AMX Builds Playhouse for Abused Kids

AMX just completed an installation inside the Fort Frontier playhouse – a western-style playhouse that raises funds for Dallas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), an organization of volunteers dedicated to helping abused and neglected children have safe, permanent homes. From reclaimed lumber to a wireless intercom system, this playhouse gives the Old West a new […]

AMX Builds Playhouse for Abused Kids

AMX Adds Two Modero Accessories

AMX today announced two new accessories, the Modero X Series Multi Preview (MXA-MP) and the Modero X Series Multi Preview Live (MXA-MPL) to help in managing HD content on the company’s touch panel line. The MXA-MP delivers preview images from as many as 10 video sources to Modero X Series Touch Panels and the MXA-MPL […]

AMX Adds Two Modero Accessories

AMX Ships 7″ and 10″ Modero Touch Panels

AMX said today that it has started shipping the 7″ and 10″ versions of the Modero Touch Panels. The new 7″ and 10″ models include HD video streaming, Bluetooth VoIP and USB external phone connections. The 10″ adds a high definition camera for video chat and conferencing (in tabletop and wall landscape models). The Modero […]

AMX Ships 7″ and 10″ Modero Touch Panels

AMX Ships DXLink Transmitters

AMX just started shipping its DXLink Multi-Format Transmitters, which send signals to theEnova DGX digital media switchers and Enova DVX presentation switchers. The transmitters add the ability to extend the reach of HDMI and analog AV sources, as well as control, Ethernet and power, carrying the signals up to 100 meters over one twisted pair cable. Both the DXLink Multi-Format Transmitter Module and wall plate designs are […]

AMX Ships DXLink Transmitters

AMX Ships NetLinx Clear Connect Gateway

AMX has finally started shipping the long-awaited NetLinx Clear Connect Gateway, part of its family of AMX Light Control by Lutron. Based on a proprietary so-called Clear Connect radio frequency (RF) technology from lighting control manufacturer Lutron, the NetLinx Clear Connect Gateway wirelessly connects NetLinx Controllers with Lutron Clear Connect, dimmers, switches, occupancy sensors, switching […]

AMX Ships NetLinx Clear Connect Gateway

AMX DXLink Boards, Transmitters and Receivers Now Shipping

AMX announced today that it’s started shipping the Enova DGX DXLink twisted pair input and output boards and DXLink HDMI transmitters and receivers. Developed for the Enova DGX digital media switchers and Enova DVX All-In-One presentation switchers, DXLink transports audio, video, control, Ethernet and power over a single twisted pair cable while scaling the output […]

AMX DXLink Boards, Transmitters and Receivers Now Shipping

AMX Launches Rapid Project Maker

Yesterday AMX announced the launch of the Rapid Project Maker (RPM), a cloud-based application that lets installers configure an AMX system online using a step-by-step wizard-based approach. With no programming required, installers can configure a conference room that includes touch panel user interface pages and system installation instructions. AMX also says an integrated conference room […]

AMX Launches Rapid Project Maker

AMX Ships New DS Software Suite

AMX has started shipping the enterprise-scale digital-signage software Inspired Composer 5.4. According to AMX, the newest Inspired Composer simplifies two key tasks for digital signage users — monitoring and managing the digital signage network and creating and managing content. The content tracking and reporting feature can retrieve message play data from one or more players […]

AMX Ships New DS Software Suite

AMX Launches Emergency Services System for K-12

AMX has launched a new emergency services system for K-12 called the AMX ResQ system for its Unified Campus Solution. AMX says the ResQ delivers a new approach to school safety by giving teachers a small, classroom-audio pendant with a built-in panic-button to address the sudden conditions of a classroom threat or other emergency. The […]

AMX Launches Emergency Services System for K-12

AMX Ships Modero X Panels

AMX is finally shipping the Modero X Series Touch Panels introduced at InfoComm 2011. The frameless, panoramic and widescreen touch panels with a low-profile design allow for control, Apps and video all on one screen since they are 2:1 aspect ratio or higher. The Modero X Series touch panels integrate a high definition camera in […]

