Network.  Multilet technology provides for a Full Duplex distributed Local Area Network to each unit, modem-free, feature rich service including high speed Internet, VoIP, Virtual Private Networks, Secured Private Networks, Real Time Webcasts via Multicast Delivery and much more, the complete host of services expected by high speed broadband subscribers. Howell continued, “the unique benefits of using existing wiring for the delivery of a “Triple Play” (Video, VoIP, IP) is obviously more cost effective, easier to install and easier to service and maintain”.

About 1/3 of the dwellings in the US are MDUs, including not only apartments, but universities, the hospitality market, town homes complexes, condominiums, health care facilities, master planned communities, small office, home office and commercial markets, not forgetting the 70 million homes that will benefit from a retrofit.  “We’re very excited about this opportunity to bring the Multilet product to satisfy this underserved market need” said Howell.

Through a single connection point within the MDU property owners can manage IP and video services by unit number throughout the property, with easy to install, virtually maintenance free, highly reliable quality components.

Winegard’s new Multilet product line will be introduced at the EHX Show in Anaheim, November 9 – 11 in booth #810.

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If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Bob Howell, please call Michael Sherman at 319-754-0604 or send an email to msher@winegard.com. To schedule an interview with Stefan Johansson, call +46 (0) 410 36 36 66 or send an email to stefan.johansson@macab.se or access Winegard at www.winegard.com.

About Winegard:
The Winegard Company is widely considered an innovator and pioneer in product design, performance and assembly and has consistently adapted to meet the challenges of the ever-changing electronics market. It remains committed to continuous improvement in the quality, cost and delivery of its products and services to effectively meet all of its customer’s needs and currently designs and manufactures more than 1,000 different products in six product lines distributed in all states and worldwide, including:

• Bundled Signal Distribution: Video, VoIP and High Speed Data and More, On A Single Cable Run
• Satellite Antennas and Mounts: Residential antennas ranging in size from 46 cm to 1 meter.
• Mobile Television Reception Products: RV, Trucking, and Marine applications. Satellite systems ranging from manual crank-up models to automatic satellite tracking systems with GPS/DVB. Off-air antennas including bi-directional and omni-directional VHF/UHF/FM antennas. Ground Antenna Mounts and Accessories.
• Off-Air Antennas: From DC to 5.8 gigs AM/FM/VHF/UHF Antenna Systems, Distribution and Pre-Amplifiers, Power Supplies and Accessories
• Telemetry:  Medical and Data Antenna Systems, Distribution Amplifiers, Power Supplies and Accessories.
• Two-way Fixed/Transportable Mobile Satellite Internet Systems: offers real-time IP, video, voice, audio and data communications virtually anywhere, anytime.

About Multilet

Multilet is a wholly owned subsidiary of Macab AB. In business over 20 years, Macab AB is well known for a wide range of quality products providing superior solutions for MDU, CATV and SMATV applications. The Multilet equipment is a system for the distribution of broadband services within and between residential buildings. It uses the buildings' existing wiring infrastructure and overlays a new network using Ethernet technology. More information can be found at www.multilet.us.

Contact: Michael Sherman                                               FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tel. 319-754-0604
Cell Phone: 901-351-9861
Email: msher@winegard.com

WINEGARD SIGNS EXCLUSIVE CONTRACT WITH AMS
TO SUPPLY ENHANCED TRIPLE PLAY BUNDLE
INCLUDING HIGH SPEED BROADBAND, VoIP, VIDEO,
ADDING PROACTIVE 24/7 REMOTE SERVICES MONITORING

To Be Delivered From One MDU Point-Of Entry
Using New MultiletTM Technology

Burlington, Iowa, November 2, 2005 – Winegard Company announced today it has concluded an agreement with Advances Media Services to be the exclusive supplier of Triple Play services for Winegard’s new Triple Play product line using Multilet technology. This new product line is aimed specifically at Multi-Dwelling Unit owners and managers. Multilet offers MDUs, the enormous advantage of networking or retro-fitting entire MDU projects using existing RG-6 coaxial runs, eliminating the necessity to pull additional coax or CAT-5 wire-runs. Under this agreement, AMS will install or retrofit, deliver and service video, including DIRECTV or Dish Network programming and Off-Air local broadcasts, high speed Broadband Internet and Voice-over-IP, supporting Winegard’s marketing of the new Multilet Triple Play “Plus” product. Why Plus Bob Howell, Director Signal Distribution/Off-Air Antenna Business Group, said “AMS’s QuantumAlertTM, a proactive web-enabled real-time 24/7 remote system that monitors the entire MDU IP physical signal distribution network, takes the Triple Play to a whole new level”

QuantumAlert is a powerful tool allowing AMS technicians to monitor, manage and troubleshoot MDU system status from signal source, through distribution and amplification, to the modem. This network management capability allows AMS engineers to achieve optimum performance levels with minimal service disruption, minimizing repair time and costly outages, while maximizing optimum user performance and fast resolution.

Chris Silk, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at AMS said “We are very pleased to partner with a well known and respected company like Winegard to support Multilet with our QuantumAlert state-of-the-art monitoring software, which greatly enhances their Triple Play. We will also supply Winegard with customized Triple Play design options for each property and attractive revenue sharing programs for MDU owners, while offering outstanding customer service to provide the necessary peace of mind that property managers and owners expect and Winegard requires. And we guarantee it.”

