Columns & Features

Expert Column: UPS Basics

By Peter Cook

Taking nothing for granted, I want to start by saying that the UPS discussed in this column has nothing to do with that company with the brown trucks...

POV: The CTS Revisited

By Randal A. Lemke, Ph.D.

InfoComm has offered its certification program for more than 30 years, and each year it certifies more qualified AV professionals than anyone else in...

Associations Focus: Celebrating the AV Industry

InfoComm has produced a 3-minute video describing today’s AV industry. State of the Industry is a fast-paced video showing the AV products we see everyday wherever we go, and it recognizes the AV professionals responsible for bringing sight and sound into our lives....

Government Gigs

By Michael Goldman

Is there a more complicated niche in the AV universe for installation professionals to service than the governmental facility market? I suppose that's...

Associations Focus: New Initiatives

NSCA The National Systems Contractors Association (NSCA) would like to reiterate its goals and mission. While the association looks forward to working...

POV: Selecting Project Managers

By Bradley A. Malone, PMP

Business environments beginning to mature their business management practices and procedures go through a cycle of selecting project managers deciding...

D-Cinema Installers

By Michael Goldman

One recent evening, just after I finished editing this month's cover story on the installation of Sony 4K digital-projection systems in Chicago's Rosemount...

Automating History

By Carolyn Heinze

Integrated control enhances the museum experience at The Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center in Williamsburg, Va., educating visitors about American history through gallery exhibits, film presentations, impressive outdoor living-history displays, thematic exhibitions, and outdoor demonstrations—all with the help of a sophisticated control infrastructure....

Picture This: Projection Progression

By Jeff Sauer

My rather flippant answer to, What have you seen? and, What's hot? at CEDIA Expo 2007 quickly became, Thin bezels. That was a highlight of no fewer than...

Astrophysical AV

By Trevor Boyer

After undergoing a complete renovation that took more than four years, the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles reopened with a central AV backbone....