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...
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...
The ability to hide AV systsems, in deference to a room's aesthetics, is a constant challenge for AV pros, especially in high-end corporate boardrooms. Company executives usually want all the capabilities of modern AV technology but don't want to see blank screens and messy wires when it's not in...
In the sci-fi thriller Fantastic Voyage, a medical team is shrunk in size to be injected into a scientist's brain to save his life. It may have been a little like that working on the systems integration for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science's Expedition Health exhibition, which required a lot...
If you installed AV systems in a group's new headquarters and those headquarters subsequently received a Platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program, does it mean those AV systems were green? What if the group whose...
AV pros have long recognized advances in the way they can deploy fiber-optic cabling. But certain system costs have continued to hold them back from deploying fiber.
You've heard it all before: AV and information technology have come to a head. Nowhere is this more apparent, perhaps, than in efforts to move video content over Cat-5 cabling, which is often the economical choice. Many times it's already in place before an integrator begins work on a project.
Middle Atlantic Products has debuted several new rack products, including the new EGR Series AV rack enclosures and the C-5 Credenza Rack Series.
One of the most difficult things to do is determining how much something will cost when it's beyond one's knowledge base. I'm sure every integrator reading this has been asked by a client to produce a budget estimate for a project where, in many cases, the client probably had no idea what to...
The two new whiteboard mounts from Peerless are designed for use with Hitachi Starboards, Smart Technologies Smart Boards, and other whiteboards.
New from MultiDyne, the HD-4400-CWDM is a high-density, multirate, 3G HD-SDI SMPTE fiber-optic transport system.
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AMX has entered into partnerships with building management device manufacturer FieldServer Technologies, a subsidiary of Sierra Monitor Corp., and energy measurement company DENT Instruments. The strategic alliance is expected to allow AMX to offer networked, interactive control systems for...
The new DigitalMedia Card Interface (DMCI) from Crestron is a compact, rack-mountable enclosure designed to house a single DM input card for accepting any AV source signal (including analog, digital, computer, HDMI, DVI, and DisplayPort signals) and outputting it as HDMI.
Middle Atlantic's new EGR Series racks feature what the company calls the V-System of pre-drilled sides so integrators don't have to drill holes to mount small components to the rack.
Peerless Industries' new line of standardized mounts includes six products for digital signage applications.
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Premier Mounts expanded its UNI product line by combining its audio system, a flat-panel mount, and UNI-UST into a single unit–the UNI-DS+AUDIO.
Da-Lite added an iPod dock to its line of Oravisual Lecterns.
Crestron Electronics has begun shipping the CEN-SWPOE-24, a 24-port managed 10/100 Ethernet switch with power over Ethernet (PoE) and dual gigabit uplink ports.
An updated version of Furman's AR-PRO, the P-3600 AR G is a 3RU power conditioner and True RMS voltage regulator for stable 120V delivery from any input source between 88V and 133V or 170V and 265V.
Premier Mounts has begun shipping its UNI-DS+Audio all-in-one mount for digital signage or other similar applications. The universal mount has its own set of built-in loudspeakers and an amplifier.