Category: Display

Snagit and Camtasia 2025 Introduce AI and Screentelligence-Powered Workflows for Faster, More Impactful Content Creation
TechSmith has released the 2025 versions of Snagit and Camtasia, introducing advanced AI and Screentelligence-powered features designed to simplify workflows and enhance content creation for IT professionals. Snagit 2025 makes it easier to create polished visual content with features like Step Capture for step-by-step guides, Smart Redact for automatic privacy protection, and Background Noise Removal for clear audio anywhere. Camtasia 2025 streamlines video editing with Dynamic Caption Editing, advanced cursor movements for better viewer engagement, and AI Avatars to help organizations scale training programs efficiently.

These updates aim to boost productivity and visual communication within teams by automating time-consuming tasks and offering intuitive, context-aware editing tools. The 2025 releases are the last annual versions as TechSmith shifts to a continuous delivery model, ensuring users receive regular feature updates throughout the year.

TechSmith Corporation, an industry leader in visual communication, today released the newest editions of its award-winning Snagit and Camtasia products with advanced features focusing on simplifying workflows and improving capture and recording experiences. Snagit is an essential tool for professionals who capture, enhance, and share screenshots and videos, creating polished visual content that advances workplace communication and collaboration. Camtasia is an industry-leading screen recording, video, and audio editing solution to simplify the creation of high-quality tutorials, demos, training, and visual content. The 2025 versions are the final annual releases before TechSmith transitions to continuous delivery through its new subscription offerings.

“We’ve enhanced Snagit and Camtasia with new AI and Screentelligence features to make it faster and easier for users to achieve their creative goals,” said Tony Lambert, CTO of TechSmith. “User feedback heavily inspired these improvements, helping us simplify and streamline our most popular workflows and features so users can create content with less effort and improve visual communication within teams and organizations. We’re excited to build on this foundation with continuous updates throughout the year.”

Screentelligence leverages machine learning models and TechSmith’s proprietary algorithms to provide users with context-aware layout, design, and editing suggestions. By analyzing metadata locally, data never leaves the user environment for optimal speed and security.

Snagit 2025 Features
Snagit 2025 leverages AI and Screentelligence-powered features to perform nearly all of the creation work, allowing users to focus on refining content. The new features enhance creation speed and professional polish across everyday training, documentation, and workplace communications. With Snagit 2025, users can boost clarity, protect privacy, and engage their audience more effectively.
- Step Capture: Quickly create visual how-to guides and step-by-step instructions by simply going through the process. Snagit captures the individual steps and clicks and automatically organizes them into a structured guide. This feature is ideal for HR and IT professionals, as well as team leads and managers who often document and share processes like how to use software or access files.
- Smart Redact: Automatically detects and blurs, pixelates, or redacts nine types of sensitive information from an image including mailing addresses, credit card or phone numbers, and more from screenshots with a single toggle.
- Background Noise Removal: Eliminates background noise on user audio in any environment. This feature is excellent for creating ad hoc videos in the office, at home, or in a coffee shop with none of the quality concerns.
- Customizable Share Link (enterprise exclusive): Enables single-click share link functionality with existing corporate platforms and environments such as OneDrive or Google Drive.
- Virtual Background Capabilities (Mac exclusive): Enables the blurring or changing of the webcam background during video recordings. Great for masking the cluttered home office or showcasing corporate branding while recording.
- Corner Rounding: Easily round the corners of screen captures to give a softer, more modern aesthetic.
- Instant Asset Access: Immediate retrieval of Snagit’s comprehensive Asset Library with one click of a button.
Camtasia 2025 Features
Camtasia 2025 delivers advanced AI and editing capabilities helping users effortlessly develop more polished and professional videos in a fraction of the time. The new features deliver a number of quality-of-life improvements that make it easier than ever to create and view tutorials, demos, and training content.

Background Noise Removal: Instantly removes all background noise to provide clear audio. The effect is automatically applied while using Rev and can be applied manually to any recording or video in the editor.
- Dynamic Caption Editing: Manually adjust, add, or remove words and spaces in the dynamic captions feature instead of relying solely on the transcription.
- Smarter, More Engaging Cursor Movements: Advanced cursor enhancements that improve clarity, engagement, and instructional value in videos.
  - Cursor Motion Blur: Smooths onscreen cursor movements for a more natural, polished look—minimizing visible hesitations or unnatural pauses made during screen recording.
  - Kinetic Cursor: Enhances cursor movement by dynamically pointing in the direction of the next click, guiding viewers’ attention more effectively. Focus indicators like this new feature were ranked in the top five most important characteristics of training videos in TechSmith’s 2024 Video Viewer Trends Report.
  - Cursor Elevation: Brings the cursor to the front of the screen so it is never hidden behind other annotations, layers, or effects.
- AI Avatars (Camtasia Pro exclusive): Utilize a diverse selection of human avatars to deliver your message in video, ideal for training professionals seeking to localize and scale corporate training programs efficiently.
February 17, 2025
Carousel Digital Signage Integrates with CrisisGo to Empower Safer School Communities

Carousel Digital Signage has partnered with CrisisGo to enhance school safety by delivering real-time emergency alerts to digital displays. Using an open API and the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), the integration allows schools to instantly broadcast safety messages, interactive maps, and critical alerts through Carousel Cloud digital signage networks. This ensures rapid communication during emergencies, helping schools respond swiftly and effectively.

This partnership leverages CrisisGo’s Safety iResponse platform, known for its advanced alerting and incident management features, to provide a seamless safety solution. The integration ensures alerts reach the right screens across campuses, supporting efficient emergency response and reunification processes. While the focus is on K-12 schools, the solution is also adaptable for corporate enterprise and manufacturing environments.

