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  • Digital Signage without screens

    Hypervsn by Kino-mo is a unique digital signage experience

    At DSE 2018 we came across a unique digital signage appliance. These devices look like fans to the uninitiated. When they are powered on they create an almost 3D image that allows companies to display eye-catching graphics and video to the audience.
    The package includes the unit as well as the software to deliver, manage, and schedule the messages being delivered. You can access the units locally or across the Internet. Hypervsn is not yet available through distribution in the U.S. but that is “coming soon”. If you are interested, you can contact Kino-mo directly.
    To watch the rest of our DSE 2018 coverage click here.

  • Capturing class, meetings with MediaSite

    MediaSite partners with AV dealers to get classroom capture moved beyond education

    AVNation sat down with Victoria Dade from MediaSite and Sonic Foundry about their move beyond lecture capture and into the boardroom. The software company is actively showing solutions for recording and searching, meetings and presentations.
    Dade also explains the importance of meeting with consultants and dealers in person. According to Dade, those meetings and shows give you the chance to help with upcoming projects as well as explaining new and deeper features of their product line.
    To watch the rest of our coverage of AVI-SPL SAS 2018 click here.

  • NEC's big play at DSE 2018

    NEC's big play at DSE 2018

    Fresh off an award-winning ISE, NEC hits the digital signage show with 4K, mixed mediums, and retail displays

    Rich Ventura from NEC talks with Tim Albright about the visuals manufacturer’s next steps in both audiovisual and digital signage. They conduct the interview in front of a display of 4K digital signage monitors. Throughout the booth in Vegas, there were retail demonstrations that highlighted several pairs of shoes with projection mapping, a combination projector and monitor archway and using digital signage and data analytics to provide more of an ROI to a digital signage installation.
    To watch the rest of our DSE 2018 coverage click here.

  • Herman Pro AV on partnering with AVI-SPL

    Chris Bianchet talks about the benefits of working with the global AV dealer

    Herman as an organization has been involved with AVI-SPL for over a decade. Chris Bianchet, Herman President, came from AVI-SPL, so he has been associated with the company for a long time. Bianchet explains how Herman Pro AV’s team of audiovisual techs can support the global development of companies like AVI-SPL.
    To watch the rest of our AVI-SPL SAS 2018 coverage click here.
    https://vimeo.com/262720284

  • From Sharp's AV to AVI-SPL Canada

    Jeff Faber from AVI-SPL talks about mergers and acquisitions
    It was six months ago that AVI-SPL acquired Sharp’s AV in Canada, adding to AVI-SPL’s presence. Faber discusses AVI-SPL’s strategy for covering the country with six offices throughout. He also explains the cultural fit between the two companies and how bringing everyone together fosters many intangible benefits.
    To watch the rest of our AVI-SPL SAS 2018 Coverage click here.
    https://vimeo.com/262721301

  • AVI-SPL talks services, SAS 2018

    Managed services and support from AVI-SPL globally

    We sat down with Chris Bottger, VP of Services at AVI-SPL, to discuss AV services and support on a global level. Bottger talks about how to get to the problem the client is trying to solve with managed services. Sometimes, according to Bottger, it isn’t a managed services solution but automation or other solutions.
    To watch the rest of our AVI-SPL SAS 2018 coverage click here.
    https://vimeo.com/261765093
     

  • SDVoE brings training to InfoComm China 18

    QuickFire and Seminar programs will familiarize system integrators, designers, consultants, installers and manufacturers with the new AV-over-IP paradigm — Software Defined Video Over Ethernet

