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AV Pros Name Their Favorite Product Makers

When times get tough, the tough turn to their tried-and-true audio/video favorites.

PRO AV invited AV integrators, installers, consultants, and end-users to tell us about the products they use and/or specify most often in 25 product categories. Here's what they said.

 

News From Around the AV Industry

Associations

  • InfoComm: The Mother of All Reunions

    New products are great, but many attend InfoComm to catch up with each other. And when they're done there, PRO AV has a new online place they can hang out.

     

  • USAV Adds Two Integrators to Network

    USAV Group, an association of leading professional AV integrators, has added two new integrators to its network: AVS Installations, headquartered in Edison, N.J., and Axcess Video Corp., headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.

     

  • AVnu Alliance Welcomes Six New Members

    AVnu Alliance, an industry forum dedicated to promoting the adoption of the IEEE 802.1 AVB (Audio, Video, and Bridging) standards and the related IEEE 1722 and 1733 for professional AV, automotive, and consumer applications, recently hosted its second PlugFest and added six new members.

     

  • NSCA to Offer MNEC Training at InfoComm

    Due to the recent changes in the National Fire and Alarm Signaling Code (NFPA 72) that may present new opportunities for commercial electronics systems integrators, NSCA plans to host two training courses and one panel discussion at InfoComm 2010 for show attendees interested in entering and...

     

  • NSCA Launches Mass Notification Site

    Changes to NFPA 72, now the National Fire Alarm & Signaling Code, including new chapter on emergency communications systems, will likely have a major effect on the commercial electronic systems industry.

     
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Industry News

  • Gefen First to Adopt HDBaseT

    Gefen has begun shipping the wall-mountable hardware Gefen ToolBox Extender for HDMI 3DTV, which uses HDBaseT technology from Valens Semiconductor to enhance the length and features of its high-definition extension capability.

     

  • Philips Pronto Revs Up Control Interface

    Philips Pronto, which makes two-way control solutions for the home, launched a new user interface to complement the company's line of controllers.

     

  • NSCA, Bosch Hand Out Scholarships

    The NSCA Education Foundation and Bosch Security Systems' Communications Systems Division have awarded three $2,500 scholarships to students pursuing careers in the commercial electronic systems industry.

     

  • Crestron Ships Procise Audio Platform

    Crestron announced the release of Procise, its new professional audio processing product line.

     

  • Kramer Intros New HDMI Over Twisted Pair System

    Kramer Electronics introduced the TP-573 and TP-574 twisted pair transmitter and receiver for HDMI, bi-directional RS-232, and IR signals.

     
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Marketwatch

  • Integrators Plan More Service Offerings

    The National Systems Contractors Association's Q1 Market Intelligence Briefing, "Recurring Revenue: Selling Service", breaks down services into six main categories, including training and maintenance.

     

  • 3D Out in Public

    The world's talking about 3D entertainment and the potential boon to the movie industry and TV makers, but DisplaySearch has already started to define the market for something else–3D public displays.

     

  • AV on a Global Scale

    Randy Lemke, the executive director of InfoComm, tells a story of how he was in Hong Kong several years ago and was asked by a journalist about the size of the AV market.

     

  • Economic Snapshot: Testing the Market's Bottom

    Last month, InfoComm International released its latest Economic Snapshot, a regular report on how the pro AV industry feels about its financial health. The October 2009 results closely resemble those from July 2009, when AV pros acknowledged that business had fallen off.

     

  • Home Builders Weigh in on Custom Electronics

    The new home market may never bounce back to pre-recession levels. But if builders themselves are any indication, including AV and home systems in new construction will remain as important as ever.

     
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Mergers and Acquisitions

  • USAV Adds Two Integrators to Network

    USAV Group, an association of leading professional AV integrators, has added two new integrators to its network: AVS Installations, headquartered in Edison, N.J., and Axcess Video Corp., headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.

     

  • SurgeX and Chief Team Up

    SurgeX announced this week that the company has entered a strategic partnership with Chief Manufacturing. As a result of the partnership, authorized Chief and SurgeX dealers will be able to purchase a bundled solution combining Chief's line of Raxxess racks protected with SurgeX technology.

     

  • Front Porch Digital and Grass Valley Team Up

    Front Porch Digital entered into an agreement that allows its DIVArchive content storage management solutions to be sold in the Americas through Grass Valley.

     

  • Electrosonic Spends Some Extron Cash

    Having sold off its products division to Extron Electronics, AV integrators Electrosonic this week announced it had acquired the Multimedia Group Ltd., owners of DRV Integration Ltd., one of Europe's foremost designers and integrators of corporate, medical, and educational AV technology, and DRV...

     

  • Mark Terry Joins Linear as New Group President

    Linear recently announced the creation of a new audio, video, and control group combining Nile Audio, Xantech, and Elan Home Systems (including the brands Aton, Sunfire, and HomeLogic) into a single business unit based in Carlsbad, Calif. It welcomed former Harman Pro Group president Mark Terry as...

     
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