June 2008
Features
Expert Roundtable: The Future of Digital Signage
By Bennett Liles
The digital-signage industry is gaining steam at a phenomenal rate…
Technology Showcase: Turnkey Digital Signage
By Bennett Liles
The digital-signage arena has seen explosive growth — and now there is a solution to meet every budget, strategy, and hardware preference…
Technology Showcase: Flatpanel Mounts
By Jay Ankeney
This is a great time to be in the flatpanel-mount business. Flatpanel displays are growing bigger, so there is more need to securely position them on…
Installation Profile: Into the Tunnel
By Dan Daley
Digital signage runs the gamut from prosaic to artful. The digital-signage installation at American Airlines’ new Terminal 8 at JFK International Airport…
Wired for News
By Cynthia Wisehart
It had an AV budget that few museums can command a healthy percentage of the project’s $450 million budget, consumed by hundreds of loudspeakers and screens,…
Reviews
Audio Review: TOA TS-770 Series Conference System
By John McJunkin
TOA Electronics has introduced its TS-770 Series Conference System with the notion of affordably facilitating multiple-mode remote conferencing. In addition…
Video Review: NEC NP3151W
By Jeff Sauer
The trend toward native widescreen projectors is now in full swing in the consumer home-theater market. Additionally, several high-end, high-brightness…
Columns
Picture This: Tapping the Trend
By Jeff Sauer
What does YouTube mean to the professional AV industry? Well, probably nothing directly. Yet during the last couple of years, the success of streaming…
SVC: Next Generation
By Michael Goldman
InfoComm the place where AV professionals converge each year to learn about the newest, latest, and greatest technology and trends about to wash over…
Expert Viewpoint: Green Meetings
By Craig Malloy
Your business professors undoubtedly told you that nothing beats seeing someone face to face. What they might not have told you is that you don’t need…
Expert Viewpoint: The RoHS Directive
By Jon Melchin
The booming construction market in the United States has spawned an increased awareness of the environmental impact of today’s new builds. As a result…
Associations Focus: Visit the NSCA Zone at InfoComm 08
NSCA ZONE: YOUR TICKET TO SAVINGS AND SOLUTIONS NSCA’s mission is to help our members succeed in business through member services, training, educational…
Associations Focus: InfoComm Shines
NEW AND FREE STREAMING MEDIA InfoComm Academy has just added to its OnDemand library of streaming media presentations and made it easily accessible and…
Associations Focus: Online Registration Begins for CEDIA Expo 2008
Gather with the industry’s finest at CEDIA Expo 2008 for five days from Sept. 3 through Sept. 7…
POV: Setting the Standard for Excellence
By Randal A. Lemke, Ph.D
InfoComm International has been recognized as an American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-accredited standards developer…
Departments
The Buzz: Installation Spotlight: Lakewood Church, Houston
By Bennett Liles
The increasingly sophisticated and elaborate performances being done in churches in the past few years have stretched the limits of staging, lighting,…
The Buzz: Installation Spotlight: Capital Off-Track Betting, Schenectady, N.Y.
Staff Report
The applications that fall under the umbrella of digital signage continue to grow as professionals in virtually every video business learn more about…
The Buzz: Installation Spotlight: Specialty stores, nationwide
Staff Report
In today’s competitive retail climate, specialty stores such as The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Tully’s Coffee, Borders, Robeks, and Jack in the Box were…
The Buzz: Tradeshow Primer
By Bennett Liles
The old boy scout motto Be prepared has always been good advice, but that axiom is especially smart for attendees and exhibitors at InfoComm…
