Paradigm AV Brings Tidebreak to Europe

Greg Jeffreys

Greg Jeffreys, CEO of Paradigm AV Ltd. lives a dual life. He has one foot in manufacturing and the other in distribution. He has one foot in AV and the other in IT. He has one foot in UK and the other in Europe. He even has one foot in hardware and the other in software.

All that duality puts him straddling the industry’s leading edge and made Paradigm one of the more interesting stands at ISE 2013.

Tidebreak signed a European distribution deal with Paradigm AV just in time for ISE and Paradigm featured their TeamSpot collaboration software on the stand at ISE 2013.

The software lets your customers have a room where you can connect one or more main displays to 10 devices such as laptops, PCs, tablets and smartphones. Participants download the client software from the local network and then can move their own cursors from personal screens onto the displays in the room.

Files can be worked on, annotated and screen-grabbed by all users. A system archive allows files, materials or links to be accessed users. The software requires no special hardware and is compatible with all major software applications for Windows and Macintosh OS X, enabling it to support a wide array of team collaboration space configurations.

Glass Screen

That software encourages collaboration and makes it affordable: it also shows you how software (and web) can replace traditional hardware solutions—for a lot less cost. Almost any corporate will want this in their meeting rooms.

At the ISE exhibition, Paradigm ran TeamSpot on its display wall, an interactive table, and its new Glass Screen. The multi-channel Paradigm Glass Screen was implemented via four ultra-short throw projectors, edge-blended using software from Scalable Technologies which Paradigm also distributes in the UK.

The leading-edge display distinguishes itself by the optical quality glass surface, which only faces the viewer and provides options for anti-reflective and colour tints. It formed Paradigm’s main display within the collaborative meeting space, and the content included a series of Paradigm products and projects accessible via a multi-touch LCD panel and laptop/tablet.

Sure, there was hardware on sale there. Yet the more important point was the latest interaction between hardware and software, between AV and IT, between kit and collaboration… There’s that duality again. But that duality is only proof that the leading edge is double-sided and the path to becoming a solutions company is a two-way street at Paradigm AV.

Go Paradigm AV at ISE 2013