Speak to us about our affordable Video Conferencing solutions which start at £200 per month for unlimited usage and offer a sustained audio and visual quality of service, with a possible government grant of up to £1000 to help cover costs (T&Cs apply).

Video conferencing will allow you to continue your day to day business meetings with the ability to present your Powerpoint presentations or software demonstration in the comfort of your own office. Like yourselves, the third party participants do not need to have costly video conference end points to partake in the conference,  via a free desktop or mobile software client download your clients or prospective clients can conference with you from their Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.

Cut down on your day to day travel and never miss that important meeting or demo again. Contact us now for more information – 0845 638 6338 or hello@dvav.co.uk

Would you like a Government Grant of up to £1,000.00 towards the costs of increasing your productivity, holding even more frequent and productive meetings than before and offering you a better family balance and quality of life?

Video Conferencing is now recognised and used as a serious business tool enabling many sites and locations, nationally and internationally, to meet, engage and do business without the need to travel.

Digital Vision AV are able to offer your business a professional full HD (1080p 30fps) video conferencing solutions starting from £199.00 per month with a service that enables several video conferencing systems to connect in the same meeting. This means that you can see and hear all participants simultaneously, and can share presentations in the same meeting. You can seamlessly collaborate with any videoconferencing system, PC, Mac, iPhone and iPad.

If your business has traded for at least 2 years and has a turnover of at least £75,000.00, then we can aid you in gaining a grant of up to £1,000, excluding franchisees, who want to cut travel costs by adopting new ways of working. If your business is a small or medium sized enterprise (SME) employing fewer than 250 people and is located in the South East of England – Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes, Hampshire and Isle of Wight, Kent and Medway, Oxfordshire, Surrey and Sussex, then here is your opportunity to gain funding from the European Regional Development Fund through the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007-2013.

For more information on gaining a Government Grant towards Video Conferencing and other Audio Visual solutions, please contact us directly on 0845 638 6338 or hello@dvav.co.uk

LCD technology offers many advantages over the traditional whiteboard/projector combination. The high definition, high contrast display ensure that children are no longer struggling to view the content of the lesson – the classroom lights stay on, the blinds pulled back! The lack of any body shadow immediately gives confidence to the child/teacher ensuring no unwanted distractions, or difficulty in finding a comfortable stance. The extremely long lamp life ensures that your investment saves you money in the very short term, protecting school budgets going forward.

The choice of sizes mean there is always a suitable size to fit both budget and room size. Furthermore the range of installation options with wall mounts, wall lifts, both mechanical and electrical, allow for lots of flexibility on installation. Alternatively the CleverLCD Touch Dual can be mounted on a mobile trolley, ideal for classroom sharing and breakout areas. The one time only callibration process saves valuable setup time and frustration, giving teachers more time to teach.

The CleverLCD Touch Dual and Dual Plus are backed up by a comprehensive 3 year warranty. On-site warranty that covers all parts and labour across the UK mainland is available and highly recommended. Routine maintenance is minimal with only the occasional glass cleaning required. The PC unit will be fully upgradeable once it is life expired, ensuring the investment in the LCD screen remains intact in years to come.

For further information on this and other Interactive solutions, please contact us directly on 0845 638 6338 or hello@dvav.co.uk

SCOPIA Mobile is the first enterprise application for the Apple® iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch® that allows mobile users to connect with full video, audio and H.239 data collaboration to the nearly 2 million installed standards-based video conferencing and telepresence systems worldwide.

SCOPIA Mobile users will be able to fully participate in enterprise video and telepresence conferences leveraging the latest mobile devices extending enterprise video conferencing and telepresence to nearly anywhere someone goes with their mobile device.

SCOPIA Mobile Highlights:

Video Conferencing
Participate in standards-based video conferences with full two-way video capabilities and see up to 28 participants simultaneously. Through SCOPIA video infrastructure, SCOPIA Mobile can connect to telepresence systems, standards-based HD video conferencing systems and unified communications applications such as Microsoft Lync for unmatched interoperability.

Data Collaboration with Review
View presentations, spreadsheets, documents and images shared in a conference with standards-based H.239 interoperable data collaboration and be fully engaged as if attending on a video conferencing room system. Participants can also review previously shared materials without interrupting the presenter using RADVISION’s unique advanced data collaboration / slider function.