“Winegard has a 51 year tradition in leading the industry with new technology innovation, quality built products and customer service” said Howell, “AMS’s QuantumSpeedTM high speed broadband internet and QuantumVoiceTM VoIP services have been well received in the industry already and their dedication to quality assurance through their Service Level Guarantee was very important to us in selecting them.”

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For more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Bob Howell or Chris Silk, please call Michael Sherman at 319-754-0604 or send an email to msher@winegard.com.

About Winegard:
The Winegard Company is widely considered an innovator and pioneer in product design, performance and assembly and has consistently adapted to meet the challenges of the ever-changing electronics market. It remains committed to continuous improvement in the quality, cost and delivery of its products and services to effectively meet all of its customer’s needs and currently designs and manufactures more than 1,000 different products in six product lines distributed in all states and worldwide, including:

• Bundled Signal Distribution: Video, VoIP and High Speed Data and More, on a single cable run.
• Satellite Antennas and Mounts: Residential antennas ranging in size from 46 cm to 1 meter.
• Mobile Television Reception Products: RV, Trucking, and Marine applications. Satellite systems ranging from manual crank-up models to automatic satellite tracking systems with GPS/DVB. Off-air antennas including bi-directional and omni-directional VHF/UHF/FM antennas. Ground Antenna Mounts and Accessories.
• Off-Air Antennas: From DC to 5.8 gigs AM/FM/VHF/UHF Antenna Systems, Distribution and Pre-Amplifiers, Power Supplies and Accessories
• Telemetry: Medical and Data Antenna Systems, Distribution Amplifiers, Power Supplies and Accessories.
• Two-way Fixed/Transportable Mobile Satellite Internet Systems: offers real-time IP, video, voice, audio and data communications virtually anywhere, anytime.

About AMS

AMS was founded in 2002 by former UUNET Executives and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. AMS provides owners and managers of multi-tenant properties a complete pre-packaged solution offering a substantial source of revenue sharing by delivering a highly reliable "Triple Play" product suite including QuantumSpeedTM High Speed Broadband Internet, QuantumVoiceTM Phone/Voice (VoIP) and QuantumVideoTM services. The product platform can be delivered on one existing or new coax cable. In addition, AMS offers QuantumAlertTM proactive real-time 24/7 remote monitoring of the entire MDU physical signal distribution network. The AMS service bundle incorporates the best technology available and combines it with the most efficient and effective systems and processes that can support it. Technology and Service design options allow for customization in every property. Because of its long history in the data industry, the AMS Team is able to provide a superior service experience that is backed with a Service Level Guarantee.

QuantumSpeed

• High-speed internet for multi-dwelling residential properties
• Service Level Agreement for performance guarantee

QuantumVoice

• Full featured Broadband flat-rate digital phone service at subscription prices far below market averages; for individual residential and small business customers who already have high-speed internet access

QuantumVideo

• Provide your residents the video programming that they demand. Whether direct or through an affiliate, AMS can deliver satellite programming to meet your needs, both L-band and Satellite Master Antenna system applications
• Customer Service/Tech Support
• Service Level Agreement for performance guarantee

QuantumAlert

• Proactive real-time 24/7 remote monitoring of the entire MDU physical signal distribution network
• Delivering the Triple Play Bundle throughout the MDU from point-of-entry, simultaneously monitors:

Entire Properties
Single Buildings
Individual Users

About Multilet

Multilet is a wholly owned subsidiary of Macab AB. In business over 20 years, Macab AB is well known for a wide range of quality products providing superior solutions for MDU, CATV and SMATV applications. The Multilet equipment is a system for the distribution of broadband services within and between residential buildings. It uses the buildings' existing wiring infrastructure and overlays a new network using Ethernet technology.

Contact: Michael Sherman                                         FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tel. 319-754-0604
Cell Phone: 901-351-9861
Email: msher@winegard.com

Winegard selects componexxTM
as commercial distributor
for new multiletTM product line

ComponexX To Interface With Winegard and Multilet
To Ensure MDU US Component And Equipment Compatibility

Burlington, Iowa, November 0, 2005 – Winegard Company announced today that it has selected ComponexX, located in Sunrise Florida, to commercially distribute Winegard’s newest product line, Multilet. Bob Howell, Director Signal Distribution/Off-Air Antenna Business Group, said “A technical communications and entertainment revolution is underway. Voice and data have converged and now other entertainment services are joining in. Seeing this coming, Winegard became part of this revolution. We bundling the most-wanted Triple Play services and more, while developing sophisticated new technologies, aimed at helping MDU owners and residents take advantage of existing coax cable and networks in many new ways, including easy retrofitting, with piece-of-mind in the process and services. Selecting ComponexX as our commercial distributor for Multilet is the latest step in getting this technology to market.”

Howell continued, “Over the years, I have interacted with dozens of individuals and companies offering products and services to Winegard. Because of his technical expertise and established contacts, I cannot stress enough the importance of Mr. Eddie Diaz, President of ComponexX, to achieving an immediate impact and timely market penetration of our new MDU Multilet product line.” 