Carousel Digital Signage announces a new technology partnership with CrisisGo that enables K-12 schools and businesses to deliver emergency alerts and other safety messages to digital displays with immediacy. The integration is enabled through an open API that triggers visual alerts, interactive maps and more to Carousel Cloud digital signage networks via the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), a global standard that supports the digital exchange of emergency alerts and public warnings over multiple networks.

CrisisGo’s Safety iResponse platform offers a comprehensive suite of advanced alerting software and tools that empower school districts to create safer and more secure learning environments. Its features include real-time alerting, incident management and parent notification, all of which combine to help schools respond to emergencies in an efficient and effective manner. The platform also immediately shares emergency alerts with local law enforcement when police assistance is needed.

Direct integration of the two software platforms on a common IT network ensures consistent monitoring of incoming triggers from Safety iResponse to Carousel Cloud. Upon recognizing an incoming alert, Carousel Cloud disseminates the active alert as a priority for instant takeover of all targeted screens. Upon resolution, Carousel Cloud immediately removes the alert and resumes normal operations, eliminating the need to schedule expiration times or manually clear the system. That accelerates the important process of reunification to ensure all students, teachers and other staff members are accounted for and safe.

“Carousel Cloud’s ability to recognize an all-clear message is a differentiator from other digital signage solutions that we have evaluated,” said Jacob Lewis, Chief Security Officer, CrisisGo. “Carousel Cloud will also recognize the type of event our system is addressing and exactly where the alerts need to go, which could be select screens, schoolwide, or across an entire multi-campus network. This seamless interoperability represents an important step in our multimodal strategy for mass notification, which also includes delivery to all computers and mobile devices that are connected to our software.”

The CrisisGo partnership represents the latest technology integration between Carousel Digital Signage and emergency alerting platforms aimed at strengthening school safety in K-12 environments. Lewis says that while K-12 remains the top priority for CrisisGo’s integrated solution with Carousel, he anticipates potential expansion into other verticals including corporate enterprise and manufacturing.

“Our collaboration with CrisisGo represents the next step in our efforts to keep students and faculty informed, safe and resilient across all grade levels,” said Eric Henry, SVP of Business Architecture, Carousel Digital Signage. “Carousel Cloud’s open platform enables clean and reliable interoperability with CrisisGo, and our common integration with the CAP protocol ensures immediate dissemination of important visual alerts that will help school districts keep all campuses safe and secure.”

February 14, 2025
Empowering 3D at American University and Cannes
Honing 3D storytelling skills with the help of Sony’s Spatial Reality Display at American University and showcasing professional projects at Cannes.

The challenge
- Overcome the limitations of conventional AR and VR headsets
- Monitor and review student 3D capture projects with the highest possible quality
- Exhibit 3D content at the Cannes XR Marché du Film
The Solution
- Leverage roughly 4 million pixels per eye delivered by the Spatial Reality Display
- Take advantage of the Unity system to render graphics in real time
The Outcome
- Enables highly accurate, impressively detailed 3D visualization
- Stops traffic at trade show exhibits
- Establishes a powerful, new modality for content viewing
A man of many parts
Krzysztof Pietroszek isn’t easily impressed. His professional journey includes a PhD in computer science and an MFA in film, while his personal journeys have taken him to the summits of Mont Blanc and Kilimanjaro. He has produced an award-winning feature film, developed VR video games, and published more than 40 peer reviewed research papers. Now he is incorporating Sony’s Spatial Reality Display into his work.

“While we have reliable although not perfect technologies for capturing what we call ‘holograms,’ displaying them well has been limited to glasses that nobody has,” says Pietroszek. “And even if you have the glasses, you’re limited to maybe 100,000 vertices. That means you’ve got to scale down high-quality capture. The Spatial Reality Display gives you the ability to show much, much higher resolution. And you can make the display interactive. You can put your hand out and interact with the object.”

Impressing the film community at Cannes
On behalf of the start-up he founded, Tabletop Stories, Pietroszek brought Sony’s Spatial Reality Display to an exhibit at the Cannes XR Marché du Film. “When people were passing by, they would catch a glimpse of it and stop! They needed to see what it was and how it happens.”

Tabletop Stories presents movies in AR, typically shown on smartphones and tablets, where the story content is overlayed on the real-time camera image of the room. Pietroszek says, “The difference is huge between showing AR on a tablet – on which the content is supposedly in air – and seeing the same content on the Spatial Reality Display, actually in air without glasses. People are really surprised.”

“At its heart, immersive filmmaking breaks the fourth wall. This display enables you to do it with much, much higher resolution.” -Dr. Krzysztof Pietroszek, American University & Tabletop Stories

Teaching immersive filmmaking at American University
Pietroszek teaches a class in volumetric capture. “We capture with a single camera and Depthkit software, which is affordable and very easy to use. It’s not true volumetric capture because you get one-sided holograms – half a person. But for an introductory class, it’s great. The Spatial Reality Display is very good for this. We can rotate it toward you and it works well.”

Pietroszek finds the Spatial Reality Display more useful than multi-view 3D monitors. “For my applications, the multi-view monitors don’t really work. The resolution is really, really low. You need multiple, multiple images. And the angle of view is so small that they don’t really make sense.”

The Spatial Reality Display and Unity rendering
The Sony Spatial Reality Display enables viewers to see volumetric 3D without special glasses or VR goggles. 1.2 The display works from computer generated images, in the case of American University, using a Windows® PC running the Unity® rendering engine.3 “We train students on Unity,” says Pietroszek. “It’s super easy to get the content on the display. It works without any issues. It just plays.”The screen features a high-precision micro-optical lens to separate the left-eye and right-eye images. In addition, the display tracks eye movement down to the millisecond, pivoting the image in sync as the viewer tilts or moves the head up and down, left and right — even forward and back. The result is an overpowering sensation of a solid 3D object.

