By Lauren Simmen, Director of Product Marketing, Crestron The term’s been everywhere lately: BYOD, the acronym meaning Bring Your Own Device. From the preponderance of smartphone business apps to the need for laptops and tablets to travel with their users (especially in hybrid work situations), the demand for BYOD solutions has never been greater. The […]

By Rob Voorhees Exertis Almo Way back in 1999, while working in consumer electronics retail, I caught the competition bug with my co-workers. It began innocently enough — making sure I was always on time for my shift, stayed slightly later to help unload a truck, made sure my sales were always at the top, […]

By Sean Wargo, Vice President of Market Intelligence, AVIXA The pandemic will forever be a dividing line for the corporate office market. Remote and hybrid work were never talked about more than in the last three years. Now that we’ve emerged from the pandemic, what will the future corporate workspace look like? It makes sense […]

By Rob Voorhees Exertis Almo Let us rewind the clock to early 2019. I was in a discussion with a customer who asked me what the top verticals were in regards to bandwidth needs. I had received this very common question countless times, so I answered in the same manner: “Hospitality, bar and restaurant, education, […]

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST By Jean-Pierre Simard Chief Marketing Officer, INOGENI INOGENI is excited to unveil the latest addition to our line of video mixers and switchers: the CAM230! This compact and well-designed multi-camera switcher is perfect for classrooms and collaborative meetings. Building on the success of our award-winning SHARE2U mixer for two cameras […]

By Sophie Gustafson Exertis Almo In a recent webinar, “UCC Gets Personal,” rAVe’s Gary Kayye and special guest, Dana Corey, discuss the ever-changing trends and future of unified communication and collaboration. With the effects of the pandemic producing permanent change for corporate and educational spaces, Kayye and Corey take a close look at the technological […]

By ISE Team The world’s leading AV and systems integration exhibition is back for another unmissable event: ISE 2023, 31 January – 3 February 2023, Barcelona Integrated Systems Europe (ISE 2023) promises to deliver a vibrant edition, showcasing a wealth of new technology and providing plenty of opportunity to connect with leaders and innovators throughout […]

By Olivia Lowden and James Duvall Futuresource Consulting Despite the obvious challenges of recent years – the snowstorm of prolonged lockdowns, social restrictions, and the cautious attitudes that followed – 2022 represented the beginning of a post-pandemic outlook for much of the video industry. One of the cornerstones of the video entertainment industry’s recovery has […]

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST Ross Video has launched the new, game-changing version of its award-winning Ultrix Router – the 12G ready Ultrix FR12. This ingenious new product is the ultimate routing, multiviewer and signal processing platform for studios, OB vans and flypacks. As a true software defined platform customers immediately enjoy significant cost, space, […]

By James Kirby Futuresource Consulting After an extremely successful year in 2020, the home content creation market has undergone a major transformation. Whilst demand is currently experiencing a slowdown, 2021 broke records in terms of market value. That’s according to a new content creator report from Futuresource Consulting, which combines in-depth industry interviews with a […]

By Freddie Mossop Futuresource Consulting The front projection market is projected to reach a value of $4.5 billion by 2026, new research from Futuresource Consulting finds. The figure is buoyed up by an industry-wide shift to high brightness, high resolution, and SSL (laser lightsource), which is the technology required to reach these upper-brightness categories. The […]

By Peter Hansen and Joé Lloyd AVIXA So many of us have found our home here in the ProAV community. We’ve entered, been made to feel comfortable, developed professionally, even thrived. But not everyone shares this experience. As our data shows, women have not necessarily found their forever home in this industry. With underrepresentation at the forefront, possible […]

By Peter Hansen and Joé Lloyd AVIXA ProAV is facing what is probably the tightest labor market in its history, with company labor needs greatly outstripping worker availability. As detailed in our latest “Macroeconomic Trends Analysis” report, these conditions have created major hiring and retention difficulties that companies are struggling to solve. When it comes […]

As one of the world’s busiest tourist destinations, New York City’s Times Square has long captured the imaginations of travelers with its seemingly endless array of neon signs, bright lights, and today, building-sized digital displays. In this hyper-digitized environment, at a time when nearly every traveler has their own digital screen in their pocket (or […]

The streets of Cincinnati were awash with color in October as an estimated 1.5 million people enjoyed the BLINK light and art festival, which featured four large-scale projection mappings powered by Hippotizer Media Servers. During the four-day event, video installations turned the city’s landmark buildings into ‘a techno cityscape of the future’, bringing existing artworks […]

By Mitchell Rosenberg PPDS If you’re in the business of buying visual displays, you already know of the various considerations you need to make depending on how the device will be used, where and by whom. Is the screen big enough to be seen clearly from the other side of the room? Is the pixel […]

