Visix will exhibit in booth 4142 at InfoComm 2013 and show a wide variety of digital signage solutions for AV integrators. “This year, we’re highlighting the effectiveness of the technology instead of just the components,” says Sean Matthews, president of Visix. “By focusing on the desired result of using digital signage, instead of just the […]

NEW YORK CITY – (June 4, 2013) – At the Marina at Pier 57, Christie® M-Series HD projectors are helping visitors “travel” through New York City by creating a multi-sensory experience for The Interactive New York (T.I.N.Y) exhibition, an interactive multimedia art installation by video artist Garson Yu. The exhibit is inspired by New York […]

Dante delivers something every audio professional needs: a no hassle, self configuring, true plug‐and‐play digital audio network that uses standard Internet Protocols over both 100Mbps and 1 Gigabit Ethernet. Patent pending Dante technology distributes digital audio plus integrated control data with imperceptible latency, sample accurate playback synchronization, extreme reliability and high channel counts. In today’s […]

Panasonic will launch a a new line of high definition LED LCDs for hospitality and digital signage, the LRU60 Series. Available in 32”, 39”, 42”, 50” and 65”, Panasonic’s new LED line will be aimed at the hospitality, digital signage and meeting room markets. Panasonic designed the Energy Star-rated LRU60 Series with functions that reduce […]

Parasound has expanded its Z-Custom line of half-rack-width components with the introduction of the Zamp Quattro, a four-channel/two-zone power amplifier. The Zamp Quattro is a Class D amplifier for custom integrators (CI) that Parasound says use Swedish high-grade parts. With additional output filtering the result is a great sounding amp that produces very little heat, […]

RP Visual Solutions’ InfoComm booth will be impressive — all applications-based. We especially love the GIANT Randy Pagnan image planned for their booth (see pic). Other features include: A free-standing, double-sided LED array featuring multiple service positions—an RPV first A flex mount holding an interactive, touch-enabled 2×2 NEC flat panel display A rear-projection tabletop enclosure […]

Visix’s newest room sign, called RoomBoard, is a touchscreen wayfinding solution that shows room availability, allows scheduling at the screen and integrates with MeetingMinder conference room signs – and it’s on rAVe’s InfoComm Top 10 Tour! The RoomBoard is custom-built with the client’s logo, colors and map. Maps are interactive and room availability is instantly […]

By Steven J. Thorburn, PE, CTS-D, CTS-I Thorburn Associates Our smart phones and tablet PCs have brought video chat to the masses. So why can’t we use it for business calls? You can – we have. While still not the quality of a good purpose-built system, desktop conferencing is very close as a feasible alternative […]

By Snorre Kjesbu Over the past decade, I’ve worked on a number of different projects aimed at improving communications using video conferencing and telepresence. In that time, I’ve been fortunate to be involved with key innovations at first Tandberg then Cisco that have had great impact on video collaboration: Forging life-like experience with immersive telepresence […]

Renewed Vision has debuted at InfoComm something called the ProVideoServer (PVS) — a four-channel HD video server with synchronization. Eight years ago, Renewed Vision introduced ProVideoSync, a dual-channel media server for synchronized playback of two channels of what they call “broadcast-quality” video with select video codecs. Since that time, codecs like H.264 that were originally […]

Building on the success of Visix’s APPOINT PowerPoint scheduling software for digital signage, the company has launched a niche version of the product – APPOINTwmv. APPOINTwmv is tailored to clients who already have digital signage software that either isn’t easy to use, or who prefer to create content in PowerPoint. It allows users to publish […]

San Francisco Business Times has named Helen Meyer, co-founder and executive vice president of Meyer Sound, to be one of this year’s Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business. An annual special edition of the respected business journal honors women leaders who have risen to the highest positions in corporations, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies. […]

MultiTouch has announced a partnership with Ventuz Technology to create interactive display solutions on MultiTouch’s MultiTaction platform. Ventuz’s 3D real-time graphics content creation, authoring and playout control software is designed for high-end use in any area of audio visual content production. Ventuz’s customers include a large number of top-tier clients, such as Microsoft, Porsche and […]

The Forrester Wave: Room-Based Videoconferencing, Q3 2012 report addresses the growing interest in face-to-face video collaboration, which is helping businesses increase productivity, improve employee engagement and trust and lower costs. This report uses 39 criteria to evaluate the top vendors in the industry, assessing video collaboration solutions for every work environment — from mobile and […]

The annual DSE Apex Awards honor innovation as demonstrated in the deployment of technology in the global digital signage, interactive technology and digital out-of-home industies. All nominated content will be judged on the following criteria: Challenge Solution Result To learn more or submit an entry, download the DSE 2014 APEX Award nomination form. Finalists in […]

Barco and Almo Pro A/V have jointly announced that Almo is going to distribute Barco’s ClickShare product. Almo will have an authorized dealer program for those  interested in selling and integrating projects with the ClickShare product.  Dealers can click here to become an authorized Almo dealer. What’s ClickShare? Well, basically it’s a wireless content sharing […]

