Extron Ships TLS 525M 5″ Scheduling and Room Booking Panel

Extron is shipping its TLS 525M 5″ wall mount TouchLink scheduling panel. This stand-alone room scheduling panel connects directly to a variety of calendar services and requires no additional scheduling software or external processors. It uses a 800×480 capacitive edge-to-edge Gorilla Glass touchscreen that is scratch and smudge-resistant. The TLS 525M also features PoE (Power […]

Extron Ships TLS 525M 5″ Scheduling and Room Booking Panel

B-Tech Debuts Pop-Out Mounts for Smaller Screens

B-Tech AV Mounts has launched two new flat-screen wall mounts specifically designed to allow recessed and video wall installs of small and medium sized displays. Featuring B-Tech’s pop-out technology, the BT8308 and BT8309 mounts cater for screens up to 42-inches and 25 kilograms, with VESA fittings from 75×75 up to 200×200. The first range of […]

B-Tech Debuts Pop-Out Mounts for Smaller Screens

Comprehensive Intros CHE-HDBTWP240K – HDBaseT 4K 18G WallPlate Extender Kit

Comprehensive Connectivity Company just launched its new CHE-HDBTWP240K — HDBaseT 4K 18G WallPlate Extender Kit up to 230 feet. The CHE-HDBTWP240K supports HDMI, USB 2.0 and VGA with audio inputs within a standard two-gang U.S. Decora wall box and can transmit HDMI signal over Cat6/6a/7 to a distance up to 131 feet for 4K2K@60Hz (4:4:4) […]

Comprehensive Intros CHE-HDBTWP240K – HDBaseT 4K 18G WallPlate Extender Kit

Optoma Adds Flat Panel Displays to Lineup

Optoma today launched its Creative Touch series of interactive flat panel displays (IFPDs) available in 65”, 75” and 86” formats. They start at $3,499. The Optoma Creative Touch IFPDs are basically native 4K (3840×2160) resolution, collaboration boards using LCD technology with up to 20-point multi-touch capabilities and a blue light filter (to reduce eye strain) and are aimed at classrooms, […]

Optoma Adds Flat Panel Displays to Lineup

Zoom Adds More Digital Signage Features Including Video, Scheduling and a Room Signage Mode

Zoom added the ability to turn ANY display or computer with Zoom natively installed into a digital signage display about a year ago. Now, they’ve added scheduling and video-content playback capability at no added cost. Zoom Rooms Digital Signage allows organizations to share content on displays both in Zoom Rooms and in open areas like […]

Zoom Adds More Digital Signage Features Including Video, Scheduling and a Room Signage Mode

Windows Collaboration Displays by Avocor Debut

Avocor today introduced the first Windows collaboration displays featuring touchscreen, Windows 10 and Microsoft 365. The first Windows collaboration displays by Avocor will ship in December of 2018. Avocor says they worked with Microsoft to create a single-cable solution that connects a Windows PC to the display. It allows for immediate control of the camera […]

Windows Collaboration Displays by Avocor Debut

Roland Pro AV Intros VP-42H Video Processor With Up to Four HDMI Inputs

Roland Professional A/V today announced the VP-42H Video Processor — supporting simultaneous output of up to four layered source signals from four HDMI inputs. It features their so-called Motion Scene Switching for smoother transitions between screen setups, remote switching via browser-based network control, audio management including de-embedding and embedding and a keyer function for overlays […]

Roland Pro AV Intros VP-42H Video Processor With Up to Four HDMI Inputs

Leyard and Planar Announce Video Wallapalooza Event Series

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST FROM LEYARD PLANAR Leyard and Planar plan to visit 11 U.S. locations with its third annual Video Wallapalooza event series during the fall 2018 season. The road show plans to bring the latest in ultra-fine pitch and standard pitch LED video wall technology from Leyard. Planar LCD video walls, 4K […]

Leyard and Planar Announce Video Wallapalooza Event Series

Christie Launches Multi-Touch 86-inch 4K UHD LCD Display

Christie has announced the official launch of the Christie UHD861-LT, an 86-inch UHD LCD panel with an integrated touch screen. The panel is part of Christie’s Access Series family of displays, which are available in 55-, 65-, 75- and 86-inch sizes. The new display is Crestron Connected and features integrated touch. It’s designed for 16/7 […]

Christie Launches Multi-Touch 86-inch 4K UHD LCD Display

AVaaS: It Just Does Not Make Sense

Next month, I have the opportunity to be part of an amazing panel at CCUMC on AVaaS. Being part of this panel has made me think more about the service and do some research on it. I don’t want to spoil the entire panel here, after all, I know that we will have a huge […]

AVaaS: It Just Does Not Make Sense

Hardware as a Service – AV Is About Services and Not Things

No industry is immune to change, and this is even more true for technology-based economies whose life cycles can be measured in time spans as short as three months. If you’ve worked in the audiovisual (AV) industry in the past decade, you’ve witnessed a hardware-centric community transform itself into one driven by software and innovation. […]

