New Christie Duo Projectors Light Up TCL Chinese Theaters in LA

The newly renovated TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood has a new audio-visual systems partner in Christie Digital, with the addition of Christie’s DLP Cinema Projectors in the renovated theater’s 932-seat auditorium.

Christie’s projectors have also been installed at the TCL Chinese 6 Theaters nearby, right on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. According to Christie’s press release, the installation of the 4K Christie Duo solution at TCL Chinese Theatres is “among the highlights of the extensive, multi-million dollar renovation that has helped the famous landmark make the move to digital. The reopened theater features the brightest 2D and 3D 4K-resolution images in the industry, with the auditorium playing host to a wide range of high-profile events, from world premieres and gala performances, to some of the entertainment industry’s most glamorous celebrations and awards shows.”

Christie’s projectors, which will be showing non-IMAX 2D and 3D film offerings, are available to corporate groups, multiplex operators and others who want a bright resolution and high frame rate screening. In fact, the large movie screens are the perfect canvas to demonstrate the power and brightness of the high light Christie Duo and two Christie Solaria® CP4230 projectors. It’s a terrific solution for audio-visual systems. Christie digital projectors are used by leading exhibitors around the globe and are found in more digital cinema installations than any other brand.

CCS Presentation Systems is proud to be a reseller of Christie Digital’s innovative projector systems. Christie’s digital technologies are on display in multimedia and large-scale events all across the globe. CCS Presentation Systems provides our customers with the latest applications on great audio-visual solutions like the ones being made at Christie. Contact us to learn more about the latest AV technologies for your business, school, hotel or hospitality venue.

Corporate, Education Markets Get New Digital Signage Offering from NEC

If you’re thinking about getting new digital signage equipment to kick off 2014, it’s time to look into NEC’s new digital signage display offering.

NEC Display Solutions has launched a 65-inch digital signage display to deliver touchscreen capabilities for digital signage and video wall applications in corporate, education, retail and restaurant environments. It will sell through its reseller networks, and CCS Presentation Systems will be your local business contact.

NEC’s digital 65” LED Backlit, touch integrated large screen display offers users full-HD resolution along with interactive capabilities. It’s part of NEC’s V-Series of components. Up to six simultaneous touches can be managed via the system’s four-camera optical imaging technology. The display’s anti-reflective glass coating protects the panel and allows for higher brightness transmittance.

Gaining new corporate brand-building or integrated school presence is what digital touch applications are designed to do. The V652-TM is expected to be available in October 2013 at an affordable price for schools, corporations and other suitable sites.

As an NEC reseller, CCS Presentation Systems works with educational institutions, corporate clients and others to provide a range of digital signage solutions as well as projectors and projection screens, HD video conferencing units, large digital displays, integrated control systems and much more. Contact us at https://ccsprojects.com/.

Christie Upgrades MicroTiles, Starts Shipping S310 Screen

Christie Digital keeps amazing its business customers and audiences around the world with its MicroTiles. Its near seamless video walls, first introduced four years ago, still provoke looks of wonder at the rich, bright colors and high resolution of its technology.

In September, Christie announced a new screen option for MicroTiles customers. The Christie MicroTiles S310 has a larger screen, and some of the best colors in the business. It features

the same great optical performance and construction as its earlier model, the S300. From use in outdoor environments to room with ambient light, MicroTiles S310 takes technology a step further for business and education customers. Christie MicroTiles S310 screen delivers excellent contrast with deeper blacks and image uniformity in even the most demanding indoor high ambient light environments.

CCS Presentation Systems works to provide our customers with the latest equipment for all your audio-visual solutions. Contact us at CCS Presentation Systems to learn more about our range of audio-visual digital equipment for business, universities, hotels, government groups and more.

Digital Signage and Audio Visual Solutions – An Overview

Digital displays and digital signage in workplaces, hotels, bars, restaurants, education classrooms and other learning environments is on the rise. It’s called ‘digital out of home media’ (DOOH) and it’s expected to show sustained growth over the next few years.

Exact market numbers are difficult to come by in this fragmented industry, but at least one audio-visual solutions industry study by InfoComm shows that the North American audiovisual market generates nearly $19 billion yearly, and is expected to show annual growth of at least nine percent over the next several years.

