Weekly Wrap-Up: InfoComm 2014

Well, this year’s InfoComm Show has come and gone. It was an amazing show and the attendance for 2014 broke an all-time attendance record! In case you missed something, we have decided to dedicate this week’s Weekly Wrap-Up to InfoComm 2014. This wrap up only covers a small amount of news that came from the […]

Weekly Wrap-Up: InfoComm 2014

Barco Introduces HD Digital Mirror System for Large-Venue Projectors

Barco showed at InfoComm the MMS (Moving Mirror System), a new projector accessory that empowers show designers with HD images anywhere on stage or within an exhibit. From installations to rental and staging, the new MMS is integrated with options for programming dynamic, artistic shows. Using a large, custom front surface and optically flat mirror, […]

Barco Introduces HD Digital Mirror System for Large-Venue Projectors

Barco Takes on Dataton with 4K Show Controller

Barco’s new E2 image processor features native 4K inputs and outputs and supporting 4K content at professional frame rates (up to 60p 4:4:4). The E2 is integrated with eight mixable PGM outputs and four scaled AUX outputs for full show control within a single box. Whether native or scaled inputs, two connectors or four, this […]

Barco Takes on Dataton with 4K Show Controller

Gary MC’s the Barco F50 Launch

Barco’s merger with projectiondesign is celebrated with their first collaborative product line in the form of the F50 Series of projectors. And, it was all captured on video as rAVe founder Gary Kayye, toasts the launch with Jorn Eriksen, General Manager of the projectiondesign division and Patrick Lee, VP of Marketing, Corporate and Entertainment.

Gary MC’s the Barco F50 Launch

Barco Introduces the ClickShare Management Suite

Barco has introduced a new piece of software called the ClickShare Management Suite. This new Web-based tool allows administrators to manage the entire fleet of ClickShare units throughout the enterprise from a central position. Features include performing or scheduling updates, consulting a range of information, and making sure all Base Units perform optimally. Barco’s ClickShare […]

Barco Introduces the ClickShare Management Suite

Barco LiveDots Launches Lower Cost LED screens for Retail and Advertising

Barco LiveDots’s newest LED display range is designed for entry-level outdoor branding and advertising applications. The cutting-edge T platform – currently available with 8 and 10 millimeter pixel pitch – features a unique design that eliminates the need for a custom-calibrated secondary steel structure which is required for conventional tile-based LED screens. Built on self-supporting […]

Barco LiveDots Launches Lower Cost LED screens for Retail and Advertising

Barco Adds Compact and High-Res Projectors for Attractions, Data Visualization and Collaboration

Barco has expanded its single-chip DLP projector line-up to now include familiar F50 Panorama but added WUXGA and Full HD models aimed at exhibitions and high-end visitor attractions to corporate collaboration suites, 24/7 control rooms and big data analytics labs. The new F50 range offers a unique high resolution and active 3D stereo at higher […]

Barco Adds Compact and High-Res Projectors for Attractions, Data Visualization and Collaboration

Barco Intros Bundled LCD video walls

Dubbed the Instant VideoWall solution, Barco is offering customers an all-in-one package (aka pre-packaged) that simplifies the configuration process dramatically and saves time and money. The Instant VideoWall is the first of Barco’s next-generation, fit-for-purpose LCD visualization platforms. These are designed to offer high level image quality and performance, simplified installation and maintenance and 24/7 […]

Barco Intros Bundled LCD video walls

Barco Connect! Aims to Simplify ProAV Sales (And Has a Cool Logo, Too)

Barco is launching a new channel partner program at InfoComm to expand and reward its network of ProAV resellers for marketing and selling Barco’s products in the U.S. Barco says it has developed a simple framework to empower reseller partners in growing and differentiating its businesses with market-leading products: the Barco Connect! Partner Program. And, […]

Barco Connect! Aims to Simplify ProAV Sales (And Has a Cool Logo, Too)

Barco Debuts 35K Lumen Projector

Barco has expanded its projection portfolio for rental and staging and house of worship markets with a brand-new three-chip DLP projector with a specified brightness level of 35,000 lumens. Dubbed the HDQ-4K35, this projector is capable of showing native 4K content at 60 Hz frame rates. It has an integrated design with internal power supply, […]

Barco Debuts 35K Lumen Projector

Weekly Wrap-Up: June 6, 2014

Happy Friday, and once again, we have the Weekly Wrap-Up for you. Every Friday we post this past week’s most important news stories in case you missed them or so you can get a second look. As we are getting ready for InfoComm 2014 we posted a preview of THE GAME 5.0 at this year’s […]

