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...
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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
December 2004
December 2004 Features Working at Working Together By Richard Schrag Consultants and architects make strange bedfellows sometimes. Outwardly, they acknowledge that if you’re going to build something, it will...
2004
November 2004
November 2004 Features Exercising Technology By Rosanne Soifer Grunt. Sweat. Stretch. Kvetch. Most contemporary fitness venues are light-years away from the no-frills gyms that trained the Rocky Balboas of...
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
March 2004
March 2004 Features Going the Distance By Bennett Liles Of all the significant advances of the past decade in instructional technology, many have been concentrated in the realm of...
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
December 2003
December 2003 Features Merrily Down the Stream By Stephen Porter Three years ago, video streaming was all the rage. The most enthusiastic supporters of the technology predicted that video...
2003
November 2003
November 2003 Features Compact Line Arrays Mark Frink The list of large-format line array speakers introduced during the past decade is well known and well used. But a new...
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
March 2003
March 2003 Features Battling Reverb Peter Mapp One of the most important goals of any speech reinforcement or P.A. system is to relay intelligible speech or announcements to the...
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
December 2002
December 2002 Columns The Wacky World of DTTV NATHANIEL HECHT DEADLINES. WE KNOW ABOUT THOSE IN THE PUBLISHING WORLD, and they are fast approaching for the TV broadcast community...
2002
November 2002
November 2002 Columns The Content Wars NATHANIEL HECHT AS MENTIONED IN PREVIOUS EDITORIALS IN S&VC, I HESITATE TO make predictions. However, with the indicators as strong as they seem...
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
March 2002
March 2002 Columns End of An Era NATHANIEL HECHT THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS EXAMPLES THROUGHOUT HISTORY OF THE obsolescence of certain technologies. The telegraph gave way to the telephone....
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...
2001
December 2001
December 2001 Features Resisting Change By Alvin G. Sydnor A technical and historical look at why constant-voltage systems have become the norm…. Regionals Triple in Size CEDIA is tripling...
2001
November 2001
November 2001 Features Sound Power By Peter Mapp Sound power is one of the most useful–and overlooked–of all loudspeaker measurements…. CEDIA Manufacturer Excellence Awards Honor the Industry’s Finest Work...
2001
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...
