Over this week, we’ll be previewing all the rAVe Top-10 Tour Winners. Each product highlighted, will be on rAVe’s 2nd Annual Top-10 Tour at InfoComm. The rAVe Top-10 Tour is NOT a “pay for play” tour or product preview (like MOST AV publications do). These 10 products were selected from over 70 submissions from InfoComm 2013 exhibitors. Of those 70, these are the 10 we thought you NEED to see at the show – and if you’re not able to go to InfoComm, the products featured here will give you a good overview of what you missed:

Polycom promotes the Capture Station as something that can turn any environment into a webcasting studio. The Polycom RealPresence Capture Station Portable Pro is an easy-to-use appliance that helps organizations stream live presentations from anywhere with an Internet connection, or create recordings for on-demand viewing. From executive webcasts to educational lectures, this appliance eliminates the complexities of content creation by automatically synchronizing audio, video, and presentation slides — instantly creating a feature-rich, highly polished online multimedia presentation.

The RealPresence Capture Station Portable Pro has a compact, all-in-one design and is housed in the toughest casing available: an airtight and waterproof Pelican case with specialized foam protects hardware from impact. An integrated LCD screen provides visual display of video, content and audio levels, ensuring that content is being captured correctly, especially in unconventional environments.

Unlike other solutions, the RealPresence Capture Station Pro and Portable Pro support both HD and SD capture for people and content, giving content creators a choice between high-definition video when they need premium quality and standard-definition video for mitigating bandwidth constraints. And, it supports a wide variety of content sources, including laptops, projectors, electronic white boards and document cameras.  This solution provides a wider choice of input sources, from standard definition — S-Video, component and VGA — to high definition — DVI and HDMI.

Key RealPresence Capture Station Portable Pro features include:

• A in-the-field rugged video capture station offers convenience and portability.
• An integrated LCD screen provides visual display of video, content, and audio levels.
• It supports a broad range of video sources, including installed A/V solutions, laptops, projectors, electronic whiteboards and document cameras.
• Software compresses video, synchronizes media with graphics and publishes presentations automatically.
• Airtight and waterproof Pelican case includes specialized foam to protect hardware from impact.