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InfoComm International's most recent Economic Snapshot offers the clearest evidence yet that AV companies are feeling better about their business future.
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InfoComm's latest Economic Snapshot Survey show industry sentiment bottomed out last year. Now AV pros are holding steady in hopes that business will improve.
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In September, CEDIA released its 2010 Benchmarking Survey. As you'd expect, residential business is off, but for the first time, researchers asked installers about commercial work.
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After anemic growth in 2009, LCD TVs are apparently hot again, according to research firm DisplaySearch, which is exactly what purveyors of 3D and LED-lit flat-panels were aiming for.
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The National Systems Contractors Association's Q1 Market Intelligence Briefing, "Recurring Revenue: Selling Service", breaks down services into six main categories, including training and maintenance.
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The world's talking about 3D entertainment and the potential boon to the movie industry and TV makers, but DisplaySearch has already started to define the market for something else–3D public displays.
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Randy Lemke, the executive director of InfoComm, tells a story of how he was in Hong Kong several years ago and was asked by a journalist about the size of the AV market.
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Last month, InfoComm International released its latest Economic Snapshot, a regular report on how the pro AV industry feels about its financial health. The October 2009 results closely resemble those from July 2009, when AV pros acknowledged that business had fallen off.
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The new home market may never bounce back to pre-recession levels. But if builders themselves are any indication, including AV and home systems in new construction will remain as important as ever.
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When Pro AV has surveyed the market to learn where (if anywhere) AV customers are spending their precious dollars, flat-panel displays are consistently a growth category. Upgrades drive a lot of the market for new LCDs and plasmas, but so does the momentum behind digital signage.
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According to research firm displaySearch, there's a possible tipping point in our future. It's the year in which OLED displays for TVs will finally outsell OLEDs for non-pro AV applications that attract the most attention today–namely mobile phone and media player displays.
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It's not just the digital signage industry that's optimistic about its prospects during the lingering recession. Oyster Bay, N.Y.-based ABI Research thinks the future looks bright, too.
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InfoComm released its new January Economic Snapshot Survey. The survey's focus is normally on InfoComm's Performance Index, a 1-10 rating of respondents' feelings about their companies' health. Looking ahead six months, the average rating was 6.46 (10 is the highest), which is down from 7.1.
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Few would argue that tele-presence systems are among the cool new things in today's enterprise. But are they AV installs? IT installs? Anecdotally, AV pros say that unless the client is happy with an out-of-the-box solution, the best telepresence requires their expertise. And new research from the...
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When times get hard, there's always someone who says they've got a cure for what ails us. Gas prices high? Economy in the tank? To many, the AV solution is videoconferencing.
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Analysts say the market confusion between commercial-grade and consumer-grade flat-panel displays sold through commercial AV channels continues.
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The economy is a mess. What does that mean for the pro AV industry? InfoComm recently surveyed its members on how their 2008 was shaping up.
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AT THIS MONTH'S AUDIO ENGINEERING Society Convention in San Francisco, more than 370 exhibitors—from Audio-Technica to Yamaha, AKG to Sony—wooed attendees with new products and technologies. While AES draws a wide cross section of audio professionals and enthusiasts, we wondered what audio gear...
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If you think comparing DLP and LCD technology is hard, you won't find much help in the wisdom of the market, which reflects the individual choices of hundreds of thousands (in some cases millions) of buyers.
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AS PART OF ITS ANNUAL SURVEY OF AV integrators' compensation and benefits, InfoComm asks a series of questions about sales quotas—who's setting them, who's meeting them, and whether or not quotas are going up.