Whether you’re looking to install multiple televisions on-premise, a video wall in your club, or some A/V entertainment in your outdoor area, the process of wiring these tricky configurations can be a daunting task. So untangle your mind and consider these new wireless options.
The logistics of compiling a top-flight audio/video system within the confines of what are often less than ideal environments in bars and clubs can stop even the most determined owner in his tracks. As we’ve advised many times before, the best approach is to hire an expert. These days, as the technology gets more advanced, keeping up with the best A/V options available is a fulltime job, and can be as confusing as a big ball of tangled wires. But it doesn’t have to be.
Peerless-AV, out of Aurora, Illinois, offers its PeerAir™ family of products as a way for bar and club owners to fully integrate wireless content streaming throughout their venue—whether its televised sporting events, stock video footage, or even multimedia gaming—without the mangled mess of cables being run all over a location, both indoor and out.
“It’s all about getting that signal to where you need to get it without running a wire,” says Todd Mares, Application Field Engineer at Peerless-AV. “Take the PGA event we did last summer. They set up 80 or 85 TVs at any given PGA event and they have to run signal cable to everything. The guy who was doing this needed three or four days to get it all done. Using our Pico system, it took him a half a day. Now picture that, on a somewhat smaller scale, in a club that setting up for a special event with multiple displays and screens.”
Peerless-AV’s Pico Broadcaster, as Mares suggests, allows owners to use broadcast technology to transmit HD content over the air to any number of TVs within a 350-foot radius (which equates to a 700-foot diameter and 2,200-foot perimeter, says Mares). This device can receive content from a computer or select media players with IP transport output capabilities, then broadcast the signal in HD quality to any open “white space” channel local to the area. All you need is a digital TV with a digital ATSC tuner and an antenna to receive the signal. You now have an unlimited network of TVs throughout your venue showing content that is fed—wirelessly—throughout.
