Sanyo Projects in Washington State Senate
June 16, 2009
In the ornate, marble confines of the Washington State Senate Chamber, A painted wall serves as the screen in the Washington Senate More..

Making Videoconferencing Simple at Camp Anaconda
June 16, 2009
Camp Anaconda (Joint Base Balad), one of the largest U.S. military bases in Iraq, is not in the middle of a severe conflict zone. While integrating the base’s videoconferencing, audio and video systems, Roy Graham, a civilian programmer More..

A Bright, Full-Featured Projector at a Low Price
June 16, 2009
In 2003, projector manufacturers struggled to offer projectors at the “magic number” of $999. Back then, the best you could hope for was 1200 ANSI lumens and SVGA resolution. Today, the $999 isn’t the barrier it once was, and many More..

Streaming Missile Defense Tests
June 16, 2009
To try out its weapons, the U.S. military needs some space. Rifle ranges can be a few miles from populated areas. For tanks, artillery, bombing and Top Gunstyle dog fighting, the Department of Defense has established large military More..

InfoComm 09 Heats up Orlando
May 15, 2009
InfoComm 09 is expected to draw 30,000 attendees this year and 850 exhibitors. As if Orlando isn't hot enough in June, InfoComm 09 is being held at the Orange County Convention Center June 14-19, with the show floor opening June 17-19.Officials More..

High school students run local cable station
Alicia Zappier, July 17, 2007
If you're a student at Westlake High School in Westlake, OH, chances are you're already pretty good at video production. Westlake is one of a handful in the nation that houses a multi-million dollar, all-digital TV studio that produces More..

Iowa State upgrades making UAV control a (virtual) reality
GV staff, June 25, 2007
You're high above the desert peaks. Your aircraft are approaching their targets. Information from instruments, cameras, and radar is before your eyes. And with the help of 100 million pixels of bright and vivid virtual reality, you're More..

Pepperdine decides to build do-it-yourself server system
Michael Murrie, May 21, 2007
Imagine you're a student working on the big final project that's the key to your class grade and success. It's due tomorrow, and you want to put the final touches on it tonight. You open the project and find the dreaded words "Media More..

BEA welcomes new executive director
Alicia Zappier, April 17, 2007
With more than 15 years in the education and broadcast arena, Heather Birks has been named executive director of the Broadcast Education Association. Birks spent 11 years with NAB, eventually working her way to the organization's education More..

Museum expands educational programs with video upgrades
Nancy Caronia, March 28, 2007
The North Carolina Museum of History has used distance learning since the mid-1990s, but in order to make its programs more accessible to the state's constituents the facility was in need of a technology upgrade.Enter the Institute More..

Michigan Delivers Far-Flung Corrections Services
June 16, 2009
Michigan is a big state with some big economic issues. To help bring services to far-flung facilities, the Michigan Department of Corrections and the Michigan More..

For Police Helicopters, Infrared Video Is Key
May 15, 2009
Aboard AIR1. ©Michael James EPS Since 2001, Canada's Edmonton (Alberta) Police Service has been flying a FLIR visual infrared video camera aloft aboard AIR1, the department's Eurocopter EC120 helicopter. Today, AIR1 has flown More..

West Virginia Gets a New, 10-Monitor Look at Traffic
May 13, 2009
West Virginia needed technology-based solutions to make measurable improvements in the state's highways.Now the state's Department of Transportation has a new, state-of-the-art transportation management facility running round the clock, More..

Arbitrator Records the Facts
May 13, 2009
Recording on to solid-state Panasonic P2 cards, the Toughbook Arbitrator is capturing key evidence on the highways and making storage and retrieval a snap. North Dakota has plenty of straight, open highways, with a typical speed limit More..

Effective Video Surveillance Fights Crime in Lancaster
April 3, 2009
Camera network run by nonprofit puts eyes on the street Crime is down in Lancaster, Pa., thanks to a 70-camera video surveillance system operated by the Lancaster Community Safety Coalition (LCSC). A nonprofit agency funded by government More..

NAB Show Takes on New Dimensions
June 16, 2009
The “big thing” at the 2009 NAB Show in Las Vegas was 3D. Panasonic showed a proof-of-concept 3D display sized for conference room and small theater use. It also announced future releases of products to support endto- end production More..

A Really Big Light Source
June 16, 2009
Bogen Imaging has created the Lastolite HiLite Background-a foldable, illuminated background that can be used as that or an incredibly large softlight. The HiLite is available in four sizes: 4.5-by-3.5 feet, 5-by-7, 6- by-7, and 7-by-8. More..

Irvine Expands, Goes Digital
May 15, 2009
Tom Macduff at the controls of ICTV. Photo by Tim Knight The Southern California city of Irvine's ICTV has been broadcasting for less than 10 years. In that time, it has gone from six part-time freelancers broadcasting city council More..

NLE Plug-ins Bring New Control to Complex Tasks
May 13, 2009
The Magic Bullet Suite includes Magic Bullet Looks and Magic Bullet Colorista, both with creative features. Adding plug-ins to your nonlinear editor is the easiest way to customize your editing system.In the last few years, the makers More..

The Other Big D.C. Transition
April 3, 2009
The House production studio readies HD Capturing all the Congressional proceedings in the U.S. House of Representatives, the House Recording Studio (HRS) recently had a new facility built to eventually broadcast in high-definition. More..