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Case Studies & Trends in Audio-Visual

Inficon Digital Media Studio

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Posted by Bill Francis on January 28, 2022
Case Studies, Livestreaming

In the professional AV industry as in many, the larger the job, the longer they take to come to fruition. We recently finally completed a job that was over 12 months in the making. Our client, Inficon, one of the largest manufacturers still in the area, is going full steam ahead with social media.

For

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Mobile Video Conferencing Cart

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Posted by Bill Francis on March 25, 2021
Case Studies, Livestreaming, Video Conferencing

It’s always interesting to see how ideas evolve in our business. Also, how a concept reaches reality, especially something like this. This concept was born last summer with the need to hold video conference meetings in a couple of gymnasiums in local schools that have been re-purposed for a local

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House of Worship - Choir Monitors

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Posted by Bill Francis on March 1, 2021
AV Installations

Churches are many things to many people. To us, they are important places for groups to congregate. It has been tough for them to do so during the pandemic. So creativity has kicked in. Many do a prerecorded service every Sunday and leave it at that. Others hold church outdoors in the warmer

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Broadway Performer Carrie Melenakos live performance at Sky Armory

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Posted by Bill Francis on August 20, 2020
Case Studies, Event Production

The client needed an economical package for sound video and lighting for a Broadway-type production in a banquet room setting.

A banquet room is anything but a Broadway theater. Acoustics are poor, low ceilings, and space is at a minimum.

Any professional AV production is 80% planning and 20%

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Temple Concord - AV Installation

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Posted by Bill Francis on August 20, 2020
Case Studies, AV Installations

Temple Concord is anything but a small country church. Besides being a Jewish Temple, its sanctuary building is on the national list of historical places. Since we installed a new PA system there two years ago, the whole property has been sold and will probably be turned into SU student housing.

The

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Embassy Suites Total Renovation

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Posted by Bill Francis on August 20, 2020
Case Studies, AV Installations

Embassy Suites in East Syracuse is one of our oldest clients (25 years plus) and we take pride in this longstanding relationship. Although we started with them when the building was brand new, at age 28 the building was ready for a refresh.

Not much to say, except that in these before and after

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Roscoe Christian Church Audio-Visual Installation

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Posted by Bill Francis on August 20, 2020
Case Studies, AV Installations

Is wireless for you? When the average person hears the word, “Wireless”, they probably imagine ease of use on par with their cellphone – high performance and easy to navigate. Or, a wireless wifi network access. Think again.

Although for the right person and in the right application, wireless can be the

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Video Conference Training Room for PEACE Inc.

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Posted by Bill Francis on August 20, 2020
Case Studies, Video Conferencing

Our Challenge

Provide “full-duplex” seamless video conferencing for training room rehab. Needs to overcome high ambient light Poor acoustics Needs to be turn-key, easy to use Needs to double as a traditional presentation system

This job was in an old abandoned elementary school that was being

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Quintiles Executive Conference Room Installation

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Posted by Bill Francis on August 20, 2020
Case Studies, AV Installations

Sometimes I think we should change our name to “TVs are Us”. TVs are rapidly replacing projector installations in small to medium-sized conference rooms.

In this conference room, the client wanted us to remove the projector and traditional projection pull-down wall screen and replace it with a

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MPH School Graduation

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Posted by Bill Francis on August 20, 2020
Case Studies, Livestreaming

The things that made live-streaming this ceremony unique and a challenge were:

Distance from school Guest speaker was in New York City Local radio station tower and power lines caused interference with PA system Everything had to be COVID compliant

We had to run a 300-foot ethernet cable to get a

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