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At Vistacom’s tech expo, Joel Cruz from BZB Gear, a premier partner and gold sponsor, highlights their role as a worldwide manufacturer of Pro AV and broadcasting equipment. They focus on bridging the gap between these industries by simplifying design, procurement, and technical support. BZB Gear offers comprehensive support and produces content through their blogs…

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At Vistacom’s tech expo, Joel Cruz from BZB Gear, a premier partner and gold sponsor, highlights their role as a worldwide manufacturer of Pro AV and broadcasting equipment. They focus on bridging the gap between these industries by simplifying design, procurement, and technical support. BZB Gear offers comprehensive support and produces content through their blogs and YouTube channel. Their exhibition includes award-winning cameras like the 4K auto-tracking PTC camera Adamo and the ePTZ auto-tracking camera Maestro. They also showcase other Pro AV and broadcasting equipment, emphasizing their new auto-tracking technology and NDI capabilities. Attendees can meet the team and explore the latest features at their booth.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to our VISTAcom TechX FO sneak peek series with our Golden Platinum sponsors. Today, we are with one of our gold sponsors, a very valued premier partner for all things Pro AV equipment, particularly their PTC cameras for us at least. So with me here today is Joel Cruse. He's director of marketing for BZB gear. Joel has been in the technology marketing world for over fifteen years now. Working specifically in Pro AV with Bzb gear and spearheading their marketing efforts for about over six years. So thanks for being here with Mutual. Yes, thank you for this opportunity. Have us on. Yeah. Of course. So for those who don't really have a full grasp, on who BBB is. Can you tell us a little bit about the company and what your core offerings are? Yeah. So we are a worldwide one stop source manufacturer for Pro AV and broadcasting equipment. You know, our mission pretty simple to bridge a gap between these two independent yet intertwined industries. And we're doing that by simplifying, you know, design, procurement and technical support, you know, tech notes tech tech tech support is a vital component to our success. That's why we offer, you know, seven days a week support. I know with, you know, when you have you know, AV or broadcasting setup, different branded equipment, not all the time, they don't play nice. They don't play well all the time. Then, you know, you have to contact multiple tech supports that could be an adventure in itself, you know. So, yeah, with all Bzb gear in the whole ecosystem, you know, we make sure that everything connects well works well together. And if you do need support, you know, you just have one number to call. You know, also to the support, we are constantly, you know, putting out content on, you know, our blogs, as well as our YouTube tech channel, v z b t v, you could find a product introductions, demos, how to's. So we just tried to make the life of our, you know, customers or dealers as simple as possible and get all this content easily accessible, you know. Yeah. Love it. Alright, great. So for the tech expo, what will you guys be exhibiting this year? We will be bringing two field school to say this award winning cameras. Very nice. Yeah. So it's very you know, our boss was very management, so he was sleeping with the award for the longest time. You know, but so we're bringing our four k Adamo. It's Dia Domo, it's a four k auto tracking PTC camera. It was recognized at this year's NAV show. It does four k at sixty over HDMI and twelve g SDI. And the latest feature, like I mentioned, is its AI auto tracking. The other award winning camera we'll bring is our Maestro. It's and ePTZ auto tracking camera as well. This one was recognized at this year's Infocom. It does, has a 4K CMOS sensor, Sony CMOS Sensor, outputting ten eighty p at thirty three times digital zoom, and we have SDI and an HDI model HDMI model. And also, to the party, we're bringing a bunch of our, you know, other pro AV, other broadcasting equipments, you know, joystick controllers, extenders, video wall processors, and, you know, like our t a a compliant AV over IP system. IP here for K. So we'll need the whole variety selection of buffet over there. That's a nice variety. Yeah. Absolutely. I think folks will get a lot of value out of checking those out. So real quick to wrap things up here, anything else that you think that attendees would get real value out of by coming to see the booth and talking to you guys? Yeah. I mean just like meeting the team, also the, like I mentioned, the maestro, right? So the latest feature on it is the AI auto tracking, so it uses the latest you know, human detection, AI algorithms, super accurate, super fast tracking. You know, vertical horizontal as well as zooming in and out. So that's really we we kinda unveiled that at infocom, so it'll be even more tuned tuned up for tech expo. So we're excited about that, as well as a lot of our cameras now, we have NDI, so the ADOMO It has the latest NDI HX three standard, and a few other cameras have NDI capabilities, but we are excited to be working with Audonate to incorporate Dante AB as well into our PTC cameras. So Yeah. So we have just a lot of new tech going in auto tracking. I I mentioned earlier with Adamo, but we are incorporating auto tracking and all of our PTC cameras soon. So, yeah, so I mean, a lot of exciting times right now. Just make sure you you guys did visit us at Tech Expo. You can see all the surprises there. Alright, everyone. Well, you heard it from him award winning stuff, you gotta check it out. So thanks for your time, Joel, and excited for the event and have you guys there. Alright. We looking forward to being there. Thank you guys. Alright. See you.

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