“Organisations are unique, with specific needs or requirements, so think about the business culture and the people who make up the team,” says Jens Vang Lauridsen, UK and Ireland vice-president of Lifesize. “How do they work? Are they predominantly older workers or young graduates? What are the goals for the…
The migration of pro audio exhibitors from Frankfurt’s Prolight + Sound to Amsterdam’s ISE is hugely revealing. Some remain at both shows, continuing to focus on those aspects of PL+S that define concert touring and theatre, but many more have elected ISE as the only European early spring option to…
Many moons ago a self-styled ‘futurologist’ assured me that by 2020 magazine articles like this one would be written by computers. Well, 2020 has arrived and I’m still scribbling. So much for predictions. But if you ask the great and good of the AV industry about the likely impact that…
Projection or direct view LED? It’s easy to caricature the former as outmoded and dim, and the latter as coarse-grained and expensive. However, both descriptions are grossly distorted, as ongoing developments within both technologies are narrowing the gulf that once separated them – while still leaving that necessary kernel of…
From a technology standpoint, the heart of the meeting room experience is often collaboration. “The collaboration market is extremely competitive at the moment, with a number of hi-tech, proprietary collaboration tools, such as the Mersive Solstice Pod that facilitate rich image, desktop and file sharing in realtime with unlimited participants…
A multi-billion pound industry, video streaming continues to grow in popularity across a multitude of areas – professional and consumer – and is fast becoming the dominant form of AV communication, whether live or on demand. Reduced costs for streaming production technology, including storage (digital asset management, or DAM) and…
Audio over Internet Protocol (AoIP) has very naturally taken its place as the standard means of transmitting audio around a building or open space, or both. But it has options, and decisions to be made, just as do the loudspeakers at the end of the chain. What’s not clear yet…
Plenty of column inches have been dedicated within these pages to the struggles of high street, ‘bricks and mortar’ retail and how AV is helping to push back against the twin attack dogs of online shopping and economic uncertainty. But what are the key issues? For retailers today, it’s crucial…
Mountings might not be everyone’s idea of fun. But they can make or break an AV installation – literally if something goes awry and they fall off the wall. In labs and workshops around the globe, designers are beavering away to ensure that they don’t, and that they support the…
The concept of audio zoning is simple: to provide different areas of a building and its surroundings with a simultaneous variety of music and messaging. In some cases, this may mean subtle differences in the same programme, such as level and priority, but always with EVAC at – literally –…
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