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Floating an ice cube is as easy as it looks, scale it up a bit, and you have an iceberg. That appears deceptively simple, too. It's just a matter of scale, after all....

A news item crossed my desk that would have slipped right by if it weren't for my alert colleagues at Insight Media. The news: Syntax-Brillian Corp., a manufacturer and rebrander of HDTVs, is closing down its LCoS (liquid-crystal on silicon) fabs and technical facilities in Tempe, Ariz., to concentrate on flat-panel LCD HDTVs....

Make it Work

Bill McCarthy, AIA, LEED AP

A decade ago, at the beginning stages of the design process, it wasn't unlikely that the role of the AV consultant was the last thing on an architect's mind. Yet as today's competitive clients aim to keep pace with the speed of the market and technology continues to drive space use and design, quite the opposite is true....

Proper IP Addressing

Kris Vollrath, CTS

I was in a meeting the other day, and not to support any AV/IT initiative, when the discussion turned to some issues engineering had with IP addresses given to us by a consultant for a video teleconferencing (VTC) installation....

Virtual Jam Session

Tim Kridel

As busy as some musicians are, it's a wonder that any of them find time to get together to jam with other artists, let alone get into the studio to record those sessions. That's part of the reason why researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., and McGill University in Montreal are developing a system that would allow jam sessions to span a country or the world....

Signal Management Products December 2007

PRO AV Editors

Accell Corp. HDMI switch, Hosa Technology Astro-Grip universal hook-and-loop organizer, BTX Technologies soldered connectors......

New Video Products: December 2007

PRO AV Editors

RF Central camera-mounted transmitter, Sony pan-tilt-zoom HD cameras, X2O Media display software......

New Audio Products: December 2007

PRO AV Editors

Zaxcom hard disk recorder, Royer Labs live mics, Bowers & Wilkins in-wall loudspeakers......

Isolated Ground Devices

PRO AV Editors

Isolating the grounding circuit from electrical noise is an efficient and economical way to protect sensitive electronics in AV systems from operational degradation, disruption, or damage....

Peer Review: Yamaha T5n

Mark Harman

Entertainment Technical Manager Mark Harman reviews the Yamaha T5n networking power amplifier....

Directory Assistance

Tom Zind

John Fuchs had grown used to hearing the protest: ?We don't need product-based leads because we're in the solutions business.? But, coming from the lips of an AV systems integrator executive, a title he once held, he couldn't completely dismiss it....

Security in a Wiretapped World

Tim Kridel

It sounds like a far-fetched plot from a Tom Clancy novel: A hacker reconstructs confidential data by eavesdropping on the electrical signals emanating from a video display. Meanwhile, his partner taps into even more top-secret information via the building's electrical infrastructure....

The Great Divide

Daniel Frankel

The key message delivered at this year's InfoComm ?Manufacturers Forum? was one most AV systems integrators have heard at least a dozen times before. ?We have a weakness in the AV industry on the IT side,? said Andrew Edwards, president and CEO of Extron Electronics. ?Unless it's addressed, it will be a big issue over the next five years.?...