By CE Pro

Metra has introduced its Ethereal HDM-GA1 Gigabit Accelerator, designed to update existing in-wall passive HDMI® cables to be able to handle true 4K at 60Hz as well as 4:4:4 and HDR.

The small 2-inch by 1-inch device features an aluminum chassis and it is powered by an external USB power supply. The HDM-GA1 rebuilds the video levels to exceed HDMI 2.0A levels of performance and it repairs the data timing clock channel. Designed to perform as a plug-and-play product, the device works with 26-, 28- and 30-AWG cables up to 10 meters in length.

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By HomeToys.com.

Metra Home Theater Group, a leading provider of home theater products and accessories, announces the addition of ten new Spyclops Surveillance System camera models, including two HD IP cameras and eight analog HD (AHD) cameras.

The two new Spyclops HD IP bullet cameras, SPY-BLTG2IP24 in grey and SPY-BLTW2IP24 in white, include IP streaming, 2.8 mm to12 mm manual varifocal lens, 42 IR LEDs for up to 40 meters of distance at night and HISILICON DSP, wide dynamic range. These models feature 2.4 MP for 1080p viewing.

Four new Spyclops HD bullet cameras include both the grey SPY-BLTG2AHD24 and white SPY-BLTW2AHD24 with AHD streaming, 2.8 mm to12 mm manual varifocal lenses, 42 IR LED's for up to 40 meters of distance at night and 3D noise reduction featuring 2.4 MP for 1080p viewing. The grey SPY-BLTG2AHD and white SPY-BLTW2AHD1, bullet cameras have the same feature set with 1.0 MP providing 720p resolution.

By Joseph Palenchar, TWICE

Metra Home Theater Group is targeting retrofit installs and upgrades with three new video-distribution products that will be displayed at the CEDIA Expo and shipped Oct. 15.

They include the M3B (Metra Multimedia Broadcast) System, which comes in two versions to let installers add a multisource video-distribution system to a home using either wireless RF or existing coaxial cables and splitters.

The $349 coax-based M3B System consists of receivers and transmitters to send multiple video sources to multiple displays at 1080p resolution. The receivers come with an IR remote to control remote-source selection, and a complete Hex code setup is available for learning remotes. The transmitters provide channel-selection buttons and include an LED channel display and 100-channel output selection.

By CE Pro, Jason Knott, October 2, 2015

Driven by a passion for the industry and for its customers, family-owned Metra Electronics, parent company of well-known Metra Home Theater Group, makers of Ethereal HDMI® cable, might be the most unassuming company in the custom electronics business.

Indeed, the 69-year-old company’s stature is something it should be shouting from the mountaintops.

Metra Electronics was founded in Brooklyn in the 1940s when they designed and fabricated a bracket for taxi cabs to be able to hold radios and meters. Soon, Metra Electronics was making brackets for police vehicles and other cars.

But what does all that have to do with Metra Home Theater Group, the division familiar to integrators that makes Ethereal premium cables, Helios retail cables, TV mounts and accessories, EHD Cables with exclusive long-run cables for integrators, and Spyclops surveillance systems? A lot.