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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 […]

One of the questions I get most often when someone is shopping for a PTZ camera isn't about resolution or outputs. It's "which zoom should I get?" And that's okay! The numbers on the spec sheet look like a simple "bigger is better" ladder, so it's tempting to grab the highest one you can afford […]

Every integrator has a system like this. Everything on the drawing checks out. Every box in the rack says HDMI 2.1. Then you power it up and the flagship display tops out at 4K60, the soundbar plays in stereo, and one screen on the far end of the matrix sits black.   And that's okay! […]

A question I get a lot when someone is speccing PTZ cameras goes something like this: "Should I go NDI, Dante, or just run SDI?" And that's okay! Five years ago the answer was usually "run SDI and call it a day." Today you've got three solid options, and each one fits a different kind […]

The design decisions that determine whether your system feels instant — and the one that gets made by accident. Here's something we've noticed on the support desk: the most common AV-over-IP failure isn't an AV failure. It's a multicast stream flooding a network that was never told to expect it. It's AV traffic sharing a […]

What each spec actually costs in bandwidth — and which one belongs in the system you're designing this year.   A question that comes up on nearly every spec call these days: the display vendor is pushing 8K, the client saw "8K" on a spec sheet somewhere, and somebody has to decide whether the whole […]