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5-Minute Interview

  • 5-Minute Interview: Paul Gulick

    Paul Gulick, founder and CEO, Clarity Visual Systems The Wilsonville, OR-based digital visual messaging solutions company announced the acquisition of French digital display manufacturer Synelec Telecom Multimedia S.A. in May.

     

Pop Quiz

Other Articles

  • Selling Calibration Services

    CAN YOU make any money providing a service that customers either don't know exists, don't realize they need, or don't want to pay for because they think someone has already done it? The service is calibration.

     

Community Views

Parallax View

  • Image

    Hitting The Mark

    Ironically, as cathode-ray tube (CRT) imaging continues its slow march into oblivion, it's still the most accurate way to reproduce color of any electronic imaging technology.

     

Consultant's Connection

  • Managing Expectations

    Having recently completed work on an “AV Best Practices” book, I still have the process of delivering AV systems on my mind.

     

Viewpoint

  • A 10-Point Diagnostic

    At the InfoComm Manufacturer's Forum in June, it only took two audience questions to realize that the audience wasn't receiving what the manufacturers were saying with 100 percent signal transfer. In fact, the “impedance mismatch” was rather dramatic.

     

Features

  • How I Got Into The AV Business

    For some, AV has always been a passion; for others, it was a job that turned into something more. Either way, it seems that AV workers tend to have a better-than-average chance for a diverse biography than some of their professional peers from other industries.

     

  • 5-Minute Interview: Kent Meredith

    Kent Meredith, general manager of United Spirit Arena in Lubbock, TX, and director at large for arenas at the International Association of Assembly Managers (IAAM).

     

  • Doing Business In Sports AV

    Pro AV's essential industry guide, with crucial tips for positioning your company to leverage.

     

Install Solutions

Museum Install

  • Presidential Library Showcases AV

    The William J. Clinton Presidential Center is the nation's newest presidential library. Using a wealth of AV technologies, including large-format projected imagery, interactive computer-based exhibits, and LCD video displays, the facility features an 80-seat orientation theater, full-size replicas...

     

Sports Install

  • Ballpark Adds Major-League AV

    John Q. Hammons, a hotelier from Springfield, MO, funded the $32 million construction of Hammons Field as a gesture to show Minor League Baseball the sincerity of his mission. The 8,056-seat ballpark was completed in April 2004 and served as home to the Southwest Missouri State University (SMS)...

     

ProAV's Guide to Doing Business

Trends

  • Trends In Sports AV Design

    In their quest to excite, entertain, sell, and market, sporting venues of all shapes and sizes are deploying cutting-edge AV systems at a clip that's keeping everyone from architects to construction companies to AV systems consultants and integrators busy.

     

  • Breaking Into The Sports AV Business

    It's the contract of your dreams. Your NCAA Division I alma mater is planning a multi-million dollar renovation to its football stadium that includes a new PA system, a fiber optic cabling upgrade, scoreboard video, and AV toy-laden skyboxes.

     

Other Articles

  • AV Takes Center Stage In College Rivalry

    Knowing that All Pro Sound had a hand in upgrading Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium, the University of Alabama's athletic department recruited Company Director Bobby Taylor to update the AV design of its football facility. The upgrades to Bryant-Denny Stadium incorporate some of the latest developments...

     

Tools & Tech

Peer Review

  • Peer Review-Logical Solutions VIS-3

    The Logical Solutions VIS-3 DVI Extender consists of a transmitter and receiver unit — each of which contains a single ST-type fiber connector and a DVI-D female connector.

     

What's Next

  • Nice Gesture

    Raytheon's gesture-technology demo — called Interactive Gestural Exploitation and Tools (IGET) —consists of an off-the-shelf DLP projector and special gloves embedded with reflective beads.

     

New Products

Other Articles

Cheat Sheet

  • Optimizing Sightlines in Presentation Spaces

    The most basic of AV requirements, achieving optimal visibility in presentation spaces involves juggling a number of conflicting variables. Here’s what you need to know to create an effective presentation space every time.