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AV Industry Icons 

By Jack Kontney

Anyone who's attended the major AV industry trade shows over the past couple of decades can't help but be wowed by the tremendous growth of our industry. Installations that once struggled to sound good have become truly impressive displays of technology...

The Buzz: Install of the Month:
Medica Health Plans Minnetonka, Minn 

By Wendy Meincke

With an automated phone system, a slip of the finger can take you in mysterious directions, and the only recourse is to find your way back to the main...

Installation Profile:
Optimal Media for Optimal Health  

By Daniel Keller

On any given day, thousands of visitors make the pilgrimage to Orange County, Calif., armed with a checklist of must-see destinations. There's Disneyland,...

New Light Sources Aiming to Replace Lamps? 

In its wide-ranging search for new and better light sources to drive microdisplay projection systems, the AV industry has recently focused on two new tools that are either beginning to appear in market-ready products or coming to the market soon. LED illumination engines and engines based on various kinds of lasers are getting a lot of attention after this winter’s series of trade shows in Japan, Las Vegas, and elsewhere. Both new technologies represent efforts to free the projection world from the burdens associated with conventional lamps, including their heat output, declining brightness over time, and high cost of replacement. ...

Installation Profile:
Delivering the Message  

By Bennet Liles

In world-class corporate competition, you keep pace or die. Field leaders have been powered by two proven success engines. They effectively communicate what their company has to offer and then they seed and nurture ...

The Buzz: Install of the Month:
Cabela’s Buda, Texas  

By Gregory A. DeTogne

Within the outdoor industry, perhaps no company is entitled to claim the title of World's Foremost Outfitter better than Cabela's, the...

Installation Profile:
Creating a New Reality  

By Daniel Keller

If it's true that necessity is the mother of invention, then it must be equally axiomatic that competition is the mother of reinvention. It certainly...

Picture This:
CES 2006 

By Jeff Sauer

I have to confess that I didn’t go to the annual Consumer Electronics Show this year with high expectations for new display technology. After all, how much bigger do plasma and LCD flat panels really need to get? And it’s pretty clear that neither of those technologies is going to eliminate the other anytime soon. ...

IMAG in Churches 

By Anthony D. Coppedge

For many houses of worship, IMAG (image magnification) is an attractive technological option for magnifying the action on the church platform — through the use of video-cameras — so that even those far away can see easily...

Installation Profile:
A Vision Realized  

By Jack Kontney

When the staff of Southlake Foursquare Church in suburban West Linn, Ore., decided to expand, it had a vision it was determined to realize. The new structure...