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COVER STORY: Harsh Realms
AV is boldly going where delicate electronic components fear to tread. Here are some of the products and integration techniques used to battle extreme locations.
By Daniel Frankel

High-performance audio and video began to migrate outdoors about 20 years ago, with venues like Denver’s now-long-demolished Mile High Stadium integrating distributed sound systems.

The audio fidelity was a huge step forward when compared to the sound that came out of the metal paging horns these facilities had used in the decades prior. However, at Mile High and many other outdoor venues like it, there was definitely an oversight in regards to durability.

“I had contractors who would call me and tell me about the wooden cabinets they’d find in the scoreboards,” recalls John Wiggins, VP of new business development for Chester, PA-based Community Professional Loudspeakers. “They’d be full of worms and bugs, and they’d disintegrate when you’d try to pick them up.” ...

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Read the Digital Issue: AV Technology, May 2009

6 Perspective: Upsides of a Downturn
by Mark Mayfield
8 Precedent
14 Government: Planning for Internet Protocol Television
by Gary L. Hall
16 Education: Social Networking As Pedagogy
by Steve Cunningham
18 Harsh Realms
by Daniel Frankel
39 Furnishing the Conference Room for AV
by Denise Harrison
44 Conference Room Design Helps Meetings Go Paperless
by Don Kreski
46 Product Forum: VBrick Windows Media Appliance
by Phil Hippensteel
48 Tech Horizons: It’s a Flat AV World
50 New Products
58 AV MO: Supporting Video on the IT Infrastructure

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