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Vistacom Tech Expo 2023: Unpacking Barco’s New Video Platform with Dave Barletta

The AV industry's latest control room platform aims to close the gap between enterprise-grade operations and accessible video wall management

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The AV industry's latest control room platform aims to close the gap between enterprise-grade operations and accessible video wall management

The Vistacom Tech Expo 2023, marking its 15th rendition, once again gathers innovators in the Audio-Visual (AV) arena, offering a platform to unveil cutting-edge solutions. Through a series of booth interviews, attendees delve into the forefront of AV technology, exploring the new offerings poised to redefine control room and video wall solutions.

In this spotlight interview, Dave Barletta from Barco's Video Wall and Control Room Team introduces CTRL, Barco's new video platform, designed to bridge the divide between control room operations and basic video wall solutions. By integrating the features of previous platforms, TFN and Ops Base, CTRL now enables a personal video wall experience right at the user’s desk, extending it to an overview video wall. This new platform is not only budget-friendly for small to medium-sized setups but also packs a punch in terms of ease of deployment and security with its end-to-end encryption.

CTRL now enables a personal video wall experience right at the user’s desk, extending it to an overview video wall.

Moreover, Barletta touches on Barco's UNITI technology, a groundbreaking invention back in 2017, now in its second version as unveiled in the recent Infocom event. UNITI, along with CTRL, amplifies Barco's capability to provide quick, efficient, and user-friendly solutions, further enriching the AV landscape.

This dialogue with Dave Barletta sheds light on Barco's relentless pursuit to enhance AV operations, encapsulating the spirit of innovation that Vistacom Tech Expo 2023 embodies.

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Hi. I'm Dave Barletta. I'm with Barco's video wall and control room team. Here today, we are offering control, which is our brand new video platform. It is able to do everything and anything from control room operations to basic video wall solutions. With control, as we've taken our previous platforms, TFN and the ops base, and combine them into ones. Given the user, the ability to have the video wall at their desk. It's a personal video wall, as well as be able to take that patient and display it on an overview video wall. Anywhere from your small to medium sized establishments where TFN may have been out of a budget range. This is now very, very economical, very, very powerful. And again, very, very easy to deploy. Security being the number one priority of this encrypted from end to end, the ability to take those streams and deploy them quickly throughout your network, whether it be on the AV network, or, there it's on its own dedicated, platform, like a VLAN. For a user and an IT team makes that a very, very simple interface for all parties involved. So what I don't have here is our brand new unity. This technology was invented by Barco in twenty seventeen. We've come out with the second version of that which was just introduced in Infocom this past year. That is the newest exciting piece. Now, that we have to offer, along with controls of bolstering what we can do quickly and effectively. You could take this system out of the box and within ten minutes, be set up, ready to go using it, very, very easy to use.

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