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Cynthia Wisehart on Violet Audio dMix
One of the highlights of InfoComm was reconnecting with Phil Wagner at the Violet Audio booth. We’re both veterans and have crossed the usual paths over the many years...
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Cynthia Wisehart on the Sphere’s History
Three years ago this month, on July 4th, the 580,000 square feet of LED that is the Exosphere was turned on. On September 29th, the doors opened to the...
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Cynthia Wisehart on TIGRA
The Downtown Las Vegas Events Center is basically a big block square grassy field, so the giant Meyer-rigged stage had little competition for our attention. We stood in the...
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Cynthia Wisehart on AI at NAB
Unsurprisingly, the AWS booth at NAB was heavy on AI. Amazon needs to sell a lot of it. One of the featured showcases on the booth was for AWS...
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Cynthia Wisehart on L-Acoustics Nashville Hub
Last month I got to have a field trip to Nashville for a good party debuting L-Acoustics’ swank new creative hub in Nashville Yards. The town is full of...
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On the Circuit: MAXHUB US Headquarters
Grand opening is a message of commitment to North America--and to AI
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Cynthia Wisehart on AV After Covid
It’s been six years this month since the first rumors of a pandemic virus began, first as something that was happening outside America. I remember standing in line to...
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Cynthia Wisehart on 2025 Top AV Stories
s you probably all know by now, SVC’s long-running newsletter Pro AV Today continues its daily duties, rounding up what my colleague Derek Wiley and I consider to be...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Failing
One of our more popular stories in our daily Pro AV Today newsletter this month was, unsurprisingly, a fail. Everyone loves a fail unless it’s happening to them. The...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Technology-Driven Acquisitions
It’s been a year for technology-driven acquisitions. Significant moves brought mega-brands together, while others demonstrate the expansion plans of familiar brands, as they acquired companies that may be less...
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Cynthia Wisehart on CFIUS
In case you missed it, during the summer our industry had a big moment in the flow of Executive Orders. Given the dense output of those orders, it’s understandable...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Spatial Audio and Psychoacoustic Value
If I think back over many years in AV, I notice something. My most memorable experiences have something in common: spatial audio. Even an anechoic chamber is in its...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Recent Acquisitions
It’s been a busy summer for acquisitions. We saw Sonance and Blaze together at InfoComm and heard more about NETGEAR’s acquisition of cybersecurity company Exium. Shortly after InfoComm, Audinate...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Audinate AI and prospects for GPMI
It’s been an interesting couple of months in signal distribution and control. I know, it’s always interesting, right? But lately just a little more so. For example, as we...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Domed Immersive Spaces
Going way back in the domed video world, planetariums were the top of the pyramid. Then domed attractions and IMAX (and Iwerks) attractions started to turn up as centerpieces...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Diversity and Inclusion
As we prepare to all be together at Infocomm, I’ve been thinking about community. Specifically the difference between enforcing community and creating it. Specifically about DEI. I’ve never been...
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Cynthia Wisehart on NAB
I’ve been to NAB thirty-something times (the count being blurred by Covid). This year seemed the quietest ever from a crowd standpoint. I come from the past where attendance...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Sustainability
When it comes to sustainability, technical people can understand it as a problem to solve with design and engineering. It can be about power consumption, longevity, updateability, packaging, and...
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Cynthia Wisehart on the Eaton and Palisades Fires
As I write this, it is exactly one month since the Eaton and Palisades fires started in Los Angeles. I have connections to both places, friends who lost everything...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Eclipsa Audio
Why is it called “Eclipsa Audio”? What kind of a mixed metaphor is that? I guess Samsung + Google is something of a mixed metaphor as well. Their joint...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Listening Assistance
As we turn to the topic of houses of worship this month, we’re looking at two churches that went for large format arrays. This got me thinking about the...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Returning to the Office
Now WFH is RTO. It’s still a controversial topic. I remember when our governor closed the state on my birthday 2020. At that point, I’d worked full-time from home...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Stadium Emergency Response Hubs
Last month, as extreme weather bore down on Florida, CNN reported the news that NFL football stadiums would be doubling as emergency response hubs during future weather disasters. Under...
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Cynthia Wisehart on AV for Worship
It’s been an extraordinary five years for AV for worship. Before pandemic, I saw audio, video, and streaming beginning to democratize as churches of all sizes understood the power...
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Introducing OmniBeam from Renkus-Heinz
Ralph and Brandon Heinz discuss the company’s newest innovation.
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Cynthia Wisehart on Next/Now
What if the workplace were an Out of Home Experience? Yeah I can hear the comments now. But stay with me. In this issue we look at the work...
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The SVC Interview: Modern Upselling
We talk with Cynthia Menna of ADI Global about the power of upselling
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Cynthia Wisehart on Tinnitus
We’ve talked about tinnitus before. It’s my 10-year anniversary this month actually (yes I remember exactly when it started) and I know many of you deal with it too....
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Cynthia Wisehart on Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser
Walt Disney World made headlines last year when it closed its much-publicized Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel. Operating for only just over a year, the ultra-immersive hotel’s operation costs...
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Cynthia Wisehart on HOLOPLOT
On May 13, Sphere Entertainment announced that it has acquired all of the remaining shares it did not previously own of HOLOPLOT GmbH, a global 3D audio company. According...
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Cynthia Wisehart on IPMX
As we go to press IPMX (Internet Protocol Media Experience) has been released. Officially defined, IPMX is a set of open standards and specifications to enable the carriage of...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Milan Manager
As we touch base on Staging in this issue, one of the things I’ll be looking forward to seeing at InfoComm is Milan Manager, a shared project of L-Acoustics...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Hybrid Tools
The need for hybrid tools is blending audio and video data in new ways, to achieve better camera tracking, intelligibility, and interoperability among other things. I’ve been around the...
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Cynthia Wisehart on LG Transparent Displays
At CES it was the year of the transparent displays. We’ve seen them before of course, but it went up a notch this time. From an AV standpoint the...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Dante Rebrand
In late November, Audinate announced a major brand identity refresh that positions Dante as a complete AV-over-IP distribution platform. It’s a role Dante has been occupying and growing into...
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Cynthia Wisehart on UV Stage Lighting
This month in our Pro AV Today newsletter, we covered a disturbing story about concert lighting and eye damage. This hit home for me in part because I had...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Sphere
I’ve been aware of Sphere since it was a hole in the ground, watching it rise gradually out of the desert—so ugly really in many of its stages, including...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Sony’s Faith Advocate
As we go to press, Sony’s longtime faith advocate Craig Harper is retiring and transitioning his responsibilities to Mark Hanna, the new National Manager supporting Sony Faith. Craig has...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Going Back to the Office
The back to the office debate, like most things that are breathlessly hyped in media and glibly discussed in high level corporate meetings, is not actually binary. The either/or...
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Cynthia Wisehart on AI
Talk of AI is everywhere—often amorphous and nonspecific. It’s hyped and it’s feared, but in many ways, it’s not so new. In the AV world, software assisted intelligent technology...
