AV Industry EOL: Planned Obsolescence (Part One)

For all of the massive technology improvements and innovations within the AV industry, there is irony in the faster obsolescence of digital equipment compared to the analog age of AV, leaving customers vulnerable to unexpected end-of-life notifications of planned obsolescence at the discretion of the manufacturer and reducing the life-span of digital AV gear. In […]

AV Industry EOL: Planned Obsolescence (Part One)

Churches Need Long-Term Media Storage Solutions

As local churches have embraced the capturing, producing, editing and publishing of video content for sermons, event promotions, service streaming, digital signage and social media, many are just now counting the costs and cons of storing massive amounts of video and media data for long-term archival, which leaves the future accessibility of this data in […]

Churches Need Long-Term Media Storage Solutions

Where’s the Total Cost of Ownership?

Where’s the Total Cost of Ownership? If you want buyers to make your brand their choice, manufacturers and systems integrators have got to help decision-makers understand not only the up-front costs but the long-term investment of any technology solution. Want to know the perfect place to start? The House of Worship (H.O.W.) market. Here’s what’s […]

Where’s the Total Cost of Ownership?

Five Casio Projectors Now TCO Certified

Casio announced today that, effective July 13, 2016, five of its lamp-free projectors, including the XJ-F210WN, have been TCO Certified. TCO Certified is an international third-party sustainability certification for IT products administered by TCO Development, a non-profit organization based in Sweden. The five projectors meet the latest TCO Certified Projectors 2.0 criteria. TCO Certified products […]

Five Casio Projectors Now TCO Certified

Your Technology Is Not The Problem

This year saw some of the best new technology breakthroughs in decades, but manufacturers and systems integrators still don’t understand why innovative gear fails to succeed in the house of worship market. It seems counter-intuitive, but approaching the top of the technology apex in audio, video and lighting isn’t generating the kind of sales one […]

Your Technology Is Not The Problem

How to Enter the Digital Signage Business Without Losing Your Shirt

By Mike White President, Multi-Media Solutions, Inc. As an AV commercial integrator of 24 plus years, I still find myself looking at a new technology or even an established technology that my company has yet to sell and integrate and say to myself, “How hard can it be?” I did the same back in 1998 […]

How to Enter the Digital Signage Business Without Losing Your Shirt

An Eco-Certification Primer

Have you ever done your best to swim through the alphabet soup of eco-certifications? And with Apple voluntarily pulling the EPEAT label from its products (and then changing its mind two days later), there is increased scrutiny and more need than ever to understand how these labels differ and what each brings to the table. […]

An Eco-Certification Primer