For more than a year, Casio has had the mainstream of the lampless projector market pretty much to itself. There has been competition at the pico level, and also at the high-end, but last month’s BETT show saw the introduction of new models in the volume education and business sectors. We take a look at what’s on offer and assess the impact of the growing lampless category on the channel.

So how do pick the highlights from an exhibition featuring 825 exhibitors? It’s almost impossible to be objective about it, so here is our highly subjective list of exhibits and trends that caught the eye of our editorial team.

By keeping an ear close to the ground we have put together a list of some of the announcements of new products and technologies that should be on show at ISE 2012. Use this guide and the continuing coverage on the AV News’ web site (www.avnews.eu) to help you plan your time at the event.

Digital signage that delivers content that is both relevant and specific to the viewer has been shown to have much greater impact than generic content. In this report, AV News investigates technologies that enable customers to generate content from both …

ISE provides a great opportunity to remind ourselves of the AV industry’s capability to devise genuinely innovative solutions and to deploy them in a way that really makes a difference.

Perhaps without knowing it, we might have just witnessed a tipping point – the moment when the corporate and business sectors (really the ‘non-education’ market) became the driver for the development of interactive technology market. That’s not to say that education market is no longer important – it is, and will continue to be so, but the impetus for growth is definitely shifting.