Barco's eastern European team is travelling through their region these days to present our wide product portfolio for the Industrial & Government, Rental & Staging and Corporate AV markets. This week, the road show made a halt in Bulgaria. Together with reseller Ebrasco, the team presented our control room solutions at the Strategic Infrastructure Conference in Sofia, yesterday. At the same time, integrator Pro-Technica demonstrated the Rental & Staging and Corporate AV equipment at a dedicated location.

Infrastructure trends, policies and strategies
The annual 'Strategic Infrastructure Bulgaria' conference is Bulgaria's most influential conference in its field. It provides a high-level platform through which the public sector and institutions, leading companies and experts communicate and discuss trends, policies and strategies for the country's strategic infrastructure projects. As a technology sponsor, Barco and Ebrasco manned the technology booth of the conference.

Powerful control room set-up
On display were our control room video walls - a 2x2 OL-721 and a 2x2 OBLX - and the TransForm N networked visualization system, which is a vital link in any control room set-up as it helps distribute an infinite number of data sources to an infinite number of displays. Just recently, Barco released a new version of the system. Integrating the NGS-D200 video-to-data encoder/decoder, the updated TransForm N system can now stream graphics of up to 4 MP across networks, thus providing the best possible, content-independent streaming available.

Faster, better decision-making
"Control rooms can benefit from razor-sharp images to monitor the tiniest detail, while the low latency point-to-multipoint streaming is ideal for application sharing," said Dirk Hendrickx, Vice-President Strategic Marketing at Barco, upon the launch of the new release. Visitors to yesterday's conference in Sofia could experience how the combination of the new TransForm N system and our video walls help control room operators retain a real-time overview and take better decisions, faster.

Expanded Projection Range
While our I&G solutions were on show in Sofia, Pro-Technica invited Bulgaria's leading rental companies, as well as thought leaders and decision makers in the Corporate AV and venue business, to the Pro-Technica Open Days. Barco provided a broad range of equipment to showcase: our DP2K-10Sx digital cinema projector, our business projectors (with PFWU-51B and CRWQ-51B projectors as well as ClickShare units), an event set-up with HDX-W20 and F22 projectors and an image processing set-up with ScreenPro II, ImagePro II, Encore and PDS902 systems.

More news from Bulgaria
Nice to know: our partner Ebrasco has recently installed a modern Barco video wall in the news studio of broadcaster Nova TV. Keep an eye on our references section to read the story and see the pictures, as soon as they're on line!

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