Brother International Corporation Enters Videoconferencing Market

If you were a company making printers, you’d be trying to diversify now too. Brother International Corporation launched its foray into videoconferencing last week in the form of the NW-1000 Web-cam and VT-1000 speakerphone, adding to its newly-launched cloud-based OmniJoin Web Conferencing service. Printer companies see themselves as experts in SMB and SOHO technology and […]

Brother International Corporation Enters Videoconferencing Market

Christie Shows World’s First 72,000-Lumen Laser Projection

By Bob Snyder The last record for lumens in laser projection was Christie’s own 63,000-lumen record, set at IBC Show in September. Now Christie raises the bar again for achieving the world’s brightest laser projection. In Beijing, Christie did a demo of its prototype laser projector: the world’s first 72,000-lumen laser projection. Short movie clips of […]

Christie Shows World’s First 72,000-Lumen Laser Projection

Revolabs Announces Executive HD MaxSecure Wireless Microphone System with AES-256 Encryption

Today Revolabs announced a new addition to the company’s Executive HD product family in the form of the MaxSecure wireless microphone system, adding capability for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256) as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). With the addition of the Executive HD MaxSecure products, Revolabs supports an encryption standard […]

Revolabs Announces Executive HD MaxSecure Wireless Microphone System with AES-256 Encryption

NEC Display Intros 19″ Mercury-Free Monitor

NEC Display will debut a 19-inch, mercury-free, LED-backlit monitor in the form of the AccuSync AS192WM. This is not only aimed at desktop users, but also at small digital signage applications. Using 33 percent less power than a CFL-based 19″, this display is ENERGY STAR 6.0 and TCO 6.0 certified, is EPEAT Silver rated and […]

NEC Display Intros 19″ Mercury-Free Monitor

Extron Introduces New Economical Wall Mount HDMI Twisted Pair Extender

Extron has introduced the DTP HDMI 230 D, a Decora-style transmitter and receiver set for transmission of HDMI, audio and bidirectional RS-232 and IR control signals up to 230 feet (70 meters) over a single CATx cable. The HDCP-compliant extender provides an economical and effective means for extending HDMI with embedded multi-channel audio from HDMI-equipped […]

Extron Introduces New Economical Wall Mount HDMI Twisted Pair Extender

Revolabs Opens New European Sales and Support Office

Revolabs Inc. announced last month that the company has opened a new sales and support office in Europe. Located in Tonbridge, Kent, which is 30 minutes outside of London, the new location will provide pre- and post-sales support for Revolabs’ EMEA and Asia-Pacific customers. To read the complete press release online, click here.

Revolabs Opens New European Sales and Support Office

Rants and rAVes – Episode 23: CNN’s Virtual Senate Uses Augmented Reality

A great application of augmented reality is CNN’s new Virtual Senate room, which allows the host to walk around as if the host is actually on the U.S. Senate floor. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Rants and rAVes – Episode 23:  CNN’s Virtual Senate Uses Augmented Reality

Flypaper Studio, Inc. Launches Flypaper Marketplace Digital Signage Store

Flypaper Studio has launched the Flypaper Marketplace digital signage store to share and sell templates, components, media and more. Flypaper Marketplace provides a virtual one-stop store for Flypaper partners to share unique content and media assets for use in digital signage projects. Flypaper partners can become a contributor and submit their original content to the […]

Flypaper Studio, Inc. Launches Flypaper Marketplace Digital Signage Store

Audinate Joins Open Control Architecture Alliance

Audinate, known for inventing Dante, has joined the OCA Alliance as an Associate Member. The OCA Alliance was formed by professional audio companies who work in different product markets and represent a diverse cross section of vertical market positions and application use-cases. Founding OCA Alliance members Bosch Communications Systems, Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup, TC Group and […]

Audinate Joins Open Control Architecture Alliance

Sharp Ships 90″ LED TV

Sharp just started shipping its new 90″ HDTV in the form of the LC-90LE745U — the world’s largest LED TV. Specs include four HDMI 1.4 inputs, a VGA port, a component video port and a built in ATSC tuner. It’s capable of 3D imaging, offers a refresh rate of 240Hz and has built-in Wi-Fi. The […]

Sharp Ships 90″ LED TV

Rants and rAVes – Episode 22: 2013: Where the Money Is

Gary talks about which AV markets are looking HOT for 2013 and which ones are NOT. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Rants and rAVes – Episode 22: 2013: Where the Money Is

