Archive for the ‘Show Control’ Category

Alcorn McBride in Sound & Communications

Friday, August 6th, 2010

In the July edition of Sound and Communications, Eric Wolfram from Integrisys Group writes about the recent upgrades to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.

“…In designing the AV system, we were quite aware of the museum’s need for something far more reliable than the typical commercial or residential project. ‘We are open 364 days a year and this system has to work on all of those days,’ Beckman told us. ‘It has to have almost no maintenance and be simple to use: We want to just turn it on at the beginning of the day and then everything has to be automated from there.’ To meet the requirement for reliability, we used a solid-state, V16+ show controller from Alcorn McBride, with the video itself stored on two one-gigabyte flash cards, rather than tape, DVD or a even hard drive…”

UDP Remote iPhone App

Friday, May 21st, 2010

udpremoteiconWouldn’t it be great if you could control or test your show control, lighting, audio or video without being in the equipment room or at an Operator Control Console? That’s what we thought, too. And since most of us at Alcorn McBride carry the ubiquitous iPhone, we figured, what an ideal portable controller! For this, our first iPhone app, we didn’t want to get carried away, so we kept it simple. There are eight buttons, and you can define whatever UDP message you like for each of them. This lets you talk to all of our Ethernet enabled devices, and other manufacturer’s devices as well. You can also name the buttons and specify the destination IP address and port number. Whether you use it to ease installation, or as a portable OCC, we think UDP Remote will make a great addition to your next project. Enjoy!

Jeremy in AV Technology

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Jeremy Scheinberg

Jeremy Scheinberg

Jeremy Scheinberg, our COO, was recently interviewed by AV Technology along with Jen Schlegel and Stephen Keever at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. They used our gear to create a fascinating exhibition. Jen and Steve gave me a tour and it was truly a work of (AV) art. They did a fabulous job! Read the article here: AV Technology

Worried about the flu? What about your projector’s health?

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Kidding of course, but we know that monitoring projectors and lamp hours is important to keeping your equipment in top shape.  John Conley, an Alcorn McBride Engineer, offers these useful tips.

One of the exciting new features of the V16 Pro and WinScript Live is the ability to read incoming messages and use that information in your script. You can do math, make logical decisions, send alerts and do all sorts of other things with the incoming message. When combined with one of our ShowTouch panels you can create a powerful maintenance diagnostic tool…read the full article and download free software at:

http://www.alcorn.com/library/appnotes/QueryingProjectors/index.html