Industry
Review: DPI M-Vision Laser 18K Digital Projector
Every now and again, I have to take a step back and marvel at the technology we have available to us today. As I began to look at the...
Industry
Industry
NAMM announces TEC Awards Nominees
The nominees of the 23 Technical Achievement and eight Creative Achievement categories were evaluated by a group of industry experts from all facets of the pro audio and sound...
Industry
AVIXA Women’s Council has two successful November events
As a record number of women were elected to political and judicial appointments across the country, women in AV are building their own presence. Though the scale is local...
Industry
SVC readers choose winners of 8th annual 2018 Innovative Product Awards
Sound & Video Contractor is pleased to announce the winners of the 8th annual Innovative Product Awards. Our year-end recap acknowledges both electronic and mechanical innovations and most of...
Industry
Open Mic: Land of Opportunity
According to AVIXA, the Bay area of California is now the biggest opportunity in the country for audiovisual technology sales – surpassing that even of New York. For the...
Industry
Stampede Invites ProAV Industry to Move Upstream, Away from Mainstream Commodities at 2018 United States Vendor Summit
AMHERST, NEW YORK, October 3, 2018 — Visibly energized by the full commitment and resources of the DCC Technology Group, Stampede yesterday invited several hundred manufacturer partners at its 2018...
Audio
PODCAST: John Meyer talks Bluehorn System
In this special pre-AES podcast, Mix talks to John Meyer, co-founder of Meyer Sound, about the development and introduction of the Bluehorn System, the company’s revolutionary new studio monitoring...
Industry
Review: Sony VPL-FHZ120L
All too often, I have a client who has a projection need that falls into the gap between the available options. It may be pricing or features, but I...
Industry
Californian dreaming: AV User Group heading to San Jose this October
The AV User Group will hold its inaugural San Jose CA-area meeting on October 18 at Google in Sunnyvale CA. Chairman Owen Ellis (pictured) will deliver a welcome and...
Industry
What About AV1?
Launched in late March 2018 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), and backed by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Intel, and Cisco, AV1 challenged traditional business models and enabled innovation...
Industry
InfoComm Best of Show Awards 2018
These awards recognize outstanding products exhibited at the 2018 InfoComm Show. Winners were selected from more than 200 submitted entries by a panel of professional users and editors, who...
Industry
IBC Viewpoints: Compression enters the high-performance era
Delivering new methods and codecs for working with large-scale data, particularly VR and HDR, is high priority for the media and entertainment industry. As MPEG begins work on a...
Industry
Four Questions with Unified Communications Expert Dr. S. Ann Earon
IMCCA Founding Chairman to Keynote Sept. 27 SCN Think Tank in Jersey City
Industry
InfoComm 2018 Best of Show winners announced
Future plc’s Sound & Video Contractor announces the results of the annual InfoComm 2018 Best of Show awards. Winners are selected from among submitted products by a five-member onsite...
5G
Need to Know: 5G — Riding Wireless’s Next Wave
By Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News The race to build out “fiber in the sky” is on. The next-generation mobile standard known as 5G, the fifth generation of the technology,...
5G
5G for Pro AV: Three Things
This new platform will accelerate wireless speeds, connect the Internet of Things—and drive competition.
Conferencing / Collaboration
Onsite: Polycom Announces New Cloud Strategy and Inaugural Offerings
Polycom has revealed its new unified cloud solutions strategy, called Polycom Cloud Services, and announced two offerings from it—Polycom Device Management Services for Enterprise (PDMS-E) and for Service Providers...
Industry
James Colquhoun on Christie Digital DHD850-GS
Christie Digital is bringing the features and capabilities from their high-end projection products to more of their line up. I had the opportunity to spend time with the DHD850-GS...
Industry
AV, Market Drivers, and the New Product Landscape: Getting Up to Speed at the Synnex Strategic Partner Summit
Two big industry trends were top of my mind, as my plane touched down in South Carolina last week to attend the Synnex Strategic Partner Summit in Greenville, that...
