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    Inside HDMI's New 3D Specs

    In March, HDMI Licensing released HDMI 1.4a, which spelled out new 3D enhancements and requirements for broadcasting 3D content over HDMI. What do they mean for your next project? Here is a breakdown.

     
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    Digital Signage: X2O Xpresenter Xe

    There are three new versions of X2O's Xpresenter Xe digital signage system.

     
  • 2011 PRO AV Spotlight Awards

    The PRO AV Spotlight Awards are your chance to gain recognition for your company and get noticed by AV pros and architects for outstanding design and installation in commercial, corporate, education, and other non-residential applications.

     
  • Inside Scoop: Fox News, Studio H

    Creating the 36-by-48-foot Studio H on the 12th floor of the Fox News building in midtown Manhattan began with the build-out of a new two-story studio shell, complete with video cabling and a powered lighting grid. As executives fielded design ideas and bids, the race began: Deadlines were tight...

     
  • 2010 PRO AV Spotlight Awards

    In its third year, the Spotlight Awards program recognizes 16 winners, including 12 first-time recipients. Talk about an industry with talent to go around.

     
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    Inside Las Vegas' CityCenter

    Las Vegas' CityCenter is big. Really big. From room automation to digital signage, AV integrators left nothing in their toolbox when building CityCenter's massive AV systems.

     
  • The Block, Louisville, Ky. AV integrator: Mankin Media Systems. Architect/design firm: Bayus Design Works.

    2010 Best House Of Worship AV Project

    The centerpiece of The Block student ministry venue by Mankin Media Systems is a 1,200-seat box-style theater with a 26-foot Da-Lite screen, Barco FLM HD18 18,000-lumen projector, and d&b line array.

     
  • Boston Scientific Visitors Center, St. Paul, Minn. AV integrator: Sensory Environment Design. Architect/design firm: RSP Architects. Custom curved screen by Spyeglass.

    2010 Best Corporate AV Project (under $250K)

    Tasked with creating a "wow" effect Sensory Environment Design created a custom 4-by-20-foot seamless curved rear-projection screen with 3M's Vikuiti projection film and custom edge-blending software.

     
  • Blueprint for Success in Corporate Boardrooms

    The tony corporate boardroom is a well-trod market for AV integrators, but not the most hospitable one. Some rooms are older than the oldest board members, barely wired for speakerphone, let alone stereo surround sound and high-definition plasmas. Others, the new rooms, are so image-conscious...

     
  • Peeps & Company, National Harbor, Md. AV consultant: RTKL Associates. Systems integrator: One Solution. AV integrator: Tritech. Architect/design firm: RTKL Associates.

    2010 Best Retail AV Project

    Candy-maker Just Born opened its flagship Peeps & Company store at National Harbor, Md. RTKL Associates, which designed the AV and lighting systems, calls it "an example of brand-focused retailing."

     
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    AV Pros Name Their Favorite Product Makers

    PRO AV invited AV integrators, installers, consultants, and end-users to tell us about the products they use and/or specify most often in 25 product categories. Here's what they said.

     
  • Inside InfoComm's Green AV Rating System

    Having struck out with the U.S. Green Building Council, the AV industry now aims to create its own LEED-type sustainability certification process, due out in January 2011. Here's what it entails.

     
  • Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum, Atlanta. AV integrator: Design and Production. Architect/design firm: Gallagher & Associates.

    2010 Best Museum AV Project

    Twenty-three years after first working on it, Design and Production had to create "blockbuster" showpieces for the Jimmy Carter Museum to make it the most interactive presidential library to date.

     
  • Center for Connected Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pa. AV consultant: The Sextant Group. AV integrator:  SoundCom. Architect/design firm: The Design Alliance. Visioning consultant/communications consultancy and design: ThoughtForm.

    2010 Best Health Care AV Project

    Sixty floors above Pittsburgh, sensors detect visitors? arrival at the Center for Connected Medicine and greet them with an interactive Flash program projected onto glass-etched automatic doors.

     
  • NYU Dolan Recording Studio/Research Lab, New York. AV consultant/acoustician: Walters-Storyk Design Group. AV integrator: Masque Sound. Architect/design fim: Gensler.

    2010 Best Education AV Project (Tie)

    Virtually every room in NYU Steinhardt School's new James L. Dolan Recording and Teaching Complex was designed to be a live recording environment ... even the bathrooms.

     
  • Parx Casino in Bensalem, Pa. AV integrator: Production Technology Consultants Group. Architect/design firm: Friedmutter Group

    2010 Best Restaurant/Casino

    When Greenwood Racing got approval to build the 260,000-square-foot Parx Casino, it contracted with Production Technology Consultants Group to design all the AV and production lighting systems.

     
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    One-Stop Shopping for Digital Signage

    When Oklahoma's Choctaw Nation needed new AV throughout all its casinos and a digital signage system, it turned to a single source: Alpha Video & Audio of Minnesota.

     
  • Classic Comforts, Greenwich, Conn. AV integrator: Electronics Design Group. Architect/design firm: Shope Reno Wharton Architecture.

    2010 Best Residential AV Project

    The first Spotlight Award winner for Best Residential Project has 14 TVs, 31 AV zones, a 12-seat home theater, and a home office with its own Tandberg videoconferencing system.

     
  • U.S Army TRADOC Classroom XXI Modernization Program. AV integrator: Audio Video Systems.

    2010 Best Government AV Project (Federal)

    The Army's Training and Doctrine Command called on Audio Video Systems to modernize schools at 16 installations. Due to the number of classrooms, AVS designed standard, repeatable technology systems.

     
  • New York City Visitors Information Center. AV integrator: VideoSonic Systems. Architect/design firm: WXY Architecture & Urban Design. Custom user interface and software design: GestureTek

    2010 Judges' Award

    For a new NYC information center, VideoSonic Systems worked with GestureTek on a wayfinding system that includes three multitouch projection tables with both finger-touch and object recognition.

     
 
 
 
 

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