The show is over and it looked to be a very successful venture for many of the manufacturers and solutions providers in the industry. Collaboration, digital signage, high end projection, interactive display technologies and more seemed to be the major focus and the largest draw looked to be Microsoft with their 84″ Surface Hub interactive […]

On this episode of THE WEEK, Joel Rollins speaks with Tim Sinnaeve, Managing Director of Barco Residential, a new division of Barco dedicated to bringing Barco’s products to high end home installations. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Producing less than 35 decibels, Barco says that when someone integrates its new laser phosphor projector, meeting participants will hardly hear that they’re there. Available in two models — WXGA or WUXGA resolution — these projectors are spec’d to have a 6,000 ANSI lumens and 20,000-hour lifetime. The 1-chip DLP Present-P series projectors use a […]

Barco is launching new HD media servers at ISE — available in four models — that the company says will cover the entire workflow of video professionals, from design to operation. Thanks to the ‘Projection Study’ tool, the Barco media servers are ideally suited for rental and staging applications and 3D projection mappings, while they […]

‘Connecting Worlds’ is the Barco theme for ISE 2015. Because in today’s networked world, data from all kinds of sources has to be transferred across the borders of meeting rooms, buildings, countries and even continents to connect people, events and places. Barco says it is ready to take attendees on an inspirational journey through its […]

Barco and Vidyo jointly announced a partnership this week. In case you don’t know Vidyo, it’s a provider of cloud-based HD and UHD video conferencing solutions. The plan is to integrate Vidyo into Barco’s TransForm C enterprise collaboration solution to enable high-quality universal VTC communications. This will be demo’d at ISE next week in Amsterdam […]

Barco is expanding its projector portfolio for events and large venues with a three-chip DLP that’s spec’d at 30,000 lumens. The WUXGA (1,920 x 1,200) resolution HDF-W30 FLEX shares its modular design, preview mode, and ImagePRO scaling with the other HDX, HDF, and HDQ product family members and will ship in April. The 3-chip DLP […]

Although no official announcement has been issued, I found this video on the Barco YouTube page that indicates that a new ClickShare is on its way — or at least a major software update. Watch this video to see what you an expect to be officially debuted at ISE.

A couple of months ago, we wrote about Extron’s entry into the wireless sharing world and told you how this one was different than those from Crestron, Barco and AMX since it includes a moderator mode, 30 fps video playback and because of the fact that you can share content to up to four ShareLink […]

As you may know, Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) is Europe’s — and the world’s — largest AV show. Combining both residential and commercial AV technology in one giant trade show venue at the Amsterdam RAI, the show is nicely spread out in 12 easy-to-navigate halls that you can walk without back-tracking as it’s laid-out in […]

An interesting thing happened on the way to doing this interview. I have known Alison Maxson, Press and PR Specialist for Barco for quite some time and talked to her a little while back about my proposed Convergent Tech series. In trying to come up with the proper interview subject, topic of conversation and content […]

It’s been a busy week in the AV industry with new product announcements, upcoming events and number of new podcasts. In case you’ve missed something, we’ve got you covered. Weekly Wrap-Up | Dec. 5   ISE 2015 Will Set Records and Has an Amazing Program – Aren’t You Going? ISE 2015 will offer a wide […]

Barco’s Coronis Fusion 6MP LED is the 4th generation of the company’s Fusion line, its flagship healthcare display. This latest version features an IPS-Pro LCD panel, a wide viewing angle for a screen area that is 100 percent compliant to the ACR guideline for luminance ratio. Brightness is spec’d at 500 cd/m² for the 30” […]

Barco just introduced a new range of dome displays for the training and simulation market. Using high-tech screens and optics, and lightweight support structures, Barco says these new simulation domes are easy to transport and to set up. Available in different configurations, with varying number and type of projectors, the TD series brings high quality […]

Happy Thanksgiving AVTweeps! We hope you all had a great holiday and enjoyed the day off, if you had it. Here are the top stories from the week, in cased you missed any of them and need a second look. • Celebrating 100: A Look Back • Good AV Kickoff Show: Networked Video Like Nothing You’ve Seen […]

Barco will share results of its research on color visualization of medical images, which they say indicates the need for a new calibration standard to ensure the color accuracy of medical displays. Tom Kimpe, PhD and vice president of technology and innovation for Barco Healthcare will present Barco’s findings in a paper entitled “Are Medical […]

Barco’s Coronis Fusion 6MP LED can be used as two seamless 3MP heads or one wide-screen 6MP display for healthcare imaging applications. Addressing the needs of both grayscale and color imaging, the Coronis Fusion 6MP allows you to read CT, MR, cath and echo cardiogram images, or any other combination, side by side on a […]