Industry
In Conversation: Barco’s Jan Vanhoutte
SVC: AV Control is for me the heart of our industry and it’s an area that’s changing quite dramatically now, especially with alternatives to custom hardware. From your perspective,...
Corporate
Revisiting the 10 Standout Video Products for the Next-Gen AV Integrator and Their Customers
In the year since we introduced this newsletter, we’ve addressed the enormous expansion the role of AV expert in business, government and houses of worship. We’ve looked at some...
Industry
Open Mic: The Process is the Experience
There’s nothing more exciting in the AV industry then the moment that the lights come on, the projectors fire up, and the audio is crisp, clear, and just straight...
Industry
Best of 2018 NAB Show
Adder Technology // ADDERLink INFINITY 100T (ALIF100T) With its unique dongle form factor, the ALIF100T is an innovation in IP-based, KVM transmission that can be powered by USB as...
Corporate
NAB ’18– Video Production Takeaways for the AV Integrator
The NAB 2018 show floors were packed with tools and technology relevant to today’s AV integrator. With corporate and institutional “AV” experts seeing a massive expansion into realms previously...
Industry
InfoComm 2018 Best of Show nominations open
The program recognizes outstanding products exhibited at the InfoComm Show that are new since the prior InfoComm Show. Winners are selected by panels of professional users and editors based...
Audio
Supplement: Dante Enabled
In this supplement we take a look at this networking technology and the ecosystem that has grown up around it over the past 10+ years to include more than...
Industry
Join The Social Conversation
Visit our NAB Show social hub and stay up to date with show news. To join the conversation, use Twitter hashtags #myNAB2018 and #NABShow. Read the NAB Newslink for headlines...
Blockchain
Need to Know GALLERY: Blockchain for AV, audio, residential, education, retail, and media
Find out what NewBay editors are saying
Blockchain
Need to Know: The Blockchain Platform
Editor’s Note: Welcome to NewBay’s inaugural edition of Need to Know, where we explain complex topics and demonstrate how they apply to each industry we serve. Need to Know...
Blockchain
Need to Know: Blockchain
Editor’s Note: Welcome to NewBay’s inaugural edition of Need to Know, where we explain complex topics and how they apply to each industry we serve, on our websites and...
AR/VR
Tectonic Shifts: SXSW, Collective VR, and the Changing Technology Landscape
As I’ve often commented while attending and covering the SXSW Interactive conference each year, the term “Interactive” has usually been painted here in huge, rolling strokes that cover any...
Experts
Les Goldberg on Critical Connectivity
Increase of Internet Dependency and Its Effect on Live Events
Industry
AoIP in the Intercom World
Everyone’s talking about using AoIP (Audio over IP) but what does it mean to the intercom users? Until recently there were several standards for transporting digital audio between hardware;...
Industry
Do the Firmware Update
Ever wonder why people avoid pressing that “upgrade firmware” button on their devices? I have a three-part theory: Some people suffer from a basic lack of awareness. They don’t...
Audio
NAMM Pro Audio Exhibition Wing Debuts
The NAMM Show expanded this year into ACC North, a newly built, 200,000 sq. ft. facility that is packed almost entirely with pro audio exhibitors
Industry
Photo Essay: Seen on the Scene at NAMM 2018
Highlights of days 2 and 3 of NAMM included the 33rd Annual NAMM TEC Awards and a slew of product introductions on the show floor
2018
Mark Brunner on the UHF TV Band
Pro audio engineers need to be even more aware of changing conditions, and more diligent about frequency planning and observing best practices when preparing for events. A reliable frequency...
2017
Configuring Dante Gear For How And Theater Applications
The following devices will be mentioned in this article: Focusrite MP8R, Focusrite HD32R, Focusrite RedNet AM2, Bel Digital BM-A1-64 Dante, Allen & Heath M-Dante I/O expansion card, Allen &...
2017
David Title on Collaboration and Interactivity
As the Chief Engagement Officer at Bravo Media, and a participant on the panel, I’ve seen just how vital this can be to the success of both event-based and...
