Volume 16, Issue 10 — May 27, 2022

rAVe Rental [and Staging] — Volume 16, Issue 10

May 27, 2022 | Volume: 16 | Issue: 10

Welcome back, #AVtweeps!

The nominations for our annual rAVe Readers’ Choice Awards are in, and we have our finalists! But your work here isn’t done; we still need you to pick the winners! You can cast your votes and secure your selections by filling out this form. Voting ends on June 1, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. EDT, and winners will be announced on the first day of InfoComm 2022 in Las Vegas!

Find out more about what to look out for on the InfoComm show floor in an article by Mark Coxon! Coxon defines the term “uncompressed” video as this term becomes more popular during trade shows. What should you know about this? Get all the information right here in his InfoComm Survival Guide!

Finally, as live music is brought back to life post-COVID, British indie rockers alt-J recently unveiled their new tour in support of their latest studio album, “The Dream.” FragmentNine, a creative collective that has been designing shows since 2014, was once again tasked with the show’s scenography. Find out more about how this collective and GLP created unique holography for the tour here!

P.S. Although ISE is over, InfoComm is just around the corner! Be sure to go to infocommshow.org and register with our code “RAVE”’ to receive a free pass to the show floor! You won’t want to miss this!

— Gianna Holiday

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+ InfoComm Survival Guide- [Un]Compressed Video [Mark Coxon]

I’ve seen press releases touting new video extension devices that deliver “uncompressed signals” at 4K and 8K resolutions. However, when you look at the specs, these claims always have sampling, frame rate and bit depth disclaimers to let you know what “flavor” of 4K and 8K they will be able to pass. Although frustrating, this is not really new. We’ve had to read the fine print to see if video extenders pass things like HDR (which requires 10-bit color) and 4:4:4 subsampling for a few years now.