Office Automation

What are Audio/Video Matrix Switchers?

What are Audio/Video Matrix Switchers?

This article gives an introduction to Matrix Switchers with respect to the Audio/Video industry. We see what are matrix switchers, why they are required and what inputs/outputs they support. We also see how the matrix switchers are controlled and the virtual configurations supported by certain large matrix switchers. »

What is a Video Wall Controller?

What is a Video Wall Controller?

This article gives an introduction to the Video Wall Controller, elucidates the capabilities of the video wall control software, hardware architecture and configuration of the video wall controller. »

Plasma display terminals : See the big picture

Plasma display terminals : See the big picture

Have you wondered how big a display device can be made? Did you think that a Plasma display terminal was the same as LCD display? You thought Plasma display units have very short life and the gas needs to be refilled frequently? You thought the higher contrast ratio's were the only advantage of Plasma... »

Useful features of Business Projectors

This article gives a short introduction to the various features supported by business projectors, and what are their advantages/ dis-advantages, if any. We discuss features in three categories: vital features, features that add-value and speciallity features for the business category projectors. »

What you need to know about Wireless LCD Projectors

This post gives an introduction to wireless LCD projectors, what Wi-Fi standards they follow, whether you can display audio and video over the wireless mode, is there is a delay while presenting a power point slide over wireless, Advantages, disadvantages of wireless projectors and special features that can be enabled in some wireless projectors. »

What is a Document Camera?

This article is an introduction to a document camera, what it can do, how it acts as an accessory for a LCD/DLP projector, how it can help make a video conferencing session more effective, some advantages and dis-advantages of a document camera. »

Which is better: LCD or DLP Projectors?

This article explores the differences between LCD and DLP Projectors. While the technical differences are not looked at in depth, we look at the differences between LCD and DLP projectors with respect to the following factors: What you want to watch and where, portability and heat generated, brightness uniformity and longetivity, contrast ratio, colour... »

What is a Video wall and what are its components?

What is a Video wall and what are its components?

This article provides an insight to Video walls - What are video walls, the technology used in a video wall, what are video wall controllers, video wall management software and rear projection display cubes and how all of them combine to give a big display. »

Advantages of LED Illumination for rear projection Control room Video Walls

This article analyses the advantages of Light Emitting Diode (LED) illumination systems for rear projection video walls especially in control rooms over the commonly used High Intensity Discharge (HID) Lamp with a rear projection Digital projector. »

Overview of display units for Video Conferencing systems

Overview of display units for Video Conferencing systems

This article talks about the different display units that can be used for a Video Conferencing system to display the output (The video from the other side and any presentation). We look at CRT TV's, LCD TV's, Plasma display terminals and LCD projectors as the potential candidates to display the Video Conferencing output. We... »