Sacramento, Calif. USA – 19 April 2017 – Global visualization company Barco is teaming up with Almo Professional A/V to share its brand new UDX 4K large venue projector, the flagship ClickShare collaboration system and other revolutionary meeting room solutions at the “What Will Your Lightbulb Moment Be” E4 AV Tour now appearing across the nation.

The E4 tour is sweeping the nation to provide fresh, valuable product, technical and business training information to thousands of resellers and installers in the AV industry. The popular format features a full day of educational sessions while providing an ideal forum for professional networking, industry-leading educational, and an expansive product expo presenting the newest high energy AV products and services.

Revolutionize the meeting room with 4K to impress your audiences

As a perennial sponsor of the event, Barco contributes a wide array of game-changing meeting room solutions, including its latest 4K presentation solutions. Barco will supply its HDX-4K20 large venue projectors for a dual-screen 4K keynote session by AV industry visionary and rAVe Pubs founder Gary Kayye. Entitled “4K: No Myths, No Exaggerations – Just the Facts.” This popular talk explores real versus pseudo 4K, explaining how the industry can benefit from implementing 4K projection in the meeting room.

Kayye will also host a “Behind-the-4K-Screen: a Backstage Tour” for select visitor groups after each presentation.

Upcoming Almo E4 events are:

April 19th  in San Jose, CA September 19th in New Jersey October 3 in Irvine, CA

"Barco's involvement in the E4 AV Tour is highly instrumental to the event's success," said Melody Craigmyle, vice president of marketing for Almo Professional A/V. "Having experienced the large engagement during the post keynote, behind-the-scenes tour of its 4K solutions in Chicago, as well as Barco’s sponsorship of the E4 Experience Collaboration Workshop, we are looking forward to another great success in San Jose and beyond." 

Elevate your profile in the meeting room with 4K Thanks to the growing demand around 4K, we are pleased to highlight our latest 4K solutions, the UDX 4K laser phosphor projector, CSE-800 wireless presentation and collaboration system and our F904K-13 projector at this year’s Almo E4 Tour. Barco will debut its UDX 4K laser phosphor projector for large venues and events near the keynote session room for visitors to experience first-hand. The UDX platform enables rental companies and AV integrators to provide stunning experiences while saving both time and money. The UDX range combines high performance in a compact and rugged design. Five models deliver reliable, razor-sharp and high-brightness images to every type of event or venue. Watch a video of the new projector here.

Helping bring 4K to today’s boardrooms and conference rooms, our CSE-800 features 4K DCI, offering the ultimate image quality and flexibility.  With a wireless connection to the central screen, up to eight users can share their content from a laptop, tablet or smartphone on-screen simultaneously. Moderation, blackboarding and annotation features enhance collaboration while improved security measures ensure data is protected. As the top-of-the-line model, it’s the ideal option for driving two projectors, two screens, or a Double HD canvas. 

In the projection realm, the F90-4K13 projector delivers stunning 4K UHD resolution using a laser phosphor light source to power exceptional experiences while saving both time and money. Featuring multiple lens options and orientations, it’s perfect for the most high-profile meeting and presentation environments.

“We are excited to share our latest meeting room technologies offering the ultimate 4K presentation experience to meeting rooms,” comments David Fitzgerald, Vice President Channels for Barco. “Today’s business professionals can elevate image quality and collaboration to new heights to showcase their ideas and information in the best light, impressing colleagues and customers alike.”

About Almo Professional A/V Almo Professional A/V provides the industry’s most advanced product distribution, training and education, and technical support options available for the Pro AV community. With a highly skilled sales team, reseller education programs, seven distribution centers across the U.S. and 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 Barco Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops networked visualization products for the Entertainment, Enterprise and Healthcare markets. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and APAC. Barco (NYSE Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with 3,500 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of 1.102 billion euro in 2016.

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