by Dan Daley | Oct 30, 2017 | Insights, News
Scaring the heck out of you is big business. America Haunts, a self-selected association of haunted-house attractions, estimates that there are over 1,200 haunted attractions charging admission fees to their events, many of which are open year round, as well as over...
by Dan Daley | Sep 27, 2017 | News
In 1927, French director Abel Gance’s sweeping epic Napoleon was projected onto three separate screens simultaneously, a tricky feat that was rarely attempted in the era before reliable synchronization. In the 1950s, Hollywood embraced Cinerama and CinemaScope, 35mm...
by Dan Daley | May 19, 2017 | News
About the same time that the presidency of Donald Trump began, another confusing proposition came to an end. Almost, anyway. The world’s first spectrum-incentive auction reached its virtual conclusion on Jan. 18. Under the supervision of the Federal Communications...
by Dan Daley | Mar 1, 2017 | Insights, News
In The Fog, John Carpenter’s 1980 horror film, the revenants of dead mariners return from within a dense mist to seek revenge on the descendants of those who wronged them. In The Cloud (2017, in very, very wide release), the spirits of IT managers descend to torment...
by Dan Daley | Jan 2, 2017 | Insights
The AV industry has seen its share of inflection points over the last half century. In 1967, Japanese company Noritake introduced the vacuum fluorescent display, which would go on to become familiar as the readout on the front panel of millions of VCRs (which would...
