You can’t ask us to nominate you.
And, you can’t get an award by advertising or sponsoring us or paying for it. And, there are NO Awards entry fees!
We sent reporters to EVERY booth/stand at ISE 2018 and we selected the TOP products in every possible product category for our 2018 Best of ISE Awards. No other publication — or entity for that matter — goes to very booth at the ISE show and sees every new product demo’d or launched at ISE in Amsterdam annually — so these are THE BEST of THE BEST.
So, if you are wondering which products were the best at ISE and outperformed the others in their respective categories, this is it: the 2018 Best of ISE Awards. And if you are a manufacturer who won an award, be proud! You were hand-selected by our editors and reporters after evaluating every new product shown at ISE in your product category. We didn’t just pick these “on the show floor” during the show or by using spec-sheets distributed prior to the show — we picked these by actually looking at each and every product and comparing them to the competition. In fact, this is why it took us en entire month to award these… You truly are the BEST of ISE!
Finally, as the ISE show is really four shows in one — it’s a HomeAV show, a ProAV show, a Digital Signage show and Rental & Staging show — we’ve decided to separate the awards into different categories, based on their application. So, for 2018, there are five awards categories:
Conferencing, Collaboration & Meeting Rooms: The biggest trend in meetings rooms is collaboration and collaboration include both wired and wireless system, video, audio and far-site connectivity. This category of the Best of ISE products serves every aspect of the typical meeting room or huddle room space:
- Best New Videoconferencing Product: Lifesize Icon 450
- Best New Videoconferencing Accessory: Angekis Autopilot Tracking System
- Best Videoconferencing System: RealPresence Debut
- Best New Conferencing System Product: DisplayNote Mosaic
- Best New Audio Conferencing Product: Nureva Dual HDL300
- Best UC PTZ Camera: Logitech MeetUp
- Best New Audio Conferencing System: Polycom SoundStructure C-Series
- Best Collaboration System Product: Nureva Wall
- Best New Wireless Collaboration System: DVDO TILE
- Best New Wireless Collaboration Product: Kindermann Klick & Show
- Best Collaboration Software Product: UC Workspace Quicklaunch
- Best New Collaboration Board: Sharp BIG PAD
- Best New Collaboration Board Accessory: Panacast 2s Camera
- Best Audio Conferencing Product: Nureva Dual HDL300
- Best Huddle Room System: Avocor F-Series
- Best New Meeting Room Projector: Panasonic PT-MZ Series
- Best New Meeting Room Audio Product (tie): Yamaha CS-700 and ClearOne AnalogX
- Best New Meeting Room Product: Televic Conference Plixus
- Best New Meeting Room Speakers: Genelec 4000 Series
- Best New Huddle Room System: Cisco Spark Room Series
- Best New Huddle Room Display: NEC InfinityBoard
- Best New Huddle Room Accessory (tie): Biamp Devio CR1 and zioxi powerHubs
- Best New PTZ Camera: Vaddio Roboshot IW
- Best room Microphone (tie): TAIDEN HCS-5335 and Biamp Tesira TCM Ceiling Beamtracking Microphones
- Best Video Wall System: MultiTaction Hybrid Wall
- Best Wireless Accessory: Crestron FreeForm
- Best Wireless Technology: Barco ClickShare CSE-800
- Best New Short Throw Projector Product: Hitachi LP-AW4001 3LCD Laser
- Best New Wireless Product: NorthVision
- Best Wireless System Product: Vivitek NovoConnect With LauncherPlus
Network AV & Signal Distribution: Everything’s going AV-over-IP — but not quite yet. This category includes both AV-over-IP products as well as other ways of getting signals from source to display:
- Best New Video Interface: Kramer DGKat 2.0
- Best New Video System Accessory: Aurora HDBaseT Supercharged
- Best New Control System Software Product: Barco Event Master 5.1
- Best New AV-over-IP Transport System: SDVoE’s 10Gbps
- Best ProAV Control System Interface Concept: VuWall Debuts TRx 2.0 AV Network Management
- Best HomeAV Control System Hardware: Legrand Nuvo P30 Touch Screen Controller
Digital Signage & Public Spaces: The fastest growing segment of AV over the past half-dozen years to so been digital signage. So, it makes sense for this to have its own category of award-winning products:
- Best New Screen Product: Screen Innovations Solo Wireless Screen
- Best New Overall Digital Signage Display Product: Philips Q Line Series
- Best New Digital Signage Touch Display: LANG GhosT-OLED Touch
- Best New Digital Signage Display: NEC P754Q
