The benefits of working remotely are legion. Save time. Save money. Save polar bears. Save lives. So now that it’s de rigueur to involve remote participants in everything from team meetings to trade shows, how do you keep them in the picture? Ironically the picture may not be the most…
A well designed control room enables operators to make sense of huge volumes of data, audio and video to keep people and facilities safe and operations running smoothly. In many respects, no technology is more vital. “The control room is likely to be the most critical aspect of your organisation’s…
With the shift from periodic team gatherings to continuous collaboration, and the recent enforced trend to Zooming from home, you might think the days of the formal meeting room were numbered. But as Mark Twain might have said, reports of its demise have been exaggerated. “Collaboration in the workplace has…
They say it’s good to talk, so presumably the more people you talk to, the better. All you need is a space large enough to put them in. But what constitutes a large conference space? Nic Milani, executive director for commercial product marketing at Crestron, offers a useful definition. “For…
In a world of smart TVs, apps and iPhones, digital signage has become the accepted method of engaging digitally with customers in physical stores, gathering momentum from shops and malls to airports and hospitals, from university campuses to museums and casinos. Deployment by an ever wider array of organisation types…
Connecting AV devices via an IP network – the same technology that whizzes computer data around an organisation – is flexible, scalable and cheap. “AV over IP offers organisations scalable deployment, because there’s no limit to the number of devices that can be connected, and a centrally controlled and managed…
The importance of audio in AV, both for conferencing and live sound/presentations, has never been in doubt, even if it’s often overlooked in favour of video, staging and lighting. Greater expectation due to higher quality consumer audio technology and the generally good quality of concert sound has led to event…
“Projection delivers large, scalable images without bezel limitations, it offers creativity in making use of spaces otherwise unusable by large format displays, and offers excellent value,” says Thomas Walter, strategic product marketing manager at NEC Display Solutions Europe, outlining projection’s advantages. “Compared to other display technologies it delivers wide flexibility…
An American judge once said that he could not define hard-core pornography but “I know it when I see it”. The same could perhaps be said of the large-format display (LFD). Firstly, it is big enough for several people to view at once, whether in a meeting room, shop window…
It’s a big, bad world out there, and AV systems are increasingly being exposed to it. “The landscape of AV is changing rapidly with the emergence of AV over IP, the increase in cloud-based solutions and the growth of the API,” says Francis Williams, group technical director at Pioneer. “These…
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