SpeakerCraft Debuts Dolby Atmos Enabled In-Wall Height Speaker at ISE

SpeakerCraft has what they are claiming is the world’s first Dolby Atmos enabled in-wall height speaker, the AIM Series 2 ATX100, at ISE 2017. The SpeakerCraft ATX100 reflects sound off the ceiling to place and move audio anywhere in the room, including overhead, to bring entertainment alive for the audience. The ATX100 is the architectural in-wall solution to the traditional floor-standing […]

SpeakerCraft Debuts Dolby Atmos Enabled In-Wall Height Speaker at ISE

Wondering How Big the Display Market Is? Well, Here’s One Indicator: Barco Releases Financials

  Barco announced results for the six and twelve month periods ended 31 December 2016.Fiscal year 2016 financial highlights: Incoming orders at 1.09 Billion Euro  (+ 3.6%) Sales at 1102.3 million Euro (+ 7.0%) Gross profit margin at 34.4% (+ 1.6 ppts) EBITDA of 88.0 million Euro (+ 13.9 million euro) or 8.0% of sales (+ 0.8 ppts) EBIT1 of 36.6 […]

Wondering How Big the Display Market Is? Well, Here’s One Indicator: Barco Releases Financials

DENON Debuts the DN-500R Solid State Recorder

  The DN-500R is a solid state audio recorder in a 1 RU chassis that includes an OLED display, SD/SDHC and USB media recording as well as playback and is aimed at houses of worship, education and lecture recording.The DN-500R has analog balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA inputs as well as broadcast-grade AES/EBU digital inputs and a switching power supply for worldwide usage.Not only can audio be […]

DENON Debuts the DN-500R Solid State Recorder

Premier Mounts Debuts the EPIC LED Mounting Solution

  The EPIC Series of Direct View LED Mounting Solutions is specifically for mounting LED displays. While Direct-View LED gets thinner, brighter—and more cost effective, Premier says —integrators must focus on complete solutions to focus on customers needs. With old LCD solutions, and the plasma that preceded them, the industry lived in a heavy, complex world preoccupied with easy installation. With heavy-duty mounting, complex […]

Premier Mounts Debuts the EPIC LED Mounting Solution

Kramer Launches VIAware Software-Based Wireless Collaboration Aimed at Small Room and Classrooms

  VIAware is a software-only wireless collaboration system that can show up to six user screens on one display or up to 12 screens on two displays (hardware-dependent) via Wi-Fi. Capable of iOS mirroring for MacBook, iPad and iPhone as well as native mirroring for Chromebook, Android (Lollipop OS 5.0 or newer) and Windows phone. In a school application, remote students […]

Kramer Launches VIAware Software-Based Wireless Collaboration Aimed at Small Room and Classrooms

NEC Intros PA803UL and PA653UL LCD Laser-Based Installation Projectors at ISE

  NEC Display Solutions Europe today announced two laser-based additions to its PA Series of LCD projectors, taking low-maintenance operation to a new level. The new additions, the PA803UL and PA653UL models leverage a filter-free design, eliminating one of the biggest operational overheads normally found in installed projectors. Both projectors are WUXGA (1920×1200) resolution, have 360 degree positioning support in any direction and also feature motorized zoom and focus, […]

NEC Intros PA803UL and PA653UL LCD Laser-Based Installation Projectors at ISE

AMX Debuts N2400 Series AV-Over-IP GbE Networks

At ISE, AMX launched something similar to what Crestron launched yesterday — the N2400 Series video encoders and decoders, which send 4K video Gigabit Ethernet networks. Spec’d with support for 4K video at 60Hz and 4:4:4 (8-bit color) the N2400 uses JPEG 2000 encoding to deliver content at native frame rate and color space over Gigabit Ethernet with two frames of latency. With support […]