AMX Ships Modero X Panels

AMX Launches New All-In-One Switcher

AMX yesterday announced new configurations of its Enova DVX-3150HD All-In-One Presentation Switcher. The smaller, 6×3 models are the Enova DVX-2150HD-SP, Enova DVX-2150HD-T, Enova DVX-2155HD- SP and Enova DVX-2155HD-T. The new configurations of the original 3150HD-SP, a 10×4 unit, are the Enova DVX-3150HD-T, Enova DVX-3155HD-SP and Enova DVX-3155HD-T. Of the new configurations, the “215x” models have […]

AMX Launches New All-In-One Switcher

AMX Ships Control System for Cisco Phones

AMX announced today that its new NXV-CPI (Control Phone Interface) that enables AMX control capabilities through two popular Cisco IP Phones is already shipping. Launched earlier this summer, the NXV-CPI, when paired with a NetLinx Controller, allows Cisco phone users to gain a basic level of control via its built-in touch screen, hard buttons, soft […]

AMX Ships Control System for Cisco Phones

AMX Introduces Enova

At InfoComm, AMX introduced Enova, a system that converts analog and digital video and control. Conceptually similar to both Crestron’s DigitalMedia (introduced at last year’s InfoComm) and Extron’s new XTP system, Enova combines all the components necessary to control and automate an environment, including multi-format inputs, video switching, transcoding and scaling, local and remote distribution, plus […]

AMX Introduces Enova

A Review of ISE

Sure, 80 percent of the attendees of this year’s ISE show in Amsterdam are European, but, it’s the sheer numbers of them that astounded me — and many others here at Integrated Systems Europe in February 2011. Literally almost 35,000 attendees scanned their badges as they walked into the 10 massive halls of AV exhibits […]

A Review of ISE

2010 rAVe Best of InfoComm Awards: Best New Digital Signage Product

The AMX IS XPress. This is a totally solid-state (no spinning hard drive) LINUX-based media player for digital signage apps.

2010 rAVe Best of InfoComm Awards: Best New Digital Signage Product

AMX Adds Two More DVI Ports to Enova

At InfoComm, AMX announced that their Enova DVX-2100HD now includes two independent DVI-I digital video outputs for simultaneous delivery of digital video to two displays. All of the other ports and features are the same. AMX says the DVX-2100HD Enova Total Environment Controller is a room controller that also includes, multi-format input switching, transcoding and […]

AMX Adds Two More DVI Ports to Enova

AMX’s New Digital Signage Solution

Earlier this month at InfoComm, AMX debuted a LINUX-based digital signage player called the  IS-SPX-1000 that’s small enough to mount anywhere (1”x6”x3”). It manages originally created content, RSS feeds, all sorts of graphics file formats, MPEG or H.264 video and outputs it all on either VGA or HDMI ports. If you want all the specs, […]

AMX’s New Digital Signage Solution

AMX to Expand Distribution of Inspired XPress Line through Almo Professional A/V

Comment from Gary Kayye: This is a MAJOR shift in AMX’s strategy.  We WILL see Crestron follow this with another distributor SOON – remember I said that! AMX®, the leading provider of solutions that simplify the implementation, maintenance, and use of technology to create effective environments, today announced plans to expand distribution through an agreement with […]

Both AMX and Crestron Announce iPad Apps to Turn iPad Into Touch Screen HomeAV Interface

Both AMX and Crestron Announce iPad Apps to Turn iPad Into Touch Screen HomeAV Interface The death of the overpriced, over-bloated touch panels is near – the iPad is well on its way to replacing that (along with a few other inexpensive top-secret touch screen options coming this summer).  In recent weeks, both AMX and […]

Both AMX and Crestron Announce iPad Apps to Turn iPad Into Touch Screen HomeAV Interface

AMX Launches New Digital Signage Player at ISE

Dubbed the IS-SPX-1000, AMX’s new digital signage player is a flash-based server with an embedded web server (metric collection capable) with HDMI and VGA outputs (generating only 2 watts of power).  Supporting every imaginable file format including JPG, MPG, H.264 and WMV files, the SPX-1000 has two simultaneous computer-video outputs and support both embedded and […]

