Voltage Regulator: Furman P-1400 AR E
PRO AV Editors
The P-1400 AR E rack-mount voltage regulator/power conditioner from Furman provides voltage protection and line noise filtration for AV installments....
Secure Enclosures: Premier Mounts GearBox Enclosures
PRO AV Editors
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 F1000-UPS
PRO AV Editors
Furman's F1000-UPS rack-mount uninterruptible power supply/power conditioner offers a 12-A capacity with 1,000-VA battery backup....
Buyer's Guide to Distance Conferencing Systems
Kimberly R. Griffin
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 copper run through a building....
SoundTube Appoints Sales Rep
PRO AV Editors
SoundTube Entertainment, a manufacturer of commercial sound systems, has named Reflex Marketing as its sales representative for New York Metro and New Jersey, the company announced....
AVS Re-launches Web Site
PRO AV Editors
Audio Video Systems, a PRO AV Spotlight Award winner and provider of custom AV design-build and systems integration services for government, military, and commercial organizations, re-launched its corporate Web site to offer better resources and showcase its capabilities, the company said....
AVI-SPL to Expand Service
PRO AV Editors
AVI-SPL, a PRO AV Spotlight Award winner and global AV systems and services integrator, plans to expand its service offerings. In addition to his current duties as senior vice president of sales for systems integration, Chris Bianchet will also lead these efforts as the newly appointed senior vice president of sales and service....
Industry Vet Joins DVIGear
PRO AV Editors
DVIGear announced that industry veteran Jerry Moore has joined the company's team of AV professionals. Moore will lead the effort to expand DVIGear's distribution channels for its range of high-performance DVI and HDMI connectivity products by developing relationships with new and existing customers in both residential and commercial markets....
Tandberg Brings Video to Desk Phone
PRO AV Editors
Tandberg is now shipping the E20 video IP phone, adding scalable, DVD-quality video to desktop phones. Designed to replace the standard office phone, the E20 offers high-quality video combined with CD-quality audio to enable face-to-face collaboration from any desk....
Sanyo Ships Dual-Lamp DLP Projector
PRO AV Editors
Sanyo, a manufacturer or LCD and DLP projectors, added the PDG-DHT100L professional-class, 1080p native resolution, single-chip DLP projector to its lineup....
JBL Control 40 Series Earns UL Listing
PRO AV Editors
JBL Professional announced that the five models in its Control 40 Series of in-ceiling loudspeakers have earned a UL listing under UL1480 and UL2043, adding to the company's selection of loudspeakers for applications that require UL-listed products....
Polycom HDX Earns Security Certifications
PRO AV Editors
Polycom expanded its visual communications solutions for U.S. federal government applications with the company's first HD telepresence system to feature Joint Interoperability Certification (JITC), validated interoperability with IPv6 networks, and integrated FIPS 140-2 validation....
HD Videoconferencing Gets Mobile
PRO AV Editors
Tandberg announced Movi, a mobile client that the company says will make high-performance videoconferencing possible on laptops and other PCs. Organizations that currently run Tandberg's Management Suite and Video Communication Server can add Movi functionality and deploy the SIP clients to their mobile users....
Sennheiser Mics Hear the Light
PRO AV Editors
Sennheiser recently launched the MO 2000 optical microphone with a new type of transducer that processes acoustic signals on the basis of variations in light intensity. The new type of engineering makes the MO 2000 well suited for applications where other microphones are only partly suitable or are completely unusable....
An Earful of Carbon
Tim Kridel
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....
NEC Eye Flavor Use Facial Recognition
Kimberly R. Griffin
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 customer's gender and age....
Battling Music Duplicity
Kimberly R. Griffin
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....
John La Grou, Millennia Media, on Preamps
Sam Berkow
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....
CPU Wall Mount: Chief KSA 1023
PRO AV Editors
The Chief KSA1023 CPU wall mount helps hide CPUs when using swing arm mounts in videoconferencing, hospitality, education, and medical applications....
Scaler/Switcher: Kramer VP-728 ProScale Series
PRO AV Editors
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....
Solar Flat-Panels: SIM2's Solar Series
PRO AV Editors
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....
Custom Microphones: Sennheiser Chrome Mics
PRO AV Editors
Sennheiser expanded its selection of custom microphones with new chrome and chrome color mic personalization options for wireless and wired microphones....
Test Your Knowledge of Green Rules and Regulations
Brad Grimes
Test Your Knowledge of Green Rules and Regulations....
InfoComm Research Shows Challenges Ahead
Brad Grimes
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....
What Goes Into Your Plenum?
Brad Grimes
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)....
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