ComponexX specialized in reliable, efficient and less expensive manufacturing of electronic components and accessories for the Structural wire, Data, Video, Satellite and Cable TV industries. With persistent efforts for over 8 years, ComponexX has established a worldwide reputation for top quality, competitive price and excellent service. Diaz said “I was please to receive the “Retailer Choice” JEM Award at Satellite Expo 2005, where installers got their first look at Multilet. ComponexX will not only supply Multilet to Master Distributors, but will interface between Winegard and Macab to ensure that all newly designed MDU accessory component and equipment items will interface correctly with the Multilet line of products to the US markets I knows so well.”

Winegard Company announced on November 0, that it concluded an exclusive agreement with Macab AB for US rights for MultiletTM, providing Winegard the “Triple Play” platform for the distribution of Video, VoIP and Internet services to the multi-dwelling unit, delivering it on one existing coax cable. On November 0, Winegard concluded an agreement with Advances Media Services to be the exclusive supplier of these Triple Play services using this Multilet technology, while adding AMS’s QuantumAlertTM, a proactive web-enabled real-time 24/7 remote system that monitors the entire MDU IP physical signal distribution network, taking Winegard’s Multilet Triple Play to a whole new level.

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If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Bob Howell or Eddie Diaz, please call Michael Sherman at 319-754-0604 or send an email to msher@winegard.com.

About Winegard:
The Winegard Company is widely considered an innovator and pioneer in product design, performance and assembly and has consistently adapted to meet the challenges of the ever-changing electronics market. It remains committed to continuous improvement in the quality, cost and delivery of its products and services to effectively meet all of its customer’s needs and currently designs and manufactures more than 1,000 different products in six product lines distributed in all states and worldwide, including:

• Bundled Signal Distribution: Video, VoIP and High Speed Data and More, On A Single Cable Run
• Satellite Antennas and Mounts: Residential antennas ranging in size from 46 cm to 1 meter.
• Mobile Television Reception Products: RV, Trucking, and Marine applications. Satellite systems ranging from manual crank-up models to automatic satellite tracking systems with GPS/DVB. Off-air antennas including bi-directional and omni-directional VHF/UHF/FM antennas. Ground Antenna Mounts and Accessories.
• Off-Air Antennas: From DC to 5.8 gigs AM/FM/VHF/UHF Antenna Systems, Distribution and Pre-Amplifiers, Power Supplies and Accessories
• Telemetry:  Medical and Data Antenna Systems, Distribution Amplifiers, Power Supplies and Accessories.
• Two-way Fixed/Transportable Mobile Satellite Internet Systems: offers real-time IP, video, voice, audio and data communications virtually anywhere, anytime.

About ComponexX:

ComponexX specialized in reliable, efficient and less expensive manufacturing of electronic components and accessories for the Structural wire, Data, Video, Satellite and Cable TV industries. With persistent efforts for over 8 years, ComponexX has established a worldwide reputation for top quality, competitive price and excellent service. ComponexX not only produces its own line, but also accepts OEM and ODM projects, including printing and packaging for the retail markets, including programs to aid in product design and development. Manufacturing capabilities includes sheet metal, plastic injection moldings, metal injection moldings, or a combination of these materials, including complete electronic and mechanical assemblies, electrical testing and packing. Special care is given to material analysis, pricing, specifications tooling and sampling. Systematic QC measures are applied during the production and shipping of finished goods to best meet our customer’s requirements, while assuring  fast delivery.

ComponexX offers a complete line of:

• Bundled Signal Distribution: Video, VoIP and High Speed Data and More, on a single cable run
• Digital wiring infrastructure components from 5 MHz to 3 GHz
• Data and video combiners from 5-2400 MHz: CFU-1 Combining filter units for 4 apartments, CFS- Outlet wall outlet for TV and Data, DTS- Outlet Digital wall outlet for TV and ITO- Intermediate TV outlet
• Commercial Grade Satellite High Frequency Digital Components 5 – 3000 MHZ: Splitters, Taps, Diplexers, Amplifiers, Multi-switches, Power inserters, Attenuators,

Voltage blocks and Grounding blocks

• Commercial Grade Cable TV Digital Components 5—1000 MHZ: Digital splitters, Directional couplers, Outdoor trunk line passives, Digital amplifiers, Fixed value equalizers, Attenuators, Voltage blocks and Terminators
• Accessories: Connectors RG-6, RG-59, Hard-line connectors, Wall plates, Coaxial cable, Installation tools, Telephone and data jacks and all components for coaxial and data infrastructure installations

Contact: Michael Sherman                                          FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tel. 319-754-0604
Cell Phone: 901-351-9861
Email: msher@winegard.com

Winegard signs contract for exclusive rights to
new triple-stacking signal technology

Incorporated In New HOME RUNTM Bundle,
Allows Retrofitting Of Existing MDUs And Homes
To Receive Triple Play Plus Expanded HD Access
On One Existing Coax Cable

Burlington, Iowa, March 13, 2006 – Winegard Company announced today, the signing of an exclusive manufacturing and distribution agreement with Global Communications, holder of 8 patents on Triple-Stacking Technology (TST), covering the US, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. Bob Howell, Director Signal Distribution/Off-Air Antenna Business Group, said “Winegard has been working with Global for 9 months in an effort to bring Triple-Stacked Technology to the market, as part of Winegard’s new Triple Play HOME RUN bundle. The addition of TST, branded by Winegard as the TRIADTM, to Winegard’s HOME RUN, makes it absolutely unique.” Before TRIAD, no matter how integrators installed satellite TV, a minimum of 2 cables had to be pulled to Decoder equipped HDTVs or Set Top Boxes to provide the most popular satellite HDTV signals. TRIAD allows new installations and retrofitting of MDUs and SDUs to receive all HD channels from all three satellites (101,110 and 119), by stacking all 3 satellite signals and combining them onto the HOME RUN’s single existing coax cable delivery system.