- Best New Digital Signage Hardware Product (tie): Chief Impact On-Wall Kiosk and MOBIMA WAYU
- Best Digital Signage Software Product: BARIX RetailPlayer
- Best Digital Signage Accessory: Pixelart
- Best New Digital Signage Product for AV Integrators: Delta Displays NovoDS 4K
- Best New Digital Signage Media Player: BrightSign XD Series Media Players
- Best New Digital Signage OS: Navori QL 2.0
- Best New Outdoor Digital Signage Display: VideoTree Oceana
- Best Use of Augmented Reality: Realfiction DeepFrame
- Best Overall LED Wall Product: ABSEN Acclaim
- Best Modular LED Wall Product: Christie Velvet CorePlus LED
- Best New Video Wall Display: Barco UniSee
- Best Video Wall Product: Peerless-AV SmartMount Supreme
- Best New Rigid LED Wall Product: Leyard DirectLight 0.7mm
- Best New Flexible LED Wall Product: LG Transparent LED Film
- Best New Video Wall Accessory: Baanto Mod-u-lar Frame
- Best Portable PA System: Bose Professional S1 Pro
- Best Emergency Services AV Product: LDA Audio Tech LDA ONE
- Best Transparent Display: LG Transparent OLED
Rental, Staging & Live Events: If you’re one of the 30,000 or so AV’ers in the rental, staging or live events markets, you’ll love this category of new award-winning ISE products aimed specifically at making your job easier or adding to the wow-factor of your application:
- Best New Rental/Staging Projector: Epson L20000U
- Best New Rental and Staging Product: Absen COBALT
- Best New Rental/Staging Accessory: Blackmagic Design ATEM 1 M/E Advanced Panel
- Best Rental and Staging Speakers: Renkus-Heinz ICONYX Steerable Arrays
- Best Live Mixer for Installs: CADAC CDCseven Audio Console
- Best Microphone Mixer: Bose Professional ToneMatch Stereo Mixers
- Best New Live Production Mixer for Installs: PreSonus Series 3 Mixer
- Best Rental/Staging Product for Live Events (tie): Epson Pro EB-L1755U and Sharp’s 8K ecosystem
- Best New Live Events Control System Hardware: RGBlink T-Series
Education and Installed Large Venue Products: These are, exactly as it’s titled, new products at ISE that were aimed specifically at the education and large venue (lecture halls and auditoriums) markets. So, if you design, sell or integrate AV technology aimed at the education segment of AV, you’ll want to check out these award-winning ISE products aimed at learning environments or giant rooms:
- Best New UP and Coming Education Product: Barco WeConnect
- Best New Product for Higher Ed Market (tie): Vivitek NovoCast and Itech Net Lectern
- Best K-12 Classroom Product: Kaptivo
- Best New Document Camera: WolfVision VZ-8neo+ Visualizer
- Best New Classroom Accessory: AmpliVox Classroom Audio System
- Best High-End Fixed Install Projector: NEC 4K PH3501QL RB Laser
- Best New Large Venue Projector: EPSON EB-L12000
- Best New 4K DLP Projector: NEC PX1005QL
- Best New 4K 3LCD Projector: EPSON EB-L12000
- Best Audio Reinforcement/Asst Listening Product: Listen Technologies ListenTalk
Overall Winners: This category of winners represent the best of the best at ISE 2018. These are the 28 best new products at ISE 2018 that work for any and every application of AV:
- Best Overall New Product: Samsung The Wall Professional
- Most Creative New Product: Barco AVaaS
- Best New Video Product: DVDO TILE
- Best Video-over-IP Product: InFocus Jupiter StreamPoint
- Best New System Projector: Sony VPL-FHZ90L Laser Projector
- Best New Home Theater Projector: Optoma UHZ65 Cinema Projector
- Best Projection Technology: DPI 8K Laser
- Best New Flat-Panel Display (Overall): LG Transparent OLED
- Best New Audio Product: TASCAM DA-6400
- Best New Audio Product (tie): AEX VPA Series and Sennheiser Cockpit
- Best ProAV Speakers: Meyer Sound Bluehorn
- Best New Audio Accessory: Dan Dugan Model E-2A Automixer
- Best HomeAV Speakers: Legard Nuvo Series Two Landscape Speakers
- Best AV Mount or Rack Sysem: Middle Atlantic Proximity In-Wall Boxes
- Best New ProAV Furniture Product: TeamMate WorksZone Collaboration Pods
- Best New HomeAV Furniture Product: Cineak Largo Chair
- Best ISE Demo: Epson Story
- Best Concept Product: Dataton Watchout Blacktrax Integration
- Best ProAV Mobile App: KorbytGo
- Best Service/Product You Probably Didn’t See: Kino-mo Hypervsn
- Best New Technology: Christie GUARDIAN
- Best In-Field Integrator Product: MSolutions’ HDBaseT Testers
- Best New AV Integrator Service: Crestron XiO Cloud
- Most Ubiquitous Technology: SDVoE
- Best Booth at ISE: NEC
- Best ISE Gutsy/Kudos Award: Christie Integrating SDVoE into BOXER
- Best Lighting Fixture: Exterior Projector
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