Control, Moderate and Administer Meetings
Start or stop recording or streaming, lock a conference or end the meeting. View the participants list and mute noisy users, stop cameras or simply disconnect unwanted participants. Change video layouts including rearranging participants through the simple Multi-Touch™ enabled interface. View statistics such as codecs in use, resolution, network speed and loss for troubleshooting.

Easy to Join and Invite Others
Easily join video conferences directly from clicking an email link or through a mobile device calendar; access a company directory to invite attendees, including Microsoft Lync users – all enabled by RADVISION’s advanced enterprise integration. Additionally invite guest phones and video systems by their number or address.

Mobile Broadband and Wi-Fi Capable
Video conference almost anywhere through mobile broadband or Wi-Fi making it a highly effective tool for business travelers. RADVISION’s NetSense bandwidth estimation and adaptation technology ensures high quality on mobile networks..

For further information on this and other Video Conferencing solutions, please contact us directly on 0845 638 6338 or hello@dvav.co.uk

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If you own wireless microphones that operate in the 470 – 862 MHz band switchover could have a significant impact on your ability to continue using your equipment.

These microphones share frequencies with those currently used to broadcast Analogue Terrestrial Television throughout the UK. But as the UK switches analogue television off and digital television on, fewer of these frequencies will be needed to broadcast television. Therefore Ofcom (as instructed by government) will be auctioning the frequencies that are no longer required to new uses/users. Fewer frequencies used for television broadcasting will therefore result in fewer frequencies for wireless microphones.

Will my microphones be affected?
Ofcom have written to all annual licensees to notify them of the impact switchover will have on the frequenices they currently use. Switchover in some regions has already started and will continue to move throughout the UK until completion in 2012.

The definitive list of frequencies that will be available for wireless microphone use in the future is not yet finalised, but we hope to provide users with more clarity as soon as the information becomes available.

Advice when buying new equipment
Under Ofcom’s current proposals the following frequencies will no longer be available after switchover:

• 550 – 606 MHz (TV channels 31 – 37)
• 790 – 862 MHz (TV channels 61 – 69)

We would therefore advise users against buying any new equipment that use these frequencies.

For users who currently hold equipment that operates in the above bands Ofcom has stated that they will allow continued use until at least 1 January 2012 for channels 61 – 69 and later in 2012 for channels 31 – 37. The only exception is Ch36 where users will be asked to vacate sooner. Ofcom has recently confirmed that, according to current plans, Ch69 will cease to be available for use from 1 July 2012 in all of the UK, except for London, Northern Ireland and the northeast of England which will cease to be available from 1 October 2012.

When does my region switchover?
Digital UK (http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/) have a postcode checker on their website that enables the public to type in their postcode to discover when switchover is coming to their area.

How do I find out what frequencies my microphones operate on?
You can usually find the frequency your microphone operates on by looking on the label or display on your receiver.

Speak to us at Digital Vision AV and we’ll be happy to assist you further with any questions that you might have – hello@dvav.co.uk

The progressive Ridgeway Community School in Farnham, Surrey, has added an interactive GestureTek GroundFX floor to its already rich portfolio of technology, designed to engage and stimulate the 110 students who attend.

For the school is one of the UK’s leading exponents of technology for special educational needs, and thanks to the pioneering stance taken by head teacher, Darryl Morgan, the school already had a range of state-of-the-art interactive learning aids in its sensory ICT suites — from soundbeams to Bubble Tubes and eye-controlled computers distributed through its multi-controllable, Multi Interactive Learning Environment (MILE).

But the search for new stimuli is ongoing and the GroundFX dynamic floor takes the Community School to a new level, enabling participants immersed in the GestureTek field to change the environment by hand and motion gestures. When Mr. Morgan was introduced to the effect at a head teacher’s conference, he and his network manager Rob Anderson were soon paying a visit to the nearby Farnham Heath End School — where a similar gesture-controlled solution has been installed — to investigate further.

GroundFX is a multimedia visual floor display system that vertically projects incredible interactive floor special effects, games or advertisements.  It is a full-body interactive experience in which users control dynamic multimedia displays with simple gestures and body movement.

After eliciting three tenders the installation contract was awarded to Paul Mayhew’s Digital Vision AV Ltd — who coincidentally had carried out the earlier Farnham Heath End install, and thus came highly recommended.

