Tim Albright

InfoComm 2026 Recap: Where the Pro AV Industry Is Heading

InfoComm 2026 is in the books. The show drew 28,132 verified attendees and 807 exhibitors, according to AVIXA. That is slightly below 2025's more than 31,000 attendees. However, a broader look at the past five years tells a clearer...

Modern Work at Crestron Masters 2026

For the first time stateside, Crestron's Modern Work event is a hands-on product training program, not a conference. Here's what IT and AV managers will actually learn in San Antonio. I was in Madrid last May when Modern Work at...

AI-Enabled Conference Rooms: What Almo Pro AV’s Sales Data Tells

Dan Smith has spent a lot of time in meeting rooms lately. Not his own. But everyone else's. The Executive Vice President at Almo Pro AV traveled to New York City recently for six back-to-back company meetings. In five...

Shure’s IntelliMix Bar Pro Targets IT’s Hybrid Collaboration Headache

Hybrid collaboration is no longer a pandemic workaround. It is a permanent feature of enterprise meeting culture. And as conference rooms hit their natural refresh cycle, the buying conversation is shifting. Audio quality and platform manageability now lead the...

SDDP on LG TV: What It Is and When to Turn It On | AVNation

If you found an SDDP setting on an LG TV, you probably landed in a network or IP control menu and wondered whether something important was turned on by mistake. The short answer: SDDP is a discovery feature used by...

Is Zoom Workplace the Same as Zoom? | AVNation

Yes and no. Zoom Meetings still exists. The meeting links still work. Users can still click a Zoom link, join a call, turn on the camera, share a screen, and get through a meeting the way they have for years. What...

Microsoft Teams Room Strategy: Why IT Buyers Need to Decide Now | AVNation

The Channel Pulse Q1 2026 data is a channel report. But buried in every finding about what resellers sell is a mirror image of what your organization should be buying. Microsoft Teams has won the meeting room. Not won as in...

Why Your Mass Notification System Just Became Your Most Important IT Asset

How AtlasIED’s AIX platform is transforming mass notification systems into unified AI-powered campus safety infrastructure with edge AI, wearable alerts, and automated compliance testing.

Microsoft Teams Rooms Certified Hardware: What Buyers Need to Know | AVNation

New data from Blue Touch Paper reveals where the UC market is moving. Here is what IT and AV buyers need to act on now. The conversation happening in the channel right now is not about products. It is about...

Ross Video Voyager and Trackless Virtual Production at NAB 2026 | AVNation

A new Canon PTZ partnership and a relabeled Voyager workflow position virtual production for broadcasters with smaller budgets. At NAB Show 2026 in Las Vegas, Ross Video pushed virtual production toward smaller broadcast budgets. The company paired its Unreal Engine-based...

About Me

Tim Albright is the founder of AVNation and is the driving force behind the AVNation network. He carries the InfoComm CTS, a B.S. from Greenville College and is pursuing an M.S. in Mass Communications from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. When not steering the AVNation ship, Tim has spent his career designing systems for churches both large and small, Fortune 500 companies, and education facilities.
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Why AV technology is becoming a critical component of smart manufacturing, operational visibility, collaboration, and digital transformation strategies.

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