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Today's Top Stories #1 The battle over the wireless spectrum   By Jon Fingas, Engadget   What you need to know about this week's auction. More» Why This Matters: This is told from the consumer viewpoint, but still worth knowing. Just to remind you why all this matters to us, here's Sennheiser's Joe Ciaudelli, talking to my TV Tech colleague last summer when the FCC announced that we had lost the battle for our two promised wireless mic channels (we now share one channel with white-space devices). Because money. –Cynthia Wisehart #2 Microsoft unveils the next best thing to teleportation (video)   By Nina Golgowski, Huffington Post   Virtual teleportation is here, and Microsoft is eager to show it off. The tech giant has unveiled something it calls holoportation, which involves using 3D capture technology to beam someone's image to another location in real time. More» Why This Matters: It's kind of like VR videoconferencing. Users are surrounded by 3D cameras and then given a HoloLens that allows them to see other users in real time. There's a video demonstration. –Cynthia Wisehart #3 NASA launch system software upgrade now 77% over budget and behind schedule   By Eric Berger, Ars Technica   As it builds the Space Launch System rocket, NASA is updating this Spaceport Command and Control System software for the Kennedy Space Center. However, a new report by the space agency's inspector general, Paul Martin, finds this decade-long software development effort has fallen behind schedule and is on track to exceed its initial budget of $117.3 million by 77 percent. More» Why This Matters: I'm not proud of this but I couldn't look away. And it's my money! Something about the NASA-sized scale of this familiar tale of woe drew me in—that and "glue-ware"—which describes the 2.5 million lines of code (so far) in the control system. See, people—your control system could be worse. Glue-ware. - Cynthia Wisehart 4. Google's Fiber Phone is a new kind of landline (Andrew Tarantola, Engadget) 5. JBL Professional by Harman introduces JBL Control 64P/T pendant loudspeaker (via The Wire@SVConline) 6. Canon announces details of two WUXGA laser projectors (via Installation) 7. Earn 1CTS RU: Webcast Tues April 7: Digital RF and IP convergence: The basics of convergent design (Via SVConline) 8. iPhone SE vs. iPhone 5S (Heather Kelly, CNN Money) 9. Widescreen, letterbox, and black bars: how to wrangle TV aspect ratios (Geoffrey Morrison, CNET) 10. From the Wire@SVConline: Platinum Tools Big Mouth tool bag now shipping For more, see the WHY THIS MATTERS archive. Thanks, Cynthia For daily AV industry headlines see #SVCWIRE archive AV Jobs beyerdynamic Inc. - Technical Sales Manager for the Systems Integration and Commercial Audio industry (United States) » Find Us Online Facebook Twitter LinkedIn RebelMouse Was this copy of Pro AV Today forwarded to you? Start your own subscription by clicking here. Pro AV Today Editorial Team SOUND & VIDEO CONTRACTOR CYNTHIA WISEHART, Editor Phone: (212) 378-0400 x526 | Send Email DIGITAL SIGNAGE DAVID KEENE, Executive Editor Phone: (512) 480-9473 | Send Email RENTAL AND STAGING SYSTEMS DAVID KEENE, Executive Editor Phone: (512) 480-9473 | Send Email

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