Education
Visual Learners Aided by AV and IT
The use of teaching tools to help visual learners (students who learn by using visual aids) are plentiful thanks to the proliferation of AV technology in the classroom. While...
Signal distribution / Control
Audio
Installation Profile: Designer Home Theater
High-end installation combines bleeding-edge technology with one-button simplicity.
Entertainment
The Buzz: Installation Spotlight: Reynolds Home, Dawnsonville, Ga.
Artful Home Integration
Corporate
Telco Fiber Deployments Represent Growing Threat to Cable
Global telcos want to become Multiple Service Operators (MSOs)—offering television programming like cable providers do—but can they really pose a competitive threat to the incumbent players with their new...
News
Audio Podcast: Extending AV over Long Distances
Freelance AV specialist Bennett Liles talks with Magenta Research President Keith Mortensen about the capabilities of the company's Infinea fiber device to extend AV signals over very long distances
News
Gefen DVI-1000HD Extends DVI up to 1,640ft
The Gefen DVI-1000HDS sender unit sits next to the user’s computer, set-top box, or DVD player source, and connects to the user’s DVI source via supplied cables
News
Kramer Presents the Tbus-1 Cable Management Solution
Kramer’s new Tbus-1 is an outstanding furniture-mounted cable management solution. It is very high quality, aesthetic pleasing, and offers interchangeable connector modules to provide exactly the signal support required...
Audio
Meyer Sound Releases MAPP Online Pro 2.7
Meyer Sound has released version 2.7 of its free, patented Mapp Online Pro acoustical prediction software. The new version is a major update incorporating a number of improvements to...
Education
Hitachi Software Offers State-aligned Educator Resources
Hitachi Software Engineering America StarBoard interactive whiteboards, tablets, and panels are newly available with state aligned lessons and activities directly from the Hitachi Software website
Education
University of Michigan Audio Program Upgrades Studio
Students at the University of Michigan (U of M) Audio Program in Ann Arbor, Mich., are reaping the benefits of a newly renovated recording studio. An essential component of...
News
Kaltman Creations Offers New Cable Slap Ties For Quick Cable Management
The Kaltman Creations Cable Slap Tie represents a more efficient, convenient, and economical method of quickly securing cables
Digital Signage
Audio Podcast: Fiber Basics with Communications Specialties’ John Lopinto
In the inagural AV over Fiber podcast, freelance contributor Bennett Liles discusses a range of important fiber issues with Communications Specialties President John Lopinto
Digital Signage
Magenta Research MultiView XR-2000 Receiver Transmits Higher Resolutions Over Standard Cat-5/6
Magenta Research has used a proprietary electronic design to successfully transmit UXGA computer video 2,000ft. over a standard Cat-6 unshielded twisted-pair cable
Markets
Gepco UTP Ultra-low-skew Cable Provides Durability with Superior Transmission Over Long Distances
The Gepco LSK04HD heavy-duty, ultra-low skew UTP is designed for the transmission of component analog video in a twisted-pair format without hardware delay compensation
Audio
UMass-Lowell Sound Recording Technology Department Invests in Console
The Sound Recording Technology department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell offers one of the nation's premier programs for training in professional audio for music, screen, games, and related...
Education
EAW Introduces UX8800 Dual-Mode Digital Signal Processor
EAW recently introduced its new UX8800, a 4-input by 8-output digital signal processor that brings the company’s landmark Gunness Focusing technology to an ever-increasing number of conventional EAW loudspeakers....
Education
New Whiteboard Packages from Smart
Judging from its ubiquitous status in today’s classroom, it’s hard to believe that the market’s first interactive whiteboard was introduced in 1991 by Smart Technologies. Over the last 16...
Corporate
Technology Showcase: Wireless-microphone Control Systems
Networking simplifies multiple-mic control and monitoring.
Corporate
Technology Showcase: Media Servers for the Corporate Market
A move from tape-based systems provides flexible programming.
Audio
Manufacturers on the HOW Paradigm
Roundtable experts discuss the church market's growth and impact on the AV industry.
