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4. Optoma’s ZU850 projectors bring the Roncalli circus to life, thrilling audiences all over Germany with entertaining holographic footage.


5. Thousands of visitors now enjoy a modern, entertaining twist on the circus experience. With 360° projection of horses galloping around the arena and elephants doing head stands, the Roncalli circus experience is not one to miss.


Holograms at Circus Roncalli replace the traditional wild animals.


PRODUCT AND SOLUTION AWARDS


Category: AV Display Innovation of the Year Winner:


Samsung for The Wall Luxury


The Wall Luxury brings a new level of immersive viewing and en- sures that consumers can experience this superior picture quality in the comfort of their own homes. Ideal for even the brightest ar- eas of the luxury residential space, The Wall Luxury is configurable and customizable to a variety of sizes and ratios from 73” in 2K definition, to 292” in 8K definition. With a depth less than 30 mm, the slim, bezel-less infinity design along with customizable décor frames allows the display to blend seamlessly into its surroundings, ensuring no disruption to the de- sired ambience of its environment.


The Wall is designed to never turn off, but to change into a digi- tal canvas best matching the owner`s interior needs and personal mood.


3. When the screen is not used, the Ambient Mode can display a variety of curated art from paintings, photographs and vid- eo art to customizable pictures with digital frames – that best suit the homeowner’s tastes. 4. The Wall Luxury is also equipped with the AI picture quality engine, Quantum Pro- cessor Flex. This delivers opti- mized picture quality scene-by- scene, regardless of the original source format.


5. Quantum Processor Flex is a machine learning-based pic- ture quality engine that anal- yses millions of image data to automatically calibrate the original low resolution accord- ing to the modular screen res- olution.


Samsung’s The Wall Luxury is designed to never turn off, but to change into a digital canvas best matching the owner`s interior needs and personal mood.


Product Highlights 1. Based on research into the lifestyles of target consumers and their preferences, the new luxury model goes beyond just image quality and provides a personalized user experience. 2. Thanks to the 100,000-hour lifetime of its self-emitting diodes,


Category: Digital Signage Innovation of the Year


Winner: Vitec Enterprise IPTV and Digital Signage


VITEC’s Enterprise Grade IPTV & Digital Signage Platform com- bines powerful Digital Signage capabilities with broadcast quality IPTV distribution with into an all-in-one solution. Designed to seamlessly integrate with any IT environment, EZ TV is the ideal digital signage solution for enterprise customers, sports stadiums and arenas, medical facilities and government agencies looking for a secure, scalable, cost-effective way to distribute vid- eo and display dynamic signs using their existing IP network. Product Highlights


1. Communicate with your audience and turn any screen into a digital signage opportunity: Driven by VITEC's high-performance, hardware-based endpoints, operators can turn any screen on the network into a new monetary opportunity, delivering eye-catching digital content with dynamic data and the highest quality IPTV content — all managed from a centralised server. The onboard ad- ministration and analytics tools empower organisations with cam-


paign information vital to pulling in untapped revenue streams. 2. All-in-one system: Unlike other signage solutions designed as stand-alone systems - EZ TV's Digital Signage software suite is tightly integrated with the IPTV Portal to form a powerful all-in-one platform that streamlines video and Signage work-flows, simpli- fies configuration and management and allows the operator to mix IPTV content with signage on any display while maintaining high- est broadcast quality. VITEC's Digital Signage End-Points feature dual discrete hardware processors for the ultimate TV experience combining Full-HD videos, live IPTV streams, picture playlists, social media content, dynamically updating data such as sports scores, meeting rooms and food catering databases - all using a small, PoE-enabled cost effective video player appliance. 3. Ultra-low latency, mission-critical reliability: Designed to en- sure 100% up time for an organization's critical IPTV and Sig- nage services – EZ TV uses VITEC's cutting edge video playback


and high-res-


Djamila Kerdoun, Co-founder and CEO of DK Ambassador, and founder of the International Summit of Fashion comment- ed: “Walking into the room, I couldn’t help but notice this huge screen and its sublime quality. I had to take a few min- utes to admire its artful design olution images. Working in the


events industry, I am particularly attentive to every detail when it comes to digital equipment. For its beauty and for its innovative design, it perfectly fits in…as part of Fashion Week!”


and security engines to deliver the lowest latency playback on any device. The hardware-based IPTV set-top-boxes and Signage End- points cost a fraction of the price of PC-based media players while consistently delivering a smooth, secure, uninterrupted viewing experience for the most demanding graphics and video applica- tions. These ASIC-based decoders guarantee longer service life and less time spent troubleshooting problems during major events. 4. Latest compression standards: EZ TV supports the latest com- pression standard HEVC (H.265) up to 4K, in addition to HD and SD live and on-demand streams in MPEG-1/2/4 and H.264 for- mats. Full integration with Microsoft Active Directory for managing access to live and on demand content for network users and groups using PCs, STB and mobile devices. EZ TV gives the audience an engaging and interactive experience, whilst offering users robust digital signage features, including easy-to-use signage authoring, administration, and analytics tools.


5. Seamless integration and easy to manage: Designed to integrate with any IT environment and run on all types of networks — in- cluding LAN, WAN, and wireless — EZ TV is a future-proof and scalable platform for centralised creation, distribution, and moni- toring of live and on-demand content that can be shown on every display throughout a facility.


Vitec collects their Award as the Digital Signage Innovation of the Year.


P12 AV News March 2020


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