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AV Managers Do IT All: How to Adapt and Thrive in a Converging World By Pam Derringer, January 9, 2012 The AV help desk at the Mayo Clinic has so many flat panel displays and computers that it looks like an airport control center. Its two dozen AV techs run 200 meeting rooms, preside over hundreds of videoconferences a day and More..
Wither the Projector? By Tim Kridel, January 9, 2012 Are projectors becoming more of a niche play? That’s what some AV industry pundits think, especially after 2011 product introductions like Sharp's LC-70LE732U, a 70-inch LCD display going for $3,700.It’s a reasonable debate. As More..
Multicasting: An End-User Primer By Phil Hippensteel, January 9, 2012 Multicasting has become part of multimedia technology. While its details can be complex, the basic idea and operation of a multicast network is not complicated. We’ll explain what it is, how it is used, and the good and bad of More..
Is 3D Flat? By Carolyn Heinze, December 2, 2011 As Hollywood studios and video game developers continue to push 3D projection into the home, the technology is starting to be adopted by commercial and government organizations as well. With the advent of numerous professional More..
Understanding Uncle Sam: the Federal AV Market By Tim Kridel, December 2, 2011 Congress and the President are still untangling the budget impasse. Such as the uncertainties that AV vendors and integrators face when selling into the federal government market.“The budget impasse has definitely caused more More..
Curing the High-Def Headache By Don Kreski, December 2, 2011 “The good old days where you could just run a wire to some kind of matrix switcher are long gone. Digital, high-definition video is here and is pushing all of us into modern times.”     More..
Instruction to Go By John Laughlin, December 2, 2011 Webcasts are more and more widely used in higher education and corporate training, for good reason. Our  clients are finding that the ability to review a lecture or class discussion can increase understanding, improve retention, More..
3 Essentials of Effective Mobile Videoconferencing November 4, 2011 The broadband boom has made mobile video conferencing a reality. More and more organizations, including Conference Technologies, are bringing staff into meetings via PC-based video calls, and they are evaluating smart phones and More..
Looking Forward November 4, 2011 Investigating the Obstacles and Advances in Telepresence AdoptionJust as video is gaining ground over the written word in corporate messaging, so, too, is videoconferencing and its pricey offspring, telepresence conferencing. More..
Got Bandwidth? By Pam Derringer, October 12, 2011 Bandwidth management is becoming a facility director’s top priority. More..
Producing for Single Stream Delivery vs Adaptive Streaming October 7, 2011 by Jan OzerAdaptive streaming technologies like Adobe’s Dynamic Streaming, Microsoft’s Smooth Streaming, and Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming, use multiple encoded files to deliver the optimal viewing experience to video consumers More..
Five Attributes for Choosing a Qualified AV Contractor September 23, 2011 by John Laughlin, CTSThe AV contractor you choose is crucial to the success of your next conference room or classroom project. If it’s a mission-critical room, you want to be absolutely certain they will finish the AV system More..
Forget Facebook September 1, 2011 The proliferation of social networks has, for the majority of those in Cyberspace, significantly contributed to the list of passwords and user names we all started accumulating at the dawn of the Internet. But while social media More..
Control System Interface Design for Larger Systems By Derek Joncas, August 3, 2011 AV system control technology has moved well past the days of simple projector control into the era of software applications and customizable control systems. Today’s control systems are routinely expected to handle just about More..
Class Act By John Laughlin, July 27, 2011 Six classroom technologies end-users should consider this summer. More..

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