ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND PROGRAMS FOR EXTENDING ACTIVATION CAPABILITIES OF CONTROLLERS, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF SEVERAL CONTROL OPTIONS TO A CONTROL SYSTEM VIA ADDITIONAL INPUT PORTS AND RELAYS FOR CONTROLLING MECHANICAL, AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO SYSTEMS; APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND PROGRAMS FOR VIEWING, RECORDING, TRANSMISSION, PROCESSING AND REPRODUCTION OF DIGITAL OR ANALOG SOUND OR IMAGES, NAMELY, VIDEO-AUDIO SIGNAL DISTRIBUTORS, VIDEO-AUDIO SIGNAL SWITCHERS AND MATRIX SWITCHERS, VIDEO-AUDIO ENHANCERS, COLOR PROCESSORS, RF PROCESSORS, SPECIAL EFFECTS GENERATORS, VIDEO ENCODERS AND DECODERS, ELECTRONIC VIDEO SIGNAL SCALERS AND SCAN CONVERTERS, VIDEO STANDARD CONVERTERS, VIDEO TIME BASE CORRECTORS, COMPUTER GENLOCK EQUIPMENT, NAMELY, GENLOCK MESSAGE GENERATORS, GENLOCK SYSTEMS FOR GRAPHICS AND TEXT OVERLAY, COMPUTER-CONTROLLED VIDEO EQUIPMENTS, NAMELY, VIDEO MATRIX AND PROCESSING CONTROL PANELS, COMPUTER INTERFACE PRODUCTS, NAMELY, TTL (TRANSISTOR-TRANSISTOR LOGIC) ANALOGUE ENCODERS, TTL (TRANSISTOR-TRANSISTOR LOGIC) TO ANALOGUE CONVERTERS, TTL (TRANSISTOR-TRANSISTOR LOGIC) GENLOCK ENCODER CARDS, ROOM CONTROL DEVICES, NAMELY, REMOTE CONTROLS FOR TV'S, DVD'S, VCR'S, VIDEO AND DATA PROJECTORS, ELECTRONICALLY-CONTROLLED OPENABLE AND CLOSEABLE CURTAINS, RETRACTABLE MOVIE SCREENS, WALL PLATES AND TABLE BUSSES WITH INFRA-RED, ETHERNET, WIRELESS NETWORK AND RS-232 CONTROLLING DEVICES, AUDIO SIGNAL DEFECT CORRECTORS, VIDEO LINE AMPLIFIERS, TWISTED PAIR SIGNAL TRANSMITTERS AND RECEIVERS, VIDEO SCREEN SPLITTERS AND VIDEO TIME BASE SIGNAL DELAY CORRECTORS, BLANK MAGNETIC DATA CARRIERS; BLANK RECORDING DISCS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND PROGRAMS FOR USE WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED PRODUCTS