Canon is here launching a new 5000 lumen 4K projector as well as a plethora of other new projectors designed for corporate, education and digital signage applications. Canon European Marketing Specialist Colin Boyle takes me on a tour of their stand at ISE 2016 here in Amsterdam and what’s new — and, at the end, […]

dnp is packaging an optical 100” screen and a short-throw laser-phosphor 1-chip DLP projector in a packaged system called LaserPanel. LaserPanel is a prepackaged system that dnp is marketing towards AV integrators looking for a box-systems approach to selling against flat-panel systems in meeting rooms and schools. A 100″ Interactive LCD would cost well over […]

Medialon first exhibited at ISE 2015 to launch into the EMEA market. Medialon Overture is a cloud-based control system that allows you to control from one to hundreds of rooms, see real-time data from devices, and serve dynamically generated HTML interfaces (GUIs that are user-specific). The convergence of AV and IT is no longer just […]

Newline launched its 70” TRUTOUCH X7 last year at ISE and this year they’re debuting their X5 Interactive display with integrated videoconferencing, touch, wireless content transmission and whiteboarding. Newline Chief Marketing Officer Betty Lu demo’d both their new 50” X5 with their built-in interactive software as well as its X7 with third-party interactive touch software […]

What’s new with SMART? SMART debuted kapp last year but 2016 is all about kapp IQ and how it collaborates across devices. SMART VP of International Tom Yeates explains the company’s strategy behind SMART kapp and kapp IQ and its vision for collaboration in both the educational and corporate markets. For anyone wondering what’s up […]

InFocus has been spending money lately both on R&D as well as buying companies. In the past six months, they’ve acquired three companies and they’ve become way, way more than a projector or a Mondopad company. I caught up with InFocus Vice President of Marketing Brady Bruce, who filled me in on all the details […]

When I heard that a company literally branded a product with the name Flux Capacitor, I had to stop by and check it out — you may remember the movie BACK TO THE FUTURE? Eric Martin, senior systems engineer, at Just Add Power explained their Flux Capacitor as well as their their differentiation to the […]

I hadn’t heard of them either. Walking the aisle of the giant Hall 7 — known as the pro audio hall — at ISE, I stumbled across one of the coolest, if smallest, booths in there. It’s a company called TUTONDO. They have one of the nicest distributed audio systems (for the home and pro […]

Gary got a personal booth tour from BOSE Professional’s own Rob Kosman, their manager of Global Events and Applications. Many people don’t know that Bose is even in the commercial AV market and Rob, during the tour, demos a few interesting technologies that only Bose has including a very cool flexible array speaker system (both […]

                  Update: So, now there’s no more guessing as to why Crestron pulled out of CEDIA as I literally got the one (and only) interview with Crestron President and CEO Randy Klein, who spends 10 minutes outlining exactly how the decision was made and why. Watch the […]

I had a chance to catch up with Bose Director of Global Sales and Marketing Fuat Koro and he talks about their commercial AV strategy. Bose, known most-famously for its noise canceling headphones, Bose has had commercial AV products for over 40 years but a lot of people don’t even realize it. In fact, not […]

I caught up with Vivitek’s General Manager, Holger Graeff, this morning and he talked about their entry in to the wireless collaboration market here at ISE 2016. The company’s NovoPro (targeting meeting rooms) and NovoDS (targeting digital signage) both allow for network and wireless content to be sent to any display. In addition, Graeff talked […]

Today’s interviews: Well, first of all, Annabelle and I had a chance yesterday evening, before the show opened, to interview Steve Montgomery of IHSE about their new distributed KVM technology, which allows secure access to keyboard, video and mouse over an encrypted network. Today we first interviewed Steve Scorse of SiliconCore about their new high […]

I was given a one-on-one booth tour from Neil Colquhoun of Epson Europe. The design was intentional to highlight their focus on interactivity, the high brightness projector launch and their ability to do pixel mapping — in fact the tour ends with a Formula-1 car that’s completely pixel-mapped via 10 Epson 3LCD large venue projectors. […]

Nureva is here at ISE to sign up distributors. Nureva SPAN is making its debut in the EMEA market here at ISE 2016 and Gary caught up with founder, Nancy Knowlton, who explains the concept behind SPAN and what they’re EMEA plans are.

Kramer has one of the largest booths in Hall 1 here at ISE and they’re taking the opportunity to launch something called Kramer Network — an AV/IP solution. Gary caught up with Kramer’s VP of Business Development and Strategy, Aviv Ron, who explains Kramer’s new strategy and their outlook for 2016.

