AV Magazine’s popular online stories of 2023 by topic

Compiling an end-of-year list of stories that have proved popular with readers should be an easy job. But this year’s transition from a tried-and-trusted version of Google Analytics to the new GA4 means there’s a little bit more work for us to do this year than before.

With that caveat (or gripe) aside, we have taken the time to identify the top 120 stories that caught our reader’s eye so far this year. We have then grouped them by category below.

The AV Awards

1. The AV Awards 2023 winners have been announced 
2. The AV Awards 2023 project shortlists have been unveiled
3. The AV Awards 2023 people and company shortlists
4. AV Awards 2023 Technology of the Year shortlists revealed

Bad news

1. Control room network failure crashes Dutch rail system
2. US retailer sued for $200m by digital signage supplier
3. Rental firm ordered to pay $5m over counterfeit speakers

Business news

1. Bose Corporation sells Bose Pro to Transom Capital Group
2. LAMP rebrands as LAMPRO and reveals exciting new vision
3. Supply chain woes hit Blackmagic Design in the pocket
4. Midwich becomes a £1.2bn company with 40% growth
5. Vega Global announces long-term shift to AV-as-a-Service
6. Q-SYS acquires camera automation software specialist
7. Meet the high achiever who just took over as Bose Pro CEO
8. Face to face with Samsung’s Hoon Chung at ISE 2023

Case studies

1. The Tokyo Hilton: a Japanese AV record breaker
2. Inside the first F1 Arcade official racing simulation hub
3. Leading health firm standardises on Lightware Taurus UCX
4. Digital billboards to keep Manchester safe at night
5. Strive AV standardises classroom displays at Bexhill College
6. Holographic witnesses give evidence before US judges
7. Smart lighting optimises mood at Mayfair’s Bacchanalia
8. An inside look at an all-Samsung luxury hotel in Dubai
9. ‘First digital umbrella’ display installed at New York airport

Consumer electronics with crossover appeal

1. World-first 110″ 16K consumer TV unveiled at Display Week
2. The ‘first truly wireless’ TV runs on rechargeable batteries
3. BMW unveils concept car that can change colours at CES
4. LG launches ‘world-first wireless OLED TV’ with 97″ display
5. Hyundai Mobis develops ‘world-first rollable vehicle display’

Generative AI

1. ‘Generative AI will accelerate metaverse development’
2. How you can use ChatGPT for AV consultancy projects
3. Generative AI to change the faces of videoconferencing
4. ‘World-first’ generative-AI LED maze draws 200,000 visitors

Industry events

1. King of Spain to make official visit to ISE 2023 exhibition
2. What the King of Spain saw at ISE: a royal visit in photos
3. A guide to exhibitors at the Peerless-AV showcase at Lord’s
4. ISE 2023 sets record for first-day attendance at the show

Large-scale projection

1. Shiva statue sees India’s largest 4K projector deployment
2. Celebrities out in force for launch of ‘UK-first’ Lightroom
3. AED invests in 100+ Panasonic projectors and 250+ panels
4. ‘World-first’ transformation of VR into immersive walkway
5. Lifting the lid on Europe’s only 210° immersive fulldome
6. Philippine statue standing 60m tall is projection mapped

LED

1. LED stands at NAB break record in virtual production boom
2. Pay $40 to appear on a 1,670 sq m screen in Times Square
3. H&M store displays generative art on huge LED screen
4. UWTSD invests in ‘first immersive LED rooms in Wales’ & UK-first immersive LED learning spaces launched at UWTSD 
5. Huge 32:9 AIO LED replaces telepresence in French MTR
6. ‘World’s largest’ LED volume built for filming in Australia
7. ‘World’s largest LED canvas’ among UK’s top attractions
8. The luxury health clinic with 28 LED displays in Barcelona
9. First virtual studio with Sony Crystal LED display completed
10. Largest internal LED wall in southern hemisphere installed
11. ‘World-first’ 360° LED visualisation cinema established
12. LG Electronics unveils its first LED screen brand for cinemas