The Projection Summit will feature the future of projection solutions – solid state illumination. This will take the form of LED sources, laser sources and hybrid light sources. All will be discussed and demonstrated next week at the Projection Summit, which takes place June 10-11 in Orlando, Fla., just before the start of InfoComm. Companies […]

GLENDALE, Calif. — June 4, 2013 — Riedel Communications, provider of pioneering real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks, today announced that Alford Media Services, supplier of event technology support to corporate clients across the United States, has upgraded and expanded its portfolio of Riedel equipment. With this investment, Alford has increased both its capacity […]

Colorado Springs, CO, June 4, 2013 – Westone, the leader in high performance audio and in-ear monitoring technology, announces the availability of the Adventure Series (ADV) Alpha earphones. The Adventure Series Alpha is the culmination of Westone’s two decades of experience with audio and in-ear musicians’ monitors. Designed for the active user, Adventure Series creates a […]

Although SMART Technologies won’t be at InfoComm, Clary Icon will, and it will be showing the OneScreen Series, which is is pitching as a complete voice, video and data collaboration solution. Basically, it’s an interactive touch screen that can initiate a video, audio or web conference, running Windows 7 at its core. So, what does […]

Altinex has just started to ship its Muse HDMI+Power+IR Transmitter and Receiver, which sends HDMI, RS232 and IR control signals up to 300 feet (90 m) over a single shielded or unshielded Cat6 cable. Consisting of the MU400-111 transmitter and the MU500-112 receiver, the set can transmit up to 150 watts of power (and can […]

Grund Audio Design introduced at InfoComm the new ACX Series loudspeaker product line that’s being pitched as a low-cost sound reinforcement line for the 200 – 400 seat house of worship, smaller meeting rooms and similar spaces. The new Grund Audio Design ACX Series encompasses five models. All utilize MDF enclosures and operate at 150 […]

Billerica, Massachusetts – June 4, 2013 – Broadcast Pix™ today announced its new Version 3.5 software, which brings the cloud-based file and data access of its award-winning Flint™ integrated production system to its Mica™ and Granite™ systems. The software upgrade connects any system to Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, or any cloud-based resource for access […]

Kirsten Nelson, editor of Systems Contractor News and Healthcare AV, will be honored this year by the Women in AV (WAVE) at the NSCA/Women in AV Reception, on Wed., June 12. “Nelson has combined her passion for writing with her affinity for technology by working as the editor of Systems Contractor News (SCN) and Healthcare […]

Magenta Research will launch two new HDMI extenders at InfoComm that it claims can send HDMI 500 feet (152 meters) over a single Cat6 cable. The HD-One DX 500 supports the extension of 1920×1200 and 1080p HDMI video plus embedded audio, while the HD-One LX 500 adds support for two-way RS232 and IR signals (36.7, […]

IRVINE, Calif., June 4, 2013 —AVI-SPL, the world’s video communications partner, has named Mitsubishi Electric Visual Solutions America, Inc. as a Platinum Preferred Partner, within AVI-SPL’s Preferred Supplier Program. Mitsubishi is the first Platinum Partner named in the displays category, and the only to win that designation for all three of its product lines: projectors, […]

Huntsville, Alabama – June 4, 2013 – PESA, a leading U.S.-based custom design and manufacturing company for professional audio and video signal distribution, will showcase its Series-C DRS small-scale companion audio router systems at InfoComm 2013 (Booth 2958), which runs June 12-14 in Orlando, Fla. Based on PESA’s established DRS distributed audio signal processing technology, […]

Required disclaimer: This represents the opinion and experience of me personally and does not represent any specific policy, law or official guidance. We’ve all been there during an installation when your customer on the project says, “Hey, let’s add a drop here!”   It doesn’t matter if your project was a design/build or some reiteration […]

WOODBURY, NEW YORK, June 4, 2013 – Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, a leading provider of affordable, high performance cameras, today announced that MetroEast Community Media and Portland Community Media—two non-profit public access media centers serving Portland, OR—each installed eight Hitachi Z-HD5000HDTV studio/field production cameras. Brad Fisher at Diversified Systems, a national systems integration firm with an […]

TV One’s new CORIOmaster mini fits up to 12 DVI or HDBaseT ports within a only 1 RU frame, therefore allowing for a 3×3 video wall while eliminating a rack’s worth of discrete video components. And, according to TVOne, video transfers between the CORIO video layer(s) and video I/O processors occur at an industry-leading 4 […]

PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has posted its most recent Projector Tracking Service results to the “Top-Selling Projectors” area of its website. For more than 15 years now, PMA Research has collected monthly sell-through data from leading North American projector dealers, retailers, web resellers and distributors. Its Tracking Service family […]

ALLEROED, DENMARK, JUNE 4, 2013 – In a move that will significantly strengthen its market position, DPA Microphones has appointed Niels Jørgen Øhrgaard as its new Executive Vice President of Sales. Øhrgaard joins DPA Microphones from Reson, where he was Executive VP of Global Sales and Marketing. He has also held similar positions at other […]