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Notes on AV rooms, product design, deployment details, technology change, and the work of making hardware feel like it belongs in the spaces people use every day.
News / July 29, 2026
A complete AV room standard defines more than displays, cameras, and room systems. Learn why mounting, equipment storage, cable management, accessibility, and service access must be standardized, too.
News / May 7, 2026
Enterprise AV standardization has become one of the clearest conversations in the channel right now. Everywhere you look, integrators, technology managers, and manufacturers are asking some version of the same question: How do you create an AV standard that
News / May 6, 2026
The Trade Agreements Act of 1979 isn’t something most AV teams think about—until it shuts a project down. Because that’s what it does. It sets a simple rule: The U.S. Government can only buy products that are manufactured or substantially transformed in the
News / May 5, 2026
The way higher education thinks about AV has changed. It used to be room-by-room. One classroom, one install. Fixed projection. Fixed mounts. Refresh cycles handled department by department. That model is fading. Today, campuses are thinking in systems. One
News / April 30, 2026
The shift toward managed AV is not a trend that snuck up on the industry. For the past several years, enterprise organizations have been moving — with varying degrees of urgency — from treating AV as a collection of isolated projects toward treating it as an
News / April 23, 2026
Enterprise AV standardization isn’t a talking point anymore. It’s an operational requirement. Organizations aren’t asking if they should standardize—they’re asking how to do it across 50, 100, even 200 locations without everything drifting off course halfway
News / April 22, 2026
Every AV deployment has a number that never shows up on the bill of materials — the labor cost of installation complexity. A system that takes 90 minutes to assemble instead of 20 does not fail visibly. It fails financially. The time delta compounds across
News / April 21, 2026
The most expensive AV mistake isn’t choosing the wrong product. It’s choosing the right product—and designing a room that can’t support it. You see it all the time once projects reach the field. A large-format display shows up, and suddenly the room starts
News / April 20, 2026
ADA compliance isn’t something you fix later. It’s something you either design for from the beginning—or you pay for in the field. And too often, it’s treated like a last-minute coordination task. A display shows up on site. The room is built. The mounting
News / April 14, 2026
Value engineering always shows up. Early in design, it’s theoretical. A line in a budget. A future conversation. Nothing urgent. Later, it gets real. Budgets tighten. Procurement begins. “Or equal” substitutions land on someone’s desk. And suddenly, the
News / April 10, 2026
Hybrid work is no longer an experiment. Organizations aren’t asking if they need hybrid meeting rooms—they’re figuring out how to make them work across dozens, sometimes hundreds of locations without slowing everything down. And that’s where things begin to
News / April 6, 2026
A university built a lecture hall. Fixed-mount display on the north wall. Perfect, at the time. Three months later, they now need to run seminars instead. The 85-inch display now faces the wrong wall. The room is frozen in one configuration and there’s
News / March 31, 2026
Here's a scenario that plays out every week in corporate IT departments across the country. You've got budget approval for 50 new Teams Rooms. The displays are spec'd. The video bars are ordered. The network drops are live. Everything's ready — except you
