2006

December 2006 Features Top Tech of 2006 By Jack Kontney New product introductions continue at a breakneck pace in virtually all categories impacting the installation industry. The seemingly endless...

November 2006 Features Technology Showcase: Portable Webcasting Systems By Bennett Liles When Tim Berners-Lee first envisioned the World Wide Web, he probably didn’t realize he was conceiving a new...

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...

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...

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...

July 2006 Features Feedback and Suppressors By Dana Troxel Acoustic feedback (also known as the Larsen Effect) has been roaming around sound reinforcement systems for a very long time,...

June 2006 Features Digital Video Compression Basics By Jeff Sauer By now most AV contractors are well acquainted with the trend toward moving command and control information over IP...

May 2006 Features AV Industry Icons By Jack Kontney Anyone who’s attended the major AV industry trade shows over the past couple of decades can’t help but be wowed...

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...

March 2006 Features Favorite Tech Tools By Bennett Liles The Neanderthal man had his fire and flints. From there, a series of simple gadgets from the wheel to the...

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...

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...