AMX Adds to Its SVSI N3300 AV-over-IP Product Line With New Dante AV-H System

The new AMX SVSI N3300 Series Encoders and Decoders are capable of H.26x 4K@60 4:4:4 Dante AV-H video content. In addition to transmitting HDCP content from N3300 Encoders to Decoders, the company says the Series also features transport of full-bandwidth USB 2.0 signals between encoders and decoders, recording of video to a USB 3.0 external […]

AMX Adds to Its SVSI N3300 AV-over-IP Product Line With New Dante AV-H System

AMX Takes a Step Away From the Walled Garden

In September, AMX announced a new line of controllers. The most interesting thing about these controllers is, per AMX’s press release, the ability to “simultaneously process a virtually unlimited number of scripts written in JavaScript, Python or Groovy and natively support Low-Code development with Node-RED.” I have written before on the problems with walled gardens, […]

AMX Takes a Step Away From the Walled Garden

AMX is Back in the Control System Business with MUSE Control Family

AMX hinted it was back in the control system business last November with the debut of its Varia touch screens. Today, it announced the AMX MUSE, calling it “automation controllers.” AMX says the MUSE can simultaneously process unlimited scripts written in JavaScript, Python or Groovy and natively support so-called low-code development with Node-RED. AMX says […]

AMX is Back in the Control System Business with MUSE Control Family

K-array Extends Control Plug-In Offerings With New Integrations

K-array has announced the extension of its control plug-in offerings to provide integrators with more options for control systems. The latest additions to K-array’s control plug-in portfolio include integrations for Q-SYS, Crestron, Crestron Home, AMX, RTI and Control4. K-array says the integration of its audio solutions with the aforementioned control platforms offers significant advantages and […]

K-array Extends Control Plug-In Offerings With New Integrations

AMX Debuts First New AV-over-IP Product in More Than 5 Years in SVSI N4321D

HARMAN Professional Solutions’ AMX brand launched the AV-over-IP-based AMX SVSI N4321D Audio Transceivers with Dante and AES67. These Transceivers are ideal for corporate applications, colleges and universities, casinos, convention and entertainment centers, or anyone needing robust Dante, AES67 or PCM networked audio over IP and analog transcoding at an affordable price point. The N4321D connects […]

AMX Debuts First New AV-over-IP Product in More Than 5 Years in SVSI N4321D

AMX Launches Universal Remote Control System — Including Compatibility With Extron and Crestron

HARMAN Professional Solutions’ AMX Brand introduced the CE Series at InfoComm 2023, a new family of professional-grade Universal Control Extenders. The new line delivers AMX-quality hardware control to any system that supports IP connectivity, making these units ideal for corporate spaces, colleges and universities, and government facilities. AMX debuted four models, including CE-IO4 with 4 […]

AMX Launches Universal Remote Control System — Including Compatibility With Extron and Crestron

AMX and Logitech Create Integration Driver for Google Meet Hardware

AMX and Logitech have collaborated to create an integration driver for Google Meet hardware. The integration provides “critical room device control pages within the Google Meet application, allowing systems integrators to create custom user interface pages in conjunction with Logitech hardware.” The Logitech portfolio offers a variety of solutions to provide user experiences for all […]

AMX and Logitech Create Integration Driver for Google Meet Hardware

AMX Now Shipping Varia Persona-Defined Touch Panels

AMX is now shipping all of its Varia Touch Panels. The panels are persona-defined — Varia personas are pre-loaded apps that define the entire panel experience. Personas include Web Kiosk, Zoom Rooms Controller, AMX Book Room Scheduling and AMX G5 Control. Varia panels come with wall, glass and VESA-mount capabilities, as well as optional tabletop […]

AMX Now Shipping Varia Persona-Defined Touch Panels

AMX Releases VARIA Series of Touch Panels

AMX hadn’t disappeared but, many of the #AVtweeps on social media have been wondering if the company was committed to the control system market any longer — since nearly everything it has focused on since the Samsung acquisition of Harman has been either UCC-related or AV-over-IP based. But, Tuesday, AMX said — emphatically — that […]

AMX Releases VARIA Series of Touch Panels

2019: The Year of AV-Over-IP — But Don’t Believe the Hype!

