We have just arrived in Brussels to set-up our private VIP interview area and prepare for 3 full days of Special Reports of Integrated System Europe. We’ll be bringing you lots of video clip presentations and interviews to offer you the best coverage of what looks to be the big AV event this Spring in Europe, including over 330 exhibitors covering two big halls with an estimation (given exceptional pre-registration) of about twice as many visitors compared to last year’s edition in Amsterdam. We must admit that it was great to have received such a warm welcome here in Belgium by the organization and numerous clients at the show, as the weather is literally freezing cold!
As you can see in the photos, the activity is quite intense to finish the stands for the opening tomorrow at 10AM, with a first Press conference for us at 9:30. What strikes us the most as we walk around tonight during the preparation is the superb quality of the high definition screens.
It is hard to put in words or even in a photo the absolutely exquisite images, we have seen on the huge overhead screens which are literally everywhere. In one we could see ourselves double life size as they set up and we seemed even sharper and brighter and than in real life (in any case than we actually are now, after hours of driving to get here, our set-up and now the pre-reporting…).
Products for home integration are clearly a focal point with lots of solutions to simplify and improve our daily way of life.
The entire list of exhibitors is on the ISE website (www.iseurope.org) but just quickly a short list of those that you, for sure, will not to miss in our reports in the days to come : Sony, Christie Digital, Sim2, KEF, Epson, JVC, Stewart, Oray, Barco, Dreamvision, Runco, Mitsubishi, Highland Audio, Waterfall, Da-Lite, Kaleidescape, Lumene, Sonos, Russound, Genelec, Marantz, Sonance, Philips, Jamo, Vogel’s, Crestron, Shure, Hitachi, 3LCD, Sennheiser, Hitachi, Vity and 300 more who build products and offer solutions in the market that we all love so much.
Keep posted for more in the coming days for the first reactions and over the coming weeks for the more complete analysis of the new products that will be presented as well as our full series of video clips with interviews and presentations of all that there was to see, hear and enjoy as well as our "traditional" Photo Report.