With just a few days to go before 17,000 visitors are expected to descend on the co-located Retail Design Expo and Retail Digital Signage Expo events, AV News looks at the key choices facing digital signage users.

With UC Expo opening the doors of its new venue, ExCel, later this month, it will be obvious to visitors just how important the Cloud has become to key AV applications including collaboration and digital signage.

laser phosphor projectors are now available in just about every projection format from short throw table top models to powerful installation models.

Panasonic’s TH-55 AF1 features the Android and HTML5 based OpenPort PLATFORM. This System on a Chip (SoC) solution allows third-party software to be installed without any specific development.

Earlier this year the BETT show revealed the growing range of solutions available to schools moving away from traditional font-of-class teaching methods to collaborative techniques.

Throwing an iPhone in just about any direction at ISE 2017 would have almost certainly hit a ‘collaboration solution’

The AV News Awards have a special place within Europe’s audio-visual industry, being focused on the people and community that make the business work. The Awards recognise the contribution made by the individuals in the labs and R&D centres, the sales and marketing teams and those involved in training and support for the technologies and services that comprise AV solutions.

ISE 2017 marked the point at which Fine Pixel LED display technology migrated from the preserve of dedicated specialists, to a soon-to-be essential part of multi technology display vendor’s portfolio

Last year was great for innovation in AV and related industries and 2017 has the potential to be even better. With the IT and CE majors now taking AV seriously, the goal of ‘AV everywhere’ isn’t so far away. These are the AV News’ contributors’ predictions of the milestones to be passed this year.

Launched in 2004, ISE is the world’s largest tradeshow for the professional AV and electronic systems industry. ISE 2017 is expected to draw over 1,100 exhibitors and more than 65,000 registered attendees.