Future Prospects
Pietroszek sees multiple future applications for the Spatial Reality Display. “I would definitely recommend this for demos and trade shows and for specialized applications like 3D modeling. And I’m working on a telemedicine project. We have this idea of using volumetrics so that remote experts can assist inexperienced doctors.”
February 11, 2025
Inclined to interact: PPDS sets new standard for versatility and viewability on 24/7 PCAP multi-touch PCAP displays with reimagined Philips Interactive 3000 Series

PPDS has launched its most advanced Philips Interactive 3000 Series, a reimagined line of multi-touch PCAP displays designed for 24/7 operation across industries like retail, transportation, and hospitality. Unveiled ahead of ISE 2025, this new series builds on market feedback, featuring razor-sharp visuals, anti-glare and anti-fingerprint coatings, and a 30-degree tilt option for expanded installation possibilities. With Android 13 SoC, built-in security features, and Philips Wave remote management, businesses can enjoy seamless content delivery, remote monitoring, and predictive maintenance without external media players.

These PCAP touch displays come in 24”, 32”, 43”, and 55” sizes, offering enhanced brightness (350–450 cd/m²) for visibility in changing lighting conditions. Designed for energy efficiency, they reduce power consumption without compromising performance. With FailOver technology ensuring uninterrupted content display and secure Kiosk Mode preventing unauthorized access, the Philips Interactive 3000 Series is set to redefine interactive signage for kiosks, point-of-sale, and wayfinding applications. Visitors can experience the full capabilities firsthand at ISE 2025 (Philips Stand 3P500, Barcelona).

PPDS, the exclusive global provider of Philips Professional Displays and complementary solutions, is delighted to announce the highly anticipated launch of its most advanced and versatile range of multi-touch displays to date with the new, reimagined Philips Interactive 3000 Series for installations in a broadening range of 24/7 environments.

Set to be showcased at ISE 2025 in Barcelona (Feb 4-7) – Philips Stand 3P500 – the chic, bezel-free Philips Interactive 3000 Series marks a new generation of advanced, highly flexible multi-touch Android SoC displays from PPDS, presenting content as it was meant to be seen, with razor-sharp accuracy, colour precision, and brightness.

An update to the popular Philips T-Line Kiosk display range, the new Philips 3000 Series has been remodelled to fit market feedback and configured utilising the latest advancement in hardware, PCAP touch technology, and software. Bringing the flexibility to support a broadening range of installations, retail (including shopping centres), transport hubs, as well as food and beverage, are among key market verticals.

Andrea Barbuti, Global Product Management Lead for EMEA at PPDS, commented: “With the Philips T-Line Series, we raised the bar for how and where interactive displays can be used to bring new business benefits and enhanced user experiences. And now, with this new Philips Interactive 3000 Series, we’re significantly raising that bar again, adding unprecedented versatility and opportunities to an even wider audience.”

Tilting the balance
Offered in an extended range of 24” (back by popular demand), 32”, 43” and 55” model variants, the Philips Interactive 3000 Series has been designed and equipped to meet any challenge, delivering premium performance, unparalleled reliability, and flexibility to any space.

Updated for 24/7 operation, and repurposed in consultation with partners and customers, the Philips Interactive 3000 Series extends beyond traditional portrait and landscape mounting limitations, with all models now featuring a 30-degree tilt option, as well as optional open frame brackets, opening new installation possibilities and enhanced creativity.

The request for tilted displays continues to grow, particularly for kiosks, with businesses looking to extend or renew their existing interactive displays beyond smaller screens, such as tablets. Concerns around security? The Philips Interactive 3000 Series also features a secure ‘Kiosk Mode’ feature, disabling any unauthorised remote control, management or tampering for peace of mind.

Lutz Harder, Global Product Manager for Interactive Displays at PPDS added: “Whether on a shelf – ideal for the 24” – angled or upright for POS, configurators, order points and kiosks – with the 32” and 43” – or for wayfinding – with the 55”, the installation possibilities and benefits with the Philips Interactive 3000 Series are seemingly endless.” And that’s just the start.

Let’s be clear
With an unquenchable desire to deliver unparalleled viewing and user experiences, the Philips Interactive 3000 Series from PPDS has been designed to cope with brighter lighting conditions and even the grubbiest of fingers.

Available as standard, each Philips Interactive 3000 Series model is equipped with a stunning edge-to-edge PCAP touch screen, while also being augmented with anti-glare and anti-fingerprint coating, allowing for perfect presentation, regardless of the number of fingers coming into contact between cleans.

Need a screen that will be exposed to ever-changing lighting environments? No problem. The Philips Interactive 3000 Series delivers optimum performances at all times, with the 24” and 32” models providing up to 350 cd/m2 brightness, while the larger 43” and 55” models are equipped with 450 cd/m2 for better visibility and user experiences.

Lutz Harder explained: “If you can’t see or use the screen, be it due to brighter light, irritating reflections or simply because it is covered in greasy fingerprints from customers who have just finished their lunch, then it is a failed experience. With Philips Professional Displays the user experience is paramount and for this new Philips

Interactive 3000 Series the team has worked to ensure screens can be easily cleaned and will perform to the highest standard – all the time.”

Plug and play with Android 13
Internally, the Philips Interactive 3000 Series helps to make the lives of AV/IT managers easier, while also delivering instant sustainability benefits and credentials – including financial – with every installation.

Part of PPDS’ ever expanding Android SoC family, Philips Interactive 3000 Series displays come with an updated professional Android 13 SoC built-in, offering a seamless plug-and-play experience. With 4GB RAM and 32GB ROM as standard, there is no need for an external media player, with content able to be uploaded directly to the display for instant viewing.

For complete peace of mind, the Philips Interactive 3000 Series also features PPDS’ renowned FailOver technology, ensuring screens never go blank, and content will continue to be presented, 24/7, even in the event of an outage.

Staying in control
Whether a single display or many installed around the world, the Philips Interactive 3000 Series offers extensive remote monitoring, maintenance, and management capabilities – whether for single displays or installations around the world – with Philips Wave.