To stack and unstack all DBS High Definition signals, the TRIAD uses a combination of three new TRIAD satellite processors. The WSP-010 Satellite Processor/Polarity Stacker/DBS Amplifier operating at 950-2150 MHZ takes the 950 to 1450 MHz signals, stacks them and up-converts these frequencies to 2150 MHz. The WSP-020 Satellite Processor/Polarity Stacker/DBS Amplifier takes the 950 to 1450 MHz signals on all 3 birds and down-coverts them from 258 to 813 MHz. The MB-3000 Satellite Processor/Matrix De-stacker/DBS Amplifier utilizes 4 frequency block selector chipsets to down-convert the signals to enable multiple receivers to select the frequency block or viewing channel for each DBS receiver.

The Triple Play, the hottest thing going in signal distribution today, is the industry term applied to the bundling of VoIP (Voice over IP), High Speed Broadband Internet and Video (Satellite/Cable/Digital Off-Air/HDTV), preferred 3 to 1 over individual services. The HOME RUN, enhanced by TRIAD, answers the need for a fast, easy, inexpensive, quality solution to deliver the full Triple Play Plus signal package.
 
With the Winegard TRIAD stacking system, users can view all this HDTV programming on DirecTV’s101, 110 and 119 satellites. Incorporate the TRIAD with Winegard’s new HDTV Signal Processor and users can also enjoy all their “free-to-air” local HDTV broadcast channels on this same single cable run. Incorporating the Winegard MultiletTM IP/VoIP combining filter technology, residents can now experience the full “Triple Play” with expanded Satellite HDTV, local Off-Air HDTV channels and VoIP/IP, all on the same single coax cable run, eliminating the need to pull additional RG-6 coax or CAT-5 cabling.

Howell continued, “The Block conversion limits of Triple Stacked TRIAD Technology of 950 to 2150 MHz, is important. The only alternative currently on the market today for triple stacking operates up to 3 GHz, posing some technical challenges at this higher frequency range. The higher the frequency, the more susceptible the RF technology may be to RF interference. Passive 3 GHZ components such as splitters, taps, etc. are not supported unilaterally at this higher frequency range and are sometimes hard to find. Triple stacked systems must be designed with available Freguency bandwidth spectrum for the inclusion of local Cable TV and free “Off-Air” HDTV broadcasts channels. The TRIAD accomplishes this, combining it all on the same existing single cable run.” 

Winegard also intends to market the TRIAD as a stand-alone product for existing and new satellite installations for properties not interested in delivering the Triple Play at this time.

Signal delivery systems have been taking second place to all the glamour CE home products, service providers’ upgrades and media moguls programming deals. “What” people watch, listen to and do with their new components and Triple Play bundled services, has been getting the majority of press coverage. Once installers and customers get these products and services home, this will change to “How” people will watch, listen to and use these components to receive Triple Play services into 26 million MDU residents and 84 million homes needing retrofitting.

Beta Field-Testing both technologies in a “real-world” test environment has already begun. The TRIAD and HOME RUN package will be available by late spring.

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If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Bob Howell, please call Michael Sherman at 319-754-0604, send an email to msher@winegard.com or visit Winegard’s web site at www.winegard.com.

● Backgrounders

HOME RUN Backgrounder

We are witnessing a Technical Home Communications/Entertainment revolution. Voice and data have converged and now entertainment has joined in. Total U.S. TV homes rose 0.5% in the past year to about 110.2 million according to Nielsen Media Research. Four or five years ago, all the activity centered around finding ways to share a broadband connection, so multiple computers in a home could share one connection. Starting in 2002, the industry began promoting WiFi as the wireless communications foundation for the connected home. Last year, it concentrated on VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) product lines, so consumers could use that connection, not just for surfing the Web, but also for making phone calls.

The opportunity that has now presented itself is to develop and bundle more applications to help consumers take advantage of networks in other ways. Research shows that there is a demand and growth in the market for bundled services. Interest in a bundle is 3 times higher than individual services. And Networked entertainment is going to be the next big wave.  In-Stat research shows that just under half of the US residential market has purchased multiple telecommunications services as a package from a single provider, up from just one-third in 2004. The wired, interconnected home with networked appliances and home entertainment promises to be the next big push in consumer electronics.

And for those that think the internet won’t be able to handle the load, researchers at the Global Environment for Networking Investigations have offered their project to effectively reconfigure the Internet and create an updated global computer network. The New York Times said the network is designed with security in mind and with the reach and scale to accommodate the increasing number of computers and devices, like appliances, that will be connected to the Internet via sensors. Broadband services are continually increasing and a general break-through for multimedia streaming is expected soon. In October, according to Business Week, FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin says his top priority is to speed broadband deployment across the U.S. This will mean that demand for quick and cost-effective broadband solutions in the home will be inevitable and doing it on one existing coax cable will head the list.

