June 1, 2016
By: Jack D'Ardenne
On June 2nd from 10:30am to 3pm, Ryan Berndt from Crestron will be visiting Duke’s Sanford School to talk about new Crestron offerings. Lunch will be provided. We will also hear from Sanford School and Trinity Technology Services who will be...
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May 19, 2016
By: Jack D'Ardenne
This week Panasonic stopped by with their newish 4K PTZ camera, the AW-UE70. Duke OIT is interested in installing a couple of these in an upcoming AV installation and we wanted to see it in action. We've been using Panasonic's AW-HE60H in Duke's MPS Studio...
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May 12, 2016
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Tuesday, May 17th, Kramer and ClarkPowell will be stopping by ATC with Kramer’s new VIA Campus device. The VIA Campus is a wireless presentation and collaboration device. OIT is interested in using one of these with an interactive 4K video wall....
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February 23, 2016
By: Jack D'Ardenne
In January 2016 I spent two weeks at Duke Kunshan University for the commissioning of the various AV installations throughout campus. The AV design for this project started 6 years ago and is finally close to being completed. IVCI began the...
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January 5, 2016
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Creston has starting shipping the HD-MD-400-C-E, which is its new huddle room presentation system. It features an HD scaler, display control, HDBaseT, and automatic input switching. The system uses a transmitter and receiver which are connected by a single cable...
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October 21, 2015
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Next Friday we are having a three part DDMC meeting, which will be co-hosted by OIT and Trinity Technology Services. We will be meeting on Friday, October 30th at 2pm in the Sociology-Psychology building room 130. Please check below for...
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By: Jack D'Ardenne
The Panasonic Fall Tech Tour is underway and will be in Raleigh next Tuesday 10/27 and Atlanta on Wednesday 11/4. This will be a great opportunity to see some of our newest technology – including laser projectors, video walls, interactive displays...
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September 28, 2015
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Vaddio has released the OneLINK HDMI, which provides a one cable solution when installing PTZ cameras. The OneLINK HDMI extends power, video and control over a single Cat5e cable up to 100 meters. A few different models are available to support...
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September 18, 2015
By: Jack D'Ardenne
The Harvard Business School recently launched the HBX virtual classroom. "HBX Live is a studio based classroom located at WGBH Boston (public TV station) that enables 60 individuals from different locations around the world to join in a real-time discussion...
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September 1, 2015
By: Jack D'Ardenne
They are "coming together to optimize Cisco networks for iOS devices and apps, integrating iPhones with Cisco environments and providing unique collaboration capabilities on iPhones and iPads." http://blogs.cisco.com/news/partnership Initial focus will be: Delivering unparalleled performance and end-to-end solutions on Cisco...
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