His site survey revealed a particularly high ceiling with arched beams under a corrugated roof, with no void for fixing. GestureTek’s UK distributors Paradigm AV were brought in, and along with the school’s original theatre lighting suppliers, KAVE Lighting, repositioned some of the luminaires, put secure struts cross the beam and carefully calibrated the delicate ceiling-mounted mirror rig (housing four IR emitters and a USB camera) which enables the gesture control.

This allows the state-of-the-art body tracking and gesture recognition system to intelligently monitor and respond to the position of the body, allowing for real-time motion control and interaction with display graphics.

Paradigm also fitted a neat white shelf under the ceiling rig to offer further protection against stray sports balls, since the sports hall is also used as a gym. Cradled in the rig is a carefully-aligned Sanyo XM100 5000 lumen 3 LCD projector with LNS-S20 Standard Zoom Lens.

However, the 5-metre floor to ceiling height offers many advantages, as Paul Mayhew points out. Firstly the distance enables the projected image to measure a generous 3.5m x 2.63m. Secondly, since a vast moving wall backdrop overlooking the floor was already in place — created from an existing Epson LCD projector on the facing wall, the school can either mirror the floor image, using the library of GestureTek GroundFX software, or revert to its dedicated PC via a Kramer 2×2 matrix switcher where the VGA cables are terminated. In that instance they could, for example, project an interactive firework display on the floor complemented by a fireworks safety message on the wall.

At the same time, via their existing PA / control system the school can provide an aural stimulus, routing the GroundFX soundscapes associated with the different interactive templates (such as running water etc) via the sound mixer to the Wharfedale PA.

Rob Anderson also foresaw other problems — particularly for wheelchair users who would bubble and crease a standard roll-out screen if it was laid straight onto the floor; hence he has cut into the sports-grade wooden floor with a similar finish which is permanently bonded in. Equally, wheelchair users, unable to visually see the impact they are creating on the ground, can also interact by specially-fitted wheelchair trays which they can control by hand gestures, or by looking at the wall image.

Anderson says the new feature is already proving its worth — but will really come into its own at the start of the new academic year. “Where some students fail to respond to other stimuli they love coming here and it engages them for much longer.” They refer to the GestureTek floor as the ‘magic carpet’ and while there is plenty of ‘stock’ content stored in the library, Ridgeway’s Network Manager is itching to start creating their own bespoke software. “It’s really just a question of how far we can take It,” he says.

Summarised Paul Mayhew, “It was certainly a challenging installation but it’s been well worthwhile. Paradigm offered fantastic support, and [Paradigm AV operations manager] Steve Pratt did an excellent job with the custom design. The reaction so far has been fantastic.”

If you’re not yet familiar with QR codes, they’re similar to the barcodes used by retailers to track inventory and price products at the point of sale. The key difference between the two is the amount of data they can hold or share.

When you scan or read a QR code with your iPhone, Android or other camera-enabled Smartphone, you can link to digital content on the web; activate a number of phone functions including email, IM and SMS; and connect the mobile device to a web browser.

QR Codes can be integrated into Digital Signage, Touch Screen content and printed material, QR Codes can be used to drive more traffic to your web site or chosen web pages, enable customers to download a sales voucher or ticket to their phone or computer, download Installation instructions, Directions to your showroom or hotel, How to contact you, Recommendations for complementary products and services, Free mp3 downloads or Customer feedback forms.

The potential for QR Codes is limitless.  What’s most exciting is how they take what social media is doing well now, bringing people together with technology, and extending it to enhance the experience.

How about you?  How can you use QR codes to take advantage of this phenomenon?

Speak to us at Digital Vision AV and we’ll be happy to assist – hello@dvav.co.uk

In addition to Skype video calling, the LifeSize Passport user is able to make calls to landlines and mobile phones through Skype.

This initiative enables Skype to be part of the room-based enterprise video conferencing market. LifeSize is known for its HD telepresence-quality solutions in the enterprise. Now, LifeSize Passport users can easily connect using face-to-face video conferencing with other Skype users worldwide.

For further information on implementing and using Video Conferencing in the workplace, conntact us at Digital Vision AV – hello@dvav.co.uk

Sonos have today announced an update to their software, you can now stream songs from your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to your Sonos wireless system, just connect an Apple Airport Express to any Sonos ZonePlayer via Line-in and enjoy the only true multi-room Apple Airplay experience.

Sonos have also included support for Android, The Sonos Controller for Android is a free application that transforms your Android smartphone into a wireless music controller that totally rocks.

For more information on the Sonos range of products contact us at Digital Vision AV at hello@dvav.co.uk