THE WEEK – Episode 5: The WAVEs and Hurricane Sandy

Joel Rollins speaks with Jennifer Willard and rAVe’s Sara Abrons about Women in AV not being just for women — and they also discuss the effect of Hurricane Sandy on New York and the AV industry. Story Links: Sandy by Joel Rollins: www.ravepubs.com Please Help Our AV Friends by Jennifer Willard: http://bit.ly/Uu1vkd WAVE Demographics Survey: http://bit.ly/PriUN5 Podcast: Play in new window | […]

THE WEEK – Episode 5: The WAVEs and Hurricane Sandy

Telerent Buys Avidex

Avidex Technologies, an AV integrator based in Bellevue, Wash., just announced it was sold to Telerent Leasing Corporation (TLC), a subsidiary of ITOCHU International, Inc. TLC is a national provider of hospital television systems through its TeleHealth Services division and is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. Avidex and TLC have confirmed that Avidex’s offices in Seattle, […]

Telerent Buys Avidex

WiSA Establishes Technical Advisory Committee and Special Interest Groups to Define Advancements in High Definition Audio Technology

The Wireless Speaker and Audio (WiSA) Association today announced the creation of a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and associated Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to advance the development of wireless audio solutions for home theater, consumer electronics and professional A/V markets. Participation in both groups is open to members of the WiSA Association and the activities […]

WiSA Establishes Technical Advisory Committee and Special Interest Groups to Define Advancements in High Definition Audio Technology

Parasound Intros Digital Audio Booster

Parasound has introduced the Zdac, a 192 kHz digital to analog converter that the company says enhances the audio quality of digital music files from computers via USB, or from a CD player, Sonos or other digital media players via optical or coaxial digital connections. It uses what Parasound calls Clockflawless, a new method to […]

Parasound Intros Digital Audio Booster

HAI Debuts Redesigned Hi-Fi 2 System

HAI by Leviton announced a new version of its four-zone, four-source (4×4) distributed audio system, dubbed the Hi-Fi 2. The new version is a more compact and less expensive version of the original Hi-Fi 2 system. It offers 20 watts per channel and fits directly into a Leviton Structured Media Center wiring enclosure at half-width. […]

HAI Debuts Redesigned Hi-Fi 2 System

Digging Up Jimmy Hoffa

By Joel Rollins Well, after last month’s column, I received a lot of email and even a number of telephone calls from old acquaintances. It tells you a lot about the issue that the calls accused me both of being pro- and anti-union. Please let me disappoint both groups to say that I am neither. I […]

Digging Up Jimmy Hoffa

CEDIA Releases New White Paper About Mobile Devices in Residential Systems Integration

CEDIA has released the third white paper in its Mobile Devices in Residential Systems Integration series. The new white paper, Using Mobile Devices as a Control Platform, discusses the current landscape of using mobile devices for integrated system control applications and provides system designers and technicians with guidance on design considerations in integration and automation […]

CEDIA Releases New White Paper About Mobile Devices in Residential Systems Integration

Atomos Ships HDMI to HD-SDI and HD-SDI to HDMI Converters

Atomos is now shipping its tiny Connect H2S and Connect S2H Converters. Built for convenience, the Connect Converters are lightweight and include 3:2/2:2 pulldown removal, an integrated test pattern generator and audio test-tones. There’s even a built-in flashlight for use in dark locations, which is cool. The Connect H2S converts from HDMI to HD-SDI and […]

Atomos Ships HDMI to HD-SDI and HD-SDI to HDMI Converters

PSB Speakers Adds Imagine Series

PSB Speakers introduced two surface-mount models as additions to the Imagine Series with the new Imagine W1 and W3, which measure only 3” deep. The Imagine W1 ($599 list) is a single-channel speaker that can be mounted vertically or horizontally and used as a front left, center or surround-sound speaker, or it can be used […]

PSB Speakers Adds Imagine Series

Rants and rAVes – Episode 21: The WAVE Survey

I talk to you about the importance of taking the first-ever Women in AV survey. It’s for women only, but men should help spread the word, too! Link to Jennifer’s blog and survey: bit.ly/PriUN5 Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Rants and rAVes – Episode 21: The WAVE Survey

rAVe SMB Tip of the Week: The Update on Facebook Status Updates

Inside Facebook articles: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2012/10/31/facebook-rolls-out-option-for-fans-to-receive-notifications-about-page-posts/ and http://www.insidefacebook.com/2012/11/02/facebook-tests-pages-feed-so-fans-can-see-all-updates-in-separ

