★Carried & Installed

Barco video walls, projectors & ClickShare · Kansas City.

IntegrateIT carries and installs Barco across the Kansas City metro — direct-view LED on the wall that has to be read from the far side of a lobby, laser projection in the room built to go dark, and ClickShare on the table in the room that has to start on time. One precision first, because the trade is sloppy about this word: Barco is a line we carry and install under distribution, not one we hold our own dealer agreement on, so we do not call ourselves an authorized Barco dealer. What we are is the people who check the structure, count the power, plan the service access and commission the thing once it is on the wall. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.

What we carry and install from Barco

Four halves, which is bad arithmetic and an accurate description — they almost never appear in the same project. Barco is a Belgian manufacturer whose day job is control rooms, cinema and simulation, and that shows in everything below: the tiles are built to run continuously, the projectors are built to be serviced, the meeting-room kit is built to be managed centrally rather than poked at by whoever is nearest the rack, and the cinema hardware is built for a booth somebody has to run every night of the year. We specify and install to order — nothing here sits on a shelf.

Video walls — direct-view LED, and the LCD alternative

• Barco TruePix. The indoor high-resolution LED series Barco purpose-built for control rooms, corporate spaces and broadcast — TP0.9-Q, TP0.9-I, TP1.2-E, TP1.2-I, TP1.5-E and TP1.9-E, with the newer TP-I range carrying more brightness at lower power. Barco states a 27.5-inch tile at 16:9, multi-level failover between tiles so one module does not take the wall down, a SteadyView algorithm aimed at operator eye fatigue, and batch-compatible LED modules guaranteed for up to ten years — which is the specification that actually matters on a wall somebody has to keep running for a decade. This is what a video wall is built from.
• Barco NT series, and the NT-I range. Barco lists NT for control rooms, television studios, corporate lobbies, boardrooms and experience centres: NT1.2, NT1.5 and NT1.8 at 1.2, 1.5 and 1.8 mm pixel pitch, and the NT-I range at 0.9, 1.2 and 1.5 mm with BAA compliance for government and critical work. A thinner, lighter tile with simplified mounting, which matters more than it sounds when a wall has to come apart for service.
• Barco IBX and ICX tiles. The rest of the indoor LED listing, where the brief is a good-looking wall at a sensible pitch rather than a control-room duty cycle. Barco publishes 1.2, 1.5, 1.8 and 2.5 mm across IBX, and 1.25, 1.56 and 1.875 mm across ICX. These are the ones that usually suit a lobby, a restaurant feature wall or a signage canvas.
• Barco Infinipix Gen2. Not a wall — the processor behind one, and the reason a Barco wall looks like one picture rather than like forty tiles that were calibrated on different days. Barco sells it as the Infinipix INP-100, with the IND-100 Dual EyePoint alongside it. A wall is only ever as good as what drives it, and this is the part clients never see on a quote and always see on the wall.
• Barco UniSee, and the OverView series. The LCD side. UniSee is Barco’s bezel-less LCD video wall with its own UniSee Mount, now in its second generation as UniSee II; OverView is the ultra narrow-bezel range beside it. Barco builds these as 55-inch LED-backlit panels, and notes that panel depth plus mounting is usually under 20 cm — 7.9 inches — which is why an LCD wall sometimes wins on a corridor or a lift lobby where a tiled LED cabinet simply will not fit.