Live events, entertainment and drones

1. The 1,500 drone dragon that danced in the Shenzhen sky
2. How video is changing Broadway with the help of PRG
3. New Year’s Eve in London marked by Celestial drone display
4. Eurovision 2023 launched with record-breaking drone show
5. ‘World-first’ MR immersive butterfly trail to be launched
6. TAIT creates flying platforms for Rihanna Super Bowl show
7. L-Acoustics brings immersive sound to Adele in Las Vegas
8. Live events to boom in 2023 despite cost of living crisis
9. Coronation concert crowned by halo screen and mapping
10. World’s largest ongoing drone show to launch in Australia

The metaverse

1. The top five AV opportunities in the metaverse
2. Supermodel creates MetaHuman 3D avatar in VP studio
3. Disney, Meta and Microsoft cuts hit metaverse hopes
4. Eurovision highlights gen Z’s desire to embrace metaverse

Research and insight

1. Research: The price of talent is on the up
2. The strengthening outlook for AV in the United Kingdom
3. AV Essentials: a guide to assistive listening technology
4. Inside Technology: Video Walls
5. Can AV technology make America great again?

Products

1. LG’s massive 272″ 8K Micro LED display makes ISE debut
2. Jean-Michel Jarre to showcase latest CODA Audio products
3. SMART Technologies and Crestron sign first-of-its-kind deal
4. Unilumin is still at the forefront of the Metasight industry
5. Samsung’s new 8K UST projector can display 150″ images
6. LG launches its first projector designed for digital signage
7. Samsung launches Android display at BETT edtech show
8. iiyama to unveil two 105″ 21:9 panoramic displays at ISE
9. ViewSonic modernises classrooms with innovative solutions
10. BrightSign expands Series 5 with affordable media players
11. Logitech launches Rally Bar Huddle for small rooms
12. Jabra upgrades PanaCast 50 with AI-powered features
13. Barco launches 2nd-gen Clickshare Conference CX-50
14. Huddly launches an AI-directed multi-camera system
15. Shure introduces first of a kind integrated ceiling array
16. Crestron’s expansion of workplace range is biggest ever

Regulation

1. EU energy rules ‘restrict use of 8K and microLED displays’
2. Brexit red tape gets thumbs down from UK’s AV industry

Retail

1. Louis Vuitton store boasts audio-animatronic Yayoi Kusama
2. World-first’ touchless aerial cash register trialled in Japan
3. H&M promotes sportswear with dancing in Proto display
4. Tiffany’s reopens with video walls in the shape of windows

The Sphere

1. U2 to launch world’s largest 16K LED screen at MSG Sphere
2. World’s largest LED screen makes 4 July debut
3. U2 opens the Sphere Las Vegas: in video and in pictures
4. Sphere loses nearly $100m as chief financial officer quits
5. $125 to leave your car at Sphere – that’s a parking lot

Video

1. AVI-SPL brings the virtual studio to enterprise broadcasting
2. NDI ‘takes the lead’ in networked video products market
3. VVC/H.266 named as ‘standout codec’ as video traffic booms
4. Why HoW livestreaming is moving away from social media

Videoconferencing and hybrid work

1. Microsoft puts the GPT from ChatGPT into Teams Premium
2. Surface Hub to be first touch board to run MTR on Windows
3. Logitech unveils Project Ghost video chat booth at ISE
4. Greg Jeffreys: Managing the change management ethos
5. Native room systems vs UC agnosticism: the pros and cons
6. Mercedes-Benz E Class cars to offer Webex Meetings
7. Zoom Rooms joins the 21:9 screen aspect ratio revolution
8. Google shrinks Project Starline prototype to the size of a TV
9. Webex introduces AI-based ‘cinematic meetings experience’
10. Microsoft’s Ilya Bukshteyn: ‘The future is multi-camera’

Miscellanea

1. Are these gigantic Man City tour bus holograms for real?‘
2. Five ways AI can aid human connection and collaboration
3. IPMX demystified with short answers to tough questions
4. Royal College of Art partners with Outernet London