Bundling voice (VoIP), video and high speed data packages is known by the players in these markets as the “Triple Play”. On first base we have high speed broadband data transfer; 90 million consumers are expected to be connected to an Internet service by the end of 2010, with 80 million surfing the Web via broadband means. On second base is VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol); these services have made tremendous strides of late with cable Multi-System-Operators.  And now on third base is Whole House Networked Entertainment.

According to The Wall Street Journal in November, the completion of AT&T Corp.'s merger with SBC Communications gives rise to a dramatically different AT&T that will derive just 23% of its revenue from voice services. The new AT&T instead will focus primarily on delivering various forms of content to television, mobile phones and computers as it adapts to modern telecommunications and media markets that emphasize digital convergence.  

When the consumer talks about networked entertainment, the consumer is talking about multiple devices from multiple vendors. Recent advances in equipment and technology have led to the explosion in broadband usage. Consumer preferences for a whole living networked  solutions have taken off, which has expanded to include most home consumer electronics products, especially PVRs. When it comes to delivering the Triple Play to 26 million MDUs, we’re in a whole new ball game and everybody wants in.

This is especially true since tenants inside a particular building are essentially a captive audience to a service provider and a MDU offers one point of entry and multiple subscriber base. The winner will get the triple play into those buildings, delivering and distributing the triple play in a fast, reliable, cost effective  and seamlessly system.

Who’s everybody? Broadband Service Providers: Satellite, Cable, Internet, Wireless, Telcos and Component Manufacturers and Retailers who want to be a player in the Inter-Connected CE world. To deliver the triple play, all of the major manufacturers have geared up and are starting to hook up with strategic service provider partners, with investments in the hundreds of millions of dollars. We’re witnessing an early shift toward home networking as a key variable for motivating additional services in the consumer. The opportunity for equipment vendors, carriers and manufacturers is to package data, voice, and multimedia networks as a complete bundle of services.

Network Distribution Media are the layers of a home network and is defined as the physical media or carrier signal on which the networked information is distributed. There are three. Dedicated wire is wiring that is installed specifically to be used for communications. It includes twisted pair wiring used for Ethernet networks and Coax, Cat-5 or Fiber. Shared wire can be shared for multiple purposes such as telephone wiring that is used for voice phone calls as well as for XDSL Internet access or HomePNA data networking. Other shared wires include Broadband over Power-Lines (but not video) in a home and Telephone Lines.

And where are the numbers? MDUs, which have been historically underserved by Building-Centric Local Exchange Carriers, are at the top of one vertical list,  mainly because of a lack of this fast, reliable, seamlessly and cost effective delivery technology. Cable Companies with around 54% of the market, DBS with 21%, Service Providers for the Internet, Wireless and Fiber Optics and Telcos are all lining up to play.

The Signal Distribution Business Group at Winegard has developed a business model that will allow it to play very successfully and competitively in this exploding consumer market by catching the anticipated huge growth wave in Multi-Dwelling-Units and Structured Wiring markets. And these markets are truly huge. Multi-Dwelling Units are estimated to include 26 million residences in the US and is an enormous current and future market for broadband services.

While, worldwide, there were just fewer than 1 million MDU in-building broadband subscribers in 2004; these subscribers will grow ten-fold by the end of 2008. Research by Strategy Analytics further says that by 2010 nearly 78 million U.S. customers will use some type of broadband service. Cable operators will account for about half of that total, while telcos will serve 43 percent of subscribers through a combination of DSL and advanced fiber networks. With 20% penetration, broadband is now clearly a mainstream service. And over 100 million existing dwellings need to be retro-fitted to take advantage of the Triple Play and will be extremely keen on delivering it on one existing coax cable.

Winegard’s Signal Distribution Business Group sees this convergence happening now, an interconnected CE world in which various digital devices can talk to each other. 

The competitive edge that Winegard has is its ability to takes the Triple Play a few very important steps further in its new HOME RUN Structured wiring box. This new bundle delivers a video HDTV rich environment, stacking and distributing all Satellite HDTV signals combined with free Off-Air HDTV signal on one cable. It also delivers High Speed Broadband Data, which adds a High Reliability New broadband network with high capacity access speeds and Modem-free Full Duplex Ethernet high speed Internet and Voice Over IP compatible into the High Speed bundled connection using Multilet  technology. Through an exclusive agreement with Macab, located in Trelleborg, Sweden. Winegard will use the Multilet  system for the distribution of  Triple Play access within and between residential buildings, providing MDUs much cheaper access than previously available.

But Winegard’s HOME RUN bundle takes the Triple Play to a whole new level with Winegard’s new TRIADTM Triple Stacked Technology, through an exclusive agreement with Global Communications, the patent holder for this new technology. There are HD channels located on 3 satellites. With existing technology and dual LNB’s, the consumer can get all the satellite channels and some HD channels, but can’t see the third satellite. But with 3 LNBs and triple stacking technology, the consumer gets all the satellite channels, plus all the HD channels from all three satellites. TRIAD takes the dual LNB Technology to the next level by allowing the satellite dish to look at 3 satellites, the third being the one dedicated to delivering additional HD channels and, by stacking the signals, combines them onto one wire as part of Winegard’s HOME RUN.

