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 Brave New World
How cheap, great quality encoders change everything. Maybe.
You’ve heard about MPEG4 AVC, otherwise known by its ITU-R standard designation of H.264. Probably heard about it ad nauseam, and are still left to wonder how this significant improvement in video compression makes any real difference to your business other than the usual, “now things go a little faster?”
Published in IT/AV Report, Spring 2007
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 A LAN-Based AV Presentation Primer
A proposal that implements common TCP/IP protocols.
A simple “connect and present” solution has long been the Holy Grail of the audiovisual system designer. Unfortunately, the consumer origins of most source and display signals...
Published in July
2007
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 It's in the Cards
Your world won't ever be the same.
Let’s be grateful to desktop video production, because it’s giving AV presentation systems a gift. But let’s be wary, because this is a complicated and challenging gift...
Published in October
2006
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 The
Simple Network Management Protocol
A clunky old control system is radically innovative
for AV.
The coming together
of IT and AV can be pretty paradoxical. These things are
oil and water in many ways. And nothing about the mixing
of them is—let’s say it plainly—weirder
than the now rapid pace of adoption of SNMP to control...
Published in IT/AV Report, Spring
2006
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 Can
SuperMAN Save Metropolis?
Wide area networking update.
These days, companies
need reliable, affordable broadband access to support their
voice, video and data communications, just as surely as
they have access to electricity and water. Indeed, affordable
broadband service has become an important consideration
in choosing where to locate corporate headquarters, factories
and other types of major business institutions.
Many in the IT world are now beginning
to worry, with the US slipping to 13th in the world in terms
of broadband deployment (behind Korea, Japan, Singapore,
Canada and much of Europe). Just a few years ago, the US
ranked third in the world, but today it’s falling
fast....
Published in IT/AV Report, Fall
2005
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Previous Articles:
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Report: AV In Medical - Big, growing and how to operate in it. (IT/AV Report, Summer'05)
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Convergence, Convergence,
Convergence - Connectors and cabling
play a key role. (Jul'05)
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AV/IT Convergence and MPEG
- Getting the right compromise in business communications.
(Apr'05)
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Electronic Signage Networks
- ESNs can play a role in homeland security in addition
to traditional applications. (July'04)
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IT/AV/MW/EC/GC Convergence:
Users, Furniture, Infrastructure
- It’s not all in the hardware and wiring. (May'04)
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PC BoBs Take Control
- Now they’re conquering playout network controls.
(May'04)
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Educational Markets
Graduate to Big Business - The IT/AV trend
is strong in education, with AV spending ceasing to exist
in education unless it is part of an IT project. (Apr'04)
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Metacontrol (IT/AV'03)
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Handicapping the Wireless AV Horserace - Didn’t
They Used To Call That ‘TV’ and ‘Radio?’
(IT/AV'03)
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$3 Billion Business by ’07 - Heat up a business
in lots of little increments, and eventually things come
to a boil. (IT/AV'03) |
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