There’s no doubt in my mind that 2019 will be the year we look back on that the industry transitioned from signal routing and distribution via HDMI and so-called “digital-media” to AV-over-IP. Certainly not the entire industry — just most of it. But buyer, specifier, installer and designer beware. Not all AV-over-IP is the same, […]

2019: The Year of AV-Over-IP — But Don’t Believe the Hype!

Alexa, Manage My Church AV System

“Alexa, turn on the church audiovisual system.” Clever voice-activated connectivity? Maybe. But practical? Not really. “Alexa, show me the upcoming maintenance on all of my audiovisual components, listing them in descending order by date.” Clever? Maybe. But practical? Absolutely. In the house of worship market, convenience isn’t a key driver for upgrades or new purchases. […]

Alexa, Manage My Church AV System

Harman Is Finally Showing Us the Synergy Between Brands with New AMX Incite

The AMX Incite is a family of three different 8×1 (with three outputs all with the same content) 4K 3840×2160 resolution presentation switcher aimed at classrooms and meeting rooms and combines AMX switching, scaling and control, BSS digital signal processing, dbx Advanced Feedback Suppression and amplification by Crown DriveCore — all in one 1U rack unit. Each in the series has eight inputs (four HDMI, […]

Harman Is Finally Showing Us the Synergy Between Brands with New AMX Incite

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

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

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

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

HARMAN Professional Adds AES67 Support Across Audio and Video Product Lines

HARMAN Professional Solutions today announced support of AES67 across networked audio and video product families. AES67 is a standard to enable high-performance audio-over-IP streaming interoperability between various IP-based audio networks. New Soundweb London BLU-806DA, BLU-326DA and BLU-DA devices will support both Dante and AES67 natively and will replace the BLU-806, BLU-326 and BLU-DAN devices respectively. […]

HARMAN Professional Adds AES67 Support Across Audio and Video Product Lines

HARMAN Pro’s AMX Intros Acendo Core Room Collaboration System

HARMAN Professional Solutions today introduced the AMX Acendo Core presentation solution for huddle spaces and small meeting environments. One unique feature is that Acendo Core features direct integration with Microsoft Exchange scheduling, Skype for Business integration, native document viewers and email document sharing. Built-in document viewers and rendering allow users to present content without bringing […]

HARMAN Pro’s AMX Intros Acendo Core Room Collaboration System

Harman Debuts Six New Products In December

Here are the six newest Harman family of products launched in December:   Crown DriveCore Install DA Series Amplifiers: A new line of amplifiers that feature Dante networked audio transport. In addition to being able to send and receive Dante audio, the DCi-DA Series includes many of the same features as the DCi-Network Series, such […]

Harman Debuts Six New Products In December

AMX Ships HPX-MSP-10 10-Module Connection Port with 10.1″ Panel

AMX is now shipping its HPX-MSP-10, a 10-module connection port with 10.1” Color LCD Touchpanel. The HPX-MSP-10 includes a Modero S Series Touch Panel built into the cover. When closed, the unit sits flush with the table top and when open, the unit provides easy access to the HydraPort modules and a full-featured Modero S […]

AMX Ships HPX-MSP-10 10-Module Connection Port with 10.1″ Panel

My Second Thoughts About the $8B Samsung Is Spending to Buy Harman

So, it’s been almost a week and, since then, I’ve reached out to a number of former Harman execs, insiders at Harman and industry gurus that know much more than me about mergers and acquisitions — all in pursuit of finding out what Samsung is going to do with the various Harman brands. Here’s what […]

My Second Thoughts About the $8B Samsung Is Spending to Buy Harman

Samsung buys Harman for… 8 BILLION Dollars!

The biggest news of the year as far as AV acquisitions go is definitely the purchase of Harman by Samsung.  In the commercial AV space, there aren’t many deals that start with a “B” as in billion, let alone $8 billion. Harman does over $7 billion in annual revenue and is also sitting on a […]

Samsung buys Harman for… 8 BILLION Dollars!

