From 23 to 25 April last, Kino 2013 attracted exhibitors, distributors and service providers from across Europe to Baden-Baden, Germany, for a three-day immersion into the world of cinema anno 2013. While Barco’s digital cinema solutions were showcased at partner booths, Marc Aarts, Barco’s sales director DC Western Europe, and Wilfried van Baelen, CEO Galaxy Studios, participated in well-attended panel discussions. “Our participation was most interesting,” Marc Aarts concluded.

Several Barco and Projectiondesign products have been selected as finalists for the Rental & Staging awards, sponsored by New Bay Media, which will be announced at this year's InfoComm:

- Best Video Signal Processing/Switching: Barco PDS
- Best LED Display: Barco LiveDots C5
- Best General AV Product: Barco ClickShare or Projectiondesign F35 projector
- Best Video Projection Product (High Lumen): Projectiondesign F85 compact
- Best Video Projection Product (10K lumen or less): Projectiondesign FL35 ReaLED

Voting closes on May 3, so click "Read More" below to cast your vote today!

In April, Barco partnered with Rockwell Automation for the Automation University event in Paris and the Value Forum event in Dubai. These events consisted of a wide range of seminars, presentations and hands-on workshops on the latest developments in automation and information technology. Barco was present on the show floor at both events.

Barco proudly announces that its President and CEO, Eric Van Zele, added a new award to his list of achievements. Last night, two years after Barco won the award for Belgian ICT Company of the Year, Eric won the title of ICT Personality of the Year at the Data News Awards for Excellence ceremony - the most prestigious ICT event of the year - in Brussels.

To the delight of automobile aficionados and casual car fans alike, dozens of new cars were revealed at the 2013 Montreal and Toronto Auto Shows this winter, featuring dramatic video displays using Barco’s HDQ-2K40 projectors. Barco’s highest lumen projectors made their Canadian debut at the Toronto and Montreal auto shows this year, provided by rental and staging company MVI-MultiVision, Inc. to dramatically present the automakers’ newest releases.

Fancy a 3D stroll through the city of Turin in the Roman era or a life-like visit to the mosque in Rome? During the third edition of the DNA.italia conference last week in Turin, projectiondesign and 3D experts NoReal.it invited professionals from Italy’s cultural sector for a realistic visit to these cultural highlights. The brightness, contrast and wide viewing angle of the F35 projector were just perfect to bring the baffling 3D content from NoReal.it to life.

One of the industry’s premier technical journals for live entertainment professionals honors Barco this month, awarding the HDQ-2K40 projector the “Best Projection Product of 2012-2013.” Chosen by panels of prestigious designers and programmers in the disciplines of lighting, sound and projection, Barco’s biggest and brightest projector scored highest among competing entries to win best product of the year.

As cinema owners in Latin America continue to rapidly embrace digital cinema technologies to upgrade and expand their theaters, local service and support – as well as total cost of ownership – are key factors in their projector decision. To complete its digital cinema deployment in Brazil, Cinesystem Cinemas looked to Barco once again as the clear choice to fulfill both objectives, and is installing nearly every model of digital cinema projector made by Barco.

What is Barco’s strategy for the Brazilian market? How can Barco solutions foster collaboration in utilities, help companies to smartly reinforce security and surveillance or boost R&D activities? What is ClickShare and what can Brazil expect from the recent takeover of projectiondesign? 180 Barco partners and customers received answers to these questions – and much more besides - during Barco’s AVS days in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, earlier this month.

Every year, every die-hard cricket fan waits with bated breath to watch the most glamorous, spectacular and nail-biting action in the massively popular Indian Premier League (IPL). Barco rental partners Spectrum Audio Visualz, Mumbai and Dynamix Media, New Delhi were approached to supply projectors to showcase an impressive video mapping projected onto the balloons used during the IPL inauguration.