Hardware as a Service – AV Is About Services and Not Things

After a Year of Showing It, Sharp Makes 8K Monitor Launch Official – And Is Already Shipping It

The new 70″ 8M-B70AU 8K LCD monitor is now available from Sharp using a native 7680×4320 resolution display, that’s technically 16 times higher than 1080p full HD — 33 million pixels. Specified at a 3000:1 contrast ratio, 400 cd/m2 brightness and integrated HDR, the 8M-B70AU converts any inkling signal to 8K resolution and has full […]

After a Year of Showing It, Sharp Makes 8K Monitor Launch Official – And Is Already Shipping It

DVIGear Adds DVI AOC to HyperLight Cable Series

DVIGear has introduced DVI cables to its HyperLight Series – a new generation of Active Optical Cables (AOC). These cables support the extension of DVI 1.0 signals and, with an optional adapter cable, HDMI. They are fully HDCP 1.4 compliant and support signals with aggregate data rates up to 4.95 Gbps. These features enable HyperLight […]

DVIGear Adds DVI AOC to HyperLight Cable Series

NEC Display Adds New Indoor and Outdoor LEDs in F- and Q- Series dvLED

NEC Display Solutions of America today announced the launch of its new F-Series indoor fine pitch direct view LED (dvLED) and Q-Series indoor and outdoor dvLED panels that offer customers a complete video wall solution. The F- and Q-Series mark the first NEC Display dvLED products to be launched from the company’s acquisition of S[quadrat] […]

NEC Display Adds New Indoor and Outdoor LEDs in F- and Q- Series dvLED

Global ProAV Industry to Grow to $230 Billion by 2023, According to New Forecasts by AVIXA

The professional audiovisual industry will grow from $186 billion in 2018 to $230 billion by 2023, according to updated forecasts in the new 2018 AV Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis (IOTA) Global Summary produced by AVIXA, the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association.This report examines the forces driving growth, from macroeconomic factors to technology trends to […]

Global ProAV Industry to Grow to $230 Billion by 2023, According to New Forecasts by AVIXA

DPAA Announces Preliminary Speaker List for 2018 Video Everywhere Summit

DPAA today unveiled a preliminary list of speakers for its annual Video Everywhere Summit, to be held at the iconic Roosevelt Hotel in New York on Tuesday, October 30 as part of Digital Signage Week (Oct. 29-Nov. 2). The event will bring together more than 900 delegates representing brands, agencies, digital out-of-home (DOOH) networks, ad […]

DPAA Announces Preliminary Speaker List for 2018 Video Everywhere Summit

We’re Back from Integrate with Over 400 Product Videos

In addition to shooting over 400 product videos, we also captured 500 or so photos from the show floor at Integrate 2018. We’ve wrapped it all together via our rAVe NOW coverage and put it here. So, why do we cover a regional show in Australia? Well, Integrate isn’t your average regionally show; some big-time […]

We’re Back from Integrate with Over 400 Product Videos

No Freebies

Unless your media consumption habit is restricted to non-ad supported content, you will probably find the following experiment somewhat intriguing, if not downright disturbing. The next time you want to kill an hour doing non-work (and don’t we all sometimes), turn on any commercial broadcast channel, preferably either in the afternoon or late night and […]

No Freebies

Speechless

Those of you who know me know that I loathe most social media, especially Twitter. I feel that Twitter has done significant damage to our language, to the point that I now get email without punctuation or complete sentences. Our universities seem to have eliminated the essay in favor of the Tweet. I actually heard […]

Speechless

SYNNEX Continues to Invest in Google Ecosystem to Offer Cloud Services for Recurring Revenue

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST FROM SYNNEX   Everyone in nearly every industry is talking about the cloud. And, you likely already use it — whether you realize it or not. If you have your smartphone backing up your photos online, that’s the cloud. If you collaborate on documents with others, that’s the cloud. If […]

SYNNEX Continues to Invest in Google Ecosystem to Offer Cloud Services for Recurring Revenue

HighStreet Collective Launches Retail Innovation Report Series

Retail group HighStreet Collective launched its first quarterly report that measures the top 12 technologies used in brick and mortar retail. This is not your run-of-the-mill, tech-speak-for-fellow-techies report, however. The 19-page report, to be published quarterly, was designed to help guide retailers and brands in the right direction by showing living retail examples (good and […]

HighStreet Collective Launches Retail Innovation Report Series

Almo ProAV E4 AV Tour To Stop in Boston

Almo ProAV, and its education partner AVIXA, the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association, are preparing for the fall leg of the E4 AV Tour, which is coming to the Boston Newton Marriott on September 21. Almo will also host an extended E4 event in Nashville later this fall. The Almo Professional A/V E4 tour offers […]