Projectors — the residential range, and the large-venue one

• Barco’s residential projectors. Barco names seventeen of them on its current index, most in a standard and a CinemaScope variant: Balder and Balder CinemaScope, Bragi and Bragi CinemaScope, Njord and Njord CinemaScope, Hodr and Hodr CinemaScope, Heimdall, Heimdall CinemaScope, Heimdall+ and Heimdall+ CinemaScope, Freya, Freya+, Freya with the mFusion ICMP-XS integrated, Medea and Nerthus. These are what go in a dedicated cinema, paired to the screen rather than chosen before it.
• Bragi CinemaScope, specifically. The one that keeps coming up on older proposals, and it is current. Barco publishes 5K UHD at 5,120 × 2,160 on a 0.9-inch DMD, a solid-state RGB LED light source up to 2,200 ANSI lumens and up to 50,000 hours, a native 2.37:1 CinemaScope ratio with automatic detection that crops and scales material between 1.78:1 and 2.39:1, HDR10, a motorised DCI/P3 filter and RealColor calibration. Control4 and Crestron driver modules are published for it, so it starts on a keypad press with the rest of the room.
• Large-venue and installation projection. Barco’s commercial families, all on its Pulse platform: the G50, G62 and G100 series, the I65 and I600 series, the UDM and UDX large-venue ranges, the F70, F80 and F400 series, and the QDX range, with 4K UHD, native 4K and WUXGA variants and laser phosphor or RGB laser light sources depending on the model. This is auditorium, worship, museum and boardroom territory rather than living-room territory, and it lives on our commercial AV page. Barco also lists dedicated simulation projectors — the FL40 and FS40 MKII, FS70 and FS400 — which is where the blending and warping features on the rest of the range came from.

Conferencing — ClickShare, and what sits around it

• ClickShare Present — C-5 and C-10. Wireless presentation for a face-to-face room. Somebody walks in, clicks once, and their laptop is on the display. No cable at the table. ClickShare simplifies wireless presentation; it does not remove the administration — IT still manages configuration, network policy and software updates, and Barco publishes firmware administration through XMS Cloud. We confirm any licensing requirements for the selected model and features rather than assume either way. For a huddle space used by people who arrive with a laptop this is frequently the whole answer, and we will say so rather than sell a larger room.
• ClickShare Conference — CX-20, CX-30 and CX-50 2nd generation. The same one-click join, plus the room’s own camera, microphones and speakers handed to the call running on the guest laptop. The CX-20 is Barco’s small-room and huddle answer, the CX-30 covers small to medium, and the CX-50 2nd generation is the one for a high-impact room. Barco states a connection in under seven seconds via the ClickShare Button, App or Control Panel.
• ClickShare Bar Core and Bar Pro. Camera, microphones and speakers in one bar for a small or medium room, with the wireless conferencing built in rather than bolted on. This is the tier that usually replaces a tangle of USB peripherals in a room that was never designed as a meeting room.
• ClickShare Hub Core and Hub Pro. The modular room systems, available with Control Panel kits and in Microsoft Teams Rooms configurations. Where the room has a real boardroom scope — ceiling microphones, a processed audio path, a display sized off the worst seat — this is the Barco end of it, and the rest of the design lives on our Zoom Rooms and Teams Rooms page.
• The rest of the meeting-room range. ClickShare X-Display and X-Display Plus at 65 and 86 inches, built around the laptop somebody brings; the ClickShare Wireless Speakerphone; and the XMS management platform, which is how a fleet of rooms gets firmware and health monitoring without anyone visiting a room. That last one is the difference between rooms that stay working and rooms that quietly stop.

