Features

AV, meet the iPad

Pro AV vendors have spent the past few months developing products for Apple’s new iPad. Tim Kridel investigates the device’s impact on the AV ecosystem.

A perfect pitch

Prosound in South Africa is on the verge of completing the remarkable feat of supplying sound to nine out of the ten stadiums for this year’s FIFA World Cup. Chris Fitzsimmons spoke to Technical Director, Mark Malherbe about what it means to the company to have been involved in such a prestigious series of projects.

Peer review: RCF Forum 9000

The RCF Forum 9000 Digital Conference and Voting System is the flagship of the Forum Delegate, Discussion and Simultaneous Translation systems, which also includes the Forum 6000 and Forum 2000. Collectively they are known as ‘The Congress Solution’.

Meeting in the middle

Istanbul is the only city to span two continents. But does having one foot in Europe and the other in Asia give you double the opportunity or leave you in no man’s land? Anna Mitchell talks to Yavuz Kurt, Playback Music, to find out what this means for the AV industry.

Scalers, what are they good for?

Devices to expand the resolution of video images by creating new lines and columns of data, commonly referred to as video scalers, were first launched over a decade ago and found great success in delivering enhanced images from standard definition sources. Steve Montgomery explores how things have moved on.

Plug-fest

Chris Fitzsimmons reports on the development of AVB standards and the growing momentum that the fledgling AVnu alliance appears to be gaining in the market. Are we really seeing the birth of a new unifying standard for networked A/V?