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Rocking Your AV Like It’s 1999

If you have ever gone out looking at homes and stopped by an open house, maybe you can relate. You go through the front door and find you...

Jan 27, 2017
2 min

Going Beyond Digital Assistants to Get Work Done

Amazon’s Echo and Echo Dot and their voice alter-ego, Alexa, pretty much reached star status over the holidays. The voice-activated devic...

Jan 5, 2017
2 min

Mixing and Matching Your Way to a Fully Digital Courtroom

In early January, tech geeks and gurus headed to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Pretty much the epicenter of what’s n...

Dec 1, 2016
3 min

Digital Recording

As ubiquitous to the courtroom as judges and their gavels, the court reporters and their steno machines busily recording every word spoke...

Nov 8, 2016
2 min

Not All Sounds Are Created Equal

Think of it as PhotoShop® for sound. Sound equalization is a process used to strengthen or weaken the energy of audio frequencies, maximi...

Sep 27, 2016
2 min

Why the Temperature of Light is a Big Deal

You liked the paint color in the store. Got it home. Not so great. Seems like the same thing happens when it comes to rugs, furniture and...

Sep 9, 2016
2 min

Managing Projector Image Distortion

Take a look at the image above. Do you see the stone at the center of the arch? You know, the one with the arrow pointing right at it? We...

Aug 27, 2016
4 min

Video Conferencing 2016 – What You Need to Know

“It’s the next best thing to being there.” At one time, Bell Systems made that proclamation about long-distance telephone calls. The ante...

Jul 27, 2016
2 min

The Ultimate Hack for Increasing Productivity – Sound

The Ultimate Hack for Increasing Productivity: Sound. Open-plan offices with partial height cubical panels and accordion room dividers ar...

May 27, 2016
2 min

AV Over IP has Arrived. Big Time.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas brings out the techies and geeks in full force to look at the latest in super-cool gadge...

Apr 27, 2016
2 min

AV – The Next Wave – Sharing Information Will Never be the Same.

The Digital Revolution of our industry has been upon us for a few decades now. Virtually gone are the days of transporting and processing...

Feb 27, 2016
3 min

Projectors and Video Walls – for When AV Projects Go Really Big

In the audiovisual world, if you want to talk about “big,” then you’re talking about LED monitors that today are pushing the limits at ab...

Dec 27, 2015
2 min

Project Spotlight: Loews Ventana Canyon

Everything about Arizona’s Loews Ventana Canyon Resort is magnificent. Nestled in the foothills of the stunning Catalina Mountain range o...

Nov 27, 2015
2 min

The Data that Drives Us

In a time long ago, audiovisual systems installation were built and serviced in a reactive manner. There was no option other than trackin...

Oct 27, 2015
2 min

Ensuring AV Equipment Works 100 Percent of the Time

Click.” Nothing. “Now, why is it every time I go to use the projector the bulb is burned out?” wonders the CEO as he attempts to preview ...

Sep 27, 2015
3 min

Audiovideo Systems Go Digital

Here’s an acronym that we will be seeing a lot more of in the years ahead: AV/IT. Or, IT/AV if you like. That’s audio video and informat...

Aug 27, 2015
2 min

Finding Your Way in a Digital Age

Here I am. But, where do I go now? Millions of people are asking this very question every day at airports, shopping centers, sporting eve...

Jul 27, 2015
2 min

The Saving Grace of the Huddle Space

Technology has become so pervasive that we are constantly finding ourselves connected to the world from our pockets. For people working r...

Jun 27, 2015
2 min

The Technology that Makes AV/IT Real

We’ve been talking about digital audiovisual technology for quite some time now and have gotten quite a bit of press coverage for our AV/...

May 27, 2015
2 min

Ultra-High Definition: Please Define!

Ultra high definition (UHD). Today that is defined as 4K. And 4K is defined as a video picture with four times the number of pixels (eigh...

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