AMX Debuts N2400 Series AV-Over-IP GbE Networks

Barco Intends to Protect Their ClickShare Intellectual Property, No Matter What

One of the big stories from Day 1 of ISE here in Amsterdam was certainly the fact that a court officer from Belgium traveled down to the Amsterdam RAI convention center, entered the KanexPro booth and removed all of their MyTurn Collaboration Systems that were being launched into the market. It was the result of a judge’s order that […]

Barco Intends to Protect Their ClickShare Intellectual Property, No Matter What

NEC Launches 34-inch Curved Desktop Monitor

NEC Display Solutions Europe today launched the EX341R, a 34-inch curved widescreen desktop monitor. Designed for applications in high-end offices and financial trading floors, the monitor is developed for industries where large displays are central to the user’s day-to-day activities. The seamless 80cm curved screen provides a wide and flexible working space, perfectly suited for efficiently handling and analysing large […]

NEC Launches 34-inch Curved Desktop Monitor

The Crazy, Cautious and Amazing Future of Collaboration Boards — My Virtual Visit to ISE 2017

I am in Amsterdam. Or, at least I believe I am at this point. As many of you know, I am in the middle of a very large project and was unable to travel to Amsterdam for ISE this year. This is a pilgrimage I’ve made every year for quite a long time, in fact […]

The Crazy, Cautious and Amazing Future of Collaboration Boards — My Virtual Visit to ISE 2017

Clearly, Vivitek Wants to be THE ONE Projector Company

  Vivitek is clearly staking a claim to be the one-for-all (applications) projector company — all using DLP technology. Their booth has projectors form 500 lumens to 12,000 lumens and everything from pocket projectors to large-venue projection. I caught up with Holger Graff of Vivitek about both their future projector strategy as well as their new […]

Clearly, Vivitek Wants to be THE ONE Projector Company

My Interview with Bose’s Fuat Koro Is Telling in Future Direction of Bose Professional

Bose Professional is well-known for their high-end and live-events speakers and processing products. But, they also want to be known for their new audio conferencing line of products, now, ControlSpace EX line. The ControlSpace EX series includes their EX-1280C conferencing signal processor and three new Dante-based ControlSpace under-table endpoints (EX-4ML, EX-8ML and EX-UH). Bose’ Fuat Koro joined me for […]

My Interview with Bose’s Fuat Koro Is Telling in Future Direction of Bose Professional

Barco Uses rAVe to Launch the CSE-800 at ISE 2017

  I was asked to come to the Barco stand before any other member of the press to get a sneak-peek, up-close view of their newest ClickShare, the CSE-800  The CSE-800 is a two-output 4K resolution (4096×2160) HDMI ports and a dual-band wireless access point. In addition, the new ClickShare has annotation, white boarding capabilities (although, they call […]

Barco Uses rAVe to Launch the CSE-800 at ISE 2017

My Tour of the Nureva Stand at ISE

  Nureva made its EMEA debut at last year’s ISE show and they are back launching themselves into a new market, debuting new products and completing filing out their distribution plans. I had a chance to get a booth tour before the show floor opened and got a look at their new 1080p projector, their HDL300 microphone array […]

My Tour of the Nureva Stand at ISE

K-array Intros Compact Full-Range Speaker Line Called Domino

K-array’s new full-range speaker line, Domino. These compact stainless steel speakers with plug and play capabilities do not require presets and can be driven by any amplifier making them the perfect solution for applications from intimate restaurants to live concert settings. The new line consists of three speakers: the KF26, the KF210 and the KF212. The KF26 is […]

K-array Intros Compact Full-Range Speaker Line Called Domino

My Epson Interview at ISE

Epson came to ISE this year (a year after launching themselves into the staging market) with a new series of 7500-12,000 Lumen 4K capable projectors as well as a new series of business projectors. Today I caught up with Epson’s Richard Miller and Neil Colquhoun and asked them about how their first year in the Staging […]

My Epson Interview at ISE

AMX Says Their Rapid Project Maker v3.0 Simplifies AV Configuration

HARMAN Pro today announced AMX Rapid Project Maker v3.0 has new features including a redesigned HTML5 interface and a new enhanced and intuitive touch panel UI, RPM v3.0. AMX Rapid Project Maker configuration software is designed to simplify the deployment of AV room systems for thousands of customers worldwide. As the Industry’s first cloud-based configuration tool for simplified configuration […]