Industry
POV: The AV Industry’s Strength in Numbers
InfoComm International recently retained Acclaro Growth Partners to study the size and scope of the audiovisual market in North America and offer advice
Audio
Installation Profile: Back to the Drawing Board
How integrators took advantage of structural changes to the Salt Lake Tabernacle for an aggressive AV overhaul.
Audio
Dolby Lake Processor
Information-rich front panel and control software join for easy loudspeaker management.
Corporate
TV One’s New Corioflex System Breaks the Mold
TV One's Corioflex breaks out of the industry mold by letting the integrator decide the number and type of video inputs, outputs, and features.
Corporate
AMX Adds New Room Scheduling Features to Resource Management Suite
AMX disclosed new features for the next version of its popular Resource Management Suite (RMS)the most robust software platform available for managing and monitoring electronic equipment and scheduling meeting/class...
News
Fiber at InfoComm 07
New innovations and applications for fiber technology in the AV industry were even more ubiquitous on the InfoComm show floor this year than ever before
Corporate
Lowell Offers 10KLVC Linear Taper Control
Lowell introduces 10kΩ linear taper control series 10KLVC for single-point remote level adjustment of voltage-controlled amplifiers
Corporate
FiberPlex Unveils MY-card Fiber-Optic Interface
FiberPlex’s new LightViper VIM-MY32 mini-YGDAI interface components allow owners of Yamaha digital audio production consoles to connect directly via fiber to the LightViper fiber-optic audio snake system
Corporate
Extron Introduces the Fiber Matrix 6400
The Fiber Matrix 6400 modular fiber-optic matrix switcher from Extron Electronics allows for complete, end-to-end digital AV signal transmission and routing over fiber-optic cable
News
Neutrik Crimp-XLR Series Offers Solderless Construction for Faster Assembly
Neutrik, designer and manufacturer of the industry leading XX series XLR cable connector, introduced what it touted as the industry’s first Crimp-XLR cable connector and chassis receptacle products at...
Markets
Major Yamaha DME Firmware Upgrade Available as Free Download
Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems has made DME Series Version 3 firmware upgrade available for all Yamaha DME digital mixing engines as a free download
Corporate
Rise Vision Releases Version 1.3 of the Rise Display Network
Rise Vision, a provider of web-based content management software for interactive control of digital signage networks, announces that it has released Version 1.3 of its Rise Display Network display...
Education
Oregon High School Softball Championship Webcasts are a Grand Slam Success
VBrick Systems partnered with reseller CompView and video production provider Bobtv to webcast Oregon high school softball championship games
Audio
Math Teacher Uses AV to Create “Mathcast” Whiteboard Movies
Mathcast whiteboard movies are made using the screen/voice recording capability of the Hitachi StarBoard.
Corporate
I-Tech AV Provides 700 Walton Street Project Executive Boardroom with Hitachi Software T-Series Display Panel
Demonstrating how Hitachi Software Engineering America’s StarBoard interactive communications software can complete an AV/IT boardroom installation and provide executives with an easy-to-use, feature-packed toolset to improve presentations,
Corporate
Gefen Offers Coax Cable and Cable-free Methods of HDMI Extension
Connectivity solutions provider Gefen announced the availability of two new professional quality video scalers.
Corporate
A Changed InfoComm International Preps in Las Vegas
The AV industry audience that gathers in Anaheim, Calif., this week for InfoComm International will be a very different group, with very different priorities from the people who gathered...
Corporate
Lure of Consumer Market Will Benefit Pro Users of Fiber
Fiber connectivity may become the next high-end service to become a mainstream business tool as providers find a way to latch on to audiences much larger than their business...
News
Timbercon Expands Network Simulation Module Line
Timbercon’s expanded network simulation product line incorporates custom attributes and application requirements designed to emulate specific network structures and profiles
Corporate
MultiDyne Exhibits Serial Digital Video Fiber Optic Transport for HDTV
MultiDyne’s new HD-1500 transport system for IPTV, on display at InfoComm 07, is designed to ease the engineering and financial difficulties associated with the migration to HDTV, according to...