Developed in-house by the PPDS team, the scalable API-first Philips Wave platform, allows users – either locally or centrally – to unlock the full power, versatility, and intelligence of their displays, for greater time, energy, and cost efficiencies.

Firmware and software updates, adjusting settings, predictive maintenance, content creation and scheduling, are just some of the remote features available on the Philips Interactive 3000 Series with Philips Wave, while the ProStore provides a ‘one-stop digital marketplace’ for access to their preferred applications and services, with zero concerns around compatibility.

Coupled with the benefits of Philips Wave, the Philips Interactive 3000 Series has also been heavily designed – inside and out – with sustainability and the environment in mind. Mirroring other Philips digital signage and LED models, the Philips Interactive 3000 Series has been reconfigured to run with reduced power consumption – without compromising on performance – versus previous models in the Series. All models also feature automatic backlight control, intelligently adjusting the brightness to suit lighting conditions, while ensuring perfect visibility and viewing experiences at all times.

The Philips Interactive 3000 Series is immediately available globally. Additional demonstrations will be available in PPDS’ growing estate of PPDS Studio showrooms, located across EMEA, North America, and in India.

Andrea Barbuti concluded: “The Philips Interactive 3000 Series is unquestionably one of our most versatile, most advanced and sustainability driven interactive displays to date, bringing untold installation opportunities across a vast number of market verticals. There’s no better place to showcase the Philips Interactive 3000 Series than at ISE 2025. We look forward to welcoming visitors to Philips Stand 3P500 in Barcelona so they can experience the power of the Philips Interactive 3000 Series for themselves, whatever industry they are operating within.”

February 10, 2025
TCEA 2025: PPDS and TSN partner to ‘revolutionize’ visual communications in education and corporate environments using Philips Professional Displays

PPDS, the exclusive provider of Philips Professional Displays, has teamed up with TSN to bring a next-gen visual communication solution to education and corporate environments. Announced at TCEA 2025, this collaboration integrates TSN’s Visual Communication Solution (VCS) with Philips Professional Displays, making it easier than ever to create, schedule, and distribute content across multiple screens. From K-12 schools and higher education campuses to corporate offices, this partnership delivers a cost-efficient, seamless, and scalable digital signage solution designed for modern needs.

With real-time alerts, dynamic content scheduling, and a customizable content library, TSN’s VCS ensures impactful messaging with minimal effort. Fully certified for Android-powered Philips displays, it works effortlessly within the Philips Wave ecosystem. PPDS and TSN are setting the stage for a smarter, more engaging, and future-proof way to communicate across education, corporate, and government sectors—empowering users to deliver high-quality, interactive content with ease.

PPDS, the exclusive global provider of Philips Professional Displays and complementary solutions, is excited to announce the signing of a new strategic partnership with leading US-based digital signage platform provider, TSN, providing a range of ‘cutting-edge’ and highly cost-efficient visual communication features and capabilities to a variety of learning and business environments.

Announced and unveiled on the Philips/Howard booth #1333 at the TCEA convention and expo in Austin, Texas – Feb 1-5 – this latest partnership continues PPDS’ unrelenting focus on delivering highly innovative and sustainability-driven future proof hardware and software solutions to support all visual collaboration and communication requirements, from school campuses to office buildings.

Coming just weeks after the launch of Philips ScreenShare – a global collaboration between PPDS and DisplayNote for instant and effortless wireless content sharing – TSN’s Visual Communication Solution (VCS) offers a simple-to-use, ultra-reliable, and all-inclusive visual communication ecosystem designed for fast and effortless content creation, scheduling, and distribution across single or multiple screens.

Founded in Blanco, Texas in 2017, TSN has quickly become the partner of choice for many organizations across North America, with the VCS platform able to be tailored to support the precise needs and requirements within education (including K12 and higher), as well as those in corporate, government, food and beverage, healthcare, and security, among others.

Unleashing visual communication

Designed for today and the future, the platform offers an ever-growing and evolving range of features, including dynamic content scheduling, real-time alerts, menu boards, and customizable content libraries, for impactful messages delivered with ease and efficiency.

Working closely with PPDS, the TSN VCS platform has now been fully certified and seamlessly compatible across the range of Philips Professional Displays powered by Android, and can be accessed via the ProStore within the Philips Wave ecosystem.

Ensuring customers are able to discover and experience the full capabilities of this new offering with Philips Professional Displays, the solution is available for demonstrations at the recently opened PPDS Master Showroom New York Metropolitan*.

“Complete, integrated solution”

Michael Broyles, CEO at TSN commented: “We’re super pumped to team up with PPDS, a leader in professional display technology. Together, through the TSN VCS, education professionals access a fully integrated solution that simplifies digital signage deployment and enhances the power of true visual communication.”

“Together, we’re able to offer our clients a complete, integrated solution that simplifies the deployment of digital signage while enhancing the power of visual communication. With this partnership, we’re setting the stage for a new era, empowering organizations to deliver high quality, engaging content to their audiences, improving operational efficiency, and ultimately driving success.

Patrick VanTreese, Director of Business Development at PPDS, added: “We’re thrilled to partner with TSN, a collaboration that represents the perfect synergy between Philips Professional Displays’ leading display technology and TSN’s innovative platform. Offering schools, universities, corporates, and other verticals, a comprehensive and seamless solution to enhance visual communications.”

“At PPDS, our focus is to always support the needs of our customers for today and in the future, whether that’s developing solutions in-house or by partnering with industry leaders. TSN is a company we’re confident will bring additional value to our customers, and we are looking forward to supporting TSN’s customers too, when it comes to upgrading their displays. With seamless integration TSN and Philips Professional Displays enable organizations to create tailored content, engage audiences, and optimize their messaging across multiple screens with minimal effort and ease, bringing maximum impact.”

