 French
Connections
Sculpting Sound for Stations on The Lyon Tramway
By Alex Artaud
Since 1974, Bill Fontana has been creating works of sound art
throughout the world. Examples of his many works include transporting
the sounds of Niagara Falls to the outside wall of the Whitney Museum
in New York, creating an “acoustic map” of the city of
Venice and recently completing a project commissioned by the city
of Lyon, France. In the summer of 1999, Fontana was invited by SYTRAL,
a French government organization that oversees public art, to submit
a design for a sound art installation for 18 stations along Line
1 of the Lyon Tramway.
 Reebok
World Headquarters
Canton,
MA
With
the technology cleanly tucked away when not in use, the simple lines
of Reebok's executive boardroom remain unhampered.
 Audio
apps are maintaining technology's pace. But can the users keep up?
by Rock Stamberg
April 2001
 If
you've just woken up from a twelve-month coma, you might be surprised
by the current prices for LCD monitors. The 15-inch flat-panel monitor
you saw for $1,000 a year ago is now selling for $499. And instead
of paying $3,000 for an 18-inch monitor, you can find one for $1,599.
So what happened?
One technology in particular could make life easier for video
producers-if only they'd be given the key to unlocking its potential.
 The
Networked Future
How Much Farther Do We Have To Go?
The
next decade or so will see absolutely everything change in regards
to the way that media-in particular, dynamic media-is acquired, edited,
managed, and distributed.
INFOCOMM
Product Previews
Spotlights on some of the products and new technologies to be featured
in Las Vegas.
Empowering the Members of ICIA
from
Spencer Bullins, President of ICIA
Whether
it's the Projection Shoot-Out, Display Systems Exploration, Audio
Systems Experience, Networking Pavilion, Streaming Media Production
Lab, the 500-plus exhibits from global manufacturers, or the many
educational offerings, you'll find what you need at INFOCOMM International
2001 in Las Vegas.
Visionary Venues
by Robert Lindstrom
To facilitate sales in the rarified air of the really-big deals, hundreds
of high-tech companies around the word have pumped steroids into their
meeting rooms to create what have come to be called executive briefing
centers or EBCs.
May 2001
 GM
Hollywood Design Studio
Southern California
This project was the most recent design studio initiative of GM's
re-establishing their presence in Southern California.
Licensed,
royalty-free or public-domain-choices for stock footage abound,
and they don't have to break your budget.
By Stefan Petrucha
Ahhhh
- Good personal customer correspondence. Sometimes it can be compared
to fine art - a communication masterpiece, if you will.
Minimizing projection depth and choosing the right mirror types.
INFOCOMM Shootout Updates
Has the Shoot-Out Run Out of Bullets?
by Denise Harrison, Producer
5/18:
OPINION: by
Denise Harrison
Whether
or not the Shoot-Out gets new life in the future, we still have
a very well-focused tradeshow with a lot of great things to do,
see and learn.
LCD
projectors' internal video Scalers are inexpensive and, although
they do a reasonable job for most presentations, they often don't
do a very good job with video-based sources. Enter
Focus Enhancements QuadScan Pro.
April 2001
 Advanced
Users' Guide to Gain
Greg Jeffreys
Director
Paradigm Audio Visual Ltd
Gain has
become a key indicator for specifying and comparing screens. But
what is it?
 The
Web Dilemma
A
few reasons why you may or may not want to deliver your next presentation
in cyberspace.
Tradeshow
Treasure Hunts
Making Your Show Visits Worthwhile
By David Teel,
Avenida Network
To go or not to go - that is the question. Attending tradeshows
can be costly ventures for integration companies - but ones that
can be equally as rewarding with the proper "mission plan"
put in place.
 Why
Churches Buy Three Sound Systems
and How You Can Sell Them Their Last
By Jim Brown
“I
want to sell this church their last sound system.” Better sound
contractors make this kind of statement with good reason: strange
as it seems, most churches are so afraid of buying sound systems
that they do it three or four times before they finally get one
that works well enough to meet their needs!
When One Screen Just Isn't Enough...
Multiple Screens Fit Participant Needs
Sometimes the best solution is to go to two or three screens, but
more and more often systems designers are looking at as many presentation
devices as there are meeting participants.
Part
2: I am living proof this can work. I'm an electronics technician
turned IT manager, who then went to work for a projector manufacturer
for telecom product support, and finally a trainer for all of these
technologies.
March 2001
A look at the the love triangle of the technologies and market segments
for
Audio Visual, Telecom, and Information Technology.
