On The Circuit

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

When I was in theme park design, we always wanted more than the technology could do. Even with the inevitable limitations there were always designers who could overcome nearly...

Welcome to our redesign of SVC. More of a refresh actually. We wanted to make the print magazine more tech-friendly so we could include more visual information, and it...

I have mixed feelings about nostalgia columns but I’m still going to write one because as we go to press I’m leaving for my 30th NAB Show. Also NAB...

Early this month, Shure debuted a new GLX-D+ dual band wireless system. Much was made over the guitar and vocalist support. Yes, the microphone was designed with a particular...

Many things that started in 2019, traveled an unanticipated path to 2023. Dante AV is one of those things. In 2019, Audinate made two significant announcements, Dante AV and...

As you read this, ISE 2023 is over. As I write, it hasn’t happened yet. (That’s how print works). So I’ll speculate and see how many of my questions...

As 2022 wraps up, color space is in play. A new study has identified an important error in the 3D mathematical color space. For more than 100 years we...

I get a lot of pitches from publicists, and I cannot open all of them, especially when they come from an unfamiliar source. Still among the hundreds of emails...

This is a story of swag. And of people doing their jobs and collectively saving me from an emergency of my own making. On the morning we were to...

I’ve been to the Jupiter Systems headquarters in Hayward plenty of times. It’s cubicle-y, beige, and resolutely unpretentious. The trees around the parking lot have grown bigger over the...

In-person is back for so many things. One of my favorite in-person events has been the Mix Sound for Film & TV event put on by my longtime colleague...