Essentially, AV/IT convergence is the shared vision between the AV and IT markets. While some sort of networking has been available to AV products for some time, usually these systems were isolated, a lone ranger of sorts in a tangle of complex systems that were each operated individually. But as more of today's technology become more and more robust, allowing this technology to sit and be operated from one network and control system, corporate buildings, indeed, are becoming intelligent. Systems are being consolidated and operated from one control system. Room automation is no longer part of retro-futurism, but realistically available. The convergence of these two markets is eliminating the redundancy as well as the isolation between all the AV components. more>>

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When you first encounter the new Hearst Tower, located on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, there is an urge to climb it. The diagrid exterior of the new headquarters building, tubular angled framing chosen by architect Norman Foster, holds in thousands of square feet of glass and makes it look like a set of monkey bars for adults. Inside the foyer, looking up at the mezzanine lobby area and the massive cantilevered supports that let the structure shoot up 46 stories from within the six-story façade of the old Hearst headquarters, vertigo is instantaneous until you get acclimated to the angles.

But it's what you don't see that makes the new Hearst building an icon of its age: a networked IT infrastructure that would probably impress even the building's notoriously crusty namesake—the late media mogul, William Randolph Hearst. more>>

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The rigors of such video include high contrasts, low-light scenes combined with rapid-scene motion created during long-range panning. The technical collaboration between Obzerv and HaiVision has been established to provide performance benchmarks during encoder development and market test activities. These testing procedures assure integrators that HaiVision's codec systems are performance tunable for severe video applications. A first round of tests done earlier this year has already demonstrated excellent performance for an integration solution. more>>