And by incorporating QuantumAlertTM, a proactive real-time 24/7 web-enabled remote monitoring of MDUs IP Network from top to bottom, through an exclusive agreement with Advanced Media Systems, the HOME RUN truly delivers and distributes the TRIPLE Play Plus, and does it all on one existing coax cable. In addition, AMS will also deliver the Triple Play services to the HOME RUN Structured Wiring Box at the point-of-entry.

Because the HOME RUN is easy to install through one central distribution point, it saves time because there’s no need to pull additional wires, saves money because it’s inexpensive, fast and cost efficient and there’s no need to rewire for LAN or Cat-5 to distribute to each room/unit in an MDU or home.

Winegard’s HOME RUN targets Property Owners/Managers (about 1/3 of the dwellings in the US are MDUs) including apartments, Universities, the Hospitality Market, Town homes complexes, and condominium or dormitory-type living arrangements, Health Care Facilities and Master Planned Communities. Winegard has also targeted Small Office/Home Office (SOHO), Commercial Markets, Recreational Vehicles, Pleasure Boating Yachts, Cruise lines and the 70 million homes with RG-6 that need retrofitting.

Five other currently available products exist that are capable of delivering some or all of the triple play signals throughout a home or MDU, but none can deliver the services and benefits found in Winegard’s HOME RUN.

BPL (Broadband over Power-Lines) is the only product comparable to Multilet, but has several limitations. The prime obstacle blocking the use of powerline Technology on this scale is interference on the power lines and issues with utility transformers. Other drawbacks include power lines emitting signals inside or outside a home that could cause Internet transmissions interference, power surges and noise elimination. Also modems are required.

Fiber Optics: The obvious drawback to this Technology is the need to run the fiber optic wire through out the building or home.

Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi is short for wireless fidelity and is meant to be used generically when referring of any type of 802.11 network, whether 802.11b, 802.11a, dual-band, etc. Wi-Fi’s problem has mainly to do with throughput limitations. Each of the three variants of 802.11 (a, b, and g) operates in half-duplex. This transmission scheme, coupled with payload overhead requirements, effectively reduces the maximum usable data throughput to less than 50% of the standard's stated data-link rate. Interference comes from two basic sources: co-channel interferers and foreign interferers. Several more problems associated with a wireless integrated home network are covered fully in the research section of the full business plan, but it is safe to say that a Wireless Network is not the answer to delivering the triple Play to MDUs.

Cat-5 is a rating system that refers to the number of twisted pairs of wires in a telephone cable. The more twists, the greater bandwidth and speed and the less interference in the transmission of voice and computer data. Specifying Cat 5, over the more common Cat 3, is an inexpensive upgrade. Again, the draw back to Cat-5, is the time and cost of pulling new wiring.

Convergence Backgrounder

The Convergence Of What People Watch, Listen To and Do With All The New Toys

On January 26, Saul Hansell of the New York Times wrote an article on "Convergence" of components, programming and service providers entitled “As Gadgets Get It Together, Media Makers Fall Behind”.

What is still not on the top of the minds of the press and these Convergence Players is getting the story out about the single largest convergence opportunity, how people will watch, listen to and use these new toys in 26 million MDUs and 84 million homes. How will digital signals be received and distributed to them to enjoy the Triple Play?

The Triple Play is the term used to describe VoIP (Voice over IP), High Speed Broadband Internet (including VoIP and IPTV) and Video (Satellite or Cable/Digital Off-Air/HDTV) in one bundle. His article gets readers half way there, thinking about all the component and programming options. But a major education initiative is still very much needed.

Winegard’s goal is to get these players and the trade press all the way HOME, past the bells and whistles of the components, programmers and content providers (getting almost all the major press so far). "The rest of the story" as Paul Harvey styled, is about MDU and Home Triple Play Signal Distribution and the lack of knowledge in the market place concerning the existing structured wiring signal distribution alternatives and retrofitting of dwellings for the delivery of the Triple Play bundled signal.

The need for delivery of the Triple Play signal in the home is the hottest thing going in signal reception today, along with digital reception itself and so far, is taking second place to the glamour products and media moguls. When the buyers of all these new toys for the home, get them home, this will change.

There are 6 ways to get the Triple Play signals. All are aggressively being pursued by the carriers. All, but structured wiring (cable) have some problems, according to Bob Howell, Director Signal Distribution/Off-Air Antenna Business Group at Winegard:

1. BPL (Broadband over Power Lines) has several limitations. The prime obstacle blocking the use of power line Technology on this scale is interference on the power lines and issues with utility transformers. Other drawbacks include power lines emitting signals inside or outside a home that could cause Internet transmissions interference and power surges.

2. Fiber Optics: The obvious drawback to this Technology is the need to run the fiber optic wire through out the building or home. No problem when building a new property, but a big expense if you have to pull new cable in an existing property.

