The Future of Displays
By Michael Heiss
by Michael HeissThe Society for Information Display’s (SID) Display Week is unlike most trade shows, because it is a fantastic place to see and hear what is coming down the display pipeline from the people and companies that develop the root technologies. Put simply, the display trends spotted and debated at the other shows start–or end–at “Display Week.”Take, for example, the on-going debate of active/shutter 3D technologies versus passive glasses. Unless the manufacturers all switch to one or the other, which is not likely anytime soon, this may ultimately be something the broader ...
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Changing the Game – One Way or Another
By Michael Heiss
by Michael HeissSince the Electronic Entertainment Expo — known more popularly as E3 — wrapped up in Los Angeles, the press has had plenty of time to chew over the top level announcements. Given that, you’d think that there would be nothing left to talk about. Yet for those of us who have to deal with installations more complex than the typical consumer’s “connect it to the TV or maybe to an AVR,” there was, indeed, more to E3 than met the eye. Let's take a deeper dive both into what was there, and equally as important, what was not discussed or on display. Toward that end, we may as well ...
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My Memories of Dr. Sidney Harman
By Michael Heiss
by Michael HeissHearing this morning of the passing of Dr. Sidney Harman, I was struck by the fact that this was news some of us thought would never come. Youthful in action and thought, it seemed as though he would outlive us all. Sadly, that is not to be.
Dr. Sidney Harman The rare combination of an astute businessman who was schooled in physics, yet an accomplished man of arts and letters, he was unique in his ability to combine those talents and more to create the company that bears his name and carries forward a vision of excellence. A world-class public speaker, almost always ...
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Inside the CEDIA Tech Panels
By Michael Heiss
There are many reasons that people attend the annual CEDIA EXPO event, but one of the main additions to to the convention in the past two years has been the return of panel-driven sessions where industry experts speak freely with a moderator and respond to questions from attendees about specific subjects that simply don’t fit into traditional courseware. For complete transparency, with the disclosure that, as a member of CEDIA’s Technology Council your humble author arranged for many of the panels, and we the moderator of the two to be discussed here, the panels certainly seemed to resonate ...
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E3 Report: Immerse Yourself and Your Clients
By Michael Heiss
Ask someone in the consumer electronics industry what they think the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, trade show is and you’re likely to get a variety of answers. From some, the response will be the generic, “It’s the CES or CEDIA EXPO for the gaming crowd.” From others, the answer will be, “It’s the show that is the most fun of anything all year, mixing the high energy of new games, hardware and accessories with serious business.” Ask still others and the answer may be “It’s the noisiest show of the year and I only go because I have to keep up on the latest in the game ...
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Bringing Digitally Delivered to Your Client’s AV System
By Michael Heiss
At the high end of the market it is simple enough to configure a home theater PC and integrate it into a system, but move a bit down the ladder and it often takes more creativity to bring digitally delivered content to your client’s audio-video system.Does the installation require that content to be shown without calling out to a computer somewhere else in the house or system? Is the computer in a different room or is it in the same room? These are the decision points that you will need to chart, and it is more than simply a question of network access. For the professional electronic systems ...
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