Last week marked my 20th consecutive trip to InfoComm and it was a hectic time in Orlando. I got in Sunday night and spent most of Monday setting up equipment for my four classes and presentations at InfoComm, including two Super Tuesday sessions (Future Trends, Things You Never Thought About) while I was also co-teaching an all-day Super Tuesday session on RF and Wireless Trends.
Wednesday morning brought a 2-hour class on digital video, while my Thursday morning class covered and demonstrated a variety of wireless display and video connectivity systems (none of which used WiFi, by the way). That’s about ten hours’ worth of teaching, and it does take its toll on your voice!
As a result, I didn’t spend a lot of time on the show floor. Even so, I spotted a few trends that are impacting the pro AV industry and will dramatically re-shape it by the end of this decade.
First off, attendance at classes this year was strong, with more than a few sessions selling out. The transi..Read more
InfoComm 2013 -- being held this week at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida -- was once primarily a projector show. There are still a lot of projectors to be seen, but the center of gravity has moved to flat panels, and if you were looking for two words to describe this year's InfoComm, they would be LED and 4K. (A third word would be Interactive, but I don't have space to cover that here.)
LED signs in dizzying variety and dazzling brightness dominated the digital signage pavilion. Triluminous LEDs -- red, blue, and green LED chips in a single package -- were common, and permitted pixel pitches that were unheard of only a few years ago. Together with the traditional 6, 9, and 12 millimeter pitch, one could see pitches of 3.5, 2.9, and even 2.5 millimeters. Glux North American Regional Sales Manager Seth Beisher said Glux could have a 2.0mm pitch available later this year, and that the company was working on 1.0mm, but that they did not expect 1.0mm to be commer..Read more