3. WiMAX – (World Interoperability for Microwave Access) fixed wireless broadband service and is an organization founded in 2001 that promotes the IEEE 802.16 broadband wireless standard and provides certification for devices for compliant devices. WiMAX is designed to extend local Wi-Fi networks across greater distances such as a campus, as well as to provide last mile connectivity to an ISP or other carrier many miles away. It is not a triple play system at this point and probably not for the foreseeable future. It currently operates in unlicensed spectrum. And, satellite program providers aren’t likely to risk their multiplatform futures on a technology vulnerable to interference or national inconsistencies.

Wi-Fi: Its problem has mainly to do with throughput limitations. Each of the three variants of 802.11 (a, b, and g) operates in half-duplex. This transmission scheme, coupled with payload overhead requirements, effectively reduces the maximum usable data throughput to less than 50% of the standard's stated Datalink rate. Interference comes from two basic sources: CO-channel interferers and foreign interferers. An article on January 26 in New York Times "Dead Spots? Use Your Cable Setup to Send Signals to Every Corner" by Ivan Berger makes this point.

4. Cat-5 is a rating system that refers to the number of twisted pairs of wires in a telephone cable. The more twists, the greater bandwidth and speed and the less interference in the transmission of voice and computer data. Specifying Cat 5, over the more common Cat 3, is an inexpensive upgrade. Again, the draw back to Cat-5, is the time and cost of pulling new wiring.

5. Telephone Lines: With the growing presence of the Internet, the expansion of PCs into the home, and the growing sophistication of entertainment, residential wiring needs are rapidly changing. The copper wiring installed for POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) service in the 1950’s is no longer sufficient to meet the high bandwidth requirements that these modern applications necessitate.

6. Existing RG-6 coaxial cable (now in almost every home): Referred to by Berger and used by Winegard's new HOME RUNTMTriple Play Signal Distribution product line. 

An article appeared on January 17 in Business Week in which an industry analyst was quoted as saying “wired systems are too expensive and slow to deploy” for delivery of the Triple Play bundle. Obviously he hadn't heard of Winegard’s HOME RUN, which bundles the most-wanted Triple Play services and more, aimed at helping these MDU owners and residential and tens of millions of homeowners take advantage of their one existing coax cable and networks in many new ways and truly have piece-of-mind in the process and services, while actually saving time and money.

In this same article, the author said “Rupert Murdock is…prepared to spend $1 Billion” to get DIRECTV TM into the Triple Play arena, even to the extent that DirecTV is talking with EchoStar about a wireless broadband venture. Almost all of these 26 million Multi-Dwelling-Units (MDUs) in the US (not to mention the 84 million TV homes) can to be retrofitted to receive the full Triple Play package, preferred 3 to 1 over individual services.
  
And everybody wants in. Who’s everybody? Broadband Service Providers (particularly Internet), Satellite, Cable, Wireless, Telcos and Component Manufacturers, all needing to be a player in the Interconnected CE world. But while investing Billions to update, they all have their own particular problems delivering a total Triple Play signal package (as explained above) comparable with Winegard's new structured wiring product line, the HOME RUN.

What are they, installers and MDU owners looking for, for "the Digital Media Lifestyle"? A fast, easy, inexpensive, quality solution to deliver this Triple Play signal to all the converging digital products being manufactured for eagerly waiting consumers wanting a connected home.

Besides delivering the Triple Play, Winegard has added its new TRIADTM Triple-stacking technology to the HOME RUN Bundle for total HDTV reception. Winegard’s TRIAD takes LNB Technology to the next level. Before TRIAD, a minimum of 2 cables had to be pulled to provide full satellite HDTV signals. TRIAD allows new installations and retrofitting of MDUs and SDUs to receive all HD channels from all three satellites, by stacking all 3 signals and combining them onto a single cable.

And to make this HOME RUN Triple Play Bundle absolutely unique, Winegard then added QuantumAlertTM, under an exclusive agreement with Advanced Media Services. It provides proactive web-enabled real-time 24/7 remote system that simultaneously monitors the entire MDU IP physical signal distribution network of entire properties, single buildings and/or an individual users IP network. This provides the piece-of-mind installers and MDU owners are looking for when it comes to IP.

Winegard HOME RUN™ Fact Sheet

The HOME RUN Story:

• We are witnessing a Technical Home Communications/Entertainment revolution.
• Voice and data have converged - Entertainment is starting to join up
• Five years ago
• The industry was trying to finding ways to share a broadband connection
• So multiple computers in a home could share one connection.
• In 2002, the industry began focusing on WiFi as the wireless communications foundation
• Last year, it began looking hard at VoIP  product lines
• So consumers could use that connection, not just for surfing the Web
• But also for making phone calls
• The opportunity now exists to develop and bundle more applications

• Networked entertainment will be the next big wave
• Interest in buying a bundle is 3 times higher than single service
• This means demand for quick and cost-effective broadband solutions in the home will be inevitable
• And doing it on one existing coax cable will head the list

Why The HOME RUN Is Important:

• Bundling voice (VoIP), video and high speed data packages is called  the “Triple Play”
• On first base we have high speed broadband data transfer
• 90 million consumers will be connected to an Internet by 2010
• With 80 million surfing the Web via broadband means
• On second base is VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
• On third base is Whole House Networked Entertainment

• Because of recent advances in equipment and technology
• There’s been an explosion in broadband usage
• Consumer preferences have expanded to include most home electronics products
• When it comes to delivering the Triple Play to 26 million MDUs

