Sound & Video Contractor Feature Articles On AV Control Systems for the Audio/Video Industry

Sound Advice: Club Wars Heat Up

By Dan Daley

A nightclub used to be judged on nuance as much as bombast. Jazz aficionados can tell you where the sweet spot is in the Blue Note on West 3rd Street...

POV: Working with Independent Programmers

By Marc Lavecchia

With more than 250 established independent programming firms worldwide, more and more integrators and consultants are turning to this group of industry...

Student-response Systems Offer Immediate Feedback

By Linda Seid Frembes

Student-response systems have gained popularity in recent years especially with the trend of increased student-teacher interaction and the need to establish measureable goals under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The technology powering response systems have changed rapidly since the 1960s, when audience- (or personal-) response systems first debuted...

Brains Behind the Wall

By Jay Ankeney

If you listen carefully, you can almost hear the videowall in the lobby of Philadelphia's Comcast Center thinking. For 18 hours a day, the giant 83ft.-wide-by-25ft.-high,...

Texas School District Focuses on Teacher Skills

By Linda Seid Frembes

The educators at Lovejoy Independent School District (LISD) in Lovejoy, Texas, not only love to teach, but they love to learn. Located 25 miles north of Dallas, LISD recently added 235 Hitachi StarBoard FX-Duo interactive whiteboards for the 2008-2009 school year ...

Bottom Line: Flexible, Functional, and Cost Efficient

By Jessaca Gutierrez

Keith Fish, VSI project manager, cited what is a common, straight-forward bottom line for many AV installations—flexibility, functionality, and cost efficiency—when discussing VSI’s most recent installation....

Toronto Deploys Wireless Signage on Commuter Trains

By John W. DeWitt

Digital signage has become a ubiquitous tool for informing and entertaining the traveling public—particularly via fixed installations in airports, bus terminals, and train stations. "We face unique networking challenges when deploying on moving trains," says Jonathan Rhee, vice president of operations for United Mobile Broadcasting Corporation (UMBC)...