2007
October 2007
October 2007 Features Astrophysical AV By Trevor Boyer After undergoing a complete renovation that took more than four years, the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles reopened with a central...
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September 2007
September 2007 Features Higher Education By Dan Daley Back in high school, it might have been more fun to have been the guitar player than the AV specialist. However,...
2007
August 2007
August 2007 Features InfoComm Audio Roundup Jack Kontney The audio pavilion at this year’s InfoComm was bigger than ever. While the recent trend toward convergence products continued, the overriding...
2007
April 2007
April 2007 Features NSCA Wrap-up: Audio at NSCA By Trevor Boyer The NSCA Expo has gone through some changes over the past few years, but one thing is constant:...
2007
February 2007
February 2007 Features Steerable Arrays By Jack Kontney If there is one thing we’ve learned about the loudspeaker market over the past couple of decades, it’s that we should...
2007
January 2007
January 2007 Features Church Media Roundtable By Dan Daley The worship market has been fertile ground for media technology in the last decade. As church sizes increase, AV media...
2006
October 2006
October 2006 Features The ABCs of DSP By Gary Hardesty I can’t believe I’m writing this article. Or, more correctly, I can’t believe I am 56 years old and...
2006
September 2006
September 2006 Features Meeting Special Needs By Rosanne Soifer The phrase special education never elicits a mild response. To a parent with a child in a special-ed class, it...
2006
August 2006
August 2006 Features HDTV Fountain of Youth By Josh Allen With all the hype surrounding high-definition displays, 1080p, and the all-digital future of television… Technology Showcase: Flatscreen Wall Mounts...
2006
April 2006
April 2006 Features HD Technology Trends By Jay Ankeney With more than 20 million HDTV screens sold to the domestic home market by end of 2005, most of us...
2006
February 2006
February 2006 Features Networked Storage By Jay Ankeney A wise man once said that data out of context is chaos; data within context is information; information given purpose is...
2006
January 2006
January 2006 Features IMAG in Churches By Anthony D. Coppedge For many houses of worship, IMAG (image magnification) is an attractive technological option for magnifying the action on the...
2005
October 2005
October 2005 Features Biometrics 101 By Steve Filippini Earlier in my career, when I was a field technician for a local security company, it wasn’t uncommon for me to...
2005
September 2005
September 2005 Features Acoustical Measurement and Predictive Modeling By Bruce Borgerson The snowballing advances in computer hardware power and the accelerating rate of software development have altered the landscape...
2005
August 2005
August 2005 Features Fiber vs. Copper By Bennett Liles Is there actually a conflict between conveyance media? Listening to the traditional rhetoric, one might think that there is a...
2005
April 2005
April 2005 Features Acoustic Enhancement By Steve Barbar For some time now, the use of acoustic enhancement systems has been on the rise, due in part to the improvement...
2005
February 2005
February 2005 Features Designing Scientifically By Tony Warner We’ve all seen it, and if we’re honest, we’ve probably all done it at some point: cutting and pasting elements from...
2005
January 2005
January 2005 Features Video Production Basics By David Riffle An increasing number of clients of AV systems integrators want to produce their own video. Systems integrators need to be...
2004
October 2004
October 2004 Features Show Time By John Huntington and Jim Janninck The preshow video ends, the automated doors swing open, and the audience at Science Metropolis files into Tornado...
2004
September 2004
September 2004 Features Bass Here, Not There By Bruce Borgerson One of the few things taken for granted back in the good old days of sound reinforcement was that...
2004
August 2004
August 2004 Features Technology Showcase: Fixed-Installation Projectors By Jay Ankeney Business is booming for digital front-projection systems, especially for those intended for permanent installation in corporate, educational, and increasingly,…...
2004
April 2004
April 2004 Features By Any Measure By Bob McCarthy Everyone has pondered that inimitable question: which came first, the chicken or the egg? The same question could be posed...
