AVNation Staff

PPDS, the exclusive global provider of Philips professional displays, is delighted to announce the official launch of its Wave ecosystem. The new, scalable and secure, state-of-the-art cloud platform is complemented with a dedicated ProStore marketplace for premium PPDS and certified development partner applications, all fully proven to integrate with Philips professional displays, while supporting a variety of use cases across industries including retail, education, corporate and hospitality.

As a company with strong roots in the arts, Leon is always looking for innovative ways to add an artistic twist to high-fidelity loudspeakers and soundbars. Leon demonstrates the natural harmony that exists between fine art and immersive audio with its design-forward Ente SoundTiles. This unique product transforms a traditional stereo system into a modern piece of wall art, seamlessly blending art and audio into residential and commercial environments. Each Ente SoundTile conceals two channels of reference-grade audio and an amplifier behind a perforated metal speaker grille that is screen printed with select artwork.

Lightware Visual Engineering will give the professional AV market its first glimpse of the new Lightware Advanced Room Automation (LARA) and dedicated vertical market solutions, at stand 3N200, ISE 2023, 31 January – 03 February 2023, Barcelona.

Stand back, NFL—Major League Soccer (MLS) is looking to make a move on the title for loudest sport in the stadium. CITYPARK, the new home of St. Louis CITY SC, the city’s MLS franchise, was designed with maximizing crowd noise in mind.

We are excited to share that BTX Technologies, Inc. (BTX) has been acquired by Resideo Technologies, Inc. and will join its ADI Global Distribution business. 

Committed to delivering the best products, technology, and services to its global integration reseller community of projection screens, Screen Innovations (SI) enters 2023 laser-focused on several key initiatives for continual growth, advancement, and leadership as a premier provider of projection screens for myriad applications.

Hall Technologies, a global AV company specializing in unified communications application, has added Ranger to its portfolio of USB workflow solutions. Ranger is a 4K multiview presentation switcher that can be utilized to simplify collaborations for both the corporate and education sectors. This device can be utilized as a stand-alone product, or an upgrade for any system with wireless casting, 4K and USB-C connectivity. Hall Technologies will be showcasing this product along with many others at ISE Barcelona 2023.

Leading control and automation manufacturer RTI is set to celebrate 30 years of technology today announced it has appointed New Era Marketing as its official sales representative serving dealers in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Effective today, New Era Marketing will represent both RTI and the Blustream AV distribution brands throughout the region.

Bluefin International, an innovative leader in digital signage solutions, has hired long-time industry veteran, Frank Pisano as CEO. Pisano is an experienced leader in the audio-visual, digital signage, and technology infrastructure industries, and brings 20+ years of client leadership, strategic sales, operational know-how, and revenue performance to the Bluefin team.

ureva Inc., an innovator in advanced IT-first audio conferencing solutions, announces that its HDL300 and Dual HDL300 audio conferencing systems now integrate with Extron control and automation solutions to deliver camera-tracking features that support hybrid working and learning. Extron used Nureva’s sound location device API, available through Nureva® Developer Toolkit, to update the Extron Control Systems Driver.