• We’re in a whole new ball game and everybody wants in
• This is especially true since tenants inside a particular MDU building
• Are a captive audience to a service provider with a multiple subscriber base
• The winner will get the Triple Play into those buildings
• Delivering and distributing it
• In a fast, reliable, cost effective and seamlessly system.
• Who’s everybody?
• Broadband Service Providers: Satellite, Cable, Internet, Wireless, Telcos
• Component Manufacturers and Retailers
• All who want to be a player in the Inter-Connected CE world
• To deliver the triple play
• All of the major manufacturers have geared up
• And are starting to hook up with strategic service provider partners
• With investments in the hundreds of millions of dollars
• The opportunity
• For equipment vendors, carriers and manufacturers
• Is to package data, voice, and multimedia networks
• As a complete bundle of services.
• Where are the numbers?
• MDUs, which have been underserved by Building-Centric Local Exchange Carriers
• Are at the top of one vertical list
• Due to a lack of this fast, reliable, seamlessly, cost effective delivery technology
• Cable Companies, DBS, Service Providers for the Internet, Wireless, Fiber Optics and Telcos are all lining up to play
• These markets are truly huge
• Multi-Dwelling Units are estimated to include 26 million US residences
• And is an enormous current and future market for broadband services
• Research by Strategy Analytics further says that by 2010 nearly 78 million U.S. customers will use some type of broadband service
• And over 100 million existing dwellings
• Need to be retro-fitted to take advantage of the Triple Play
• And will be extremely keen on delivering it on one existing coax cable.

What Makes The HOME RUN So Unique?

• The competitive edge that Winegard has
• Is its ability to takes the Triple Play
• A few steps further in its new HOME RUNTM Structured wiring box
• The bundle delivers
• A Video HDTV rich environment, distributing all Satellite HDTV combined with free Off-Air HDTV signal
• High Speed Broadband Data, adding a highly reliable new broadband network
• And Voice over IP
• The HOME RUN does this
• By combining all these services into one High Speed bundled using Multilet  technology
• Through an exclusive agreement with Macab
• Winegard’s HOME RUN uses the Multilet system
• For the distribution of broadband access
• Within and between residential buildings
• Providing MDUs with much cheaper broadband access
• But Winegard’s HOME RUN bundle takes the Triple Play to a whole new level
• With Winegard’s new TRIADTM Triple Stacked Technology
• Through an exclusive agreement with Global Communications
• With triple stacking technology, the consumer gets all the HD channels 
• And by incorporating QuantumAlertTM
• A proactive real-time 24/7 remote monitoring system of the entire MDU IP network
• Through an exclusive agreement with Advanced Media Systems

• AMS will also deliver, as an integral part of the HOME RUN bundle
• QuantumVoiceTM (VoIP)
• QuantumSpeedTM (High Speed Internet Broadband).

• The HOME RUN is
• Easy to install through one central distribution point
• Saves time because there’s no need to pull additional wires
• Saves money because it’s Inexpensive, fast and cost efficient

Why Winegard is at the Heart of this Vital Story:

• Winegard’s sees this convergence happening now
• An interconnected CE world
• In which various digital devices can talk to each other

• Winegard has developed a business model
• That will allow it to play very successfully and competitively
• In this exploding consumer market
• By catching the anticipated huge growth wave
• in Multi-Dwelling-Units
• And Structured Wiring markets

• Winegard’s HOME RUN primarily targets
• MDU Property Owners and Managers.
• About 1/3 of the dwellings in the US are MDUs, including not only apartments, but
• Universities
• The hospitality market
• Town homes complexes, condominium or dormitory-type living arrangements
• Health care facilities
• Master planned communities
• Small office/home office
• Commercial markets
• The Home Run also has applications for
• Recreational vehicles
• Pleasure boating yachts
• Cruise lines
• And the 70 million homes that need retrofitting.
• Five other currently available products exist that delivering some or all of the triple play signals
• But without the HOME RUN’s added competitive advantage
• TRIAD
• QuantumAlert
• BPL (Broadband over Power-Lines)
• The only product comparable to Multilet, but has several limitations.
• The prime obstacle blocking the use of powerline Technology on this scale is
• Interference on the power lines and issues with utility transformers
• Other drawbacks include
• Power lines emitting signals inside or outside a home that could cause Internet transmissions interference
• Power surges
• Noise
• Modems are required.
• Fiber Optics:
• The obvious drawback to this Technology
• Is the need to run the fiber optic wire
• Throughout the building or home
• Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) problems have mainly to do with throughput limitations
• Effectively reduces the maximum usable data throughput to less than 50%
• Interference comes from two basic sources
• Co-channel interferers
• And foreign interferers 
• Cat-5 - The drawback to Cat-5, is the time and cost of pulling the wiring.
• Telephone Lines:
• Residential wiring needs are rapidly changing
• The copper wiring installed for POTS service in the 1950’s
• Is no longer sufficient
• To meet the high bandwidth requirements
• That these modern applications necessitate

The obvious choice for delivery and distribution of the Triple Play is Winegard’s HOME RUN

Contact Michael Sherman at msadvertising@aol.com or call 662-893-8360 anytime