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ProAV Distributor Starin’s VP of Marketing, Bobby Swartz, said that they’ve played a low-profile intentionally over the past year – and they’ll use InfoComm to launch something totally new: ProAV Outfitters. What is ProAV Outfitters? It’s sort-of a pre-packaged service for AV integrators – but, not exactly. It’s sort of Zoom Rooms  but not exactly. It’s sort of […]

In our market, Broadata is not as known as they are in the movie theater and operating room markets where they manage sending high-bandwidth video and audio around at up to 18G. Well, they’ll be at InfoComm with both SDVoE and HDBaseT offerings as well as a new fiber-based 18G 4K distribution system for HDMI. Gary was joined by Broadata’s Joshua […]

Visix was the first digital signage provider that targeted helping get the AV integrator community into digital signage. That was more than a decade and a half ago. Now they provide signage players, room signs, creative signage software and signage management systems. And, at InfoComm 2018, they’ll launch a new Enterprise version of their AxisTV software for facility-wide signage […]

Gary was joined by Polycom’s Product Marketing Manager, Kerri Whelan, today who joined the videocast on a Polycom Trio — their Voice and Video Conferencing solution. RealPresence Trio has redefined the conference phone category by serving as the smart hub for your group collaboration and bringing easy-to-use, no-compromise visual collaboration to spaces that were previously cost prohibitive. Watch this […]

DVIGear’s CEO, Steven Barlow, joined Gary on today’s podcast to talk about their partnership with the SDVoE Alliance in AV-over-IP 4K signal routing. DVIGear was one of the first adopters of SDVoE the 10G AV-over-IP standard, and his insight into their application of it is always interesting(now the DisplayNet 200) – and, Gary asked him the equation […]

Gary was joined on today’s podcast by Steve Seminario, Product Marketing at Planar Systems Inc, a Leyard Company, to talk about heir launch, today, of the new DirectLightX 0.7mm-2.5mm LED walls and WallSync, a family of technologies integrated into the Clarity Matrix G3 Video Wall System. Leyard Planar will be in the Central Hall in booth C2520 and they ALWAYS impress with their huge imaging […]

NEC Display is heading to InfoComm with a new booth, a 35K lumen projector, 75, 86” and 98” 4K displays and a few surprises! Keith Yanke, NEC’s Senior Director of Product Marketing, joined Gary on his podcast today to talk all about their plans. NEC is in the Central Hall in booth 1864 and will show projection from 5K […]

In addition to launching their new Series 4 digital signage players, BrightSign will demo 4K H.265 streaming of DS content (with security), show their HS-123 system-on-a-chip, show the benefits of HDR10+ & Dolby Vision and a few other surprises at InfoComm in booth N2846 this week. BrightSign is the market leader in digital sing players and if you stop by […]

This is my third discussion, in less than a year, with NETGEAR’s Senior Product Line Manager for Managed Switches, Laurent Masia, to talk about the state of AV-over-IP in the Commercial AV market. Laurent is in a unique position to know what’s going on as NETGEAR, as you likely know, makes network switching and routing gear and that’s […]

Have you ever needed to hire AV talent, part-time? Or, are you an AV freelancer and want to work? Can’t figure out where to go? Well, a new company, AV Junction, can help you. AV Junction launched just 6 months ago and already has 1000 AV freelancers registered on their website — including their talent level, expertise […]

Put FSR on your InfoComm booth list (Central Hall booth 2128) as they will be using VR (virtual reality) to allow you to see the product your looking at, in their booth, in a real-life install — using VR headsets. Gary was joined by FSR’s director of global sales, Chaz Porter, who talked about the FSR Experience VR project, […]

Almo ProAV has offered a host of services to add-value to the 40+ manufacturer partners — things like content creation for digital signage networks, installation service, control programming services and internet bandwidth. All offer integrators recurring revenue opportunities for any AV gear they buy and integrate. Well, Almo ProAV has rebranded them AND is offered a […]

Aurora Multimedia founder, Paul Harris, is using InfoComm to announce and release a new JavaScript-based control platform for the ProAV market. Dubbed ReAX  his intention is to make it freely available, via a non-profit alliance at www.reax.org, to any and all AV manufacturers that need to have their gear controlled. His reason? He thinks the market is ripe for […]

Peter Vasay, GM & SVP at THX Labs, speaks with me about the companies newly most recently launched website, THX STANDARD. Peter & I discuss everything from how their consumer electronics rating website that provides objective and data-driven evaluations of the audio and visual fidelity of consumer electronics to help consumers make informed purchase decisions, […]

Gary was joined by Semtech Corproation‘s Gareth Heywood, Video Products Market Manager — the company that designed and makes the reference chips for all the SDVoE Alliance members. As you likely know, the SDVoE AV-over-IP standard is a 10G standard with the least compression of 4K over IP. But, I posed the question that everyone has wanted to ask them […]

Gary had Christie’s Senior Product Manager, Karl Johnson, actually demo their Terra AV-over-IP system on today’s video version of his podcast. Christie’s Terra solution is unique in that it includes a controller — and a really neat software interface. You can see how easy it is to design AV systems, switch them and stage and moderate routing using […]

