By all accounts, ISE 2010 boasted record attendance levels, and I have to say it felt pretty busy to me. I must have walked miles, the place was absolutely massive! I’m informed that visitor numbers this year were up by over 14% and exhibitor rebooking was also at record levels. As other exhibitions appear to have struggled during the economic slump, ISE has gone from strength to strength, so I for one are expecting things to be even bigger in 2011. As for 2010, some of Ivory Egg’s highlights include:
Samsung H03 & SP-F10M
Samsung showcased two new excellent projectors… Weighing in at only 200 grams, the Samsung H03 is capable to run for about 2 hours on a single charge. It is LED-based and has a brightness of 30 ANSI lumens and a lifespan of up to 30,000 hours. Additionally, the H03 also supports various connectivity options like USB/PC/Composite, and features a handy MicroSD slot. On the other hand, the Samsung SP-F10M was touted as the industry’s first LED-based data projector with 1000 ANSI lumens of brightness and a lifespan of up to 30,000 hours, which means it could last for about 20 years with four hours of daily usage. The SP-F10M also features PC-free File Viewer allowing you to view or project the file directly from USB drive. Boh projectors support Office and PDF formats
Mitsubishi 149in OLED
What a beast… Mitsubishi Electric showcased a 149in prototype OLED screen. At 1920×3264mm OLED display or 6.2m or 149in, this is larger than any existing commercial product out there. It has a screen resolution of 1088×640 pixels at 3mm pixel pitch. They also had some nice LED-based projection engines for its Seventy Series display wall cubes (the L46XM), featuring a 46in diagonal WXGA (1366×768 pixel) LCD display with a total mullion width of 7.3mm, and a Multi-Touch interface option for its Seventy Series display wall systems that enables multiple users to interact with a display wall simultaneously.
Philips Dynalite Revolution Touch Screen
The Revolution colour touch screen and Revolution Series 2 user control panel were on display from Philips Dynalite. Also centre stage on their stand was an excellent demonstration room, which comprised a mock boardroom equipped with a remote-controlled integrated lighting and AV control system with additional curtain and blind control. The system incorporate Philips Dynalite controllers, serial port interfaces and user control interfaces, as well as third-party control systems. All components were linked via Philips Dynalite’s sophisticated peer-to-peer communications serial bus network, DyNet. In addition to this fully integrated lighting control system, Philips Dynalite showcased a number of individual integrated control system elements, such as the company’s modular multipurpose controller range. Ideal for home automation and hotel suite control applications, the controllers feature unique hardware-configurable design, where plug-in output cards accommodate specific loads assigned to the system.
Xantech’s Free Training Seminars
A leader in AV control, Xantech was running training seminars on its huge product line as well as discussing the current and future direction of the AV industry. We particularly enjoyed New 2010 Products that addressed the residential and commercial opportunities for custom integrators with multi-room audio, video and control installations. And also Digital Delivery Systems, which gave an excellent overview of the Xantech Digital Delivery System, a simple, elegant high-performance multi-room audio solution incorporating digital amplification, an all-digital signal path and multi-source keypads.
Other items etc that get a worthy Ivory Egg mention included:
- Gira exhibiting KNX with Revox on their stand
- Opus 2-way control of KNX from their touch panels
- sqhead.com
- Empure Pronto KNX/Crestron integrations
- Artsound Scalable Multiroom Solution that is KNX compatible.
- Prion from oehlbach AV connectors
- Stark architectural and interactive projectors
- Nuvo’s new Powerline product
- Lang Radar Touch Display
- Crestron Digital Media HD
