Author: AV News

After struggling for some time with the previous digital signage system, the HUll Univresity Business School decided to change to signagelive Display Edition. The campus is currently running over 20 licences for signagelive on its own PCs across the Business School.

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PSCo Technical Distribution has appointed Colin Till as Service Business Manager. The new position is designed to introduce exclusive warranty and upgrade services for the PSCo Technical Distribution product portfolio throughout its dealer network. PSCo

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Barco has announced the release of the Galaxy 4K series projectors. These three-chip DLP projectors, are designed for 2D and 3D applications in the Virtual Reality (VR) market. The range is made up of three models (Galaxy 4K-12, 4K-23, and 4K-32) with brightness levels of 12,000, 23,000 or 33,000 lumens respectively.

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Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) has revealed the identity of the presenter and the content of its first-ever Keynote Address. On Monday 30 January 2012, Gerhard Schulz, Senior VP Central Europe, Ingram Micro, will unveil his vision for how the electronic systems integration community can respond to the challenges posed by the transition from analogue to digital.

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ViewSonic has announced its new PJD6 Series DLP projector line, comprised of the PJD6223, PJD6253 and PJD6553w. The new projectors are equipped with ViewSonic’s version of Smart ECO deep diming technology, but we are told that this is not based on Philips’ ImageCare.

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Vivitek Corporation has appointed Audio Visual Material Ltd (AVM), to distribute its projectors in the UK. This appointment follows the recent appointment of BETA Distribution, for the office channel and the appointments of Northamber PLC, for the IT market and Karma AV, for home cinema, earlier this year.

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A pan-European pilot project headed by Texas Instruments (TI) DLP has highlighted the widespread positive impact on how students learn when using 3D content as a teaching tool, improving student engagement, concentration and test scores.

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Saville Audio Visual has announced the appointment of Jason Huggins as education sales consultant based at the company’s NW regional office in Manchester.  Hugins joins the company from an IT background, having specialised in the education sector for the past six years. Huggins has a good understanding of all types of IT/AV products, having previously held product manager roles in digital signage, videoconferencing and interactive technologies. He was also responsible for the design, sale and commissioning of one of the largest educational digital signage installations in Europe, incorporating over 100 screens and video walls. He said: “I’m delighted to be helping Saville…

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