AMX Says Their Rapid Project Maker v3.0 Simplifies AV Configuration

Gefen Intros DisplayPort 1.2 Fiber-Optic Extender at ISE

Gefen from Core Brands today introduced the EXT-DP-4K600-1SC extender that claims to allow systems integrators to place 4K 600 MHz DisplayPort 1.2 sources and displays up to 660 feet apart with full optical isolation. The EXT-DP-4K600-1SC extends HDCP 2.2, HDCP 1.4 and DPCP compliant DisplayPort 600 MHz 4K audio/video over fiber. WQUXGA (3840×2400), 4K Ultra HD (3840×2160), and 4K Cinema — DCI […]

Gefen Intros DisplayPort 1.2 Fiber-Optic Extender at ISE

Xantech Debuts New EX Series HDMI Cables

Xantech today announced the introduction of its new EX Series HDMI cables. The Xantech cables are spec’d to deliver up to 4K 60 4:4:4 resolution capability with a pixel rate of 600 MHz, enabling transmission of High Dynamic Range (HDR) video with a bandwidth faster than 18Gbps at 4K@50/60 (2160p), which is four times the clarity of 1080p/60 video resolution. All […]

Xantech Debuts New EX Series HDMI Cables

Barco Launches Software-Based AV Control system

Barco just launched a new version of their Overture software-based AV control solution. Any network-connected device with a browser can use Overture to control and monitor equipment. As you likely know, Overture is an IP-based software system that can be connected via an IP network. To add a network-enabled device (projector, display, audio system, blinds, retractable projector screen) you connect it […]

Barco Launches Software-Based AV Control system

MC2 Audio Debuts Delta Series Amplifiers

MC2 Audio has launched six models in a new Delta Series of networkable audio processing power amplifiers. Incorporating XTA’s 96kHz DSP, MC2 Audio says the line are DSP-enabled and have three input options: analog, AES3 and Audinate’s Dante networked audio. The units have four inputs and eight outputs and four of the outputs driving the […]

MC2 Audio Debuts Delta Series Amplifiers

Sennheiser Expands TeamConnect Set Tray M

At ISE 2017 Sennheiser is expanding its range of dedicated business products with two new conferencing solutions: The TeamConnect Wireless Set Tray M offers Sennheiser’s innovative wireless conferencing solution in a new smaller configuration for up to 12 participants. The all-new SL Boundary 114-S DW microphone — part of their SpeechLine family of speech-dedicated microphones, […]

Sennheiser Expands TeamConnect Set Tray M

Epson Debuts AR (Augmented Reality) Glasses

Epson is debuting a new version of their Moverio glasses, dubbed the BT-350, designed for augmented reality (AR) applications in museums, opera houses, exhibition halls and conferences. The BT-350 are Si-OLED-powered, binocular see-through smart glasses designed for commercial use, and in cultural and entertainment venues. With the BT-350, unused display space appears truly transparent thanks to our Si-OLED micro display technology and […]

Epson Debuts AR (Augmented Reality) Glasses

Almo Pro A/V Named North American Distributor for Avocor Interactive Touch Screens

Almo Professional A/V has become the exclusive North American distributor for Avocor Interactive Touch Screens for business — and education-focused installations. Almo partners now have access to the complete line of Avocor VTF Series interactive displays, which are designed for the modern workplace to unify and provide collaboration in environments like executive rooms, huddle rooms […]

Almo Pro A/V Named North American Distributor for Avocor Interactive Touch Screens

Extron Intros New TLP Pro 725T Touch Panel

Extron just launched the TLP Pro 725T TouchLink Pro Touchpanel. Inside this newly-designed touchpanel, there’s a new quad-core processor and eight times more memory feeding the 7-inch 1024×600 (with 24-bit color) capacitive touchscreen. The new touchscreen includes scratch and smudge-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass and it has a design unlike any other Extron touch panel. Extron […]