2004
February 2004
This month Sound & Video Contractor explores corporate boardrooms, which are using technology in new ways to transform the way business is done. Other stories include Technology Showcases about...
2004
January 2004
January 2004 In This Issue … A Look Inside January 2004 This month Sound & Video Contractor tackles houses of worship, namely the WordSpring Discovery Center, which combines cutting-edge...
2003
October 2003
October 2003 Features Powered Molded Speakers Allan Soifer My initiation into the world of audio dates back to those dear old days of reentrant megaphone-type horns, back when we...
2003
September 2003
September 2003 Features Digital Consoles Bruce Borgerson A rarity only a few years ago, digital consoles are gathering momentum across a wide range of installed sound applications, and the...
2003
August 2003
August 2003 Features In-Wall Speakers Chris Steinwand Contemporary in-wall loudspeaker systems are generally intended for custom installation. Dozens of loudspeaker manufacturers that offer products ranging… Video Display Mounting Systems...
2003
April 2003
April 2003 Features Boundary Microphones Chris Steinwand Sound concepts are really deceptively simple. To make sound, you have to move air. For humans that’s the job of our vocal...
2003
February 2003
February 2003 Features Power Line Conditioners Chris Steinwand Contrary to what the electric companies would have you believe, all voltage is not created (or distributed) equally. One hundred twenty...
2003
January 2003
January 2003 Features LCD Touch-Panel Controllers Chris Steinwand As daily life becomes more dependent on technology, customers and clients are looking for improved ways to interface with the many...
2002
October 2002
October 2002 Features CEDIA to Sponsor Electronic House Expos The Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association (CEDIA) announced an agreement with EH Publishing, principal owner and producer of the...
2002
September 2002
September 2002 Columns Custom TV Beyond the Conventional NATHANIEL HECHT DO THINGS STILL SEEM TO BE MOVING PAINFULLY SLOW IN THE area of custom TV, or is it just...
2002
August 2002
August 2002 Columns A Glimpse of the Future NATHANIEL HECHT SOMETHING INTERESTING IS AFOOT AT NEIL GERSHENFELD’S WING of the MIT Media Lab (MML) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The MML...
2002
April 2002
April 2002 Features Measuring Intelligibility By Peter Mapp ON THE SURFACE, IT MIGHT seem that a sound system is either intelligible or it is not. But, in fact, intelligibility...
2002
February 2002
February 2002 Features Getting the LED Out By Peter H. Putman, CTS Long viewing distance and incredible brightness and versatility have made LED a prominent video technology in large...
2002
January 2002
January 2002 Features The Subtleties of Video Quality By Richard J. Welk Lab experiments demonstrate why we need accurate signal throughput to high-resolution monitors…. CEDIA Applauds NBC NBC announced...
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October 2001
October 2001 Features Tying Systems Together By Mike Andrews Each new trade show season heralds impressive advancements in the area of video and data display. The video projectors on...
2001
August 2001
August 2001 Features Innovations in EXPO Education Change is an integral part of our industry, and often the change is for the better. You will notice a few changes...
2001
April 2001
April 2001 Columns NSCA STRIKES BACK Nathaniel Hecht, editor THIS YEAR’S NSCA SHOW IN ORLANDO WAS THE SITE OF A SIGNIFICANT announcement concerning the future of our industry. As...
2001
February 2001
February 2001 Features SHAMU’S SOUND GUY Eddie Ciletti Mike Roussin has been recording and mastering the audio required for the various shows at Sea World in Florida and for...
2001
January 2001
January 2001 Columns TRADE SHOW CONFLICTS Nathaniel Hecht, Editor A number of months ago I wrote about the overlap of related industry trade shows, both domestic and abroad, particularly...
2000
October 2000
October 2000 Columns THE APPLIANCE of the new millennium Nathaniel Hecht Computers are now an integral part of our lives; of this, there is no argument. The interesting thing...
