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Practical guides on video walls, networking, cabling, cloud migration and more, written for the people who actually have to spec, budget and maintain this stuff.

Illustrative diagram of a meeting room camera with three levels of AI framing, from group view to speaker tracking to named people recognition
October 19, 2026

Meeting Room Camera Privacy: AI Tracking, People Recognition and UK GDPR

AI framing is routine, but naming people on camera is biometric processing. Here is what the ICO says, what to put on…

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Illustrative diagram of a courtroom AV upgrade: 385 of about 2,020 video-enabled HMCTS courtrooms refreshed so far
October 19, 2026

Courtroom AV Upgrade: What the HMCTS Programme Teaches Councils, Police and the NHS

HMCTS has said it wants a rolling 10-year refresh cycle for courtroom AV. Here are four lessons for councils, police, tribunals and…

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Illustrative diagram: AV over IP bandwidth, showing calculated uncompressed video bandwidth for 1080p60 and 4K compared against 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps network links
October 16, 2026

What Is AV Over IP? A Plain Answer for People Who Run Networks and People Who Don’t

A plain answer to what AV over IP is, written for AV buyers and network engineers, with bandwidth sums, the switch settings…

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Illustrative diagram: a clinical simulation suite with ceiling cameras and microphones in the scenario room, a control room, and a debrief room fed by a recorder on its own VLAN
October 16, 2026

What a Clinical Simulation Suite Needs From Its AV

What a clinical simulation suite needs from its audiovisual set-up, from ceiling microphones and camera angles to debrief rooms, UK GDPR on…

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Illustrative diagram: phased control room upgrade timeline showing the old signal path staying live while the new path is built, tested in parallel, cut over shift by shift and signed off
October 15, 2026

Control Room Upgrade: How to Replace Legacy AV While the Room Stays Live

A control room upgrade has to happen around live operations. Here is the sequence we use: survey, parallel run, cutover, back-out, commissioning…

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Illustrative diagram: plan of an MDT meeting room with a ceiling microphone zone over the table, a screen sized for the furthest seat and a link to the trust-approved video platform
October 15, 2026

MDT Meeting Room AV for the NHS: Audio, Screens and Controls

An MDT meeting room fails on audio far more often than on screens. Here is the order to fix things in, how…

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Illustrative diagram: a lecture theatre refurbishment programme from room types and ordering through estates works, installation, commissioning and soft launch to term start
October 14, 2026

Lecture Theatre Refurbishment: Room Standards, Summer Deadlines and Accessible Recordings

A practical guide to lecture theatre refurbishment for UK universities, covering standard room kits, summer programme planning, caption rules for recordings and…

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Illustrative diagram: hearing loop installation with a perimeter loop cable around the seating and the 0 dB reference of 400 mA/m and the average speech level of about 100 mA/m marked
October 13, 2026

Hearing Loop Installation and the Equality Act: What an Installer Should Hand Over

What the Equality Act says about auxiliary aids, which standard a hearing loop installation should be commissioned against, and the measured results…

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Illustrative diagram: brightness figures quoted for an estate agent window display, from reseller guidance of 500 to 700 nits near a window to 4,000 nits typical on one manufacturer's window-facing model
October 13, 2026

Estate Agent Window Display Screens: Brightness, Planning and Listings

A window screen has to beat daylight, stay within planning rules and keep showing the right listings. Here are the brightness figures,…

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