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Last year was great for innovation in AV and related industries and 2017 has the potential to be even better. With the IT and CE majors now taking AV seriously, the goal of ‘AV everywhere’ isn’t so far away. These are the AV News’ contributors’ predictions of the milestones to be passed this year.

Launched in 2004, ISE is the world’s largest tradeshow for the professional AV and electronic systems industry. ISE 2017 is expected to draw over 1,100 exhibitors and more than 65,000 registered attendees.

When Nigel Steljes made public his plans to introduce a new brand to the burgeoning IFPD, even he cannot have dreamed of the progress Avocor would make in just 9 months.

What is the state-of-the-art in terms of pixel pitch – both in terms of development models and commercially available models?

AV News is an unabashed fan of Vivitek’s Qumi range of personal projectors, having used the original Qumi for small room presentations from day one (it’s also one of the most popular loan items from the company collection).

The new TV deal for the Premier League generated national media headlines, even beyond the back pages. There’s already big money in sport, and we are only at the bottom of the curve.

Whether its partner development or end-user tuition, training is undergoing something of an evolution. No longer a Cinderella discipline, training is increasingly understood to be a means to add value, a technique for boosting engagement for both partners and end-users and an essential tool for developing user adoption.

No other vertical market has seen a greater proliferation of technological innovations than the retail space. The race for novelty has seen solutions adopted in retail from across the technological landscape.