Michael Broyles at TSN concluded: “TSN gives education and business leaders the ability to broadcast important information to all their internal and external audiences on digital signage screens through one simple visual communication solution. Our customizable platform makes it fun and easy to engage viewers, empowering them as creators, and most importantly controlling and sharing messages and stories anytime and in any place.

“Business and educational organizations need more than digital signage. They need a system that actively engages students, employees, community members, and customers and with our platform, together with Philips Professional Displays, that’s exactly what they get.”

February 6, 2025
Made in Europe: PPDS partners with True Performance to bring mission-critical control to new range of Pantone colour certified 4K and 8K Philips dvLED displays

PPDS has teamed up with True Performance to launch a new range of Pantone Validated 4K and 8K Philips dvLED displays, built in Europe and designed for mission-critical environments. Featuring automatic calibration, near-zero latency, and military-grade security (TAA compliance), this partnership strengthens PPDS’ presence in government, defense, and corporate sectors. The Philips True Performance dvLED displays set a new standard in color accuracy, data security, and video quality, making them ideal for command and control rooms, TV studios, virtual production, and high-end design applications.

These high-performance displays, which debuted at ISE 2025, leverage True Performance’s groundbreaking Pantone and Pantone SkinTone™ validation for unmatched color fidelity and greyscale accuracy. With automatic calibration performed once at the European factory, these displays maintain precision over their lifetime, ensuring seamless brand representation and visual consistency. Managed remotely through the Philips Wave ecosystem, they offer predictive maintenance and superior content control, making them a game-changer for industries where color precision and real-time performance are essential.

PPDS, the exclusive global provider of Philips Professional, is delighted to announce a new technology partnership with True Performance, drawing upon its highly advanced proprietary control system for Pantone Validated colour performance, automatic calibration, and near-zero latency, together with a forthcoming range of advanced Philips dvLED displays, all produced in Europe.

Trade-ready for government and MOD settings, including TAA compliance, this latest high profile partnership continues PPDS’ focus and commitment to delivering world first and world class ‘total solutions’ in the dvLED market space, adding extensive opportunities and unique capabilities for mission critical environments, where data security and video quality are paramount.

Founded in 1992 and based in Kassel, Germany – and with an international team and footprint – True Performance specialises in the research, design, development, and production of cutting-edge LED solutions for professional and commercial applications.

Made in Europe Extending PPDS’ growing portfolio of TAA compliant, military grade secure displays – which includes Philips Signage 4000 Series D-Line and Philips Videowall X-Line – the new Philips True Performance dvLED solution, including both panels and controller, will be produced and calibrated in Europe, further elevating PPDS’

position as a reliable and trusted trade ready global supplier to a broadening range of markets, including command and control rooms in both the public and private sectors.

In the US, specifically, the partnership will further open opportunities for PPDS when competing for US Government projects, providing a broad portfolio of TAA compliant solutions to support all executive departments, from Defence, Education, Homeland Security, and Transportation, all the way through to the White House.

Synched brilliance

Soft launched at ISE, and setting new standards in visual perfection, with the combination of technologies from both PPDS and True Performance, customers can enjoy up to 7680 x 4320 resolutions, 240Hz frame rates, advanced greyscale and colour fidelity, plus near-zero latency, ensuring optimum conditions for reproduction via camera systems.

Jeroen Brants, Global Product Director dvLED for PPDS, said: “For this new range we are augmenting the already proven benefits of our leading Philips Unite LED line up with new functionality from True Performance to create a brand new total solution. The production in Europe makes it even more compelling, with our global product managers and technical support based here, and many of our customers requesting a made in Europe solution and TAA compliance. And of course, with the colour accuracy that can now be achieved, it makes this ideal for our partners needing that perfect brand representation, for instance, with Oracle Red Bull Racing.”

True Performance’s technologies broke new ground in 2024, with the company becoming the world’s first dvLED solutions provider to be Pantone Validated and Pantone SkinTone™ Validated, certifying and ensuring colour accuracy.

Relied on by more than 10 million designers and producers around the world, Pantone is a recognised leader in colour development and communication, providing a benchmark for colour capability and accuracy on monitors and displays. Pantone SkinTone™ Validated certifies the displays can authentically reproduce a diverse set of skin tones.

This provides new opportunities beyond command and control environments, equally beneficial for businesses in which clarity and colour accuracy are vital. Where nowadays most imaging is digital in the design and review phase, design studios in automotive (and other manufacturing) showrooms, fashion brands, virtual production, high end conference and board rooms, public venues (such as museums) will

benefit from Pantone colour accuracy. With near-zero latency, it is also a desirable solution for TV studios, live broadcasting (such as in stadiums) and even eGaming.

Automatic calibration born in Europe

Ensuring optimal performance and colour consistency at all times, the new Philips LED displays and control system will benefit from ‘automatic calibration’, a unique and intelligent algorithm and feature that ensures colour calibration is performed just once in the European factory, after which it is automatically adjusted for the lifetime of the product, including for any panel replacements.

These Philips True Performance LED displays will also be developed to feature remote management via the Philips Wave ecosystem, bringing unparalleled display management and content control, as well as predictive maintenance opportunities.

Yury Romov, CEO of True Performance, commented: “We are excited to partner with PPDS to bring our True Performance technology into these new Philips Professional Displays. Together we bring a unique proposition into the global market, and we are thrilled to be showcasing these benefits on the Philips stand 3P500 at ISE 2025 in Barcelona.”

Martijn van der Woude, VP Global Marketing and Business Development at PPDS, added: “At PPDS, we have adopted an open approach to the way we do business. We can’t do everything ourselves and there are some truly fantastic technologies in the market that, in partnership, bring augmented benefits and even greater choice and value to our partners and customers. This technology partnership with True Performance adds new strengths to both our businesses and we look forward to the opportunities ahead.”

February 5, 2025
SmileFy helps dentists and patients visualize outcomes with the Spatial Reality Display
“How will I look?” ask patients in need of restorative or cosmetic dentistry. Now dentists can provide an authoritative answer with SmileFy’s visualization software and the Sony Spatial Reality Display.