Where are all of these digital signage and digital displays ending up? Answer: mostly in company workplaces; hotels, bars and restaurants, and throughout educational school systems. Generally, it’s often where content and ideas are exchanged using a variety of visual and data connections. Let’s look at a range of audio-visual solutions for different applications across a range of physical locations.

Audio Visual Solutions for Business Locations

Digital displays and integrated AV technology goes hand in hand with many businesses. In many instances, a company conference room is the hub, a collaborative center for idea exchange showcased on digital signage. This is where companies will integrate digital displays along with audio, video and control systems to create a winning technology environment to showcase company plans and win customers.

In other cases, a large company auditorium is the centerpiece for digital technology involving audio-visual solutions. This large room may be where all kinds of AV technology is present, from projectors and projection screens to HD video conferencing. Additionally, the hub may feature other systems integration components like audio conferencing tools, broadcast camcorders and remote pan-and-tilt cameras.

Audio-Visual Solutions for Hotels, Bars, Restaurants and Hospitality Locations

Digital signage in the hospitality arena takes on a different AV dimension – it becomes more dynamic in its presentation. In this market, you’ll find more outdoor signage, revolving restaurant menus, ceiling-hung digital displays, family-friendly entertainment monitors for kids and more. The integrated system may even include connected devices and displays in guest rooms to promote local tourism and restaurants.

Digital signage can create an immersive and welcoming experience for hotel guests, adding visual appeal, shiny aesthetics and more. Digital Signage Today offers a downloadable white paper for more tips on how hotels can effectively use digital signage.

Audio-Visual Solutions for Schools, Colleges and Universities

From K12 to university level, more classrooms are being connected via network Internet access and video, voice and data systems. Using digital signage, interactive whiteboards and other audio visual technology, teachers have a broader capability from school districts and university admins to utilize more technology in the classroom. From computer labs to auditoriums with video to cafeteria monitors for menus, integrated AV solutions are poised for even more growth on school grounds.

New Hampshire CCS Presentation Systems celebrates 15 years with Sept 12-13 Open House

CCS Presentation Systems in Nashua, NH is celebrating its 15 years in business with an open house for customers and potential clients on September 12-13, 2013.

In a feature on CCS in the Nashua Telegraph, CCS VP Chris Gamst recalled when in 1998 he and his wife contacted CCS in Arizona for the New England license to sell, install and service AV and video installation equipment for elementary schools, colleges, companies and government offices.

The company’s doing well, according to Mr. Gamst, as a result of its ongoing contract with Dartmouth College. This growth in business translates into a 38% increase in yearly revenue from its sale and installation of video presentation systems, teleconferencing equipment and flat panel displays installation.

For more information on its 15th birthday or the Sept. 12-13 open house, please contact CCS Presentations Systems in New Hampshire.

Product Spotlight – Anchor Audio

This year has seen great innovations from many of the fine partner companies we work with on a regular basis. One of these is CCS Presentation Systems’ partner Anchor Audio. Specializing in the manufacture of portable public address sound systems, wired and wireless intercoms, and lectern systems, Anchor Audio products are used in education, business, hospitality, government and military markets.

Here’s an overview from Anchor Audio’s rep on some of its new products for this year.

Anchor Audio also recently launched a portable battery-powered sound system called the Go-Getter for use where portable, high-quality audio is needed. It’s an ideal, top-of-the-line audio-visual solution at an affordable cost. To learn how audio products can improve your business, contact us at CCS Presentation Systems.

Crestron Sets Innovative Training and Research at Nurse Anesthesia Center at VCU

Crestron, a CCS Presentation Systems partner, set in place e-Control as its standard to connect and control every room at the prestigious VCU or Virginia Commonwealth University. VCU has over 300 Crestron connected rooms that are monitored and managed with RoomView.

VCU’s Nurse Anesthesia Simulation Center consists of a control room with one-way glass, three simulated operating rooms, a classroom for teaching and viewing the operating rooms and a conference room all connected by Crestron with distributed video and audio, and multi-site video conferencing capabilities.

The Nurse Anesthesia Center at VCU is truly one of the most innovative training and research centers in the world, and an impressive application of Crestron technology. Crestron RoomView asset management software is used to view & control the power aspects of all rooms, along with the scheduling of rooms, from a single location.

