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August 2008 Features InfoComm 08 in Review By Trevor Boyer InfoComm 08 was a packed and energetic show, with important technology on display in all categories video, audio, AV,...

July 2008 Features Expert Roundtable: Church Sound Trends By Dan Daley Technology continues to go to church; this edition of the expert roundtable finds that even the recession isn’t...

June 2008 Features Expert Roundtable: The Future of Digital Signage By Bennett Liles The digital-signage industry is gaining steam at a phenomenal rate… Technology Showcase: Turnkey Digital Signage By...

May 2008 Features InfoComm 08 Video Preview By Trevor Boyer It’s 2008, and HD is everywhere — especially in Las Vegas at InfoComm 08… Technology Showcase: Line-array Loudspeakers By...

April 2008 Features Moving to HD Videoconferencing By Jay Ankeney Although the perception of high definition is in the eye of the beholder, HD has rapidly become associated by...

March 2008 Features Expert Roundtable: AV Meets IT By Jay Ankeney Like the raging streams of the mighty Nile River, the two currents of audiovisual (AV) communication and information...

February 2008 Features Audio for the Arts By Charles Conte A decade ago, the city of Modesto, Calif. dreamed of building an arts center… Digital Signage Servers and Players...

January 2008 Features Media for the Message By Jay Ankeney The capital expenditure needed for sophisticated AV installations in houses of worship can take significant funds away from other...

December 2007 Features Top Tech of 2007 By Jack Kontney 2007 marked another banner year in the evolution of the technology that drives the AV industry. As always, new...

November 2007 Features Government Installation Issues By Dan Daley Installing AV and other media systems for government clients is a multidimensional proposition. The bureaucracy and procedural process can often...

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...

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,...

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...

July 2007 Features Manufacturers on the HOW Paradigm By Dan Daley Earlier this year, Sound & Video Contactor examined the houses of worship (HOW) market from the point of...

June 2007 Features Digital Signage Roundtable By Dan Daley Like cell phones, digital signage has taken a routine concept that’s been around for ages and essentially put it on...

May 2007 Features Sports Audio Adventures Survey by Travis McGee Harman Pro Audio officials recently surveyed some of their leading system integration partners to discuss some of the issues...

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:...

March 2007 Features One-stop Control By Carolyn Heinze It’s tough to impress the fast-moving Miami party crowd, and nightclubs located in this hot but fickle scene are constantly seeking...

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...

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...

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...

December 2005 Features Top Technology Products of 2005 By Jack Kontney What’s the next big thing? New products are brought to market at an ever-increasing pace. We see them...

November 2005 Features Listening Evaluation By Rick Kamlet You walk into a semi-darkened room about the size of a small living room. The selective lighting reveals six comfortable chairs....

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...

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...

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...

July 2005 Features The Next Killer App By Brad Gleeson New industries evolve; they don’t emerge overnight. The digital signage industry has reached the stage in its evolution. People...

June 2005 Features Beyond House Calls By Rosanne Soifer Lights, camera, scalpel! Telemedicine is making its mark on the medical world. This article provides an overview of telemedicine and...

May 2005 Features NSCA 2005 Wrapup By Mark Johnson and Trevor Boyer Sprinkler system malfunction and misdirected emergency evacuation announcement notwithstanding, the 2005 NSCA Systems Integration Expo in Orlando,...

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...

March 2005 Features No Tech Left Behind By Bruce Borgerson Back when the world was analog, major new product introductions were accompanied by, at most, a few hours of...