Once again this year, at InfoComm 08 in Las Vegas, SVC’s editorial team fanned out to find some of the most important, leading-edge AV-related products debuting at the show, investigating if they might be deserving of our annual InfoComm Pick Hit awards.

What makes a product Pick-Hit worthy? Well, first, it has to be new, and real. That means the product hasn’t been shown at any previous InfoComm shows — although it might have initially been introduced earlier in the calendar year at some other industry event. From an InfoComm point of view, the product had to debut on the show floor as a real product, not a technology demo, with a scheduled ship date before the end of 2008.

But, more importantly, the product must be technologically innovative, designed to help systems contractors offer more to their clients, while making their own jobs easier and moving the industry forward one way or another.

Here is a quick look at SVC’s Pick Hit Award winners for InfoComm 2008. For a more detailed look at our choices, see the August issue of SVC.

Sanyo LP-XP200L projector

Hitachi StarBoard CP-A100 + FX77Duo whiteboard and projector bundle

Projectiondesign F10 stereoscopic projector

Canon Realis WUX10 projector

Westinghouse Digital M470SWP LCD and digital signage software

Sharp XG-P560W projector

Da-Lite 3D Virtual Black screen

InFocus IN3100 series projector

Extron GlobalViewer Enterprise management software

Fiberplex Shadow-fiber-optic transmission system

Sansonic HNB modules

Rane Mongoose and Mongoose Tracker software

Avocent Emerge MPX1500T HD Multipoint Extender

Click here to download the 2008 Pick Hit logos

Take a look back at all the products and trends our bloggers were raving about at the show.