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST This week, Exertis Almo, the largest and most specialized value-added North American AV distributor, will deliver the fourth and final installment of its 2022 E4 Experience program. On October 20, the one-day education and business event for resellers, integrators and their end users is featuring the first double showroom, which will be packed […]

By Chris Pennell Futuresource Consulting K-12 schools across the USA are investing in non-interactive and flat panel displays, presenting new opportunities for vendors. As AV display installations sweep through classrooms and schools’ public spaces, a new EdTech AV report from Futuresource Consulting shows that, in 2021, 16% of school rooms had a non-interactive flat panel […]

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST By Andy Gellis Download Magnetic 3D’s Platform Overview. The world’s largest glasses-free 3D display recently debuted as a featured attraction in the lobby of the guitar-shaped tower of Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood Florida. Magnetic 3D collaborated with the creative technologists at The Lab @ Rockwell Group […]

By Alistair Johnston Futuresource Consulting The market for meeting room cameras continues to show buoyancy, as hybrid working patterns maintain their presence in the commercial landscape. A new report from Futuresource Consulting shows that volumes increased across every meeting room camera category last year, culminating in 15% volume growth and 19% value growth year-on-year. Meeting […]

Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina, is the largest community college in the state, serving approximately 70,000 students. At the Perry Health Sciences Campus, students take courses that prepare them for certification as emergency medical technicians and paramedics. Instruction is enhanced by a simulation suite where students practice hands-on scenario-based medical procedures on […]

Owner’s Representative and AV Consultant Anthony James Partners (AJP) is proud to announce the completion of nearly $20 million in cutting-edge technology improvements to Clemson University’s iconic Memorial Stadium. AJP was honored to work alongside the team at Clemson, LS3P and Brasfield & Gorrie to help deliver Phase I of a $65-million renovation that focused […]

Promising fans a production unlike anything they have seen before, British superstar Ed Sheeran kicked off his largest tour to date on April 23rd in Croke Park Stadium, Dublin. Since then, the singer-songwriter has been playing stadiums across the UK and Ireland, with further dates planned across Central Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, Australia, Latin America and […]

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST The year is 1991. Cambridge University late-night studiers and programmers in the computer lab were faced with a constant problem—the coffee pot was always empty. The disappointment after walking across the entire building in the wee hours of the morning, just to be met with an empty pot, was excruciating. […]

By Helen Matthews Futuresource Consulting As the broadcast system camera market has started to recover from the impact of COVID-19, a notable development has emerged. Broadcasters are increasingly utilizing large sensor system cameras for live productions alongside traditional three-chip 2/3” cameras. This can be seen with the reception to the release of Sony’s HDC-F5500 in […]

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST By Chane Huang Coolpo Hybrid work is here to stay. It’s no secret that the workforce looks different than it did three years ago (or even one year ago), and changes in work come with changes in expectations. It’s no longer enough to throw a camera anywhere in a conference […]

VinUniversity in the Gia Lam district of Hanoi, Vietnam, offers education, skills development, and career placement for its students. The Medical training programs at this new, non-profit university include lecture, team-based learning, and hands-on experience through simulation. Simulation spaces in the two buildings are based on a modern hospital and home-health service, covering diagnostics, procedures, […]

By Rob Voorhees Exertis Almo Allow me to paint a picture for you: The weather outside is in the high 80s — bright sun, not a cloud in the sky and you decide to take full advantage and head to the beach for the day. You pack all the essentials: sunscreen, drinks/food, maybe a book […]

By James Kirby Futuresource Consulting As live events return in force, the professional amplifiers market continues to see strong levels of recovery. There remain some significant challenges for the industry, however revenues are on track to reach new heights over the coming years. A new report from Futuresource Consulting sets the scene for full recovery […]

By Alistair Johnston Futuresource Consulting Videoconferencing continues to take hold across the globe, with a new report from Futuresource Consulting revealing 21% volume growth in hardware last year, to achieve 3.3 million units. The specialist research firm also reports a 15% year-on-year increase in market value for 2021, with total global revenues reaching $5.6 billion. […]

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST Re Mago, Manchester, Aug. 1, 2022 — Re Mago Ltd., the company that is changing the way the world collaborates, announced today that it is collaborating with Lenovo™, a leading technology solutions company and manufacturer (OEM) of PCs and smart devices. The Valarea Room System bundle offers a ThinkSmart™ Core […]

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST By PTZOptics Sarah Eaton has been with Orleans Town Hall for fifteen years. That is also how long the Town Hall’s AV equipment has been in use. And, by the time COVID-19 hit in 2020, the system was unstandardized, outdated, and patched up in ways that were not sustainable. During […]