Commercial cinema — the booth, and the part of it Barco brings home

• Barco Series 4. The current laser cinema family, and Barco lists fifteen models on it today. The SP2K range runs SP2K-7S, SP2K-9S, SP2K-11S, SP2K-15S, SP2K-20C and SP2K-25C, which Barco publishes from 6,000 to 24,000 lumens; the SP4K range runs SP4K-12C, SP4K-13CHC, SP4K-15C, SP4K-20C, SP4K-25C, SP4K-27BHC, SP4K-35B, SP4K-40B and SP4K-55B, from 12,500 to 52,000. Barco sizes them by screen width rather than by seat count — five to ten metres at the small end, twenty to thirty at the other — and files the power and consumables story under its own name, Barco EcoPure. A commercial cinema build is quoted to order after a booth survey; there is no catalogue price for an auditorium and we will not pretend otherwise.
• Laser Light Upgrade. The one that keeps a working booth working. On a Series 2 projector Barco’s upgrade replaces the xenon light source outright; on a Series 3 it extends the laser one. Barco publishes the upgrade portfolio as the S+ Series at 10,000 lumens, the C+ Series up to 20,000 and the B+ Series up to 37,000, and states up to 30,000 more hours of projector life. For an exhibitor with screens that still earn their keep, this is usually the conversation to have before a replacement one — and it is the same conversation we have about a home projector that is fine except for its light source.
• Barco HDR LS4K, and the grading side. HDR by Barco is the high-dynamic-range programme, and HDR LS4K is what an exhibitor installs for it. The other end of the same pipeline is post-production: Barco lists the Series 4 SP4K-P and SP4K-P+, the HDR LS4K-P and P+, the HDR Lightbox, and grading plug-ins for DaVinci Resolve and FilmLight Baselight. A grading suite and an auditorium are different projects with different acceptance tests, and we say which one you are describing before anything is quoted.
• Media servers and audio — Alchemy, mFusion, Smart Amplifier. The Barco Alchemy ICMP-X puts an Integrated Cinema Processor and a media server on a single board, and Barco states it is compatible with Series 4 and Series 2. The Barco mFusion ICMP-XS is the three-in-one — audio processor, streaming device and media server. The Barco Smart Amplifier sits beside them for bi-amp, tri-amp and quad-amp configurations. None of this is visible from a seat, and all of it is what a projectionist actually lives with.
• Where Barco itself draws the line back to a house. We are not inventing the overlap; Barco files its residential range under Cinema systems and says why. The At Home Series is what Barco calls its cinema-at-home projectors, and Barco states they are derived directly from the professional Series 4 platform and built to DCI specifications, so a Digital Cinema Package plays with the supporting third-party equipment. Nerthus, up to 32,000 lumens, and Freya, at 7,500 to 13,500, are the two, both native 4K at 4,096 × 2,160 on three-chip DLP with a Barco Alchemy ICMP-X on board. On the LED side Barco draws the same line with the Runar DCI LED video wall at 0.9 mm, available in DCI 4K and CinemaScope. If what you want is a private screening room that can take a studio print rather than a very good living room, this is the shelf it comes off — and the room around it is a commercial-specification build wearing domestic finishes.

What a Barco wall asks of the building

A video wall is construction wearing a display costume, and every one of the following is cheaper to decide at drawing stage than to discover at install. This is the conversation we have with the builder, the electrician and the mechanical contractor, not only with you.

• Pitch, set by the seats. Measure the closest regular viewing position and choose pitch for it. Finer than that is money spent on something nobody in the room will ever see, and Barco’s own listing gives you the ladder to choose from.
• Structure and flatness. The frame carries the tiles dead flat. A wall a few millimetres out of plane shows every seam under the room’s own lighting, which is a frequent way a beautiful wall ends up looking cheap.
• Power and heat, counted for the array. Dedicated circuits sized for the whole wall and for inrush rather than average draw, and a continuous heat load the mechanical design has to absorb. In a closed boardroom that is a real number, not a rounding error.
• Service access, decided once. Front-service tiles can be pulled from inside the room; rear-service needs a working gap behind the wall that the framing has to allow for. Changing your mind afterwards means opening the wall.
• The video path. What feeds it, at what resolution, through what processor, over what cable — and what happens when the source is a laptop somebody brought to a meeting. We reach a wall over structured cable on AVPro Edge or Blustream so the sources can live in a rack somewhere sensible.
• One press, or it will not get used. The wall, the projector and the meeting room all join a scene on a Control4 or Crestron keypad, with the programming done in house rather than assembled from defaults.

Where Barco sits beside the other lines we carry

We carry more than one answer on purpose, so the recommendation can be about the room. On direct-view LED the outdoor-rated line we build with is Just Video Walls, the commercial platforms are Media Resources, and where the wall also has to behave like a television we carry LG MAGNIT and Samsung The Wall. Barco is the one we reach for when the room is a control room, a command centre or a boardroom that has to run continuously and be serviced for years — the duty cycle, the failover and the ten-year module guarantee are the argument, not the picture.

On projection the everyday argument in a Kansas City theater is Sony against JVC, and we carry both. Barco is the step past them — commercial-specification hardware in a house, usually paired to a scope screen from Stewart Filmscreen, and it earns its place in a room that has been built properly rather than decorated. On conferencing, ClickShare is the wireless layer; the camera, the microphones, the acoustics and the network under all of it are the actual project, and that is the unified communications conversation.

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