Believe it or not, there is a right and wrong way to use lens shift on a projector. While sometimes thought of as a “miracle cure” to any sort of placement problems, there are limitations. Aside from the physical limits of how far you can shift a projected image, you need to understand what is...Read More

Marketing has taught consumers to expect surround sound and theatre quality no matter where they are. From a technical standpoint, this is not something that we can achieve in every space. In order to describe this let’s forget about technology for second. The way your two ears hear sounds allows your brain to determine where...Read More

Today I want to talk about some of the challenges programming control systems. I’m going to pick on Crestron since that is what I spend most of my time with. In traditional programming, over the years things have moved very heavily towards an object-oriented paradigm. To understand how far we’ve come let’s go back to...Read More

If you are a technician in the AV field, you have to rely on software applications to help you set up and configure systems on a daily basis. Unfortunately there are some major incompatibility issues that occur when operating systems change. It’s just a fact of life that manufacturers don’t quite keep their software 100%...Read More

Let’s face it, the world is full of Pessimistic people. Bookstores are filled with self-help books that try to mould us into being more optimistic about things. While having a positive attitude is an unquestionable factor in being happy, there are certain types of things that you can’t always afford to be optimistic about. As...Read More

Creating a control system program for an AV system is a lot like any kind of software development. Although the techniques may be slightly different, there are a lot of things that our industry shares in common with computer programming in general. Or should share in common. You see, a lot of times as AV...Read More

If you sit back and define a mission statement for the Pro AV Industry, you will come across what I feel is the key objective that ultimately drives everything we do on a daily basis. The main goal of this industry is to provide technology that enables people to have more effective communication. No matter...Read More

If you’ve ever needed to do some Crestron programming offsite, all you need is a processor – the panel can be simulated using an XPanel. Here is a quick video showing how to set this up. TweetRead More