My latest pre-InfoComm-2024 videocast features TD SYNNEX Senior VP Sandi Stambaugh, as this is always a big event for the and its partners. In addition to hosting a reception open to all AV integrators (register here!), TD SYNNEX will focus on both digital signage and UCC in its booth W1745 at the show. Watch this and plan to stop by!

Another day, another pre-InfoComm-2024 videocast! On this episode of Rants & rAVes, XTEN-AV founders Vibhav Singh and Sahil Dhingra join as the special guests to demo three new features in XTEN’s platform. In addition to an awesome AI feature in which the platform will automatically find mistakes in system designs, XTEN has also added a wall-plate builder and the ability to attach product spec sheets and brochures (via PDF) to any system you build within the platform! Don’t miss this episode; Vibhav and Sahil demo these features in real-time. As for InfoComm, the company will be in booth C9063 so you can see for yourself!

This pre-InfoComm-2024 episode of Rants & rAVes features Catchbox VP of commerce, Aleksejs Kolpakovs, who explains the company’s new Catchbox Plus room system aimed at higher education installs and meeting rooms. The system includes the famed Catchbox throwable mic along with a handheld and universal wearable lab mic (all charge wirelessly and are available via Dante and configured with an all-new DSP!). Check out this recording, and plan to stop by booth C5663 at the show!

Optoma will use InfoComm 2024 to debut a new lineup of Interactive Flat Panels (IFPs) that include all the features you expect from collaboration boards but these IFPs also include room sensor technology, as well as Google EDLA certification. In addition, the company will show some new 20,000+ Lumen 1-chip DLP projectors and two new short-throw projectors. All of this was covered by Optoma’s director of product management, Brian Soto, who will also be at the show in booth W1009. Watch this as the company will focus on demonstrating solutions at the show using all these products!

FSR’s director of global sales, Chaz Porter, joins this episode of Rants & rAVes to review all that the company is doing in the Central Hall (booth C8227) at InfoComm 2024. FSR has a new long-distance USB-C cable that carries 60 watts of power, a new all-in-one Ceiling Box for AV-over-IP applications, projective covers for touch panels and an amazing floor box that can handle 16,000 pounds of weight! Watch this to get the scoop, and then go by its booth!

Navori is known as a digital signage CMS and software provider — that’s in the company’s DNA. But, as AI pushes the envelope of what the typical signage player can do, Navori has had to create its own AI-based signage media player, dubbed the the StiX 3800. The latest Rants & rAVes episode features Navori’s managing director, Jeffrey Weitzman, who uses this pre-InfoComm 2024 videocast to talk about how AI can revolutionize signage content and how this player both supports the AI on the edge and leverages the power of Navori’s own signage software’s AI features. Navori will be at InfoComm in booth W1957. Make sure you go see this tiny AI-based player and get a demo of the company’s cloud-based signage software solutions!

AWOL Vision, a projection and screen company that’s best known for short-throw DLP projectors for high-end residential applications, will enter the ProAV market by exhibiting at InfoComm 2024 for the first time in booth C6303. AWOL’s flagship entry product will be a short-throw bar-type projector, the LTV-3500 Max, that can project a 128” image from 15” away from the wall — at a 21:9 aspect ratio. Partnering with Crestron for UCC applications, AWOL will be at the show looking for dealers. In this videocast with AWOL President Steven Shulman, and B2B Manager Kevin Kang ([email protected]), the two explain their vision and differentiation from other projection companies. After InfoComm 2024, the company’s commercial AV website will be live at: www.awolvisionpro.com.

Shure’s sr. marketing manager for conferencing, Chris Lyons, hopped on this episode of Rants & rAVes to talk all things InfoComm 2024. In addition to live demos for the new MXW neXt 2 Wireless Mic System and the MXA Series of Ceiling Mic Arrays in Demo Room N232, Shure will have a large presence in the Central Hall in booth C8334. The company will also debut Shure Cloud and a new presenter mic — watch to get the scoop!

Exertis Almo EVP Dan Smith joins me for one of the best podcasts ever. Dan reviews the industry’s successes and pitfalls within the first half of 2024 and tells us what we can expect for the second half of 2024. It’s a candid look at where we are as an industry and where we can expect to see product sales, services and the future of integration beyond 2025, too. Exertis Almo will be in booth W1912 at InfoComm 2024 and will highlight only new products at the show — watch for more!

Today’s videocast features tvONE’s communications and training manager, Mark Trevena, who detailed what the company is doing at InfoComm 2024 in booth W1721. tvONE and Green Hippo are combined at the booth and are part of ACT Entertainment now. But, at IC24, the companies will launch the new CALICO processors, v4.9 of the Green Hippo server software and a lot more. Make sure you watch this and then plan to stop by and see the demos for yourself!