Audio
How Do You SPL Relief?
Anyone who works with sound-reinforcement systems spends a lot of time dealing with a lot of unsolved mysteries. The most common of these is the issue of how loud...
Industry
Industry
CEDIA’s Inventory Exchange Program is as Easy as 1, 2, 3
CEDIA’s Inventory Exchange Program (IEP) provides CEDIA ESC members with a forum to buy or sell excess inventory from other ESC members
Industry
Regional Roundtables
Free to InfoComm members, the Regional Roundtables are designed to bring AV professionals together to learn more about the industry, while facilitating peer networking and obtaining feedback on ways...
Industry
NSCA Launches Website to Help Systems Contractors Explore, Enter Mass Notification Market
To educate industry professionals on the growing Mass Notification and Emergency Communications (MNEC) market—and to help them determine how the code changes will affect their businesses, customers, and products
Industry
NSCA to Deliver Regional Training to Improve Productivity and Boost Profits
The Massachusetts Systems Contractors Association (MSCA) will host an NSCA University Project Management of Systems Projects course
Industry
NSCA’s A/E Toolkit Celebrates Five Years by Going Back to Basics
Entering its fifth year, the A/E Toolkit continues to provide industry professionals with information to build relationships with the architect and engineer community
Industry
InfoComm Makes Key Additions to Management Team
InfoComm International has announced that Al Damico is joining the organization in the newly created position of chief operating officer and Joseph Bocchiaro
Industry
NSCA Business & Leadership Conference Attendees Discuss Strategies
Attendees of NSCA’s 2010 Business & Leadership Conference, Feb. 25-27 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., received solutions to current challenges created by the economy
Industry
NSCA University Presents New and Popular Training Courses for InfoComm 2010
NSCA University returns to the annual InfoComm tradeshow in 2010 with more than 30 of its most popular and new educational sessions
Corporate
Don’t Delay; Become a Certified Lead Renovator Today!
This month’s deadline for compliance with the EPA’s Lead: Renovation, Repair, and Painting rule is fast approaching
Industry
Cisco’s De Beer to Keynote InfoComm 2010
InfoComm International announced that Marthin De Beer, senior vice president of Cisco’s Emerging Technologies Business Group, will be delivering a keynote address at InfoComm 2010
Audio
Acoustics/Room Tuning
You can tune a guitar or a radio, but you can’t tune a room. The knob is just too darn big! Nonetheless, the term “tuning the room” has been...
Corporate
Weathering the Storm
It has been said that no matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. As those of us in the mid-Atlantic section of the United States seek...
Industry
Your Next Move in Networking
Certainly, AV has always been a small, tight-knit industry, and peer networking, training, and knowledge sharing have been a means of survival in the world that is largely self-defined...
Industry
Smart Monkeys
When Stephan Villet and Alan Anderson founded Smart Monkeys in August of 2008, the world they traveled in was very different than it is now
Digital Signage
The Sign of the Times
For more than five years, InfoComm International has been working to advance industry knowledge surrounding the art, science, and business opportunities surrounding digital signage
Industry
Entertaining Installations
The Themed Entertainment Association celebrates the 16th annual THEA awards in a few weeks
Industry
Focus on the Built Environment
Over the past several years, InfoComm has developed a number of programs and resources to help its members create business opportunities with building professionals
Industry
HDMI Makes Its Way into Pro AV Systems
HDMI was, until recently, more known in consumer AV than in pro AV systems. HDMI is one flavor of digital video technology that holds the promise of a single...
Industry
Digital Debut
About 18 months ago, Scott Hetzler, president/chief Engineer at Contemporary Research, zeroed in on the need for a pro-AV-grade digital HDTV modulator
Audio
CEDIA Sense
No magic wands in sight. I looked. I almost expected AMX to show a prototype wand. Some people quietly admit to having a strong 2009, as if saying so...
Industry
POV: Thinking Small
Ever since pico projectors hit the retail market in mid-2008, awareness has grown about the promise of these tiny handheld, pocket-sized devices. The interest in pico (pronounced “pee-co”) projectors...
Industry
Back to Math
Summer is over, and students around the country are getting back to basics. In schools across the country, the subject of math curriculum is enough to strike fear in...
Industry
Associations Focus: InfoComm’s ICIF Creates Michael Vergauwen Education Fund
InfoComm International’s International Communications Industries Foundation (ICIF) has announced the creation of a new education fund to recognize the career achievements of AV industry leader Michael Vergauwen
Industry
Associations Focus: NSCA Education
Registration is now open for NSCA’s popular technician training series, which encompasses the electronic systems technician curriculum developed by the leading commercial electronic systems educator
Industry
Associations Focus: CEDIA’s 2009 Manufacturers’ Excellence Awards Finalists
CEDIA has announced the finalists in the running for the annual Manufacturers’ Excellence Awards. Three products were chosen as finalist for the Best New Technology award, of which one...
Industry
POV: Exploring AV Megatrends
Albert Einstein once said, “I never think of the futureit comes fast enough.” There are few among us who are disciplined enough to put aside the concerns of today...
Digital Signage
Signs of Signage
I wondered in this space last month about what kind of energy we’ll encounter at InfoComm this year. Many of us will be learning the answer to that question...
Digital Signage
POV: Go Green
Earlier this year, the InfoComm International board of directors appointed members to serve on an InfoComm International Green AV Task Force
Corporate
If You Build It, They Will Come
Though our industry continues to do well in the economic downturn, a lot of AV integrators are asking themselves, “What do I need to do to keep the orders...
Corporate
Management Perspectives: Pay-per-click Advertising
An alternative to optimizing your website?
Corporate
LED Technology: What’s New, What’s Next?
Ever since blue LEDs appeared in the 1990s, a cascade of development and system evolution has advanced solid-state lighting to become a viable and prosperous technology foundation. Today, LED...
Industry
NSCA University Introduces New Peer Panel Discussions at InfoComm 09
Listen to your peers discuss how to handle the upcoming DTV transition and manage the convergence between AV and IT through NSCA University at InfoComm 09
