Absolute Video Theatre™ | AVT

Absolute Video Theatre™ | AVT - Audio visual systems integration for the discerning™

Why AVT? | Our Clients | Presidents Message | Employees

Why AVT?

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If you have an idea, then AVT can make it happen! We are NOT cookie cutters. We engineer custom solutions. AVT has proven many times in the past that we can design and produce custom A/V solutions to suit your particular needs.

We have a number of innovations and inventions to our credit. Three of our projects have received extensive acclaim and have been given a Government grant as a reward for developing new technology in Canada.

AVT can design an A/V system that will blend into any environment, without changing the boardroom design. AVT works closely with architects and interior designers to get the look you want.

Here are a few examples of custom designs by AVT:

We are proud of this integration. We utilize a readily available table pop-up for this integration. The pop-up was dressed with a computer designed "hat" comprised of a tri-element microphone and a portion of the table. When down, all AV and PC support devices are hidden.

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This boardroom couldn't take a projector in the wall. So, we custom built a pop down mirror.

This is a pop-up projector lift. We utilized a hex pattern on the table to hide the presence of the pop-up projector. We also added a connection on the side of the pop-up to plug in a video conference camera.

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Our Clients

All of our clients expect discretion from their contractors. In order to safeguard our client’s privacy, we make it a point not to talk about them. Our clients prefer this relationship.

Letters of referral and commendation are available and will be provided to all serious integration / consultation customers.
So, we cannot tell you who our clients are. But, we can tell you what they are:

1) Corporate or industrial based.
2) Interested in an A/V company that is trustworthy and works within the framework of "Standard Business Practices".
3) Advanced users that expect a little more from their A/V environment.

Give us a call, and we can talk about your expectations. We believe that once you are our customer, then you will remain our customer. One of the cornerstones of customer service is to "never lose a client" and in order to keep clients happy year after year, we put the customer’s needs first. We will not fill a need with something that "will do". Rather, we fill the need with "the ideal solution."

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Presidents Message

Our company started out legally as AVID Systems back in 1988. In 1991, we changed our name to Absolute Video Theatre™ for the following reasons:

The new name described the type of system that we were striving to produce (at that time).
The word "Absolute" is descriptive of something well defined and nearing perfection.
"Absolute" would always find its way to the beginning of lists.

As it turned out, the name AVID became quite a popular name with a number of products and companies using the name.

We incorporated our business in 1994 and our full legal name became 1185540 Ontario Inc., operating as Absolute Video Theatre™, AVT and AVT.ca. AVT is the acronym for our full name and is short and to the point.

Over the years, we have physically moved our offices around as we have grown. However, we have not changed our main contact phone number as we felt that maintaining the same phone number was critical to maintain our contact with clients from yesteryear.

We have a few Modus Operandi that remain true to this day:

Never lose a client, by way of superior service and a cheerful attitude.
Always give the client what they want, not what we want to give them.
Operate in an honest and forthright manner at all times.

Thanks for taking the time to find out more about us. Please contact us!

Yours truly,
Mark J. Corlett CTS, CEO

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EMPLOYEES

Mark Corlett, CEO | Mark@avt.ca
As a young boy he was always dragging home dead electronics to tinker and fix. After pioneering the first Grade 13 electronics course in Ontario, Mark went on to Sheridan College Electronics where he wrote a number of papers on new electronic products. After completing audio engineering school, Mark went on to work in the corporate staging world. For the past twenty years, he has been the principle at AVT and has invented a number of special products and received recognition from the government in the form of R&D grants. Never one to sit still, his hobbies include: martial arts, scuba diving, motorcycle riding and flying.

Jeremy Bui, VP Operations | Jeremy@avt.ca
Jeremy has a formal background from Ryerson University in Technical Theatre Production. Jer was “on the road” at a very early age and has experienced almost every type of show staging environment there is. Now-a-days, Jeremy is our esteemed team leader and heads up our in-field installations. Jeremy’s hobbies include motorcycles, mountain biking and sports racing.

JP Power, VP Sales and Marketing – General Manager | JP@avt.ca
With a background in marketing, JP is ideally suited in his role of sales and marketing. JP is a soft-spoken technical whiz and has held a number of AV related positions prior to AVT. JP’s hobbies include motorcycling, drums and best of all, being a new dad!

David Baker Ray, Project Manager and Technical Sales | David@avt.ca
David has spent his career primarily focused on the high end home electronics integration market. David is a university graduate with a BA in Mass Communications and Radio and Television Production. David has spent years in the Land of the Rising Sun and speaks Japanese and understands their culture.

Tristan Green, Service Manager | Tristan@avt.ca
After completing Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson University, Tristan went on to work in the film and television industry providing production and post-production audio services. Today Tristan is a specialty problem solver and works closely with our customers to deliver just-in-time services for important presentations and service issues

Nick Costa, Technical Representative | Nick@avt.ca
Nick works long hours for the central team of executives in the heart of one of Canada’s largest corporations. Nick is used to being on the “hot-seat” and ensures complete customer satisfaction within a set of high end videoconference suites and boardrooms in Toronto’s core. Nick comes from a service background and has worked in some of Canada’s most sophisticated presentation facilities.

Scott Latham, Chief Programmer | Scott@avt.ca
Scott (like most of us), has made the migration from show staging into the more regular life-style of programming for AVT. Scott is a gifted classical guitar player and is a patron of the arts. Scott’s background in computer programming serves him well with the complexities of today’s boardroom communications systems.

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