Weekly Wrap-Up: June 6, 2014

Barco Brings New Narrow Bezel LCDs With Embedded Processor to InfoComm

Barco will launch a new range of tiled, ultra-narrow bezel LCD video walls at InfoComm. The Full-HD (1080p) 46” and 55” LCD panels, with light outputs spec’d at 700 and 500 cd/m², address the needs of customers in a wide range of applications, such as control rooms, broadcast, signage, meeting rooms and rental & staging. […]

Barco Brings New Narrow Bezel LCDs With Embedded Processor to InfoComm

Barco Intros Entry-Level Narrow-Bezel LCD displays for Tiled Video Walls

The new Barco OverView EVD-4621 is designed for use in non-24/7 environments, including meeting rooms, stores, advertising, and communications. This new model adds to Barco’s existing narrow-bezel LCD display portfolio, which now offers a solution for every application and budget. The OverView EVD-4621 is a 46” LCD that uses a 1080p native display with a […]

Barco Intros Entry-Level Narrow-Bezel LCD displays for Tiled Video Walls

Audience Entertainment Discusses Interactive Digital Cinema

By Matt Brennesholtz Display Central Audience Entertainment and Barco announced on March 18th a partnership creating a new interactive technology platform for moviegoers called iD — Interactive Dimension. iD builds upon digital projection and 3D technology to create a new cinema environment allowing moviegoers to physically connect and control the screen’s content the moment they […]

Audience Entertainment Discusses Interactive Digital Cinema

Hospitals Look to Patient Engagement to Meet Healthcare Delivery Challenges

By Stephane Willaert Vice President Strategic Marketing, Healthcare IT Solutions for Barco Today’s hospitals are facing a sea change in the healthcare industry as a result of increasing pressures to deliver quality care to millions of newly insured patients gaining access under the new Affordable Care Act. Compounding the problem is the need to keep […]

Hospitals Look to Patient Engagement to Meet Healthcare Delivery Challenges

Laser Projection, the Cinema Experience and 4K Topping Our Interests

CinemaCon was last week and NAB is next week, but there has been no let up in the news flow from these events.  Let’s take a look. CinemaCon was a watershed for news about the future of the cinema.  Laser projection was a hot topic we covered a few times: Christie Takes a Different 6p […]

Laser Projection, the Cinema Experience and 4K Topping Our Interests

Barco Becomes First Projector Manufacturer to Issue All ProAV Projectors as BIM Objects

Barco told rAVe today that all its corporate AV projector line will be available as BIM objects starting immediately. Now consultants, architects and designers will have quick access to complete and detailed product information to easily integrate the Barco projectors from the very start of their design phase. The Barco Present projectors for corporate AV […]

Barco Becomes First Projector Manufacturer to Issue All ProAV Projectors as BIM Objects

Barco Enters Digital Signage Market in Big Way with Acquisition of X2O Media

Barco today announces the acquisition of Montreal (Canada) based enterprise communication specialist X2O Media. In line with Barco’s strategy to move beyond display and projection technology, this acquisition expands the portfolio with a complete solution to deliver enhanced and cross-divisional content distribution and workflow, based on advanced networking and connectivity capabilities. Best known, recently, as […]

Barco Enters Digital Signage Market in Big Way with Acquisition of X2O Media

Barco to Enter Residential Market in 2014

One of the first products that Barco ever built was a radio — that was nearly 80-years ago. Now, nearly 40 percent of the digital cinema screens in the world at movie theaters are equipped with Barco’s projectors. It was only a matter of time before they entered the home theater and home cinema markets. […]

Barco to Enter Residential Market in 2014

BARCO Sees Vision for Social Media Command and Control Systems

Command and control systems have traditionally been designed, built and marketed towards governments, utilities and security applications where 24/7/365 monitoring could mean the difference between life and death. But Barco’s Senior VP and GM Industrial & Government Jacques Bertrand explained that the future of command and control includes corporate social media marketing and monitoring as […]

BARCO Sees Vision for Social Media Command and Control Systems

Barco Intros Lossless Encoding/Decoding

Barco’s new version of its TransForm N system is the NGS-D200 video-to-data (V2D) encoder/decoder that’s capable of streaming graphics of up to 4 megapixels across networks. Barco’s TransForm N networked visualization system is an information distribution system that can distribute content from an infinite number of sources to an infinite number of displays. Simply connect […]

Barco Intros Lossless Encoding/Decoding

A Merger Done Right: Barco and projectiondesign Celebrate First Birthday

I was honored to be invited to be the MC for the first birthday celebration of the merger between Barco and projectiondesign this morning; but, problem was, I was nervous. After 20-some years of interviewing all sorts of industry experts, pundits, executives and spokespeople, I can’t remember having more butterflies than I had this morning […]

