Philadelphia, PA — March 15, 2017 — Almo Professional A/V, North America’s largest professional audio visual distributor is partnering with InfoComm International to deliver a half-day IoT Insights Conference at Almo’s spring 2017 E4 AV Tour, which travels to Chicago on March 22 and San Jose on April 19. Worth a total of 3.5 CTS […]
Hitachi America just launched the LP-WU3500, a 3,500-lumen, WUXGA (1920×1200) LED projector. The High Lumen Density (HLD) technology works by channeling blue LED light through a phosphor rod, where it is discharged as bright green light. Working in tandem with high brightness red and blue LED lights, it achieves maximum brightness and a 30,000:1 contrast ratio. LED […]
Samsung Electronics Friday announced it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Harman International. Under the terms of the merger agreement, HARMAN stockholders will receive $112.00 per share in cash. The completion follows the satisfaction of all conditions to the closing of the transaction, including approval of the transaction by HARMAN stockholders and receipt of […]
Stephen McKay has been helping the Hospitality industry with AV services and products for over 15-years – now he’s doing it with Almo ProAV. As the Senior VP of Special Markets at Almo ProAV his role is to help Almo’s integrator partners sell and integrate products and services into he Hospitality market (i.e. hotels, dorms, hospitals, etc). And, […]
NEC Display Solutions of America announced today the latest generation of its flagship V and P Series commercial grade displays. Each series consists of three different sizes ranging from 40 inches to 55 inches and features a lighter chassis with a new thin bezel and a flush surface with a removable logo. They also contain a new anti-glare surface coating that […]
The latest addition to the Sharp AQUOS BOARD family is a 40” version in the form of the PN-L401C AQUOS BOARD. It’s 100 percent AQUOS BOARD in that it’s an interactive display — that can be used in either landscape, portrait or face-up orientation — and allows for wireless collaboration, annotation, screen sharing (wirelessly) and whiteboarding. The PN-L401C is […]
I was joined by Almo ProAV‘s Todd Heberlein to talk about how his role is to help ProAV integrators get into the digital signage market. Digital Signage happens to be the fastest growing segment of the ProAV market (growing by double-digits for the past four years in a row) but a lot of AV integrators […]
The concept of smart buildings is not new. For more than two dozen years, the construction design and management industries have been implementing the standards of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and making each building “smarter” than the next. Gone are the days with manual security systems, manual fire control systems, camera-less buildings or floors and nowadays everything […]
In today’s podcast, Gary is joined by Almo ProAV Director of Business Development Rob Ziv, who talks about the state of A in AV. Gary’s “AV Starts with A” webinar for Almo last week, was a huge hit and they continue their offline discussion after the webinar in his podcast. They talk about Dante, networked AV and where […]
The latest addition to Sharp’s AQUOS BOARD family is the new Sharp 40″ PN-L401C — capable of being used in landscape, portrait or face-up orientation. For digital signage applications, the PN-L401C serves as an interactive sign and for SMB offices it enables interactive collaboration is a “huddle space” environment. The PN-L401C interactive display shares some […]
I was joined by Eric Olson, Almo ProAV s Business Development Manager, who explained how they are now offering control system programming services for not only Crestron and AMX but also for Extron too. Almo is aiming this service to smaller integrators that may not have their own on-site programmer or if they need help with lager systems designs. In addition, they’ll even […]
THIS IS A PROMOTED POST Almo’s E4 AV Tour is back! The AV industry’s favorite distributor roadshow kicks off 2017 in the Chicago area next month (March 22nd) at the Drury Lane Theatre and Conference Center and in April in San Jose, California at the DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose — and this year’s event has a lot of […]
Philadelphia, PA — February 22, 2017 — Almo Professional A/V, North America’s largest professional audio visual distributor, has opened registration and revealed details surrounding its anticipated spring 2017 E4 AV Tour, which comes to Chicago on March 22 and San Jose on April 19. Named the best Training, Consulting/Business Service for the third year in a […]
Canon just launched what they are calling their flagship interchangeable lens LCOS projector, the REALiS WUX6500 ProAV LCOS. In addition, Canon also launched two new DLP projectors, the LV-HD420 Full HD DLP projector and LV-X420 DLP projector as well as a new optional lens, the wide zoom lens LX-IL08WZ. These are all aimed at higher […]
Hitachi Kokusai Electric America today announced the new Z-HD5500 HDTV studio and field production camera. The Z-HD5500’s new CMOS imagers adapt easily to a wide range of LED lighting conditions and is made for houses of worship, theaters, arenas and other facilities where such lights or large LED displays are used. Paired with Hitachi Kokusai’s […]
Embed Signage now includes full support of Samsung’s latest fourth-generation Smart Signage Platform Displays powered by Tizen. Tizen is an open source operating system. Although started by Samsung, Tizen was developed by a community of developers, under open source governance, and is open to all members who wish to participate. From today users can connect […]
Planar Leyard surprised everyone at ISE with a 0.7 millimeter LED wall at ISE — it was in there booth as well as in the LANG stand. This is a big deal as the previously smaller working LED was 0.9 millimeter. And, 0.7 millimeter represents nearly the same resolution as direct-view LCD. In addition, Leyard […]
Last year, WeConnect was in a private suite hidden from the show floor during ISE in Amsterdam. This year, it was surrounded by people interested in understanding how the wireless collaboration system, aimed at colleges and universities, works. If you haven’t heard of WeConnect, you should watch this interview I had at the Barco stand […]
The EPIC Series of Direct View LED Mounting Solutions is specifically for mounting LED displays. While Direct-View LED gets thinner, brighterand 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
