Industry
Sound & Video Contractor announces Best of Show InfoComm 2019 Awards
Winners were selected from submitted products by a panel of CTS-certified judges on the show floor during InfoComm 2019
Industry
Industry
Rental & Staging Systems announces Best of Show InfoComm 2019 Awards
Winners were selected from submitted products by a panel of CTS-certified judges on the show floor during InfoComm 2019
Blog
Cynthia Wisehart on Kevin Becka
Sometimes you are not sure if someone wishes to be publicly remembered after they are gone by everyone who can type. I don’t know what I would want. What...
Industry
The SVC Interview: Les Goldberg
Les Goldberg of Entertainment Technology Partners and LMG has made a career of corporate and touring events and he’s here to tell us what it’s like when a live...
Industry
Smarter Sights
While beautiful digital displays might be the shiny object that captures the attention of your target audience, capturing data and using it for real time business intelligence is the...
Audio
Audio Review: Shure Axient Digital Wireless
Stellar RF and Audio Performance in the 470-636 MHz Band
Blog
Cynthia Wisehart on NAB
One of the things I like best about tradeshows is that moment when a team gets to finally pull the wraps off something new. I realize that happens all...
Industry
SVC announces 2019 Best of NAB awards
Alteros GTX-FX8 Direct-To-Fiber System Bittree Patch32A Dante Patchbay DVEO PLAY SERVER 12ch HD-SDI Extron NAV Systems Extron Quantum Ultra Glensound Electronics DIVINE AoIP PoE Powered Monitor IHSE USA Draco Vario 2X1 HDMI KVM Switch IHSE...
Blog
Cynthia Wisehart on System Design
Conferencing and collaboration is communication. That seems obvious, but is it? It’s very easy to miss the communication part when focused on the technology. That means meetings can be...
Industry
Manolo Almagro to Keynote April 2019 AV/IT Summit
Manolo Almagro is set to keynote the April 2019 AV/IT Summit in Arlington, TX. The keynote—titled Rethinking Connected Experiences—will take a deep dive into cross-industry innovations and how various...
Industry
Tutorial@TheWire: Inserting media in body text
IMAGES Here is a sample paragraph that will show how you can insert images into the body text of a paragraph. Once you insert the images you will have...
Industry
Whitepaper: Understanding & Evaluating AV-Over-IP
Over the past two decades, virtually every piece of office technology that required separate cabling has moved onto the network; a convergence that has drastically simplified deployment and reduced...
Industry
Open Mic: What Guests Want
Consumers want immersive experiences and this trend is on pace to intensify. The ability to capitalize on storytelling opportunities can serve as a critical differentiator for a theme park....
Industry
THEA Awards Turn 25
The Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) is the international non-profit association representing the creators, developers, designers and producers of compelling places and experiences worldwide. Not surprisingly that includes theme parks,...
Government
Spotlight: Command and Control
Emergency Touch Touchscreens and tablets allow faster and more informed response for Riviera Beach Fire Rescue Department By Cynthia Wisehart The compelling duty of a Fire Rescue department is...
Industry
Innovative Product Awards 2018
We’re pleased to announce the winners of the 8th annual Innovative Product Awards. Our yearend recap acknowledges both electronic and mechanical innovations and most of all celebrates the engineering...
Industry
New “superior quality” analog compact music cassettes hit the market
RecordingTheMasters, the worldwide leader in reel-to-reel tape manufacturing, is launching its new analog compact music cassette with what it claims to be “best-in-class sound quality”. Initially introduced at the...
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
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...