The challenge
- 2D presentation admits too much uncertainty for patient and dentist alike
- 2D presentation leads to less predictable results, requiring too many adjustments
- Outsourced 3D mock-ups are slow, expensive and cannot be adjusted on the fly
The Solution
- Combine views from patient digital files: CBCTs, digital impressions, facial scans
- Empower the dentist with the SmileFy design app and the Spatial Reality Display
- Enable the patient to preview the design in interactive, volumetric 3D
The Outcome
- Expected to reduce patient “chair time” and accelerate smile design
- Expected to increase “try-in” as patients see a more accurate, more persuasive preview
- Expected to make results more predictable, reducing the need for adjustments
A new dimension in smile design and display
There was a problem with restorative and cosmetic dentistry, Ralph Georg, CEO & founder of SmileFy, understood. The workflows were far too time consuming. The results were far too uncertain. And the patient buy-in to treatment programs was far too hit-or-miss. Georg applied the latest digital tools to create the app that would become SmileFy. According to Georg, “Dentists deeply appreciate how our tools empower them to design, present and implement treatment plans faster and better. But until now, we were always limited by 2D display.”

“We humans are exquisitely sensitive to subtle differences in the shape of smiles – and the way smiles interact with the shape of the face,” says Georg. “2D presentation can never convey all those subtleties. So when Sony demonstrated high-resolution glasses-free 3D with the Spatial Reality Display, we jumped at the opportunity.”

Glasses free-3D
The Sony Spatial Reality Display enables viewers to see volumetric 3D without special glasses or VR goggles. The display works from computer generated images, in the case of SmileFy, using a Windows PC running the Unity game engine software. The display features a high-precision micro-optical lens to separate the left-eye and right-eye images. In addition, the display tracks eye movement down to the millisecond, pivoting the image in sync as the viewer tilts or moves the head up and down, left and right—even forward and back. The result is an overpowering sensation of a solid 3D object. Support for the Spatial Reality Display will be available to SmileFy Gold Plan subscribers at no additional charge.

Transforming restorative and cosmetic dentistry

“The SmileFy process begins with digital patient files, including conventional photos, 3D facial scans and Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) scans. After the image capture, the SmileFy app enables the dentist to design a smile, taking into account face shape and asymmetries as well as specific patient requests and concerns. The result is a digital mock up that the dentist can show the patient for review and approval of the treatment plan. “It can take up to ten business days to get a traditional, outsourced mock up,” says Michelle Carpio, partnership development manager at SmileFy. “And each design change needs to be sent back to the lab. With the 3D digital doppelganger, changes can be made with a few clicks.”

Carpio expects the display to make a huge difference when the dentist proposes a treatment plan. She says, “Dentists are telling us they anticipate getting the green light from more patients because the 3D is so persuasive. The potential is obvious.” “Ralph Georg is already looking toward the future. “In the long run, 3D is going to change not just presentation, but also treatment. This is going to change everything. It’s a new standard of care.”
February 4, 2025
Korbyt to Unveil AI Plans at Integrated Systems Europe 2025

Korbyt is set to showcase its latest AI-driven digital signage innovations and workplace experience solutions at ISE 2025 in Barcelona. The highlight will be its new AI-assisted Digital Signage Content Builder, which simplifies content creation while ensuring brand consistency. With the recent NFS Technology acquisition, Korbyt now offers integrated space management, including desk booking, visitor management, and hybrid work solutions. Additionally, the company is unveiling an expansive template library to help businesses quickly create and distribute engaging digital content across multiple platforms.

Beyond product demos, Korbyt executives will lead discussions on AI in AV and the future of workplace experience in corporate settings. Attendees can also visit the Korbyt Lunar Lounge at Hotel Porta Fira for networking and relaxation. With a focus on efficiency, scalability, and seamless digital transformation, Korbyt continues to push the boundaries of enterprise communication and digital signage innovation.

Korbyt, the leader in brand and workplace experience solutions, today unveiled its plans for this year’s Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show in Barcelona (booth 2L200 in hall 2 hosted by ProDVX). The company will demonstrate new AI capabilities coming to the Korbyt Anywhere workplace experience platform, participate in thought leadership discussions on the show floor and host a lounge where attendees can network and recharge.

Enterprise AI Built for the Efficiency and Scalability of Digital Signage Networks
ISE attendees will get a sneak peek at Korbyt’s new AI-assisted Digital Signage Content Builder, powered by the company’s advanced large language model (LLM). Korbyt’s AI distinguishes itself by seamlessly integrating AI-powered content creation and distribution into the Korbyt Anywhere digital signage and workplace experience platform to address enterprise communication challenges, while maintaining brand consistency. Korbyt’s native integration of AI gives organizations scalable, strategic tools to deliver impactful content, adapt to evolving needs and unlock key insights – all while reducing operational overhead and empowering them to thrive in today’s dynamic digital landscape.

New Space Management Capabilities
Korbyt will showcase newly integrated space-management features made possible by its recent acquisition of NFS Technology. With these new capabilities, Korbyt Anywhere simplifies and centralizes management of digital signage, workplace communications and space management to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive workplace experience platform.

“By integrating NFS Technology’s advanced desk & room booking, visitor management and mobile booking solutions into our platform, we empower our customers with a more seamless, flexible and user-friendly environment to support today’s modern, hybrid workforce,” said Korbyt CEO Ankur Ahlowalia. “This move broadens our capabilities and reaffirms our commitment to deliver the most comprehensive, innovative tools to optimize workplace operations. We are excited for our customers to experience the benefits of our expanded Korbyt Anywhere platform and to share these breakthroughs with attendees at ISE 2025.”

