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Tech Tips

  • Tech Tips: What Goes Into Your Plenum?

    Ironically, as AV systems have become more prevalent, many of them are better off disappearing altogether. The trend in videoconferencing systems, for instance, is to create a solution where the technology itself is invisible (save for the flat-panel displays, of course).

     

5-Minute Interview

  • 5 Minute Interview: Guy Noerr

    Guy Noerr is president and co-owner of MagicWig Productions, an AV company specializing in meetings, events, and video production. MagicWig also makes its own documentaries, a side business that help drive its thinking on sustainability.

     

Marketwatch

  • Slow: Challenges Ahead

    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.

     

Pop Quiz

Other Articles

  • Introducing LEED 09

    Next month, with the economy almost certainly still gripped by recession and AV professionals doing their best to differentiate and promote their services, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) will release the newest version of its benchmark Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating...

     

Community Views

Parallax View

  • CES '09: Where the Green Year Began

    The Consumer Electronics Show, one of the largest trade shows in the world, is notable for its "gee-whiz" gadgets and technology demonstrations. But capital investment into new technologies has dwindled as manufacturers try rebates and aggressive price-cutting to stimulate sales. Despite the doom...

     

Consultant's Connection

  • Every Little Thing Helps

    We're at a critical tipping point in global environmental affairs. Many decisions made today may have a far-reaching and irrevocable impact on future generations as they try to maintain a reasonable standard of living in a world that is running out of resources.

     

Sustainable AV

  • The State of Green AV

    "What is green AV?" To avoid oversimplifying the concept, I instead propose that we view green AV as a collection of ideas, perhaps even as a movement composed of organizations, companies, and individuals. The players in the movement share the common goal of discovering how best to use technology...

     

Viewpoint

  • Green Is as Green Does

    When the editors of Pro AV decided to devote much of this issue to green, sustainable AV products and practices, it didn't take long to realize we had a problem on our hands. If we were going to encourage our readers to get behind a growing movement to create sustainable businesses and...

     

Features

  • Shades of Green

    Want to save the world one AV install at a time? As more electronics manufacturers realize the benefits of going green, there are an increasing number of products that can help you do just that.

     

  • The Movement Builds

    Green is good. New efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle in stores, homes, and offices have many of us feeling like we're saving the polar ice caps one reusable shopping bag at a time. But greening the AV industry is progressing slower and with more difficulty than some would like to see.

     

Install Solutions

Government Install

  • Welcome to an AV Mecca

    Deep in a bunker built into a mountainside in Culpepper, Va., sits what could be described as an AV enthusiast's ultimate destination. Housed in a former Federal Reserve building, the Library of Congress' new National Audiovisual Conservation Center (NAVCC) contains an inventory of more than 6...

     

Entertainment Install

  • Hurray for Dollywood

    When the folks at Dollywood, the theme park of singer Dolly Parton, got the idea to convert a 100-seat theater from 70mm film to digital–and add 3D to boot–it seemed fairly logical. Such outsized ambition isn't surprising when it's associated with a star known for dreaming big.

     

ProAV's Guide to Doing Business

Other Articles

  • Virtual Education: A Blueprint for Distance Learning

    It seems pro AV and distance learning were made for each other. But that wasn't always the case. In the past, classroom technology and AV conferencing were mostly analog, disconnected things.

     

  • Think Locally

    The University of Georgia's college of Pharmacy has a respectable history with distance learning, but it will push even more confidently into the 21st century when its 84,000-square-foot addition opens this fall in Athens.

     

Tools & Tech

Feature

  • Tools & Tech: At Your Service

    If last month's Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas is any indication, 2009 may be the year of managed services in this exploding AV category. Sifting through the show's major pre-announcements, it was clear Software as a Service (SaaS)–by which client and integrator need not worry about enterprise...

     

Software Suite

  • Software Suite: Battling Music Duplicity

    It's common for audio pros to accrue so many duplicate audio files on their computers that it would take days to go through them all. Plus, the gradual increase in MP3, WAV, and other sound files eats up hard drive space. Bolide Software devised a way to hunt them down and clean them up.

     

Bright Idea

  • Bright Idea: Eye Candy

    The NEC Eye Flavor, an all-in-one, portable advanced digital signage board, comprises a large LCD display, camera, streaming controller, and effectiveness analysis software. What's really unique is its use of NEC's face recognition technology to distribute targeted ad content according to a...

     

Spec to Spec

  • March 2009 Buyer's Guide: Audio/Video Distance Conferencing Systems

    Videoconferencing has reduced corporate travel by 24 percent, according to research by the Aberdeen Group. Nearly 31 million business IP phones, which help drive audio conferencing, are expected to ship by 2012. Using VoIP for audio conferencing not only reduces travel, but also the amount of...