AMX Control Systems Profiled for White House Audio-Visual Technologies

A recent profile in AVNetwork Magazine on how government technology managers and end users communicate featured a look inside the  White House Situation Room. Within its heavy artillery of communications software was a look at the integrated systems of our manufacturing partner AMX.

According to the article, the White House frequently uses the AMX technology and its  Modero Touch Panel technology (pictured) to allow different users connected to the system to control microphones, cameras and monitors in the given location.

Videoconferencing has come a long way, not only in business and social circles, but in government environments as well. IP technology has grown in recent years, and video conferencing carriage costs had dropped, according to the article. With the growth in sophisticated equipment, today there is very little to separate audio-visual solutions in IT. One tech director noted that AV is a critical, budgeted area for any IT department.

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Having that A/V integration in government budgets is a sign of its growing need for greater communication practices within military command chains. There are real opportunities for military agencies all over the country to use videoconferencing as a strategic planning tool.
If videoconferencing is in your list of 2013 to-dos for your government agency or organization, look to CCS Presentation Systems. CCS works with corporate, government and education clients with needs in full-service integration, installation, maintenance and training of audio and video equipment. Among the specific installations handled by CCS include:
– LCD & plasma displays
– digital projectors
– interactive whiteboards
– room control systems
– audio systems
– high definition videoconferencing systems< Today, CCS is one of the largest A/V integrators in the U.S. with more than 350 employees, sales offices in 13 states and annual revenue in excess of $115 million. CCS was recently ranked by Systems Contractor News as one of the nation’s top audio visual integrators, by Commercial Integrator as the No. 1 audio visual integrator for the hospitality industry.

Find Audio-Visual Solutions at InfoComm 2013 in Orlando, FL

InfoComm 2013 kicks off in Orlando, FL next week! It’s the top technology show for audio visual solutions providers to corporate, education and government organizations.

About 2/3 of the attendees at the 2013 conference will be comprised of business-to-business AV solutions providers, and the other third will be end users of the audio-visual technology at corporations, universities, government agencies, houses of worship and more.

Our CCS manufacturing partner Crestron is a Platinum sponsor of this leading industry conference. Here’s what the company is planning:

  • Crestron InfoComm events, including a Partner Breakfast. Learn more about new technology and enterprise solutions for taking your corporation to new levels. Topics will include unified collaboration, digital AV networking and more. The Crestron Partner Breakfast will provide answers on how to lead your organization’s control and AV strategies.
  • Crestron also promises exciting product launches at InfoComm 2013. At the 2012 show, the company announced a 3 Series Control System – see more from the video clip below.

More details on Crestron’s InfoComm activities are posted on the Crestron blog. If you’re interested in learning more about how you can use its products in corporate or educational venues, contact CCS Presentation Systems for details, pricing and integrated system setup options.

Epson’s Moverio Smart Glasses Aimed at Businesses and Enterprise

As seen at the recent Google Developer conference in May, tech users are getting excited for the search giant’s upcoming wide-scale launch of Google Glass, its Internet glass set. But it’s not the only Web-enabled headset game in the business.

CCS Presentation Systems manufacturing partner Epson also unveiled its Web-enabled headset – the Moverio headset – at the recent conference as well.

The glasses are aimed at technology users at various enterprise groups – corporations, educational organizations, health facilities, government offices and more and are being pitched to enterprise level developers to create new applications suitable to those environments. The engineering team behind the glasses knows that the Moverio platform is still in development, and they expect great things to come from new AV display applications made for the system. Here is a short video outlining some of the fascinating applications envisioned by the Epson team for its Moverio platform:

Epson told reporters at the recent Google I/O conference that its Moverio glasses are being seen with specific business uses in mind. One report wrote about the example of a doctor wearing Moverio glasses to check important patient information, and others wrote of envisioning large area urban sections with its wide vision views. Its glasses can even display a video wall at a 360-degree perspective.

The unit being show to developers, the Moverio BT-100, is made up of multimedia glasses and a handheld control unit. Users can wear the glasses and use the control device to manage web browsing capabilities, watch content and check files or applications.

The Moverio glasses are an amazing audio-visual technology, and Epson says the platform is being shown to developers to inform and show potential uses in audio visual solutions for industry, education and government organizations. We’re excited for the breakthroughs, and hope to see great use of these in the coming years.