Features

  • Future Tech | AR and VR |

Technology outlook: Hype or hope?

Gartner’s latest “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies” includes several potential opportunities for AV firms. Tim Kridel explores drones, VR, artificial intelligence and more.

  • 03/02/2017
  • Future Tech | AR and VR |

A sound investment: optimising graphene for loudspeakers

Lightweight, strong and inexpensive – a new graphene-based material has the potential to enhance both the performance and battery life of loudspeakers. Charlotte Ashley finds out more from inventor Robert-Eric Gaskell.

  • 31/01/2017
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The ripple effect - Consultants Roundtable

Paul Milligan gathered a group of consultants together and discovered, despite a sometimes lofty reputation, they were under just the same pressures as the rest of the AV world.

  • 30/01/2017
  • Government | Education | Corporate | Service and Support | Smart-workspaces |

One size doesn’t fit all in managed service contracts

Managed service has become a fundamental part of an integrator’s business. Paul Milligan looks at the skills and techniques needed to run successful service contracts.

  • 30/01/2017
  • Corporate | System Design | UCandC | Audio Networking | ISE 2017 | Systems products | Audio | Smart-workspaces |

Setting The Agenda: TJ Adams, QSC

QSC has changed its name and is heading in to new territories, Paul Milligan spoke to TJ Adams, the company’s director of installed systems, to find out more.

  • 30/01/2017
  • Audio |

Review of Nexo ID24i speaker

The ID24i speaker features a user-rotatable horn that allows operators to choose between 120-degree x 40-degree or 40-degree x 120-degree high frequency coverage. Measuring 309mm wide, 132mm high and 233mm front to back, it incorporates twin 4-in drivers in a V formation, and can work as a full-range speaker, or as a dedicated sound beaming unit.

  • 23/01/2017