Almo ProAV E4 AV Tour To Stop in Boston

We’re LIVE at Integrate 2018 In Sydney – New ProAV and Home AV Gear is Debuting Here

Integrate turned 10 yesterday when the halls opened at the new International Convention Centre Sydney in Darling Harbour. We have four reporters here covering the show both through extensive social media coverage (see @rAVePubs on Instagram and Twitter) as well as via a dedicated show microsite. In fact, we’ve already shot and posted over 150 […]

We’re LIVE at Integrate 2018 In Sydney – New ProAV and Home AV Gear is Debuting Here

BrightSign Joins PSNI Global Alliance

BrightSign today announced it has been approved as a Global Preferred Vendor Partner with PSNI Global Alliance. BrightSign is the latest company to join PSNI’s roster of the AV industry’s premier integrators (affiliates) and technology providers (vendors). PSNI’s Preferred Vendor Program (PVP) connects vendors with affiliates to jointly pursue market opportunities by enabling vendors to […]

BrightSign Joins PSNI Global Alliance

Peerless-AV Announces New Smart City Kiosk for All-Weather Applications

Peerless-AV just announced its Smart City Kiosk (KOP2549-XHB, KOP2555-XHB). The Smart City Kiosk is designed to be an all-weather-rated solution for sharing community information, travel and weather details, as well as wayfinding, advertising and entertainment. The Smart City Kiosk includes an Xtreme High Bright Outdoor Display (in 49″, 55″ or 65″) and an optional 10-point […]

Peerless-AV Announces New Smart City Kiosk for All-Weather Applications

ATEN Debuts New Four-Port USB KM Switch

ATEN Technology today announced its four-port USB Boundless KM Switch (CS724KM) that the company says requires no user intervention to switch USB signals from computer to computer as users simply move the mouse from screen to screen. Users can control up to four computers with a single keyboard and mouse or daisy-chain two switches, enabling control of up to eight computers […]

ATEN Debuts New Four-Port USB KM Switch

Vivitek Adds UCC Features to NovoTouch Displays

Vivitek has announced that it will release a free upgrade for its NovoTouch Collaborative touch panels. Available now for users of the NovoTouch 4K-UHD touch screens, the update adds a host of collaboration features for UCC applications including full BYOD support and connectivity. The new firmware upgrade brings added functionality to Vivitek’s popular NovoTouch, including: Remote meetings […]

Vivitek Adds UCC Features to NovoTouch Displays

Comprehensive Introduces New CHE-HDF18G01 Fiber Extender for Sending Signals Up to 3,300 Feet

Comprehensive Connectivity Company has launched its new CHE-HDF18G, an HDMI 18G Fiber Extender TX/RX Kit for sending signals up to 3300 feet. Supporting resolutions up to 4K60 (4:2:0) using HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2, this extender is designed to convert a full HDMI signal to a fiber signal, which can be transmitted over 3,300 feet […]

Comprehensive Introduces New CHE-HDF18G01 Fiber Extender for Sending Signals Up to 3,300 Feet

Carousel Digital Signage Adds Support for BrightSign 4K Media Players

Carousel Digital Signage has announced the immediate availability of its new 7.4 software release for enterprise-class digital signage. The new release adds support for BrightSign’s complete range of 4K media players.. Carousel and BrightSign have partnered on digital signage network deployments for several years. The previous release (7.3) was designed to reduce the amount of […]

Carousel Digital Signage Adds Support for BrightSign 4K Media Players

Extron Expands Pendant Speaker Line with New Larger Two-Way Model

Extron has introduced the Extron SF 26PT, a two-way pendant loudspeaker for high performance program or music playback in high-ceiling and open-ceiling applications. The SF 26PT is available in black or white, but is also paintable to fit in with any décor. The included Extron-exclusive PendantConnect speaker cable combines the speaker wires and steel support […]

Extron Expands Pendant Speaker Line with New Larger Two-Way Model

New Moverio BT-35E HDMI and USB-C Smart Glasses Use Si-OLED Wearable Display Technology

Designed for use with existing hardware devices, Epson today launched the new Moverio BT-35E AR (augmented reality) Smart Glasses. Featuring an interface unit with HDMI and USB Type-C ports, Moverio now functions as a wearable display for any standard HDMI (HDMI1.4) output device, as well as any USB Type-C output device supporting DisplayPort Alt Mode, […]

New Moverio BT-35E HDMI and USB-C Smart Glasses Use Si-OLED Wearable Display Technology

Mexico’s Postermedia Joins DPAA

DPAA announced today that Mexico-based Postermedia has joined its membership ranks. Postermedia is a digital out-of-home company with screens on public roads and street furniture in more than 12 cities across Mexico. The company also installed the first wireless hotspots on buses in the country, and amplifies campaigns with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3D volumetric, augmented reality, […]

Mexico’s Postermedia Joins DPAA