The BIG Samsung Acquisition

Monday morning we woke up to some major news in the AV industry. Samsung had purchased Harman. When I say we, I mean us AV PEOPLE. To the rest of the world, Samsung (a South Korean chaebol) purchased a “U.S. automotive technology manufacturer,” as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Many of us in the AV […]

The BIG Samsung Acquisition

My First Thoughts on the Samsung/Harman Deal

First off, for the sake of the 8,000 or so employees of Harman, I HOPE this is a good deal. The history of mergers and buyouts in AV isn’t good. Sure, there have been some that have done well (aka Milestone), but most big one’s have failed miserably (aka: InFocus buying Proxima and the first […]

My First Thoughts on the Samsung/Harman Deal

Former AMX CEO Rashid Skaf Joins Investment Firm Highlander Partners

Highlander Partners, L.P., a Dallas-based investment firm managing more than $1.2 billion of private capital that focuses on making direct private equity investments in middle market companies has announced the addition of Rashid Skaf to its private equity team. As senior advisor, Skaf will focus his time on sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities in the […]

Former AMX CEO Rashid Skaf Joins Investment Firm Highlander Partners

AMX by HARMAN Debuts Low-Bandwidth/Compressed 4K Over IP

HARMAN’s AMX just launched the N2300 Series of 4K lower-bandwidth video over IP solutions. With a bandwidth of less than 200 megabits per second, users can distribute 4K video over existing Gigabit Ethernet networks with what AMX says is only a latency of only one frame. The N2300 Series includes support for HDMI 2.0 and […]

AMX by HARMAN Debuts Low-Bandwidth/Compressed 4K Over IP

AMX Lowers Price of the Enova DGX 100 But, Instead of Writing that Story, I Wrote This One: Where in the Heck is AMX?

Since the acquisition of AMX by HARMAN, many of us in the HomeAV and ProAV markets have been wondering what happened to AMX. And, it’s not just that they’ve shrunk their once giant booths to tent-sized displays housed inside the larger HARMAN family. In fact, during that same period of time, Extron stopped exhibiting at […]

AMX Lowers Price of the Enova DGX 100 But, Instead of Writing that Story, I Wrote This One: Where in the Heck is AMX?

Innovative AV Integration Solutions Models: Part 1 – IoT in Control and Automation

Gamechanging – when one refers to the term, mistakenly in most instances, they are referring many times to a product (or “the box”) rather than a solution. I had such an instance in a meeting with representatives of a major industry company who were telling me about all the great capabilities of their new corporate […]

Innovative AV Integration Solutions Models: Part 1 – IoT in Control and Automation

The Ongoing “New” Prospects for Security in AV

How the “New” industry security discussion really began Back in mid-January of this year, the AV world was rocked by a story that truly caught fire within hours after it was first reported. I watched it filter through the industry – the articles and podcasts – however I waited for the right moment to post […]

The Ongoing “New” Prospects for Security in AV

AV/IT? IT/AV? Just Where Are We These Days?

As I ponder each day’s occurrences in the audio visual industry, the one thing that has come to mind lately with all of the articles and blogs I read, as well as podcasts that I listen to, is whether the industry really has an understanding of where it actually is in terms of that so-called […]

AV/IT? IT/AV? Just Where Are We These Days?

So You Want to Talk Security…

Headline: Channel Partners – 3/10/16: Network Security Incidents High Among World’s Largest Companies Story: A new survey of IT and security professionals reveals that 72 percent of organizations have experienced five or more network security incidents in the past 12 months. Regardless of region or technology, IT and security administrators revealed that their networks have significant blind […]

So You Want to Talk Security…

Collaboration Overload in the Business World? Some Perspectives For the AV Industry

Collaboration. Every day we hear about new ways to work as a team, new technology products that help to do it, devices introduced into the mix and much more. However may we be overlooking something important when discussing it in general conversation – that being the human element? I would like to begin by giving credit […]

Collaboration Overload in the Business World? Some Perspectives For the AV Industry