Sound & Video Contractor Feature Articles On Flatscreens for the Audio/Video Industry

The Long Tail: The Growing Market for Basic Digital Signage

By John W. DeWitt

Even as sophisticated, large-scale digital-signage networks proliferate, there is enormous growth opportunity in the underserved market for basic “digital poster” signage solutions, according to Eric Kanagy, CEO of Goshen, Ind.-based RedPost...

How to Implement Digital Signage as Strategic Media

By John W. DeWitt

Today’s digital signage technology enables more contextually driven, interactive content powered by advanced, realtime integration with business systems. However, harnessing sophisticated capabilities demands that retailers and their technology partners go beyond limited, tactical use of “in-store TV,” according to Jeff Collard, president of signage software company Omnivex...

Moving to HD Videoconferencing

By Jay Ankeney

Although the perception of high definition is in the eye of the beholder, HD has rapidly become associated by most people as the highest level of video...

Installation Profile: Mission: Invisible

By Jack Kontney

When the Services Group of America (SGA) built its new headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz., one of the goals was to create an infrastructure that enabled...

Picture This: It’s Getting Easier to Be Green

By Jeff Sauer

The typical AV professional probably doesn't think that often about protecting the planet at least not at work. Our spheres of outward influence are a...

Education Market Embraces the Green Building Movement

By Linda Seid Frembes

These days, discussion of green AV and green buildings are gaining recognition and media coverage in the AV industry. But ask Scott Walker, president and CEO of Waveguide Consulting in Atlanta, if the green building movement exists in the education market, and he will tell you: “Schools were the first to adopt sustainability and the LEED rating system when it first came out...

Installation Profile: High-tech Hotspot

By Allen DeRilke

Like many urban downtowns, inner-city Philadelphia has been undergoing a renaissance of late....

Picture This: Consumer Electronics Show 2008

By Jeff Sauer

When I first started attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 15 years ago, products didn't usually show at CES in January if they wouldn't be ready to start volume production in the spring...

Media for the Message

By Jay Ankeney

The capital expenditure needed for sophisticated AV installations in houses of worship can take significant funds away from other activities...

Digital Signage Messaging Systems at Bryant University

By Linda Seid Frembes

In February 2003, a devastating fire at The Station nightclub in Rhode Island claimed 100 lives and injured hundreds more people. State fire officials and government leaders quickly passed new amendments to the fire code that affected all public spaces where crowds gather...