Friday, June 3, 2011

What Does The Term AV Stand For?

By Janice Dylan


The term AV is an acronym for Audio Visual, so the term means anything that is presented using a sound component (audio) and a sight (visual) based component.

AV or Audio Visual technology and equipment is used a lot in our everyday life. For example if you watch your TV or view a video or DVD you are using AV technology. Using your PC, laptop, tablet pc, smart phone music player is another example or where AV technology is used in everyday life.

Lighting is also part of AV technology (visual), and that can be any aspect of lighting including lighting in the home. Most of the time a professional AV engineer is not needed to light a home, but owners of large homes are using AV engineers to design the lighting within their home to help show it off, give it ambience, make it comfortable and to save energy.

The uses of AV technology are too numerous to list within the entertainment industry. AV is used to compose record and play every kind of music and in the modern world the use of video is essential to the process of marketing that music. In the theatre lighting is an AV technology that is used even in the smallest productions as is sound. Possibly the biggest and certainly the most spectacular use of AV is at music concerts.

The beauty of audio visual media is its ability to reach a mass of people and create a living scene which the radio, or photographs are unable to do alone.

AV or audio visual technology is vital and intrinsic to our everyday life yet it is a technology that we very rarely think about. It is also a growing area or technology that is constantly evolving, so considering a career as an AV engineer is a good move. There is plenty of work and it is extremely varied and interesting work. Working in the AV industry brings you into contact with many different people and there is also the opportunity to travel.




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