Extron Intros New TLP Pro 725T Touch Panel

Barco Legally Seizes KanexPro’s New MyTurn Products at ISE, Plans to Sue KanexPro for Patent Infringement

Like a scene form a legal drama on TV, a Dutch judge has granted Barco’s petition to seize all wireless presentation systems of the US-based company KanexPro (marketed as the MyTurn Presentation System), at Integrated Systems Expo in Amsterdam, today, the opening day of ISE. But, that’s not the big story here. What happened next is: A bailiff approached the KanexPro booth […]

Barco Legally Seizes KanexPro’s New MyTurn Products at ISE, Plans to Sue KanexPro for Patent Infringement

Prysm Debuts New Digital Collaboration Capabilities at ISE 2017

Prysm today announced at ISE 2017 a new set of capabilities for smarter visual collaboration across the enterprise. Live Source Streaming, Quick Start and Wireless Screen Sharing are being added to Prysm Visual Workplace. The company is also demonstrating third-party display compatibility in its stand for the first time, alongside Prysm displays. Today’s announcement includes […]

Prysm Debuts New Digital Collaboration Capabilities at ISE 2017

AMX Debuts Enova DGX Audio Switching Boards With Dante Networked Audio Technology

HARMAN Professional Solutions’ AMX today introduced Enova DGX Audio Switching Boards with Dante integration that deliver Dante networked audio feeds to and from Enova DGX 100 Series Digital Media Switchers. The new Dante board kits expand Enova DGX enclosures with up to 16 channels of networked audio, enabling flexible audio switching between traditional AV solutions […]

AMX Debuts Enova DGX Audio Switching Boards With Dante Networked Audio Technology

Sony’s RM-IP500 Remote Controller is for Controlling PTZ Cameras for Lecture Capture and Event Production

Sony’s new RM-IP500 remote controller is for intuitive control of its latest pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras in a range of applications including lecture capture for education, event production and broadcast. The RM-IP500 controller is designed to work with Sony’s new BRC-H800, BRC-H900, BRC-X1000 and SRG-360SHE PTZ cameras as well as the new MCX-500 all-in-one HD switcher, […]

Sony’s RM-IP500 Remote Controller is for Controlling PTZ Cameras for Lecture Capture and Event Production

AMX Debuts N7142 AV-Over-IP Presentation Switcher

HARMAN Pro today unveiled the AMX N7142 Presentation Switcher, an all-in-one presentation switcher that incorporates low-latency Networked AV video distribution. It’s aimed at classrooms and conference rooms. The N7142 Presentation Switcher distributes up to 4K UHD (3840×2160) content from 4K sources (4K @60Hz 4:2:0) HDMI 2.0 and two VGA inputs that can be independently switched […]

AMX Debuts N7142 AV-Over-IP Presentation Switcher

Epson Launches New Pro L-Series Laser Projectors at ISE

Epson has announced the latest Pro L-Series large venue laser projectors. The Pro L-Series come in five new models ranging from 12,000 to 15,000 lumens of color brightness and white brightness plus WUXGA and SXGA+ resolution. Leveraging 3LCD technology, the Pro L-Series integrate a laser-light source with an inorganic phosphor wheel in combination with inorganic […]

Epson Launches New Pro L-Series Laser Projectors at ISE

Denon Debuts the DN-700AV Receiver for Commercial AV Installs

The DN-700AV is an AV receiver aimed at the commercial AV market. Having six HDMI inputs, component/composite ins/outs, XLR balanced 7.1 pre-outs and RS232C and IP control, the 700AV is designed to be placed in commercial AV installations. The unit is compatible with many of today’s multi-channel formats, including TrueHD/Dolby Digital Plus/Dolby Digital/ DTS-HD/MasterAudio/DTS ES. […]

Denon Debuts the DN-700AV Receiver for Commercial AV Installs