Boxlight Corporation, a leading provider of interactive touchscreens, software and digital signage solutions, today announced it has acquired Interactive Concepts, a leader in distributed AV and IT solutions to the Belgium market. Headquartered in the Belgium, Interactive Concepts is a value-added distributor of AV and IT products with a loyal customer base. Within the last four years, CEO Karel Callens has taken Boxlight’s Clevertouch interactive screen brand to number two within the region with rapid growth plans in place to be the number one provider. Boxlight President, Mark Starkey comments, “The acquisition of Interactive Concepts represents an exciting…
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M2e ViewSonic Projector product review by AV News, Adam Broderick. I would best describe ViewSonic’s latest M series projector as a comprehensive entertainment system. I was excited to see how the new Time-of-Flight (TOF) technology would help me set up the LED projector, advertised to auto-focus in a second and revolutionise projector use. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFAummimEM[/embedyt] Setup After taking the M2e Smart Projector home and fiddling endlessly with different setups, settings and backgrounds, I can honestly say I wasted a lot of time. Determined to beat the machine, I made good use of the extensive display options, tweaking the keystone angles…
Supporting the increasing focus on digital manufacturing and IoT, Mitsubishi Electric has extended its SCADA lineup for EMEA markets, now offering two additional types of software for system monitoring and process control under the series name “GENESIS64”, complementing the existing “MAPS” SCADA software. The new lineup will meet the diversifying IoT needs, covering a wide variety of purposes from small production line monitoring and control to multi-site monitoring and business intelligence (BI) for plant-wide systems, process automation as well as utility and building automation. The “GENESIS64 Basic SCADA” is an entry-level software with essential functions for small production lines, and…
“According to AVIXA, building owners and managers are looking to smart tech, to help them welcome people back in a safe, Covid-compliant manner. Which technologies offer lasting ROI benefits that go beyond the pandemic?” The digital workplace transformation has been accelerated in just a matter of months due to the pandemic. Building managers in the corporate sector are relying on smart tech to help shape their safe-return-to-work plans. But the past year has also offered businesses the chance to identify what they want their workplace culture to be like beyond the pandemic, with a focus on staff wellbeing and productivity, optimised space…
Blackmagic Design today announced that students enrolled on Foundation and the BA (Hons) Media production degree courses at Salford City College, University Centre, have been using DaVinci Resolve to continue their studies uninterrupted and complete their courses remotely during the pandemic. COVID 19 restrictions have meant schools and colleges have had to embrace new teaching methods and students to a new way of learning. Salford City College found a solution through DaVinci Resolve, which kept its media production courses on track. Andrew Davies, module leader and lecturer of Salford City College, University Centre, says, “When the lockdowns began, we couldn’t…
Technological Innovations Group (TIG) is thrilled to announce the much-anticipated opening of its brand-new Paris Experience Space. The new showroom has been carefully set up for Covid-safe appointments and is ready to welcome integrators, consultants, specifiers and end-users to explore TIG’s portfolio of smart space solutions from brands at the forefront of leading-edge technology development. The news follows the launch of TIG’s Frankfurt and London Experience Spaces in the summer of 2020. These innovative spaces are designed to give visitors a first-hand demonstration of how TIG’s impressive ecosystem of AV, UC, IT and control solutions integrates to form bespoke bundles…
disguise has announced new features for its xR software. This upgrade will further enhance its integration of Unreal Engine and address the continued demand for immersive content of the highest quality, detail and frame rate across Extended Reality (xR) and Virtual Production. In the past year, disguise has become a major player in Virtual Production for Film and Television and a market leader in xR, powering more than 200 xR productions in 35 countries in the Broadcast, Corporate and Education space. The latest features introduced by disguise include ACES colour management, DirectX12 (DX12) and Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) support…
With last year’s announcement that both Samsung and LG were starting to pull away from LCD manufacture, The LED Studio and their brand VOD Visual was inspired to move forward on their LED replacement. Unlike the 27.5” cabinets with which some had proposed to replace the most popular LCD screen size (the 55” that is used for everything from Menu Boards to videowall displays in retail and control rooms, to your TV at home), the LED Studio decided to offer something that would not only replace LCD, but be lighter, more economical, brighter and last longer… The new single diecast…
The Fusion was created to keep LED simple and to reduce both energy consumption and carbon footprint. The LED Studio’s years of experience in all areas of the Digital Out-Of-Home industry has given them a profound insight into the problems with traditional digital billboards: big, heavy cabinets, cooling and colour shift issues, lack of pro-active monitoring and much more. Rob Bint, CEO and technical designer, looked at the situation holistically: developing manufacture, installation, maintenance, CMS, monitoring and many other solutions. With a typical installation, the average 48 sheet screen will take 2 – 3 days to instal after any…
Integrated Systems Events and its co-owners AVIXA and CEDIA have jointly announced ISE Live & Online, a series of local events in Barcelona, Munich, Amsterdam and London which will be supported by a comprehensive digital offering powered by CISCO. With the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic and global travel restrictions, ISE Live & Online will take the place of the traditional in-person large tradeshow format. Integrated Systems Events Managing Director Mike Blackman explained “We have reached this decision following extensive discussions with our exhibitors over the last few months, and more explicitly, these last 10 days. All along there has been…