A Merger Done Right: Barco and projectiondesign Celebrate First Birthday

Barco LiveDots Intros LCD-based Indoor and Outdoor Advertisement Kiosks

Barco LiveDots has expanded its portfolio with a new family of LCD-based advertisement kiosks. Targeted to the retail and advertising market, the brand-new range consists of five displays. Available as single- or double-sided displays for both floor- and wall-mounted setups, the LCD55ix (indoor, 55 inch), LCD55ox (outdoor, 55 inch), LCD72ix (indoor, 72 inch) and LCD72ox […]

Barco LiveDots Intros LCD-based Indoor and Outdoor Advertisement Kiosks

Barco Introduces Video Wall for Big Data Collaboration and Monitoring

Barco’s new OverView Seamless Videowall (OSV) series is a large panoramic seamless canvas that can display a mix of data and video in high quality without the distraction of seams or bezels. This curved display suits the visualization needs of a multitude of applications — from crisis operations rooms, to brainstorming and planning rooms, to […]

Barco Introduces Video Wall for Big Data Collaboration and Monitoring

Mersive Takes on Crestron (and Barco)

In a challenge to Crestron’s AirMedia wireless room system and Barco’s ClickShare, Mersive has taken an aggressive approach to marketing its Solstice software-based solution. In calling the Crestron AirMedia a, “proprietary piece of hardware” and “difficult to update or maintain,” Mersive is pitting itself against a giant in room control and signal distribution. Mersive even […]

Mersive Takes on Crestron (and Barco)

Barco Adds to ClickShare Product Line With New Smaller Version

Since its introduction, ClickShare (the industry’s first totally wireless room collaboration system that allows all participants to share their content on the central meeting room screen at the click of a button) over a year ago, we’ve said over and over that this was a system that would change the signal routing market forever. Certainly, […]

Barco Adds to ClickShare Product Line With New Smaller Version

Almo Pro A/V Closes Year with 4th Record-Setting E4 AV Tour Stop

The New Jersey version of the Almo Pro A/V E4 AV Tour was held last week in the Meadowlands Exposition Center and not only did it set an attendance record for a New York area show, at over 600, but it was also an all-time attendance record for the four year AV Tour. If you’re […]

Almo Pro A/V Closes Year with 4th Record-Setting E4 AV Tour Stop

The Evolution of Large-Venue Projection: Is Laser the Next Frontier?

By Richard Marples Strategic Marketing Director, Venues & Attractions for Barco The entertainment world has a virtually unquenchable thirst for innovative media, embracing new technologies as soon as they’re introduced to power their creative visions. Today’s large venue projectors have evolved in technical sophistication to the point whereby visual entertainment is limited only by show […]

The Evolution of Large-Venue Projection: Is Laser the Next Frontier?

rAVe Scoop: Barco Introduces Three New High-Brightness Projector Lines

Over the next ten days, Barco will introduce a series of new products for its corporate audiovisual line, including three new projector families — the Present line, the Collaborate line and the Impress line. The Present line is a series of one-chip DLP projectors ranging in brightness from 5,000 lumens up to 10,000 lumens. They […]

rAVe Scoop: Barco Introduces Three New High-Brightness Projector Lines

Smart Infrastructures are Changing Control Room Visualization Needs

By Peter Bussens Director of Segment Marketing, Barco Control Rooms Growing urbanization presents new demands Today, we are finding ourselves in the midst of a rapid migration of society from the rural countryside to bustling cities. Only 200 years ago, most of the world’s population lived in the outlying areas, with only three percent calling […]

Smart Infrastructures are Changing Control Room Visualization Needs

Barco Adds 16:9 LED Video Wall Displays to Economical OverView M Series

Barco has just released two new rear-projection video wall cubes in the OverView M series. The OverView MVL-621 and OverView MVL-721 are industry-standard modules with full HD resolution and screen diameters of 60” and 70”, respectively. These 16:9 models complete the OverView M series, which already features three 4:3 models. Barco’s OverView M series is […]

Barco Adds 16:9 LED Video Wall Displays to Economical OverView M Series

InfoComm 2013 Awards: Best New LED Wall: Barco V Series

        To see a list of all the awards we are giving as part of our 2013 rAVe Best of InfoComm awards, click here. To see all our of InfoComm 2013 coverage, click here. Best New LED Wall: Barco V Series The V series LED displays are specifically designed for fixed installations […]

InfoComm 2013 Awards: Best New LED Wall: Barco V Series