September 26, 2017
By: Richard Mitchell
HP visited Duke's Technology Engagement Center (TEC) this morning to provide an overview of their Sprout Pro G2. Describing the Sprout is a tricky thing to do considering the unique capabilities of the device. As HP was quick to mention,...
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September 18, 2017
By: Richard Mitchell
Last week, three members of Duke’s Disability Management System (DMS) visited the Technology Engagement Center to provide an AV focused Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) overview and to highlight their services to the Duke Digital Media Community (DDMC). DMS Executive...
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August 24, 2017
By: Richard Mitchell
It may be time to retire those trusty old wireless microphone systems that you're currently using in your classrooms and auditoriums. The 600 MHz spectrum (technically 614 - 698 MHz) is about to get considerably more congested with wireless interference...
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July 17, 2017
By: Richard Mitchell
Duke's OIT Media Technologies group was able to secure an Extron ShareLink 200 N from Kontek as an evaluation unit for the Nicholas School of the Environment AV team. This is their quick review of the device: The Extron ShareLink 200N was...
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June 12, 2017
By: Richard Mitchell
First announced at InfoComm 2015, the Wolfvision Cynap continues to add and enhance core features to the device to adapt to the changing wireless connectivity landscape. To categorize the Cynap as a wireless presentation and collaboration device is a disservice to the robust capabilities of what...
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By: Richard Mitchell
Microsoft visited the Technology Engagement Center (TEC) on Duke's campus to showcase their Microsoft Surface line of touch devices. From its humble beginnings in 2012, the touch-focused Surface line of portable computers from Microsoft has matured and expanded to include five...
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March 20, 2017
By: Todd Stabley
A number of products are reaching into and helping redefine what we might think of as the lecture capture appliance space. One sub-category of these includes appliances that, while they could be part of fixed installations in classrooms and other venues, also have...
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February 22, 2017
By: Richard Mitchell
Earlier this month, Vaddio (now a division of Milestone AV Technologies as of April 2016) visited the TEC to provide an in-depth technical overview of their new RoboTRAK camera tracking system. The system, used in combination with many existing Vaddio cameras, functions...
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February 8, 2017
By: Richard Mitchell
When creating the scope of work for your next AV project, it's OK to let go of the analog Video Graphics Array (VGA) connection. No really, it's OK. It has been a long run for the VGA connector, 30 years in fact,...
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January 19, 2017
By: Todd Stabley
We'll be looking at a number of new capture and streaming appliances here in the coming months, as there has been a lot of interesting activity in this product space. To start with, we wanted to highlight a significant update to...
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