Newsroom

A simple setup guide for athletic departments, booster clubs, and student media teams Somewhere right now, a grandparent two states away would love to watch their grandkid's Friday night game. So would the parent working a late shift, and the alum who never misses a season. A livestream makes that possible, and a lot of […]

A practical order of operations for church media teams Every church media team has a wish list, and it usually starts with "a better camera." Sometimes that's exactly right. But plenty of churches spend their upgrade budget on a new camera, go live the next Sunday, and find the stream still doesn't feel right. And […]

"When someone taps a button on the touch panel, how does the matrix actually know what to do?"   That's a great question! Control can feel like a black box, especially if your background is in video rather than programming. The good news is that the core idea is pretty simple, and once it clicks, […]

Walk behind the bar at almost any sports bar on a Saturday and you'll find it: a drawer full of remotes, a sticky note that says "TV 7 = input 3," and one bartender who's the only person who knows how to get the game on the patio screens. That's okay! It's how a lot […]

Every office has that one HDMI cable. It's taped to the conference table, it's a little frayed at the end, and it never quite reaches the laptop of whoever is presenting. Then a visitor walks in with a USB-C-only machine and the meeting stalls while everyone searches for an adapter.   Wireless Bring Your Own […]

A question I get a lot from people building their first studio is, "How many cameras do I actually need?" And that's okay! It's the right place to start, but it's only the first question. Where those cameras go, how their signals reach the switcher and who's driving them matter just as much as the […]

Most meetings don't start late because of the agenda. They start late because someone is under the table hunting for the right adapter while another person's laptop battery quietly slips into the red. If you've installed or supported a conference room, you've seen it more times than you can count.   The good news is […]

A question I get a lot from integrators goes something like this: "The client wants the PCs out of the room, but they still need to use them. How do we do that?" And that's a great question! Nobody wants a hot, noisy computer under the front desk or a media server parked next to […]

What to verify, what to document, and the compliance rule that catches AV integrators who did everything else right.   We've written before about designing a TAA-compliant signal chain without giving up performance. This article is about the other half of the job — the part that happens at the procurement desk rather than in […]