AMX Launches New Digital Signage Player at ISE

Touch Panel Control Launches iPhone App for AMX Control Systems

Touch Panel Control, a mobile software development company based in the UK, has officially launched TPControl, an iPhone application for all AMX control systems. The product will be available January 2010 for download from the Apple App Store. We’re impressed with this 3rd party App as it’s extremely easy-to-use and does seamlessly integrate with AMX […]

Touch Panel Control Launches iPhone App for AMX Control Systems

A Personal Note to Total Marketing’s CEO, Ron DeVoe, Upon His Retirement

By Gary Kayye, CTS First things, first: Thanks, Ron!  Thanks for all the ways you supported me and your dealers!!! In the ProAV market, I am perceived as a manufacturer’s rep-hater.  Interestingly enough, this couldn’t be farther from the truth.  I am, in fact, a manufacturer’s rep supporter – at least of the good ones! […]

A Personal Note to Total Marketing’s CEO, Ron DeVoe, Upon His Retirement

RFID Arrives Thanks to AMX

I knew it was coming, but this was faster than I thought. Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, is increasingly being used in all sorts of manufacturing and retail facilities – anywhere a lot of products reside, and now it’s available for ProAV. We keep looking for the next killer app to shake up our market. […]

HD Conferencing COULD be the AV/IT Conduit

By Gary Kayye, CTS When I saw the Cisco’s version of HD videoconferencing, called Cisco TelePresence, I was extremely impressed, as I have been with all the HD-based VTC systems.  But, when I started to ask a question of Cisco, I was stopped mid-sentence and told this was, “not videoconferencing; that’s a bad word with […]

AMX Introduces New Camera Control, Matrix Switching Products at NAB

At NAB, AMX showed a new camera control with an unusual widescreen video preview. The NXP-PLV Modero PosiTrack Pilot Camera Controller adds Ethernet connectivity and a 7-inch Modero Widescreen Touch Panel, making it suited for live or recorded broadcast events. AMX points to religious services, local, state and federal government proceedings, classroom lectures and video […]

New Chairman for AMX

AMX announced that Robert Fealy has been named non-executive chairman of its board of directors. Fealy replaces Craig Duchossois, who remains a member of the AMX Board. This move follows the company’s three acquisitions last year. In addition to his new role with AMX, Fealy is executive vice president of Duchossois Industries, Inc. and managing […]

ISE: AMX Offers Product Line Expansions

AMX announced several new products at ISE, expanding existing product lines. The 10-inch Modero touch Panel now has VoIP technology, which includes panel-to-panel communication, and the panel now has enhanced touch sensitivity. Also new is the Endeleo UDM-0102 Multi-Format Distribution Hub. This is a smaller-scale solution in the Endeleo Distributed Media product line. The UDM-0102 […]

AMX Acquires Matrix Audio Designs

AMX enters the multi-room distributed audio distribution market with the company’s acquisition last week of Matrix Audio Designs. The Matrix Audio Controller line includes two product families – the Delta Series and the Mi Series. The Delta Series is billed as an affordable, multi-zone audio distribution system that can control and distribute audio from as […]

AMX Adds Signal Switching and Routing With AutoPatch Acquisition

This squarely pits AMX against Extron.  AutoPatch, second only to Extron in the matrix routing and switching market, now has the resources of a GIANT behind it in AMX!   This is a BIG deal!  Congratulations to AMX on a great, strategic move. But, is this is a bigger deal for Crestron than for Extron?  Crestron […]

AMX Acquires UK-based Media Distribution Company

AMX announced the company’s acquisition of Eneleo, a UK-based company specializing in TV and multi-format media distribution technologies. The company’s managed television and multi-format media distribution systems allow organizations in a variety of vertical markets, such as business, education, government, retail and entertainment, to simultaneously deliver broadcast and video content to multiple display devices throughout […]