2015 was a big year for commercial technology.
We were introduced to the Surface Hub, adopted buzz words like huddle space, and began asking ourselves what integrators can do to help increase school safety.
Sometimes, no matter how familiar you are with trends and new technology, it can help to hear about these things straight from the horse’s mouth — in this case, experts in specific fields within the industry.
Webcasts connect you with manufacturer and integrator experts for a short 60-minute presentation. Of course, sometimes you don’t have the time to log on for the live event, which is why all of CI‘s webcasts are available on demand, just like that last episode of Walking Dead you keep meaning to watch but haven’t yet.
If you have downtime this holiday season and want to catch up on anything you missed in 2015, here are 11 webcasts you can watch right now … or anytime.
3 Secrets to Selling Powerful, Affordable Video Walls
The latest technologies in displays, video wall software and mounting allow integrators to sell easier, more powerful video walls that more customers can afford. In this webcast, experts from Hiperwall, NEC Display Solutions and Premier Mounts share insight on the three most important components of video wall integration.
Watch it now.
Inside PASS Electronic Equipment Guidelines to Safer Schools
New recommendations by NSCA and SIA’s Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) created tiered electronic roadmaps for securing K-12 facilities. During this webcast, members of the PASS Coalition will recommend next steps for each party — integrators, consultants, school officials and manufacturers.
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10 Rules of Video Wall Content Creation
Learn when 4K content should be employed for your video wall and what software should be used. A panel of digital signage and video wall content experts share advice in creating a video wall content game plan for your clients.
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Integrating VIA and K-Touch Cloud-Based Control Solutions into Huddle Spaces
Today’s huddle spaces are becoming the standard for enterprise meetings and collaboration spaces. They have evolved past just a small area for a few people to congregate; we now see wireless connectivity, video conferencing, modern lighting and audio integrated into these spaces. In this webcast, you will learn how to implement control into your huddle spaces with lower cost technology.
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Matching the Right Projector and Format for your Project
What type of projector is appropriate for your next project—lamp based, laser-phosphor, LED? With the emergence of new projector technologies the stakes are high for integrators to match the right projector type with their clients’ application. This webcast walks you through how to do just that.
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Boost Profits By Adding Cell Signal Boosters
Most integrators and consultants share a common goal as they enter 2016: find new revenue. One of the first places they should look is the cellular signal booster category. Panelist Curtis Burkhart offers an action plan to integrators that want to add a new profit center to their business. He’s joined by an integrator offering first-hand perspective of how easy it is to add this tool to his belt.
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Exploring the Future of Collaboration for Integrators
The delayed release of the Microsoft Surface Hub until January 2016 has put one of the industry’s most highly-anticipated collaboration tools on hold, but it’s on its way. In this webcast, CI editor-at-large Craig MacCormack challenges panelists to analyze how the Surface Hub will impact customer adoption of collaboration.
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5 Common HDMI Problems and How to Avoid Them
HDMI expert Jeffrey Boccaccio teams up with Commercial Integrator to outline the most common mistakes that integrators and installers run into time and time again, and how to overcome them altogether in the future.
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So You Think You Know Sound Masking?
Sound masking is one of those categories for which integrators and consultants are either all in or completely out. The ones who are completely out have probably closed their minds to some of the evolving opportunities that sound masking presents. Meanwhile, some that are all in are probably leaving money on the table by not fully leveraging the technology.
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Secrets of Successful Conferencing: Flexibility and Interoperability
Today’s meetings are not like the meetings of years past. They can happen at any time — in any room. In this webcast, Alan MacLeod, VP of product at Revolabs, will discuss the transformation of today’s conference rooms and the must-haves of modern conferencing technologies.
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How to Select Your Ideal Control & Automation Programming Platform
Are your skills and mindset best suited for Crestron, AMX, Extron or another automation platform. Steve Greenblatt, president of Control Concepts, and Tim Albright, founder of AV Nation, will help you self-evaluate and realize which programming platform sets you up for success.
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