Barco just launched a single-chip DLP projector outputting 12,000 center lumens light output. The brand-new RLS-W12 offers WUXGA (1,920×1,200) resolution, extended warping and blending, and HDBaseT technology to provide video over a single Cat 5 cable. This new projector is the perfect choice for small- to medium-sized venues, and its optional rental frame makes it […]

Kortrijk, Belgium, 20 November 2014 – Global projection technology leader Barco is proud to expand its projector portfolio with a cost-effective single-chip DLP® projector producing 12,000 center lumens light output. The brand-new RLS-W12 offers WUXGA (1,920 x 1,200) resolution, extended warping and blending, and HDBaseT technology to provide video over a single Cat 5 cable. […]

New Delhi, India, 12 November, 2014 – Digital cinema leader Barco is proud to announce the first completed installation in New Delhi of its Auro 11.1 by Barco immersive sound technology. Place of implementation is the PVR multiplex in the Pacific Mall, Tagore Garden; one of the busiest places in India’s capital. The project also […]

In a continuous search for interesting industry AV/IT solutions, I happened upon a certain solution recently that was of great interest to me. I’ve been looking at numerous networked solutions and it just so happened that Barco has a solution set for just this purpose. Barco, a global leader in professional visualization systems, designs and […]

Happy Friday AVTweeps! Here is this week’s Weekly Wrap-Up featuring Almo’s latest service for integrators, Barco’s new projector line launch, a blog post as to why grammar still matter, Extron’s entrance into the wireless presentation market and more. If you think we missed anything, please let us know!   Post by rAVe.

Barco has introduced 10 new corporate AV projectors under the brand Present-C. Present-C projectors are all single-chip DLP projectors with brightness levels ranging from 3,000 up to 8,000 lumens. Resolutions include 1080p, WUXGA, Panorama and WQXGA, with all models spec’d at low noise dB levels. Here are all the announced models, with additional specs and […]

Barco has launched a new kind of projector with the RLM-W14, a three-chip DLP projector offering Active Stereo 3D, WUXGA (1920×1200) resolution, and a brightness level of 14,500 center lumens. This is the first three-chip DLP Barco projector that’s equipped with HDBaseT technology to provide video over a single Cat5 cable. The RLM-W14 is designed […]

It’s Friday, so that means it is time for the Weekly Wrap-Up. This week we are featuring a couple blog post, the latest AV People column, Barco is launching its new multi-screen theatrical format and more! Gary Kayye writes about business traveling for the recent grad and Corey Moss writes about Google Glass. Enjoy and […]

At CinemaCon last March in Las Vegas, Barco debuted a new theatrical concept that featured three screens in the theater — a main screen and two side screens. The idea was to offer a more immersive experience, which they showed with some compelling content. Now, Barco Escape is ready to roll out this fall in […]

Usually, the second day of a show is slightly less crowded for a plethora of reasons (e.g., training classes, meetings, people who pop into a show for only one day usually attend Day One, late night Day One parties, etc). But CEDIA 2014 enjoyed a busier second day than the first. No doubt. And, the […]

Barco’s first residential product, dubbed the Orion, is truly a one-of-a-kind in that it’s the industry’s only 2.35:1 aspect ratio (CinemaScope) projector on the market. The Orion Cinemascope uses a new high-capacity DLP chip, developed by Barco engineers in partnership with Texas Instruments, which allows an image of 2,560×1,080 resolution to be displayed in the […]

The HDBaseT Alliance announced today that Barco has joined the HDBaseT Alliance with the launch the Orion Cinemascope home projector. Barco’s HDBaseT-enabled Residential Orion Cinemascope is the world’s first lamp-based single-chip DLP projector that combines native cinemascope aspect ratio (2,560 x 1,080) resolution with active stereo 3D and high frame rates. It uses 78 percent […]

Well, the annual eye-candy AV show known as CEDIA kicks off this week and I thought I would write a quick blog that, hopefully, you can print out and keep with you to make sure you see these seven things while in Denver: 1. The projector market is back! For years, the projector has been […]

Happy Friday! This week on the Weekly Wrap-Up we are featuring the stories we think you can’t miss from this week including: the announcement of CEDIA’s 2014 Manufacturers’ Excellence Awards Finalists, our latest infographic along with a blog post from Gary Kayye, InfoComm’s AV Executive Conference is scheduled for Sept. 17-19, and more! If you […]

By Patrick Lee Vice President, Entertainment & Corporate – Barco We’ve all been there: Sitting around a conference table fidgeting while awaiting the arrival of the IT specialist to untangle the mass of cables, get the presenter’s PowerPoint on screen, the clock ticking away as attendees lose interest and contemplate life beyond the meeting room. […]