Q3 Projectors Market Quarterly Highlights from Futuresource Consulting

The calendar year Q3 projectors market came in at 2,032K units, 3.6 percent up on the previous quarter and showing very slight year-on-year growth on Q3 2011 (2,029K units), according to the latest round of research from Futuresource Consulting. The flattening and — in some cases — decline of the developed markets in Europe and […]

Q3 Projectors Market Quarterly Highlights from Futuresource Consulting

Dukane Intros New iPad Charging Cart

The Dukane model CC1 is a low-cost, all metal charging device that can be wall mounted or set on a table top. It is lockable, securely charging up to 30 iPads or tablets simultaneously. The CC1 uses an all steel cabinet with locking tabs that can be secured with a Kensington Cable lock. It has […]

Dukane Intros New iPad Charging Cart

SANUS Ships BFV53

SANUS is now shipping the BFV53 Audio Video Stand, perfect for multiple components and flat-panel TVs up to 56″. This stand is unique in that it includes an open design that maximizes airflow to equipment and provides easy access to back of components, as well as generous cable management holes. It’s built with thick smoked […]

SANUS Ships BFV53

NEC Simplifies Digital Signage for ProAV Integrator with New Bundled Offerings

NEC Display announced today the addition of 10 Digital Signage/Content Creation Solutions. These product bundles introduce customers to the digital signage industry with easy-to-use solutions that include everything needed to run content on a single digital screen. Available in digital screen sizes up to 65 inches, each bundle includes an NEC V, P or X […]

NEC Simplifies Digital Signage for ProAV Integrator with New Bundled Offerings

Sony’s Sales Still Suck

For the seventh quarter in a row, Sony lost money. Never in the history of the company has its outlook been so bleak. In the company’s latest quarterly report, losses amounted to $194 million — that was a few million dollars less than the last quarter — but it’s a loss. It’s in the midst […]

Sony’s Sales Still Suck

MMD/Philips Debuts Monitors With Built-in Flypaper

MMD/Philips just debuted the Philips Q Series, which is comprised of the 32-inch BDL3210Q, 42-inch BDL4210Q and 46-inch BDL4610Q. The Philips Q Series is a new family of edge-lit LED commercial displays aimed at digital signage applications. What’s especially interesting about this announcement is the integration of a digital signage content software called Flypaper Express […]

MMD/Philips Debuts Monitors With Built-in Flypaper

InfoComm: Project Changes: Manage Them or Just Make Them?

By Bradley A. Malone, PMP This article is reprinted with permission from InfoComm and originally appearedhere. This is the 15th in an ongoing series of organizational project management maturity articles by InfoComm University senior instructor Brad Malone. To read the 14th installment, detailing the process of reporting status, progress and forecasts, click here. To read all the […]

InfoComm: Project Changes: Manage Them or Just Make Them?

DSE 2013 Announces “Digital Signage 2020: Eyes on the Future” Keynote Panel

Digital Signage Expo announced today that its Feb. 28 keynote “Digital Signage 2020: Eyes on the Future” will be presented by a “thought leadership” panel of four industry experts — Curt Bailey, president of Sundberg-Ferar, Inc.; Tim Huckaby, founder and chairman of InterKnowlogy; Christine Outram, creative director of Re:Imagine Group; and Jared Schiffman, founder and […]

DSE 2013 Announces “Digital Signage 2020: Eyes on the Future” Keynote Panel

NEC Cancels Participation at CETW

Everything going on in New York City is well chronicled. It’s terrible. Hurricane Sandy has crippled Manhattan — regardless of what you may have heard from others. In that light, NEC has canceled its participation in the CETW Show next week, which is still going on as planned. Peerless-AV also canceled its plans to appear at […]

NEC Cancels Participation at CETW

Digital Signage Federation Offers New Webinar: Higher Education 103: Campus Signage and Enterprise IT

The Digital Signage Federation will present the final installment in its first webinar series for the Higher Education sector on Nov. 14 at 2 p.m. EDT with “Higher Education 103: Campus Signage and Enterprise IT.” This webcast, presented by Thomas Kunka, service manager, Illinois Digital Signage Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, focuses on strategies […]

Digital Signage Federation Offers New Webinar: Higher Education 103: Campus Signage and Enterprise IT