Candy-maker Just Born opened its flagship Peeps & Company store at National Harbor, Md. RTKL Associates, which designed the AV and lighting systems, calls it "an example of brand-focused retailing."
When Oklahoma's Choctaw Nation needed new AV throughout all its casinos and a digital signage system, it turned to a single source: Alpha Video & Audio of Minnesota.
For a new NYC information center, VideoSonic Systems worked with GestureTek on a wayfinding system that includes three multitouch projection tables with both finger-touch and object recognition.
The fact that digital signage is a booming market doesn't guarantee fat margins. Companies need to embrace a turnkey business model if they're going to succeed.
If you've spent much time working with information technology, you know there are a couple of schools of thought to deploying network systems: Build them yourself, loading the required software on computers you purchase separately; or buy a dedicated appliance that's (hopefully) ready to go out of...
At Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a university for the deaf and hard of hearing, advanced AV technology isn't just an important part of the education process–it's a way of life.
The 31,000-square-foot Monarch Resort Club at Trilogy, a community by Shea Homes, is the centerpiece for residents of this exclusive 1,200-home development along the coast of central California. Once inside, the high-end interior design by Design Lines of Greenwood Village, Colo., and the discrete...
In museum AV, when you integrate technology into exhibits, it becomes part of the story, rather than an object on which the story is told. Here's why that's important to remember.
Keeping consumers in one place in a competitive entertainment market like Los Angeles, not to mention revitalizing the city's long-neglected downtown area, has required ambition and deep pockets. Over the past 10 years, billionaire developer Philip Anschutz has shown both in his efforts to bring...
InfoComm 2010 is almost here. PRO AV previews 10 things you can do, see, or learn this year that you couldn't last year. Commercial 3D anyone?
Though well-known in racing circles because of its omnipresent logo, Lucas Oil Products was hardly a household name in Indianapolis two years ago. So it began to formulate a marketing plan that would take full advantage of audiovisual technology while meeting expectations for a state-of-the-art...
It's a space race among the nation's higher-education institutions to lure prospective students with, among other things, cutting-edge technology. That could be good news for AV integrators.
X2O Media, a provider of software, network management, and content services for digital signage applications, announced a new Microsoft PowerPoint add-in that the company says simplifies the content creation process, allowing users to build their own wayfinding maps for corporate facilities...
Digital signage has become a must-have AV application. Today, added-value technologies, such as interactive software and wireless networking, are breathing fresh life into new digital signage projects.
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...
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The vast majority of digital signage software tools are designed with a power user in mind, or at the very least a user who will learn the application intimately and be responsible for its use. And although the tools range from simplistic to sophisticated, they all have something in common: They...
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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.
Digital signage is hot and IT companies are clearly paying attention. Tech giants like Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Microsoft have all waded into the signage pool. All the activity raises a question many have started asking: Is pro AV losing the digital signage market to IT?
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NEC Display Solutions says it wants to accelerate the growth of digital signage. To that end, the company is making its full Vukunet digital signage software management platform available free of charge to any signage network operator.
As a member of CEA's TechHome division board, Dan Fulmer is a well-respected residential installer. But his company, Fultech Solutions, recently branched out into commercial work. Here's how.