Featured this month:

• VIDEO
  The Tide Is Turning: Large screen LCD screens are affecting the market.
  Monitors are getting larger every day. What this trend means for projector sales and installations.
  By Pete Putman, CTS, ISF

• AUDIO
  Are We There Yet?: Audio networking over Ethernet in 2012.
  Audio networking over Ethernet has raised a lot of questions. The author addresses questions plaguing systems integrators, design consultants and engineers.
  By Tim Shuttleworth

• AUDIO • SOUND ADVICE
  App-res-vous: Audio apps: tools or toys?
  Measurement and informational audio “apps” for the smart phones (iPhone and Android) provide industry professionals tools at their fingertips.
  By Peter Mapp FASA, FAES

• HOUSE OF WORSHIP • BUSINESS
  2012 Opportunities: Demo units may be the key to improved sales.
  Most HOWs want to upgrade their existing audio, video and lighting systems, but the challenge is in encouraging HOW leaders to experiment with equipment.
  By David Lee Jr., PhD
  
  
• HOUSE OF WORSHIP • TECHNOLOGY
  Faith Comes From Hearing: Worship at St. Mark's Lutheran Church improves with audio upgrade.
  Northumberland PA-based Gelnett & Associates provided St. Mark’s Lutheran Church with acoustical treatments and a new sound system moving the sanctuary into the 21st Century.
  By Dawn Allcot
  
  
• DIGITAL SIGNAGE • SIGN AGE
  Creating Value: New tools help engage viewers.
  Digital signage is being advanced with the latest tools in the industry, but creating a sustainable profit center calls for more than simple integration.
  By Shonan Noronha, EdD
  
  
• INSTALLATIONS
  Exploring 21st Century Health
  AV systems integrator Electrosonic provided Kaiser Permanente Capitol Hill Center for Total Health with the needed technology to make its corporate message fully transparent.
  By Dan Daley
  
  
• INSTALLATIONS
  Eco-Challenge
  BBI Engineering provided the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana CA with the technology to create its Eco-Challenge exhibit to educate about ways to conserve resources.
  By Martin Palicki
  
  ...and much more >>

• VIDEO
  FROM THE CROW’S NEST
  Pulling out his (liquid) crystal ball, industry expert Pete Putman analyzes trends in AV technology.
  His detailed predictions for 2012 combine familiar ideas with new twists to keep everyone on their toes.
  By Pete Putman, CTS, ISF
  

• AUDIO
  Acoustic Myths And Magic   Part 2
  Continue not believing everything you hear or what you are told. Many myths and misconceptions plague the AV industry: what to look for and what to look out for.
  By Peter Mapp FASA, FAES
  

• IT/AV • AVent HORIZON
  Change: It Won’t Bite You
  The AV landscape has changed over the last 20 years...and the future of integrators’ business and livelihood depends on embracing the “new world.”
  By Pete Putman, CTS, ISF
  

• HOUSE OF WORSHIP: BUSINESS
  Looking Back At 2011
  Having a plan is one key to successful business.
  As preparations are made for 2012, it is paramount to look back at 2011 to see what worked and what didn’t.
  By David Lee Jr., PhD
  

• HOUSE OF WORSHIP: TECHNOLOGY
  From Hallway To Chapel
  University uses the only space available on campus to create a worship center.
  When Milwaukee WI-based Cardinal-Stritch University outgrew its current chapel, they called on installer Peak Systems Group for their entire AV system.
  By Dawn Allcot
  

• DIGITAL SIGNAGE
  Checking IT Twice
  Santa’s not the only one going over the top.
  Digital signage analysts predict 2012 to be a year of growth, not only in the consumer market, but moving into the commercial sector as well.
  By Shonan Noronha, EdD
  

• INSTALLATIONS
  Early Adopter AstraZeneca Upgrades
  Technology in the digital signage industry advances quickly and, West Chester PA-based AstraZeneca, an early DS adopter, called on integrator Advanced AV to revamp their system to the next generation.
  By Dawn Allcot
  

• INSTALLATIONS
  Sharper Focus At FIU’S SIPA
  One of the 25 largest universities in the nation, the School of International and Public Affairs of Florida International University received an AV upgrade from Miami FL-based AVI-SPL.
  By Jim Stokes
  

• INSTALLATIONS
  Live Music Gets Smaller
  As the music industry shifts from arenas to mid-size venues, the sound and light systems there are getting better–a trend AV systems integrators will want to take note of.
  By Dan Daley
  
  ...and much more >>