IDK Corporation will head to InfoComm (Booth C4051) with both their SDVoE-capable 10G AV-over-IP gear as well as their legacy HDMI and RGB routing and swinging systems. Because they do both, they will be able to provide you with a unique perspective on signal routing today vs. what we’re likely to see in the future via the network. Gary was […]

Peerless-AV’s VP of North American and APAC, Brian McClimans, just delivered the best videocast we’ve ever recorded, seriously. So, he set up a working Xtreme High Bight Outdoor 2500nit Outdoor Display outside in the mid-day sun and then proceeded to shoot it with a paint ball gun to show it’s durability. But, he didn’t stop there. He […]

If you’re shooting, managing, or editing video — especially 4K video — you need to stop by the Atomos booth C3478 at InfoComm. Atomos is the first recorder company that uses Apple’s new ProRes RAW format and if you need to record, play, monitor or edit high-res video on-the-fly without having to sit in a production suite, Atomos is it. Atomos’ Senior […]

TASCAM will be at InfoComm in booth C915 and they’ll have everything from cassette recorders (yes, I typed cassette) to Dante Audio on-ramps and adapters. So, why do they still have cassette recorders? What about mixers – what, TASCAM does mixers? And, what can we expect from the industry’s only audio-only company? Listen (or watch) this podcast/videocast with TASCAM’s VP […]

Sharp will not only debut a brighter display line in the PNM Series, but they will have new 4K AQUOS Boards,  a new 80” collaboration board and even an entire area dedicated to 8K. Gary was joined by Sharp’s Director of Pro AV Product Marketing, Gary Bailer, today who detailed what they will be doing at infoComm in […]

InFocus’ new button-based wireless HDMI transmission system for simple connectivity of laptops to to displays is dubbed SimpleShare  And, Gary asked InFocus VP of Marketing Loren Shaw and SimpleShare Product Manager, Michael Liggett, to demo it for him on today’s videocast — and they agreed. No tricks — they connected, paired and displayed an entire system […]

There are 20+ manufacturers of displays and projectors at InfoComm this year. But, few leaders. Barco not only invented a number of the segments of the projection market but they’ve always innovated. I asked Barco’s Peter Pauwels to join me and talk all about InfoComm. In booth C2536 this year (and in meeting room 257), Barco will […]

The world’s largest exporter of LEDs is Absen. InfoComm 2017 was their coming-out party and InfoComm 2018 their booth (N1618) will be a giant launch of all-new LEDs. Everything will be new, according to Absen’s Senior Marketing & Communications Manager, Alison Maxson. Every pixel-pitch, every size, every form-factor (including a new system-on-a-chip) and every application from Install to Staging […]

Anchor Audio’s Nick Craig joined Gary on his podcast today to detail their Series 2 launch in two weeks at InfoComm that includes a new 1.9 GHz Mic system using AnchorLink, new Lithium Ion battery technology and a mic line with both mute and volume control of the speakers — wirelessly located up to 300-feet away. Anchor […]

Nureva will be at InfoComm with an all-new Nureva SPAN Wall system, the recently launched Dual HDL300 audio conferencing system and a software update that includes a Follow-me feature for meeting leaders. What’s Follow-me and why should you put Nureva’s booth N1276 (inside the UC Pavilion) on your booth tour at InfoComm? Listen (or watch) to today’s videocast/podcast with Nureva President […]

Originally thought of just as a digital signage solution, Panasonic’s LinkRay technology has become more of a platform for the company since launching it at last year’s InfoComm show. Gary was joined on today’s podcast by Panasonic Business Development Manager, Brent Sanders, we explained how LinkRay can be used for access control, control, interactivity in meeting rooms and classrooms […]

Matthew Davis, VP of new product dev. and project manager for https://www.zwaveproducts.com/, speaks with me about all things Z-wave (products, knowledge, and solutions, that can all be sourced at their aforementioned website, as well as a new product/tool they just launched. Some say it’s too expensive, but I say you don’t what you have. It’s definitely […]

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST Brawn Consulting has worked with Samsung for over 15 years. And, Jonathan Brawn joined Gary on his podcast today to talk all about LED — including the new MICRO LED, called ONYX, that Samsung wants to use to replace projection in movie theaters. Almo ProAV is a distributor and arranged for us to bring […]

The inspiration for this week’s Selling AV came from a friend who asked me what I thought of emailing proposals. Listen to hear a couple of my thoughts on the matter.

The SDVoE Alliance (for 10G AV-over-IP network-based signal routing) is up to 39 adopter companies making products that send AV signals (up to and including 4K) over the network. And, all of them are cross compatible. For example, you can use iMAG transmitters with Christie Digital receivers while using VuWall software to run the system. And, at InfoComm the SDVoE will have over […]

EloTouch’s Kristin Roubie joined Gary on a pre-InfoComm Videocast to show some of their new collaborative solutions, including a new touch-based Collaboration Board integrated with DisplayNote’s Montage software – including a one-year license for free. EloTouch is unique in that all their touch systems can be mounted in portrait, landscape of flat and they have collaboration boards up […]