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HOME INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES St. Petersburg
28...30 November, 2008
7th Exhibition of Electronic Entertainment Systems

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DATE AND PLACE

7 Exhibition of Home Interactive Technologies – from November, 28 to November, 30, 2008
in the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege" (1 Isaakievskaya Pl., St. Petersburg, Russia).

ABOUT EXHIBITION

From immemorial time music, games and later cinema are a usual home entertainment. Their form and content are changed for now beyond recognition. And this continues to change every year with technical perfection and fantastic speed. Technologies of home entertainments went a long way from radio and first black-white TVsets to the home theaters, unbelievable game-playing devices and mobile technologies.

Exhibition Home Interactive Technologies (HiT) presents the most up to date technologies of electronic amusements in material realization, allowing any person today to look into its "tomorrow".

ORGANIZER

IVC "REAL"

SECTION

Information and Entertainment Systems
game consoles
entertainment PCs
digital multimedia centers
game accessories and input systems
games, software entertainment, edutainment, infotainment

Mobile Entertainment Systems
cell phones, PDA, smartphones
laptops
DVD/ MP3/ MP4 players
digital cameras
mobile content

Electronic Entertainment Devices
gadgets
digital toys
virtual reality systems
computer modding

Audiovisual Systems
home cinema
Hi-Fi, High End Components
projection equipment
digital and satellite TV
movies and programs on DVD and CD

Telecommunication services
Internet, on-line games, multi-user web service
interactive TV
GSM, CDMA2000, Wi-Fi, bluetooth

Smart House Systems

TARGET AUDIENCE

- Owners and managers of wholesale and retail companies, acting in the sphere of audiovisual, computer, game industry and cellular communications
- Owners and managers of cinemas, restaurants, entertainment centers, clubs, training centers, casinos, business-centers, conference-halls, etc.
- Representatives of cultural, social and educational organizations
- Representatives of computer and audiovisual equipment producers and distributors
- Service centers of A/V and computer equipment
- Architectural, construct and design companies
- Installation specialists
- Game, 3D graphics and animation development specialists
- Specialists in integrated digital and engineer systems
- Technical specialists
- Mass media
- PC users
- Consumers

EXHIBITION HiT-2007

The newest developments and technologies of electronic entertainments were represented on the exhibition from such companies as: AMD, BECKHOFF, CASADA, GREEN VISION, DISPLAY GROUP/AСER, INTELVISION, INWIN, IRLINK, KINGSTON, NINTENDO, NVIDIA, ORSIO, PANASONIC, PARROT, POLYMEDIA, SAMSUNG, SMART, SONY, SVEN, TOSHIBA, ULTRA ELECTRONICS, VEGA, ALFA-MEDIA, VIKING, MEDIAHOUSE, NEW DISK, PORTABLE WORLD, TECHNOSHOK etc.

HIT exhibition combined at bottom some elements of consumer show and special event by a way of representation of whole spectrum of electronic home entertainments from the computers and audio visual techniques to the games and mobile content.

The Sony Company showed a technical implementation of a unique music, cinema and games combination. There was possible to sat down on a soft sofa comfortably in front of a home movie theater with the Blu-ray record player and certainly to play PLAYSTATION 3. On the large screens were displayed a Blu-ray version of "Madagascar" and "Casino Royal". A main "sparkle" from Sony was a premiere of the unique dancing mp3-player Rolly.
The Samsung Company displayed their last novelties: Full HD LC TV sets of M8 Noir series and plasma TV sets K.I.N.O series, Blu-ray record players, mp3-players, video and digital cameras, etc. There was a premier of the sensational and so expected at the Russian market a new mobile phone Samsung DUOS, the main feature of it is a possibility of the simultaneous using of two sim-cards of different operators.
The Toshiba Company displayed on magnificent plasma and LC TV sets commercial films about HD-DVD and the most important and exclusive in this format – HD-version of "Transformers".
The SVEN Company demonstrated the new models of the acoustic systems. Among a computer periphery a Rose Keyboard for Blondes was used with enormous popularity.
The Viking Company stand was used with a large popularity among visitors. On the interactive zone was a presentation of the unique system of untouchable image management which determines a hand position in space and a moving cause an image changes on the screen.
The Intelvision Company presented the installation of smart house with the last development – soft & hard ware complex of home automation – iHome which allows to create an unique and super actual system control of a house. The visitors could listen and estimate a uncompromising quality of Top-end solutions in reproducing of the real sound from BurcevAudio.
The Nintendo Company had a large stand in the center of the second floor and it took attention many of visitors. Every interested were able to feel themselves like a superstar of rock music in the new game Guitar Hero III: "Legends of Rocks" on playstation Nintendo Wii or take part in Wiisports competitions on tennis and box and also meet with the famous crazy rabbits of Rayman Raving Rabbids. For the first time on the exhibition in Russia was shown the genius, the most enigmatic, unforeseeable and beautiful game for Nintendo Wii - Super Mario Galaxy.
The Russian scientist Nurulla Latypov arrived at the exhibition especially from USA to represent the renewed version of Virtual Sphere – a unique device which allows a man to move in virtual space, feeling the physical load on the different groups of muscles as in a real space.

Business program included:
- CITY SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE IN ELECTRONIC EDUCATION (for educational institutions representatives – high schools, colleges, schools, educational centers)
- Business-conference NEW MEDIA FOR NORTH-WEST REGION OF RUSSIA
- Seminar VIRAL MARKETING IN INTERNET: PRACTICE OF MAKING SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGNS!
- Seminar ADVERTISING INTERNET-SITES OF SAINT-PETERSBURG
- Seminar MODERN METHODS OF E-MAIL MARKETING
- Panel discussion THE PERSPECTIVES OF ON-LINE GAMES MARKET IN RUSSIA
- Seminar-meeting: «From «intelligent» house to «intelligent» office»
- Leonid Burcev’s master-classes NEW VISION ON DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SOUND
- 2-nd Congress of computer modding experts
- Award ceremony HIT OF THE SEASON best products of the Russian market of electronic entertainments were resumed and named. The winners of 2007 in different nominations become Acer, Logitech, Nintendo, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Velton Maestro, Buka.

On the Game Zones of the HIT exhibition Yo! and Irbis computers were displayed. Last year produced games and newest developments were demonstrated there by the representatives of game development companies.
In a framework of the exhibition passed: The Final match of INTERACTIVE CUP competition among the scholars of Saint-Petersburg, Computer Festival CHAOS CONSTRUCTIONS HACKAROUND, Third annually Cybersport Tournament CUP OF THE NEVA, extreme-show – computer dispersal by means of liquid nitrogen and different IT-quizzes and competitions.

For 4 days the HIT exhibition was visited by 15670 persons.

ENQUIRIES

IVC REAL,
office 7n, 5, 9 Sovetskaya Str.,
St. Petersburg, 191036, Russia
phone/fax: +7 (812) 400-2440, +7 (812) 400-2434
e-mail: info@real-fair.ru