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You’ll Get Square Eyes: LG’s OLED arch display again turned head and craned necks. Don't fret, the new product is now available and LG has opened a new Business Innovation Centre in Darling Harbour to meet demand/interest.
3-in-1: ATEN’s fall-off-a-log-easy, HDBaseT-based video wall engines on show. News in: Madison Tech is now distributor of ATEN in Australia.
equation is the fibre-ready appliances: they’re twice the price as the equivalent Cat product. That should hopefully rectify itself as the volumes go up but it’s hard to justify the extra cost sometimes. LIVE STREAMING
Everybody Loves a Montage: Plenty of collaboration systems on the floor. Display Note’s Montage, out of Ireland, is one of the better ones.
JBL continues to stand behind its popular Control series with updates to its loudspeakers. The 23-1, 25-1, 28-1 look more contemporary and features a flatter/wider frequency response and a higher max SPL. Jands: jands.com.au JBL: jblpro.com
LG’s 86-inch Ultra Stretch commercial display features an impressive 58:9 aspect ratio. It has a brightness of 500 nits, Ultra HD resolution (3840 x 600) and an IPS panel to ensure accurate colour saturation and contrast at wide angle viewing. LG: lg.com.au
Everyone is now a broadcaster — there’s no technological or investment barrier any more, the tech is cheap and capable. Universities have seen the advantages of live streaming for years but business is starting to get onboard, especially companies with a team of reps out on the road. These businesses love live streaming because it means the reps don’t have to come into the office for a meeting, they can stay out in the field, where their bosses want them. This approach fits in with business’s desire to keep the workplace as small and as flexible as possible. But with the reduction in the office space of new fitouts, there’s always a decent-sized, flexible room that can be used for
Casio’s new LampFree models include four WXGA and three XGA models. All seven of the new models are equipped with a 1.5x zoom lens. The Advanced Series can also be used to power other devices with HDMI terminal connections such as Intel WiDi or Miracast wireless display adapters and stick devices. Shriro Australia: casioprojector.shriro.com.au
New seven-inch AMX N-Touch Panels are available in both tabletop and wallmount options, and based on the Modero S Series hardware design. They give users a generously large control interface to AMX SVSI Networked AV systems. Control over SVSi covers virtually all aspects, including changing which video content is shown on a screen, changing windowing processor presets or starting and stopping recordings. avt: avt.tech AMX: amx.com
education, meetings and these townhalls which will be streamed to reps in the field. As AV people it’s worth pointing out that if you have 500 reps in the field, that you need a live streaming system capable of handling that kind of traffic. It’s about who’s got the IP addresses and the bandwidth — resulting in yet another conversation with our friends in the IT department. It’s a bit tricky to set up in some cases and there are a lot of streaming solutions out there to choose from. The big guys like AMX have a solution, as do the specialists like Livestream, which often work on a license basis. One thing’s for certain, live streaming is going to become more important as we distance ourselves from the physical workspace. CRESTRON WATCH
You can’t talk about InfoComm and not talk about Crestron. I thought its new audio DSP platform was very good. It did highlight the fact to me that, as an
The TOA A-5000 Series digital mixer amplifier sports a Class D amplifier (in 60W and 120W versions), is small and efficient, cramming a whole lot in — integrated DSP, support for networked PC control and real-time monitoring of levels, five-band parametric EQ on all channels, compression, mute/duck setting with adjustable threshold and release. Hills: www.hills.com.au TOA Electronics: www.toaelectronics.com
With Chief’s Fusion Modular Series, you can use the common components of Chief’s multidisplay mounts with its new online configurator to get the parts needed for your most creative applications. Enter the number of displays, display model and configuration details and Chief will provide a customised list of the parts needed to meet your exact specification. Midwich: www.midwich.com.au Chief: www.milestone.com