I stopped by the PLANAR booth here at ISE 2016 and spoke to Jennifer Davis, their CMO. She spoke about their merger with Leyard, the launch of their new transparent OLED and their focus on touch-enabled products – from 2K to 4K.

Nureva’s director of customer engagement, Rick Kennedy, took time to demo its SPAN product for me. SPAN is a 10-foot, 20-foot or 30-foot wide digital canvas that’s aimed at group collaboration. SPAN is an all-in-one system that includes a 16 x 9 (or 32 x 9 in the case of a two-projector system) digital canvas […]

Gary caught up with newly-minted CEDIA CEO Vin Bruno, just after the ISE 2016 ribbon-cutting where he talked about the aggressive plan CEDIA has to expand over the next couple of years. And, that expansion includes more outreach on way more education. In addition, Vin hints about a CEDIA-like pavilion at future building shows!

In addition to focusing on the simple user-experience Cisco has created with their line in recent years, Cisco’s focus at ISE 2016 is demo’ing their Speaker Track and Spark. Cisco Director of Collaboration Solutions Marketing Angie Mistretta explained Cisco’s presence at ISE and what visitors to their booth can expect.

You are likely using a Delta Displays projector — or have recently. But I’ll bet you that you didn’t even know it. How’s this possible? Well, they are one of the largest OEMs of projectors in the world. They have made projectors for Hitachi, NEC, Christie, Barco, BenQ (even though no one know this, it’s […]

Gary’s guest today is ISE’s Managing Director, Mike Blackman. This year’s ISE will be the first, ever 4-day AV show and will take place in Amsterdam 9-12 February. How do you get people to stay for a 4-day show? Well, the keynote, alone, will do it as Dr. Michio Kaku (author of Physics of the Future) […]

Every publication covering CES — including the residential and commercial AV one’s – have covered LG’s demo of a “rollable” or “foldable” screen as if it’s the biggest thing, ever. And, it may very well turn out to be. But, he truth is, it’s nothing but publicity-based hype. Sure, it’s interesting and, look at that […]

The InfoComm FlashTrack entitled Social Media Marketing for AV Pros, takes place on Wednesday, 10 Feb 2016 at 15:00-15:20 on Stand 12-N100 at Integrated Systems Europe 2016 – Europe’s largest tradeshow for the professional AV and electronic systems industry. Co-taught by rAVe founder Gary Kayye and Social Media Expert Kayla Blevins, the session is designed to help AV integrators and manufacturers, in […]

I’ve been teaching a Marketing 101 class at InfoComm for a few years now. And, ADVICE #1 to my students is: Publish case studies. But, I continue to be amazed at how few AV dealers market their services this way. They’ll spend thousands developing a cool logo, hire interns to use social media, place ads […]

Although everyone in the AV market who is already on LinkedIn or Facebook knew it already, QSC finally made it official, this week, that it’s hired Cory Schaeffer as director of systems solutions for QSC Systems. Cory has been in the ProAV market for over twenty five years and was the co-founder of Listen Technologies […]

LUTRON is the defacto-standard lighting control company in the AV market. Think lighting control, you think LUTRON. LUTRON lost its leader of 54 years when Joel Spira passed away on April 8, 2015. I had the pleasure of consulting for LUTRON and not only meeting Joel, but also working with him (indirectly, I will admit). […]

I want to start this off by making sure you all know I have a bias. I served on the InfoComm PETC (Professional Education & Training Committee for 12 years and as its chairman for four years. During that time, we developed the on-line CTS program, the CTS-I (CTS-Installation) certification as well as the CTS-D […]

Revolution Acoustics was at CEDIA launching something they are calling the SSP6 Multiducer. I am not even sure how to explain it to you so I am going to recommend that you watch the demo — it has a lot of potential. You probably won’t believe what you are seeing/hearing in the demo, but I […]

Vizio just put itself on everyone’s map today with the debut of a 120” TV — yes, it is really 120”. It’s an LED-backlit LCD monitor that’s 4K resolution. It was probably the biggest “wow” at the show. Everyone was talking about it and everyone went to see it. It’s only being sold by the […]

A company called Mass Fidelity just launched a totally wireless whole house audio system called Core. Using Wave Field Synthesis technology, they get a much deeper and more realistic sound out of each speaker than the SONOS system does — and I should know this as I have a SONOS system in my home. But, […]

Barco Residential celebrated its one-year anniversary at CEDIA Expo 2015 with a beer party — and with a 4K demo that was the best on the show floor (yes, it was better than Sony’s). And it wasn’t just because they showed a clip from Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens! Barco Residential is taking aim […]