Expansive Template Library
ISE attendees will also get a first look at Korbyt’s new template library, which features an expansive collection of pre-designed templates that make it easy to create impactful, on-brand content. Users can choose from a broad array of customizable HTML templates to tailor and share effortlessly across digital signage, web, desktop and mobile devices to achieve any communication goal with precision and style.

Korbyt Voices Supporting the ISE Narrative
In addition to new product demonstrations, Korbyt executives will lead a pair of conference discussions on topics relating to the future of digital signage and workplace experience in corporate settings:

Tuesday, February 4 / 11:15am to 12:00pm / Xchange LIVE Booth 3R15
Fireside Chat – The Future of AI in AV

Korbyt Channel Sales Lead Adele Thornton will join other thought leaders in the AV space in a lively discussion about how AI is changing the future of AV, specifically as it relates to digital signage and other workplace collaboration tools.

Wednesday, February 5 / 12:40 to 1:00pm / Room CC4.1
Workplace Meets Future – Digital Signage and Effective Workplace Strategies

Korbyt CEO Ankur Ahlowalia will join other leaders in the content management space to explore how hybrid work has become a mainstay in today’s business landscape. The discussion will explore strategies to manage flexible and distributed teams in the office and on the go using digital tools and technologies that enable seamless collaboration and communication.

Visit the Korbyt Lunar Lounge
Need a break from the show floor? Pop across the street to Hotel Porta Fira to visit the Lunar Lounge! Enjoy drinks, snacks and some cosmic relaxation February 4 – 6 between the hours of 12:00 and 6:00pm to unwind and mingle with the Korbyt team.

February 4, 2025
Experience creativity and Christie integrated solutions at ISE 2025

Christie is set to showcase its most advanced AV technology yet at ISE 2025 in Barcelona, demonstrating how its projection, LED displays, content management, and image processing solutions work together to create immersive and interactive experiences. Visitors can explore cutting-edge innovations like LED video walls, 1DLP and 3DLP laser projectors, and new software solutions, all under the theme “Experience is Everything.” A standout attraction includes a fully interactive projection-mapped room and a stunning projection mapping display using Christie’s latest Sapphire 4K40-RGBH and Griffyn 4K50-RGB projectors.

In addition to visual experiences, Christie will highlight its sustainable LED solutions, real-time content management systems, and powerful video wall processing tools like Pandoras Box and Christie Hedra. Attendees can also witness first-time demonstrations of Spyder-S for live events and broadcast and Mastering Gateway for seamless 8K video distribution. Christie’s presence extends across the show floor through partnerships with SDVoE, Tempest Lighting, Legrand AV, and more. Plus, industry leaders will discuss the future of projection mapping in an exclusive panel on February 5.

Christie® and its partners will demonstrate how technologies work together to deliver immersive and interactive experiences at ISE 2025 at Fira de Barcelona Gran Via, from February 4-7.

Christie will present its most extensive showcase of AV technology to date across two stands in Hall 3 – 3K500 and 3C400—under the theme ‘Experience is everything’.

With a host of new and previously unseen technologies, Christie will highlight its latest visual solutions, including LED video walls, 1DLP and 3DLP laser projectors, and powerful content management and image processing solutions.

“As a long-standing AV technology innovator, our partners rely on us to provide exceptional tools and expertise to enable them to exceed their clients’ expectations,” says Michael Bosworth, executive vice president, Enterprise, at Christie. “Our technologies work in harmony to create unique immersive and interactive experiences, from display technology to content management and processing. As a founding member of ISE, we know the show is a fantastic platform to showcase our technologies in a range of exciting applications, and we can’t wait to meet with attendees to inspire them this year.”

Immersive and interactive come together to deliver the ‘wow’ factor

At booth 3K500, a fully interactive floor-to-ceiling projection mapped room, created by Christie partner Augmenta, will combine audio and visual elements to stunning effect. Attendees can interact with content projected on the walls and floor of the room driven by Pandoras Box media server. Monitors will also display tracking data and reveal how the technology dynamically responds to attendees’ movements.

Unearthing a new gem in Christie’s 3DLP projection line-up

Christie’s newest addition to its 3DLP, native 4K lineup of projectors —the Sapphire® 4K40-RGBH, will be stacked and displayed in a rear projection application using a screen provided by Stewart Filmscreen. Visitors can experience a striking

demonstration of projection mapping onto an ornamental temple façade using two Christie Griffyn® 4K50-RGB pure laser projectors and Christie Mystique™ automated alignment and recalibration technology.

Shining a light on museums and creative exhibits

A museum use case demonstration will feature an interactive three-wall projection surface treated as one display. Christie Jazz Series projectors – shown for the first time in EMEA – will illuminate content and immersive programming created by Faber Creative Services, using Christie Widget Designer.

A pair of eye-catching artistic exhibits sculpted by Gabriel Schama Studios will add further creativity to the stand. In ‘Embryogenesis,’ a pair of Christie M 4K25 RGB pure laser projectors will map content from Limelight Art onto laser-cut wood sculptures, while ‘Cathedral of Thieves’ will be mapped with 1DLP laser projectors.

Sustainable, versatile, award-winning LED solutions Attendees can experience Christie’s award-winning MicroTiles® LED with a video wall showcasing four pixel pitch options, ranging from 0.75mm to 1.5mm, in a single display. The latest advancements to MicroTiles LED cut power consumption by 40%, and the modular design allows the existing infrastructure to be reused when upgrading to a different pixel pitch, enhancing sustainability. The technology will also be showcased in various applications throughout the stand, including a ‘shatter wall’ design. Also on show is the Core Series III LED video wall in 0.9mm pixel pitch, delivering enhanced performance, reliability, improved value, and lower power consumption.

Behind the scenes with content management and processing

The features of the new Christie Pandoras Box Software version 8.11 will be shown as part of a motorized ‘kinetic hex’ demonstration. A ceiling-mounted 1DLP laser projector and Christie AirScan will allow visitors to interact with digital content, created by Faber Creative Services, on the ‘kinetic hex.’ Furthermore, Christie Hedra, a secure TAA-compliant video wall processor, will be demonstrated. It allows users to manage and arrange up to 18 inputs in KVM mode to enhance and streamline workstation setups. Christie Mystique 3D software will also be on display, showing how multi-projector arrays can be remapped and calibrated with one keystroke.