    MONTREAL — April 4, 2017 — At InfoComm China 2018 in Beijing April 11-13, the SDVoE™ Alliance will offer a series of training sessions focusing on Ethernet as the transport for AV signals in professional AV environments and the ecosystem around the SDVoE platform which allows software to define AV applications.
    The sessions will be presented by Holden Guo of NETGEAR and Bill Lee of Wincomm, a Christie distributor. Both NETGEAR and Christie are SDVoE founding member companies.
    “AV-over-IP has a long history in China, with many well-developed solutions already on the market featuring high compression and high latency performance,” said Justin Kennington, president of the SDVoE Alliance. “We are excited to present the SDVoE AV-over-IP platform in China and to demonstrate how integrators and end users can enjoy the flexibility and scalability of Ethernet while benefitting from the performance of a matrix switch – 4K video without compromise, without latency, and without image artifacts.”
    Attendees to the SDVoE Alliance training sessions will learn what they need to know to leverage the SDVoE standard for high performance AV network deployments in education, healthcare, enterprise, entertainment, hospitality, retail, houses of worship, government, military, industry and security.
    Day 1, April 11
    What is Multicast?
    Holden Guo, NETGEAR
    13:00-13:20, QuickFire Arena, Hall C Foyer
     
    Day 2, April 12
    Networking Crash Course for AV Systems Engineers
    Holden Guo, NETGEAR
    10:30-11:30, Seminar Room 302
     
    Networking fast track: what is a modular Ethernet switch and what does it mean to AV?
    Holden Guo, NETGEAR
    13:00-13:20, QuickFire Arena, Hall C Foyer
     
    New Architectures for Simplified Video System Design
    Bill Lee, Wincomm
    14:00-14:20, QuickFire Arena, Hall C Foyer
     
    Day 3, April 13
    Networking fast track: what is a modular Ethernet switch and what does it mean to AV?
    Holden Guo, NETGEAR
    11:00-11:20 PM, QuickFire Arena, Hall C Foyer
     
    New Architectures for Simplified Video System Design
    Bill Lee, Wincomm
    12:00-12:20 PM, QuickFire Arena, Hall C Foyer
     
    Registration for the 2018 Summit Program is on the InfoComm China website.
     
    All AV distribution and processing applications that demand zero-latency, uncompromised video can benefit from SDVoE technology, which provides an end-to-end hardware and software platform for AV extension, switching, processing and control through advanced chipset technology, common control APIs and interoperability. SDVoE network architectures are based on off-the-shelf Ethernet switches thus offering substantial cost savings and greater system flexibility and scalability over traditional approaches such as point-to-point extension and circuit-based AV matrix switching.

  • NEC on global support at AVI-SPL SAS 2018

    NEC on global support at AVI-SPL SAS 2018

    At AVI-SPL’s Sales Acceleration Summit 2018, we spoke with Mark Julian. Julian explains the 4K projectors they brought to show the group, commercial displays that run up to 98-inch. We also discuss the ability to support AVI-SPL, and other audiovisual dealers, in their effort to expand across the globe.
    To watch the rest of our AVI-SPL SAS 2018 interviews click here.
    https://vimeo.com/262716037

  • Crestron on supporting global integrators

    Warranties, product, and global marketing

    We sit down with Crestron’s Kevin Iselli at the AVI-SPL Sales Acceleration Summit about how companies, like Crestron, support the ever-growing push for audiovisual integrators expanding globally. Partnering with the AVI-SPL engineering team is key to that move as well as connecting with sales and support on new product lines.
    Iselli also discusses the audiovisual industry’s move to video over the network. He discusses the change in thinking when it comes to designing a system that no longer has a standard video matrix at its center
    “You take all of these devices and they are all on the network. How do you manage all of this stuff”, Iselli asks.
    Watch our interview with Crestron’s Kevin Iselli at AVI-SPL’s SAS 2018
    https://vimeo.com/261846438

  • Getting work with AVI-SPL

    Getting, and continually training Audiovisual Staff

    We talk with Mark Tone, VP of Human Resources for AVI-SPL at SAS 2018. Tone talks about how AVI-SPL recruit across the industry and outside the traditional audiovisual channels. That is why AVI-SPL developed their own team of internal recruiters.
    “They understand the industry, and they understand our company,” Tone says.
    Mark Tone also talks about the frequency of feedback for the employees, their career path, and how you switch tracks midstream.
    Watch our interview with AVI-SPL’s VP of Human Resources, Mark Tone.
    https://vimeo.com/261840567