Features

No Mickey Mouse show

Having returned from Orlando, Chris Fitzsimmons reflects on another successful InfoComm show. Questions answered include; How would attendance hold up in America’s worst economic crisis since the 30’s? Can you do serious DSP on a PC chip, and last but not least, when is multi-touch not multi-touch?


Beware of scope creep

As the wheel start turning for the 2010 InAVation awards, Chris Fitzsimmons paid a visit to 2009 residential category winners, Smartcomm to meet a company which walks the line between the residential and commercial integration markets with seeming ease. How do they do it?

Ampetronic works with Dutch NVVS organisation

As well as producing assistive listening systems, ensuring that such systems are correctly installed to maximise the benefit for the hearing impaired is a cornerstone on which Newark-based Ampetronic’s business is built.

Not lost in translation

Interpretation services have been a vital part of the international political and business arenas for time immemorial. The earliest prints of diplomats meeting picture the stooped forms of interpreters whispering translations into their masters’ ears. Chris Fitzsimmons reports on some slightly more modern solutions.

Might and merit

India has opened its doors to the world and with foreign organisations flocking to the country; outsourcing tasks, undertaking research and development activities or setting up remote services. Opportunities in the audiovisual market have rapidly expanded with the country’s growth.

Heard but not seen

The old saying “time is money” is of particular importance to an integrator faced with a project requiring hundreds of ceiling speakers. Any features that can save time or effort are hugely sought after so what are manufacturers offering the market right now.