First-time tech for live events, broadcast, and sports venues At stand 3C400, the new Christie Spyder-S, modular, distributed architecture for multi-screen windowing processing for live events, broadcast, and sports venues, and the Mastering Gateway for seamless HD, 4K, and 8K video distribution over IP networks for post-production, live events, and broadcast, will be on show for the first time in EMEA, raising the performance bar for multi-screen windowing systems, compositing, and the exchange of audio and video up to 8K.

Professional Services is with you every step of the way

Christie’s fully customizable Professional Services will be promoted at the show, offering partners the people, services, expertise, and smart technology to keep AV systems running flawlessly. There will also be a demonstration of Cinergy, an advanced remote monitoring and management software platform that provides partners and end users with tools to securely access and monitor Christie equipment via the cloud. ChristieCare offers additional extended warranty plans and service options that can be scaled up or down to meet each partner’s requirements.

Christie in action across the show floor

Discover how Christie technology is integrated into solutions showcased by partners throughout the show. At the SDVoE stand (Hall 5, stand 5E700), attendees will find a Christie UHD652-L display alongside Christie’s Terra® Transmitter, Receiver, and Controller. Tempest Lighting (Hall 4, stand 4R220) will use a Christie M 4K25 RGB; Legrand AV (Hall 3, stand 3N600) will use a Griffyn 4K35-RGB pure laser projector; while Exact Solutions GmbH (Hall 3, stand 3H500) will also deploy a Griffyn 4K35-RGB pure laser projector. SCREENINT (Hall 3, stand 3P620) will deploy a 4K13-HS 1DLP laser projector with 1.5-2.0 HS/1.8-2.4:1 JS lens.

Projection mapping panel discussion – Feb 5 at 12 p.m.

Prague’s Signal Festival founder and CEO Martin Pošta will, along with Joe Graziano, director of sales, Entertainment, EMEA, participate in a panel discussion, titled ‘The Outer-Limits of Projection Mapping’ at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, February 5, at the Live Events Stage, Hall 6. Speakers will delve into the world of projection mapping and discover the creativity it can unlock for the live events industry and the ever-growing world of ‘architainment.’

February 1, 2025
Chief TiLED™ dvLED Universal Wall Mounts Demo Zone at ISE 2025

Chief, a brand of Legrand | AV, is bringing its TiLED™ Series dvLED Universal Wall Mounts to ISE 2025 in Barcelona at booth 3N600. These mounts offer precision x-y-z axis adjustability, ensuring perfect alignment for dvLED video walls, even with ultra-fine pixel pitches. With universal compatibility across most 27″ dvLED panels, a floating button-capture technology, and a streamlined installation process, integrators can build seamless video walls faster and more efficiently than ever.

At ISE 2025, attendees can experience the TiLED Universal Mounts in action through hands-on demos that showcase their adjustability, slim design, and time-saving features. With just six models, the series simplifies inventory management while delivering flawless video wall installations on uneven surfaces. Now shipping worldwide, these mounts set a new industry standard by combining innovation, reliability, and ease of use for dvLED display mounting solutions.

Chief, a brand of Legrand | AV, is proud to announce that its revolutionary TiLED™ Series dvLED Universal Wall Mounts will be showcased at ISE 2025 in Barcelona. Visitors to booth 3N600 can explore a large TiLED demo area and engage directly with the product at two dedicated installation stations, allowing integrators to experience these groundbreaking mounts firsthand.

Precision and Compatibility Redefined
The TiLED Universal dvLED Wall Mounts offer total x-y-z axis adjustability, enabling precise alignment and eliminating pixel misalignment and gaps — even for dvLED displays with pixel pitches below 1mm. This ensures flawless video wall installations, delivering a stunning visual experience for all configurations.

A standout feature of the TiLED Universal series is its floating button-capture technology, a true industry-first innovation. This patented design provides universal compatibility with most 27″ dvLED panels on the market, simplifying installation across a wide range of manufacturers.

Simplified and Streamlined Installation
With just six products in the series, the TiLED Universal Mounts enable integrators to build virtually any configuration. The mounts ship fully assembled with all necessary hardware and tools, significantly reducing installation time from days to hours. One globally stocked set of part numbers ensures streamlined inventory management and fast fulfillment for projects of any size.

Sleek and Space-Saving Design
The TiLED Universal Mounts also feature a slim profile that ensures a sleek and professional appearance, keeping video walls close to the wall without compromising on performance. This thin profile is designed to enhance both the aesthetic and functional aspects of installations.

Interactive Demos at ISE 2025
At the Legrand ISE booth, 3N600, integrators can explore the industry-first features of the TiLED Universal Mounts through hands-on installation stations. These demos showcase how the mounts’ x-y-z axis adjustability and floating button-capture technology simplify installation, overcome traditional challenges, and deliver exceptional results.

Confidence in Every Configuration
The TiLED Universal series is designed to handle uneven surfaces with ease thanks to independent column adjustments and double-depth mechanisms. These mounts provide precise leveling and ensure a perfectly flat video wall, no matter the challenges of the installation environment.

“Feedback from integrators has been instrumental in driving the innovation behind the TiLED Universal Mounts,” said Robert de Jong, Director of Product Marketing EMEA, Legrand | AV. “Our engineers have developed unique, time-saving installation features combined with a slim, universal design that can be deployed quickly thanks to smart packaging and intercompatibility. This allows installers to achieve more reliable results with improved efficiency and confidence. Now shipping and being deployed globally, the Chief TiLED dvLED Universal Wall Mounts are setting new standards in dvLED video wall installations.”

January 31, 2025