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SeaWorld’s Shamu Stadium Makes High-Tech Splash

FiberPlex’s LightViper VIS-1832 fiber-optic digital audio transport system has been deployed in San Diego’s SeaWorld Shamu Stadium for an all-new show production that blends new killer whale behaviors with elaborate set pieces, music, choreography, and state-of-the-art multimedia...

Installation Profile:
Engaging Education

By Dan Daley

You think it's easy keeping a room full of toddlers and grade-schoolers entertained in a museum for 20 consecutive minutes, while managing to actually...

HDTV Fountain of Youth

By Josh Allen

With all the hype surrounding high-definition displays, 1080p, and the all-digital future of television...

POV: Formula for Excellence

By Randal A. Lemke, Ph.D.

Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States, said, It is easier to do a job right than explain why you didn't. That adage certainly applies...

Installation Profile:
Multifaceted Ministry

By Jennifer Blum

In 1998, the congregation of Fellowship Bible Church in Dallas was worshipping in a converted office building. But the church, formed in 1977, needed...

The Buzz: Install of the Month:
Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario

By Trevor Boyer

At Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, hockey fans were getting frustrated. The American Hockey League's Hamilton Bulldogs, who play their home games...

Digital Video Compression Basics

By Jeff Sauer

By now most AV contractors are well acquainted with the trend toward moving command and control information over IP networks. Doing so leverages existing Cat-5 cables, removes cable-run limitations, and enables sending and receiving information from anywhere to anywhere, all with greater administrative oversight. Some AV pros are also familiar with the increasing facility ...