August 27, 2014
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Last month Paul Zylowski, Mweshi “Moon” Ngandwe, and I did a live web chat discussing some of the various AV gear and technologies we saw on our recent trip to InfoComm 2014 this past June. Below is a recording of the web chat....
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February 25, 2014
By: Jack D'Ardenne
This new Panasonic AW-HE2 USB HD camera looks interesting. High list price ($995), but it offers a lot of functionality. I'm going to reach out to Panasonic to see if we can get a demo and I'll report back if we...
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February 19, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
Often times we have events, projects or circumstances that require us to use high end cameras with software that is really only designed for USB cams. Professional and Prosumer gear almost always lacks the USB interface so this can be...
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February 5, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
https://vimeo.com/85940352 In our MPS recording studio I set out to improve the lighting quality with a low budget. I thought I would share my strategies and results in hopes other might benefit. Cameras do a bad job of reproducing what...
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October 29, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Duke's Logitech rep, Warren Widener stopped by today to show us some of Logitech's business line products (listed below). Two of the highlights were the BCC950 ConferenceCam and the Logitech Mobile Speakerphone P710e. The BCC950 webcam features 1080P video, PTZ operation...
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October 4, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
The hot AV product this year for education seems to be wireless presentation gateways. At this week's Whitlock Convergence show in Durham we got to take a look at several of these devices including WOW Vision's Collab8 collaboration device. ...
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October 16, 2012
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Pretty cool new wi-fi webcam from Logitech. Techspot.com has a nice write-up on it. There are a lot potential use cases for something like this. At this time it works on the Mac OS and iOS only and Logitech claims...
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September 26, 2012
By: Jack D'Ardenne
OIT-ITS purchased the Epson MG-850HD projector a few months ago with the hopes of using it paired with an Apple iOS device (iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch) to do video conferencing. The projector features a charging dock connector that supports...
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August 23, 2012
By: Scott Wells
Microsoft's Skype is the best known among the services that offer free one-to-one video calls on computers and mobile devices but group video chatting services are rare. Now, there's a new independent service called Zoom.us. WSJ's Walt Mossberg reviews zoom.us...
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