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

What's New:
Audio Technology

By Charissa Young

Zaxcom's Deva Mix-12 is a fully digital 12-fader control surface that directly manages the audio mixer embedded within the Zaxcom Deva IV and V location recorders. ...

Technology Showcase:
Networkable Projectors

By Jay Ankeney

If your kids leave the 12in. Trinitron in their playroom on overnight...

Magenta Launches "Twin-display" Cat-5 Receivers for Dynamic Signage Applications

Magenta Research announces the addition of two new Cat-5 receivers to its flagship MultiView Series product line. The K-500 TD (twin-display) and K-500 TDC (twin-display, chainable)...

Sennheiser's new sport line, Athlete, features six new portable headphones that all include lightweight drivers with a miniaturized neodymium magnet structure for efficient, high-impact sound reproduction...

AV Receiver Sets Up with Handclaps

JVC's RX-D702B incorporates JVC’s proprietary SmartSurround setup, which uses the speakers as microphones to help users set up the surround parameters of the system with handclaps. ...

InfoComm Pick Hits 2006

Staff Report

During InfoComm 2006, Sound & Video Contractor's judges patrolled the show floor at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., looking for new products deserving of Pick Hit awards. What makes a product Pick Hit-worthy? Well, first, it has to be new, and real. That means the product hasn't been shown at any previous InfoComm shows; it's shown on the show floor at InfoComm 2006 as a real product (not as a technology demo); and it's set to ship in 2006. But more importantly, the product must be technologically...

StrandVision Digital Signage System

By Jeff Sauer

Digital signage has clearly become one of the hottest topics in the AV industry, and rightly so. There are major growth opportunities in selling the displays and hardware, but also in leveraging an AV contractor's expertise building out infrastructures to move and present media...