Rentex was founded in 1980 and is a longtime leader in the cross-rental market supplying AV gear to the nation’s largest AV rental, staging, production and other live event companies. It is headquartered in Boston with 11 other locations in the US. The Rentex inventory is national and is dispatched wherever it is needed.
“Rentex has been a key rental partner with Analog Way for over a decade, and we are honored to continue to supply Rentex with the industry’s most cutting-edge live event processors,” says Seth Teates, Analog Way’s Senior Regional Sales Manager. “With their investment in a substantial inventory of Aquilon, Zenith 200 and Pulse 4K systems, Rentex can assure customers that they will have the most powerful processing systems available on the planet. Linking up to four Aquilon chassis with the new LINK feature allows for unheard of system sizes for even the most demanding world-class events.”
Rentex acquired its first RS4 systems in late 2019 and since then has seen demand increase for the platform. “Our user base is producing live and corporate events with general sessions and keynotes that require very large pixel canvases and varied types of displays, including projector blends and large direct-view LED videowalls,” explains Greg Parker, Senior Products Manager/Video Presentation and Display at Rentex. “As event size grows and pixel spaces increase we’ve seen a stepped up demand for the Aquilons’ capabilities and needed to invest in more RS4s and some new RS2s.”
The Aquilon platform consists of extremely powerful video processors, which are intuitive to use, with a short learning curve when moving from similar systems. In addition, Parker notes that, “the Aquilon line excels at being flexible and flexibility is important to our customers. The LINK feature expands this flexibility, adding scalability and enabling customers to gain additional inputs and outputs across multiple chassis.”
Rentex also acquired more Analog Way RC400T event controllers with small footprints and rugged housings, and additional modular I/O Cards. “We rent them as stand alone items and with our Aquilon systems,” says Parker. “Keeping a generous stock of controllers and option cards allows us to service our own fleet as well as cover spot demand for our clients who also own the Aquilon platform and need to expand their capability.”