The Daytime Emmys will announce a new award for video aired on computers, cellphones and video iPods. The New York Times reports:

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, best known for handing out the Daytime Emmy Awards, is expected to announce on Tuesday that it has created an award category to recognize original video content for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices, like the video iPod and PlayStation Portable.

The new award will first be presented during the academy’s Sports Emmys presentation, and ultimately be added as a category for other Emmy presentations as well. The category will not be included in the prime-time Emmy Awards.

Why might I find this interesting? It’s great to see a professional orginazation keeping up with technology, and realizing that new technology leads to new art forms that are equally worthy of award. The Broadway Theatre League still doesn’t recognize sound design as a design element, and thereby sound is not worthy of award. That would be to progressive….

Today Meyer Sound announced the acquisition of LCS (Level Control Systems).

Although the screen shots of the yet to be released, Galileo 616 loudspeaker processor on the Meyer web site do look like the CueStation interface, it was little known that LCS was collaborating with Meyer on this project. It will be interesting to see how Meyer leverages LCS’s technology in the future. I think LCS does have a leg up on some of the competition, with it’s cross platform, client-server topology. If Meyer can use it’s marketing power to promote and educate people about LCS, they could make quite a wave in the industry. Alternatively, perhaps Meyer plans on using the software and hardware LCS has developed to take their speaker lines in a new direction.

I guess we’ll have to wait and see….

Meyer Press Release – Meyer Acquires LCS