iMAGsystems to Showcase AIR, LIGHTNING, RAIN and THUNDER Lines During the Almo E4 AV Tour in Nashville on October 26
Philadelphia, PA — October 10, 2018 —Almo Professional A/V, North America’s largest professional audio visual distributor with global reach, has been named the exclusive U.S. distributor for iMAGsystems, a Melbourne, Australia-based manufacturer of AV over IP delivery products. iMAGsystems is showcasing its complete product line of AIR wireless, LIGHTNING (SDVoE), RAIN H.264 and THUNDER (JPEG2000) during the exhibit portion of the next E4 AV Tour, coming to Nashville on October 26.
“Thanks to our partnership with iMAGsystems, we are able to bring an SDVoE Alliance manufacturer to our partners with an expertly-created line of products that cover all of the existing AV over IP protocols,” explained Sam Taylor, executive vice president and COO for Almo Professional A/V. “iMAGsystems has extensive knowledge from years of development work, resulting in a deep understanding of the technologies involved in delivering high-resolution AV over standard IP networks. This standard is a topic that we will delve into during the keynote session at the E4 AV Tour in Nashville later this month.”
Listen to an interview about the Almo Pro A/V and iMAGsystems distribution relationship, as discussed on the E4 AV Boston tour stop last month.
“Our exclusive distribution relationship will help keep the channel clean while holding the most profitable margins for our partners,” noted Taylor. “Brian Rhatigan, director of business development for Almo Professional A/V, will serve as the iMAGsystems lead BDM contact for technical, design and installation support.”
“We wanted iMAGsystems to be represented by a distributor not only capable of technically supporting our products but also with a personalized approach to distribution,” explained Gerry Raffaut, CEO of iMAGsystems. “We did not want the line to be lost amongst hundreds of other product lines. Our AV over IP products align well with Almo’s strategy for this emerging technology. Almo’s nationwide reach and highly-respected position in the Pro AV distribution space make this company perfect for our line.”
About the iMAGsystems Products
AIR Wireless: AIR is a unique wireless presentation device offering the functionality of a wireless BYOD presenter, VGA and HDMI connectivity, and automated display control making it a one-box solution for many meeting environments. Designed for that ’80 percent’ of the presentation market, AIR minimizes presenter confusion, by reducing the complexity, operation and installation in today’s small meeting spaces.
LIGHTNING (SDVoE): LIGHTNING is an AV over IP solution delivering uncompressed zero-latency HDMI video signals at up to 4K resolution using a standard Ethernet infrastructure. Based on the award-winning SDVoE chipset, LIGHTNING is one of the highest-performing AV over IP products on the market today. Unique to LIGHTNING is its software control platform Director, which brings new IoT tools to the integrator. Monitor health of the system, garner analytical insights, and even create touch panel GUI pages with control. LIGHTNING’s expansive video processing engine provides high resolution video wall creation and its multi-view feature allows compositing of up to 32 images.
RAIN H.264: RAIN is the most flexible AV over IP system for enterprise deployments. Utilizing H.264 codec, RAIN delivers AV over IP over any existing network infrastructure thanks to its variable low bandwidth requirements of under 30Mbs per stream. RAIN’s flexible H.264 video stream means it can be decoded by software players like VLC or ingested natively into certain displays or recoding systems. The flexibility of low bandwidth H.264, together with its high video performance make it an ideal choice for hospitality and higher education environments where the effects of latency are not a factor.
THUNDER (JPEG2000): THUNDER is an AV over IP solution using JPEG2000 for 1Gb networks. Designed from the ground up for Pro AV applications, THUNDER delivers on the promise of simplified AV over IP. It covers multiple uses, handles nearly all video resolutions used in Pro AV and caters to mixed use of 4K and 1080p displays, automatically downscaling 4K sources to maximize compatibility with older 1080p displays. It’s built-in video wall feature provides in-sync video up to 16x16 with bezel correction.
E4 AV Tour Registration
The Almo Professional A/V E4 tour offers AV professionals an immersive full-day experience of educational sessions worth AVIXA CTS Renewal Units (RUs), as well as a showroom filled with exclusive access to the newest AV products and services. The events feature more than a dozen sessions and speakers, 40+ exhibitors, multiple hands-on workshops and product showcases, local celebrities and limitless networking and career-advancing moments.
E4 Nashville is on October 25 and 26 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel. To register, click here. Both events are complimentary — including parking — for Almo Pro A/V’s reseller, integrator and consultant partners.
About Almo Professional A/V
Almo Professional A/V is the nation’s largest professional audio visual distributor with forward-thinking product integration, training and education, managed services, and technical support capabilities. With highly skilled sales and business development manager teams, reseller education programs, distribution centers across the U.S. and carefully chosen product lines for the Pro A/V channel, Almo Professional A/V provides customers with the full distribution experience on a local and a personal level. Almo Professional A/V is a division of Almo Corp., the nation’s leading independent distributor of consumer electronics and major appliances. For more information about Almo Professional A/V, please call 888-420-2566 or go to www.almoproav.com. Almo Professional A/V can also be followed on Twitter at https://twitter.com/almoproav and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/almoproav.
About iMagsystems
iMAGsystems was founded by the management and engineering teams involved with the early development of AV over IP through a previous partnership with SVSI, now an AMX brand of Harman. With a deep understanding of the technologies involved in delivering high resolution video over standard IP networks, they have amassed extensive knowledge from working with this technology since 2010. iMAGsystems focuses entirely on the AV over IP space and was one of the first manufacturers to implement SDVoE in 2015. For more information, go to www.imagsystems.com.
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