AVMI’s business development and marketing director, John Masters explains. Facilities executives are going to work with a new spring in their step, and they have an exciting challenge on their hands; to inspire and empower the transforming workforce. Embrace the new millennials, accommodate homeworkers, integrate new collaborative technology and make it all look great with the latest products from office furniture suppliers and they can be heroes… or something like that. The same goes for IT/communications executives. Key suppliers such as Cisco and Microsoft are supporting workplace transformation strategies with a range of initiatives and new meeting space products [...]

Peter Vernon, product manager for Sahara AV Distribution, offers guidance on selecting the best large venue projector for the job. Over the last few years the projector market has experienced challenges, mainly in classrooms and meeting rooms, due in part to saturation but more with the advent of new technologies such as large format touchscreens. However, the larger venue projector market is as healthy as ever and with the advent of more and more capable projectors, actually growing. Every large venue will have its own unique set of challenges when it comes to selecting a projector that works [...]

In the AV industry, for as long as I can remember, the idea of being able to have an AV system of some kind and making it as invisible as possible has been a request of clients.  At the end of the day, can you ever really hide all of the equipment in a system?  Obviously, this depends entirely on the installation and equipment being used.  If you think about the size of technology, meaning the physical size of gear, we have seen certain things shrink in size while maintaining an acceptable level of performance.  In addition, we have [...]