Features

Ensuring safety in rental and staging

In the June edition of InAVate magazine Tim Kridel finds out from industry veterans from across the EMEA region how to ensure safety when staging live events. Here, in the first of a series of Q&A's, Tim talks to Manu Abraham, HSE manager at UAE headquartered Eclipse Staging Services.

Casio XJ-A135 reviewed

The XJ-A135 is part of Casio’s Green Slim projector series. Its LED and laser hybrid light source provides approximately 20,000 operating hours and offers 2,000 ANSI lumens. Power consumption is less than one watt in standby mode and it boasts a 2x optical zoom.

White paper: Ubiquitous, any-to-any video communication

Polycom has launched the Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC) to promote interoperability in video communications. In this white paper the company explains the OVCC, its purpose and how it is addressing communication challenges.

MADI for it

Despite the rise of new digital audio interfaces such as DANTE and the nascent AVB standards, MADI continues to find favour with the pro audio community. Chris Fitzsimmons finds out why.

AV interfaces proliferate

With the debut of Thunderbolt, pro AV is getting another interface, like it or not. Tim Kridel examines how the interface ecosystem is evolving.

Zwiebel on QSC’s networking stance

Rich Zwiebel, vice president of networking strategy at QSC Audio explains why the company developed Q-LAN for Q-SYS rather than adopting a different networked audio standard such as DANTE or AVB.