Powerhouse
Portable
Canon’s
LV-7525 Projector
By David English
If you’ve looked at the ultra-portables and resolved that you’d
rather carry a heavier projector than settle for a lack of brightness,
you’re the perfect candidate for Canon’s LV-7525 ($11,955).
 Live
Streaming for the Rest of Us
by
Denise Harrison
If
you're not getting it already, you know it's coming. Your client
or your company exec is going to start hammering you to get them
live streaming -- for an event, an earnings report, education or
training, a product unveiling or internal company broadcasts. But
you've heard it's expensive and complicated and if you're like many
of us, you have no idea where to start.
Choosing a Projector: Seven
Considerations
A
Knews/PresentationMaster.com Primer
by Jim
Locascio
Choosing
a projector isn't as confusing as it may seem. Use these seven steps
to help make the best decision for your application.
Five Minutes
With
3/14/2001: Greg Jeffreys
Managing Director
Paradigm Audio Visual Limited, UK
 The
Most Bang Under Budget
Installing
sound systems in small churches
By Cal Perkins
In
this article, I’ll focus on the requirements for the smaller
church congregations of up to 500 people. Specifically, I’ll
concentrate on good systems that can be purchased and installed
for a cost of between $1,800 and $10,000.
 Five
Minutes With
3/7/2001: Interview
with Gerry Remers,
President and COO
Christie Digital Systems
"Digital
cinema will drive the high end, and this will also drive higher
quality devices for the home market."
 The
projection screen - an indispensable element in the presentation
chain
by
Otto Tromm
The projection
screen is an important element and this article will explain why
and provide a 4-step guide on how to select the right screen for
your situation.
February 2001
Five
Minutes With
2/28/2001:
Interview with John Van Scoter, DLP Products
Texas Instruments
"You're
going to be surprised at some of the places DLP technology will turn
up in the future."
 Hierarchy
And Contrast: The Basis of Good Design
By Margo Halverson
The
basic question: What do you want the viewer to see first? You sit
facing your computer, staring at the big slide
presentation you've been putting together all day, and you are bored
out of your skull. It's not the project. It's not the
information. It's the fact that your slides look just like the last
PowerPoint presentation you made. And the one before
that. And the one before that.
 Five
Minutes With
2/21/2001:
Interview with Scott Walker, Principal
Waveguide
Consulting, Inc.
 Five
Minutes With
2/14/2001: Interview with
Jack L. Saltich, President and CEO
Three-Five Systems, Inc.
 Five
Minutes With
2/7/2001: Interview With S. Mark Hand, Sr. Vice President, Sales
& Marketing
Lightware, Inc.
 Staying
Connected With Staging Connections
By Sherrie Morreall
The company most known in Australia is certainly Staging Connections.
We had time to meet with Gary Hackett, the managing director and
Ray German, southern region general manager to learn what makes
Staging Connections tick and what the future may hold for them.
Read.
January 2001
 ICIA
goes Down Under
The
International Communications Industries Association (ICIA) started
out the New Year with a bang in Melbourne, complete with a variety
of Australian AV artisans, three visiting "Yankees" and
a Kiwi (New Zealander).
By Sherrie
Morreall
Read.
In One Screen … Out the Other
Monitor manufacturers
have predicted the eventual movement of displays from a 4:3 aspect
ratio to 16:9. At present, influences related to both content and
manufacturing have us stuck in the middle.
by
David English
Read.
Part 1
Part 2
 Is
Wider Really Better?
When you look into the origins of widescreen films, it
turns out that they were originally nothing more than a marketing
gimmick dreamt up by Hollywood in the 50s specifically to thwart TV.
by Guy Wright.
Read.
 Toronto
International Airport Goes All Plasma
As airports
keep growing, there is not only more information to communicate, there
are also more changes to communicate -- in real-time.
by Denise Harrison
Read.
 Real-Time
Roll Call
DMJ
Digital Media creates a recruitment video, in DV, for Salomon Smith
Barney
by Beth Marchant
Read
 Issues
in Technology:
Videoconferencing
After
a long run as a technological wannabe, videoconferencing seems to
have made its move.
Read
 Predictions
for 2001
by Gary Kayye, CTS
OK,
If I Could Really Predict the Future, I'd be Writing this from a
Beach in Tahiti; but, instead, I'm doing this from Chapel Hill,
NC. So, Here Are My 2001 Predictions Anyway.
Read
 Beaming
There
Real-time virtual display takes 12,000 convention
attendees on a jaunt from Las Vegas to the stars and back
By Robert L. Lindstrom
Last June, when the Society for Human Resources Management jetted
into town, expectations were running high among its 20,000 attending
members.
Read
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