AV Effects Firm Switches Production From Fog And Snow “Juices” To Hand Sanitizer Fluids April 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes If you go to InfoComm each year, looking at displays and related technology for digital signage work, you have likely wandered off course and into parts of the trade show hall that seemed a little foreign. Like the audio people, and particularly the companies that do things like rigging, lighting and effects for live shows. …
AVIXA CEO Labuskes Says Premature To Make A Go/No-Go Call On InfoComm 2020 March 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes Via rAVe Publications and Gary Kayye … This is a statement AVIXA CEO Dave Labuskes put out today, re InfoComm (short version – it’s too early to make a call on running or postponing the June show, but AVIXA is anything but oblivious about the situation). A Letter to the AV Industry I , as …
The Big 16:9 Digital Signage Mixer Re-Directed To InfoComm In June March 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes It was clear in the last two or three weeks that Digital Signage Expo was going to be under the same pressure that almost every trade show is facing in the age of COVID-19. I concluded about 10 days ago that the show would either be forced to cancel or postpone, or go on with …
InfoComm Day 2: No Great Leaps Forward, But Many Subtle Advances June 14, 2019 by Dave Haynes Tons of great conversations and product demos on Thursday at InfoComm 2019. While it is very, very accurate to say there was/is not a whole pile that is strikingly new at this trade show, as you might expect, when you dig in, there’s lots going on and lots of subtle but meaningful improvements or innovations. …
LG To Show Its Full Color Transparent LED Film This Week At Infocomm June 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes North American pros will get a first look this week at Infocomm at the transparent color LED film that LG first showed a few months ago at ISE in Amsterdam. The film is touted as a way to turn any window or glass surface into a customizable digital canvas. If you were at Infocomm a year …
InfoComm Re-brands As AVIXA – The Audiovisual And Integrated Experience Association September 13, 2017 by Dave Haynes Infocomm has rebranded itself as AVIXA – the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association. The global rebranding effort – roughly four years in the works – was announced today to Infocomm volunteers and partners, as well as to trade press, in the Washington, DC-area, where the organization is based. The brands of major trade shows like …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Meric Adriansen, D3 June 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes I find, more and more, that some of the more successful companies in this business are a bit like stealth submarines. They run silent and deep, and you don’t hear much about them or see them around. That would apply pretty nicely to D3, a New York company that is in the LED display business. …
InfoComm 2017 – Pix From The Floor June 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’ve posted photos in earlier reports from last week at InfoComm, but here are some more that didn’t find their way into earlier coverage, with comments added: Transparent LED – those mesh screens you can see through – are getting quite good. The content running on this one was vivid. Fine pitch LEDs are being …
InfoComm 2017 – Sixteen:Nine v. DailyDOOH Video June 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here’s my chat with Adrian from DailyDOOH, at the NEC stand last week in Orlando. There is a full archive of his chats with various people here …
InfoComm 2017: It’s a Wrap – Record Attendance, Up 13.5% From 2016 June 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes My aching feet and back have returned from Orlando, and I am starting to thaw out from the high-performing air conditioning units at the convention center. You know things are weird when you’re doing conference sessions in hot, muggy Orlando and women are putting on sweaters. If you were there and found your way to …
