This year’s ISE – simply the best yet – was some way to kick off 2024. It smashed all previous records, and raised the bar further for what promises to be an even better iteration in 2025. Our roundup of some of the best launches and demos during ISE 2024 features in our new edition from page 26, along with a report on the ISE Audio Museum, and a post-show Q&A with Integrated Systems Events managing director Mike Blackman. You can access the digital edition below, and here, with some of the articles within available online via links on this page.
AV just keeps on evolving, and this issue we take a good look at many of the reasons why it offers the ultimate in sound and vision, with the latest from the Las Vegas Sphere (take a bow Matrox Video) and a clutch of other amazing installations from page 6; the next phase of the evolution of projector and display technology; the artful business of background music (no longer derided as merely ‘muzak’); and the challenges of controlling volume levels to protect hearing, as today’s amazing audio from the likes of HOLOPLOT gets ever more immersive.
Elsewhere, we’ve commentaries from Matrox’s Rob Moodey, who discusses the continuing convergence of technology; Dave Chace from Cogent360, on the growing importance of 3D for retail; Audiocontrol’s Chris Kane, talking up the advantages of audio-over-IP; Annelies Kampert, VP and general manager at Crestron Europe, taking a good look at multi-cam, AV-driven tech in the hybrid workplace; and the impact of digital signage on bank branch operations, courtesy of Tripp Elliott, of Spectrio.
Next issue, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the broader pro audio developments, alongside an education sector update and a special report on residential AV and its overlaps with pro AV – so-called resimercial and prosumer, touched upon in our sound levels feature in this edition. As Mike Blackman points out in his Inside track interview, ISE was always a “mix” of residential and commercial AV, from the very first edition in 2004. Indeed, Installation has traditionally mixed things up too, and we intend to continue doing so, as AV convergence intensifies. The ultimate in sound and vision!