     

What's Next

  • Get an Earful of Carbon

    For many pro av applications, loudspeakers are something to be heard and not seen. A team of Chinese researchers aims to make them even more svelte and unobtrusive–to the point that loudspeakers could be hidden in plain sight in front of a video display or even disguised as a flag.

     

Audio Files

  • Behind the Design

    John La Grou started in computers, escaping Silicon Valley in 1989 to found Millennia Music & Media Systems, where he designs high-end microphone preamplifiers and related gear. His team has come up with everything from the HV-3 family of preamps to a Library of Congress archiving system.

     

New Products

Audio

  • Break-Out Box

    BSS Audio has introduced a new break-out box for its Soundweb family of digital signal processors.

     

  • Power Amplifier

    The lightest model of the IPR Series of lightweight, efficient power amplifiers from Peavey weighs under 7 pounds.

     

  • Mixer/Recorder

    The Fostex LR16 is a live mixer with an integrated 16-track multi-track HD recorder.

     

  • Microphones & Signal Adapter

    The PG27USB and PG42USB side-address condenser microphones from Shure connect to any USB computer port via a plug-and-play connection.

     

  • Subwoofer

    The TrueLine Series TL215S-P self-powered subwoofer from WorxAudio features a compact form factor and dual 15-inch high-excursion transducers for live concert reproduction, high-energy clubs, theme park effects, houses of worship, and musical theater, among other applications.

     

  • Amplifier

    Crown Audio has introduced the 660A sound amplifier as an option for commercial and industrial applications.

     

  • Audio Processor

    The new NetMax N8000-1500 audio signal processor from Electro-Voice has a DSP-2 engine, which uses three dual-core processors to expand the processor's total processing power to 1,500 MIPS.

     

  • Custom Microphones

    Sennheiser expanded its selection of custom microphones with new chrome and chrome color mic personalization options for wireless and wired microphones.

     

Video

  • LCOS Projector

    Canon's REALiS SX800 emits 3,000 lumens and has a contrast ratio of 900:1 with 1024x768 XGA resolution.

     

  • Short-Throw Projector

    Sharp's first offering for the short-throw market is the PG-F267X DLP BrilliantColor projector.

     

  • LCD Monitors

    Vaddio's PreVIEW HD Dual and Triple LCD rack-mount monitors offer 16:9 aspect ratio screens backlit by LEDs for bright, evenly lit screens.

     

  • Touch Panel

    Crestron's new 17-inch Isys TPS-17G-QM HD touch panel includes dual-window video, RGB, and HDTV displays.

     

  • Network Video Recorder

    HaiVision's SHARE-HD Network Video Recorder is a performance network video appliance capable of recording up to 10 simultaneous streams of HD or WXGA content.

     

  • Graphic Processor

    The Extron Annotator is a new high-performance, hardware-based annotation processor for video and computer-video sources.

     

  • 3LCD Projector

    The Christie LX1000 projector uses a dual-lamp system to provide 10,000 lumens of brightness as well as rich blacks through its 3LCD technology.

     

  • Solar Flat-Panels

    SIM2's Solar Series includes a 47-inch LCD display with Dolby Vision technology, which features an algorithm that manages LEDs behind the liquid crystal panel.

     

Signal Management

  • Multi-Graphic Processor

    Extron added two HD-SDI inputs and two DVI inputs to the MGP 464 Four Window Multi-Graphics processor; high resolution analog RGBHV inputs are featured as well.

     

  • Tabletop Interconnects

    The TNP601 Tabletop Interconnect Box from Altinex is designed to provide several AV connections in a single enclosure, while the TNP602 is a preconfigured package of parts that addresses the basic requirements of most installations.

     

  • Classroom Control

    Calypso Control added two new configurations to its ezRoom Classroom Bundle to better serve a range of K-12 needs.

     

  • Voltage Regulator

    The P-1400 AR E rack-mount voltage regulator/power conditioner from Furman provides voltage protection and line noise filtration for AV installments.

     

  • Scaler/Switcher

    The Kramer VP-728 is a ProScale-series, nine-input scaler/switcher that incorporates Silicon Optix HQV (Hollywood Quality Video) video processing, which, the company says, provides high-quality de-interlacing, noise reduction, and scaling performance for SD and HD signals.

     

Cables & Accessories

  • Secure Enclosures

    The GearBox line of enclosures for projectors and flat-panels from Premier Mounts provides flexibility and protection in high-traffic locations.

     

  • Power Supply/Conditioner

    Furman's F1000-UPS rack-mount uninterruptible power supply/power conditioner offers a 12-A capacity with 1,000-VA battery backup.

     

  • CPU Wall Mount

    The Chief KSA1023 CPU wall mount helps hide CPUs when using swing arm mounts in videoconferencing, hospitality, education, and medical applications.

     

Cheat Sheet

  • 35 Ways to Practice Green AV

    Whether it’s in your system designs or in your offices, there are a slew of steps you can take to help foster a more sustainable AV business.

     
 

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