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Tech Tips

  • Protect Your Investments

    That AV equipment you're about to install is valuable. The last thing you want is for it to go unused or simply not fit the project. Take these steps to ensure it's safe and integrated properly.

     

AV Charrette

  • 21st-Century Newsroom Design

    When I.M. Pei designed the first building for Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1963, media was a different thing altogether.

     

Marketwatch

  • Flat Panel Shipments

    According to Austin, Texas-based research firm DisplaySearch, Sony is the new leader in LCD TV shipments. In the fourth quarter of 2007, the company passed Sharp, Vizio, and Samsung to claim 12.8 percent of quarterly shipments.

     

Pop Quiz

Other Articles

  • European Vacation

    The Integrated Systems Europe show closed its doors Jan. 31 on another record-breaking year. Maybe you should plan a visit soon.

     

Community Views

Parallax View

  • Get With the 16:9 Program

    Just about one year from now, we'll hear the “last call” for analog television broadcasting in the United States. All-digital is upon us. Still, the pro AV industry's adoption of widescreen imaging is too slow.

     

Data Links

  • Don't Cut Corners

    Part of my responsibility to the company where I work, and I guess to the AV industry in general through PRO AV, is to pass along what I've learned in my IT career and help close the knowledge gap between the two camps.

     

Consultant's Connection

  • AV as Utility? Not Very Likely

    Over the past few weeks I've been tracking a little dust-up between Nicholas Carr and the readers of Network World magazine.

     

Viewpoint

  • Conference Room Conundrum

    Recently, editors here at PRO AV central in Washington, D.C., settled into a fifth floor conference room to discuss, among other things, ways in which we'll improve our Web site over the coming months.

     

Features

  • Going to Extremes

    Cruise ship sailing the high seas, an outdoor arena that hosts year-round events, and a theme park with high-speed water rides. They all seem like idyllic getaways, but these harsh environments can be devastating to an AV system.

     

  • The Perfect Blend

    The conference room is a staple of the pro AV industry, a common technological integration project that supports basic organizational functions across almost every vertical market.

     

Install Solutions

Entertainment Install

  • Teamwork Reigns

    Design and install a multipurpose audio system for a large, multiuse arena, used for everything from college basketball games to jazz concerts, on a compressed timeline.

     

ProAV's Guide to Doing Business

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Tools & Tech

Feature

  • In Living Color

    According to color scientist Karl Lang of Lumita, a network of technology and marketing resources for the digital imaging industry, new technology in projectors has created a hole in the color specifications standards by altering the contents that brightness metrics were meant to measure.

     

Peer Review

  • Avlex Hm81bc-30 Hanging Microphone

    Brian Crabb, owner of Thunder Sound and Lighting in Marion, Ill., which specializes in design, installation, and service of audio, lighting, and media systems for commercial and house of worship applications.

     

Bright Idea

  • Quick Change

    Provider Series' new Head-Clip turns any lavalier microphone into a head-worn mic.

     

What's Next

  • Constructive Distortion

    HEARING LOSS ULTIMATELY IS ABOUT hair loss: the death of the tiny hairs that line the cochlea of the inner ear. Sound waves bend the hairs and thus the cells from which they sprout, and that motion creates electrical signals that auditory nerves pass on to the brain, which interprets them as sound.

     

New Products

Audio

  • Dynacord

    Dynacord, a division of Bosch Communications, introduces the D-Lite 1000, a compact, mobile audio system.

     

  • RapcoHorizon Co.

    The LTIBLOX is a scaled-down, mono-audio version of the new RapcoHorizon Co. LTI-1 stereo interface.

     

  • Carvin

    The XD88 from Carvin is a loudspeaker management system that offers four parametric EQs and parameters that include adjustable frequency, gain adjustment (± 12 dB cut or boost), and slope adjustment over a three-octave range.

     

Video

  • Gefen

    As part of its new TV line of professional products for home end-users, Gefen's TV Switcher enables connections of up to four different HDTV sources to one display or projector.

     

  • Planar Systems

    The iS40 digital signage system from Planar Systems combines a 40-inch LCD monitor with CoolSign iS software, Windows XP embedded processing, optional Wi-Fi features, and networking components.

     

  • NEC Display Solutions

    NEC Display Solutions introduces the MultiSync LCD3090WQXi, a 30-inch widescreen display.

     

Signal Management

  • AMX

    Novara from AMX consists of all-in-one, configurable control pad systems that combine a user interface with device control in a single flush-mounted keypad.

     

  • RF Central

    RF Central offers the RFX-PMR-11, a portable digital receiver that is available in both standard-definition and high-definition configurations.

     

  • AMX

    The Solecis line extends AMX's distribution capabilities to include standard switchers, presentation switchers, and distribution amplifiers for single-rooms with one projector or display and a single computer source.

     

  • Accell

    The UltraAV 4-2 HDMI switch from Accell includes four HDMI inputs and two HDMI outputs, allowing for simple switching of multiple HDMI sources and the ability to play content on two high-definition displays simultaneously.

     

  • BTX Technologies

    The new solderless control cable kit from BTX Technologies is designed for projectors and cameras in female DB9 and male DB9 configurations.

     

Cheat Sheet

  • Lighting for AV Applications

    The right architectural lighting can have a major impact on your AV installation — whether you’re the designer or not.

     

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