I have long been a fan of the free (advertiser supported) trade journals published for the audio visual and entertainment production industries. I am sure that this happens with all sorts of special interest professional groups, but magazines published for…
Category: audio visual
A Digital Magazine That May Actually Save A Few Trees
Jeff
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The Death of Television-Part Two
Jeff
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I wrote several weeks ago about ongoing rumors about Apple bringing a television to the marketplace and how I thought that that window of opportunity had closed for them. The end of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament last night brought…
Duracell Olympic Promotion Set To End
Since the beginning of the year, Duracell has been offering a $25.00 gift card with the purchase of $100.00 of Duracell or Duracell Procell batteries. We have promoted this offer at our web site buybattery.com and have heavily promoted it…
It Might Be Time To Fire Your Home Security Company
I have posted a number of articles recently about industries that are at risk of being put out of business by free or inexpensive internet applications. Home security may be the next victim. Recently, I have completed a home security…
Is Copper The New Gold?
Jeff
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On a recent cross country plane trip, I found myself seated beside a very talkative Oriental man. He spoke pretty good English, and after a while I understood that he was a Chinese mining engineer who was on his way…
Glad I Didn’t Invest In That Career
Jeff
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Back in the days when I worked as a production manager for large corporate events, the sub-contractor whose job I envied most was the guy who provided the teleprompter service. Corporate CEO’s wanted to be able to deliver their remarks…
What About The Gospel of Blue Screen of Death?
I left the live “hands on” sound business about the time digital mixing consoles started to gain wide acceptance. I was an early skeptic, but, obviously, this technology is ready for prime time. What started in use on major tours…
Why Apple TV Is A Non-Starter
Rumors of Apple bringing a television to market have been around for several years, and every time they prepare a new product announcement, there is lots of speculation among the technorati, that it will be an Apple TV. I think…
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Whatever Happened To “Seen But Not Heard”?
Over the last several weeks I have had the opportunity to visit a number of presentation spaces with installed sound systems-auditorium, lecture halls, churches, etc. It is good to see that line array speaker cabinet technology is now widely embraced…
Tagged with: installed sound systems
North Carolina Production Companies-Take A Bow!
I have written from time to time about the great free magazines available to the concert and special events production industries. They are advertiser supported (thus, they are free) but they have lots of high quality articles and educational material.…
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