EISA AWARDS

Turn to page 26 and you’ll find a feature on the 20182019 awards presented to the consumer A/V manufacturing community by the Expert Imaging and Sound Association. I had an opportunity in late August to attend the association’s Gala ceremony in Berlin, Germany, where it presented the awards. (There I am in the group photo under the video projector at left, along with Keith Pray, General Manager of Avtech Media Americas.) For me, the most impressive thing about this event (aside from the amazing magicians who performed between awards—see photo above), was getting to meet with a large, international group of fellow A/V magazine editors. It really drove home the reality that the print magazine is still a viable medium. Since the Gala was scheduled to coincide with Berlin’s IFA convention, I also had a chance to look at the 8K LCD and OLED TVS coming from Samsung and LG, respectively. Check out the Wide Angle blog on soundandvision.com to read my impressions of this duo of next-gen Ultra HDTVS.