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Project Management

Master Video · 07/30/2021 ·

• FUN Facts! - PROJECT MANAGEMENT can be traced back to as early as the Biblical age, with the construction of the great Egyptian Pyramids, some 4,500 years ago.

Project Management

FUN Facts; Throughout history, ingenious architects and engineers have delivered impressive projects such as Stonehenge (3000 BC), the Great Pyramid of Giza (2570 BC), the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (600BC), the Great Wall of China (208 BC), and the Roman Coliseum (70 AD), to name a few.

Over the Centuries, people have actively pursued the execution of projects in varying degrees using the basic Project Management skills of planning, scheduling, and executing. Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. The objective of Project Management is to produce a completed project which complies with the client's objectives.

Project Management Pyramid Constructions

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
Alexander Graham Bell

Modern Project Management really started to take shape in the early 1900s with the development of Gantt charts, named after its inventor, Henry Gantt, who designed charts that show the dependency relationships between activities and the current schedule status.

In the 1940s the U.S. Military launched the first official Project Management program with the development of nuclear weapons. The Critical Path Method (CPM) was developed in the 1950s to advance Military missile programs.

By the 1960s, NASA used complex Project Management techniques to land men on the moon and bring them home safely.

Fast-forward to today, Project Managers are now relying on collaborative online management tools to help them stay more organized and efficient, with the goal of preventing time-frame issues and process bottlenecks.

Master Video’s Project Management Team ensures a thorough, consistent documented approach to every project from concept to completion, we are a ‘One Company-One Source’ solution.

We design, integrate, and maintain extraordinary Audio-Visual (AV) systems and powerful Unified Communication (UC) experiences for Healthcare, Hospitality, Entertainment, Education, Commercial, and other markets.

Our Implementation Support Services help you deliver flexible collaboration solutions to any size facility, on time, and on budget. We ensure a smooth AV and UC system implementation and deployment process, so your collaboration technology plans and system designs deliver their full potential every time.

Pre-Implementation Planning

Master Video excels at pre-implementation planning, addressing potential roadblocks to ensure your new technology works as expected. Our Project Managers are a single point of contact throughout design engineering and installation phases to ensure consistent, accurate communication with key stakeholders.

Trying to Manage a Project Without Project Management is Like Trying to Play Football Without a Game Plan.

Our goal is to work with you to bring added value to your projects and increase customer satisfaction. Our dedicated team provides technical managed services and systems support, preventive maintenance, and training, to ensure a seamless support solution to help meet business objectives.

Single Source Project Management Solutions

Master Video CEO Mike Lawshe and VP Brandon Lawshe

“Master Video has decades of construction and technology experience to make sure every milestone is properly coordinated. Our commitment to customer satisfaction does not end with the commissioning of a system, it’s the beginning of a long-term relationship of service and support.”
Mike Lawshe – President

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Managed Services

Master Video · 07/22/2021 ·

• FUN Facts! - MANAGED SERVICES started in the early days of computers, when Ross Perot, Founder of EDS, bundled technology systems together as a service.

Managed Services

FUN Facts; In the early days of computers, when technology was young, computer systems maintenance and repair were performed only as needed, based on a “Break/Fix” services model. Individual Vendors would only service their specific equipment and software when something went wrong… The more computer systems and software, the more vendors, and more expense.

That all changed in 1963, when Ross Perot, Founder of EDS (Electronic Data Systems) signed a multi-year Managed Services contract with Lay’s Potato Chips of Dallas to manage their computer systems. 5 years later, growing to 300 employees, EDS went public in 1968 and grew annual revenues to over $100 million by 1973.

EDS won the U.S. Army contract in 1982 worth more than $5 million a month. Two years later, General Motors bought EDS for $2.6 billion.

Managed Services today, is the practice of outsourcing the responsibility for managing, maintaining, and servicing technology platforms from a single source, in order to streamline operations and reduce expenses.

Managed Services; a more cost-effective way to manage technology.

Master Video's Managed Services acts as your technology partner, working together with your team to find fiscally responsible solutions for your IPTV, Digital Signage, AV, and Security System needs.

No two clients are the same, and technological requirements for facilities, operations, and IT are bigger and more complex today than ever before.

Complex AV systems require a straightforward and hands-on service strategy... The Master Video Team is ready to resolve any issues quickly to optimize positive user experiences. Our staff keeps your technology platforms reliable and available for all AV (Audio-Visual) devices, UC (Unified Communications) platforms, and IT infrastructure.

Master Video’s Managed Services provide peace of mind with over 60 years of experience in the Healthcare, Hospitality, Entertainment, Education, Commercial, and other markets.

Master Video is a ‘One Company-One Source’ solution for Managed Services. We help install and maintain your IPTV, Digital Signage, Audio-Visual, and Security Systems, from a single source, while delivering high-level ongoing service coverage to help maximize your technology investment, so you can focus on your core business.

Our proactive Managed Services Team identifies any maintenance or repair issues before they can become business concerns.

We conduct routine maintenance to maximize up-time performance with recommended service and cleaning, as well as any repairs when required to ensure that all AV and UC systems run seamlessly, reliably, and affordably.

Master Video Managed Services for Peace of Mind.

“Master Video Services has been the foundation of our company for nearly 70 years. We take pride in being a full-service AV integrator since 1953. We offer dedicated Unified Communications, AV, and Security, with Managed Services, so your business can grow and thrive.”
Brandon Lawshe – Vice President

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Systems Integration

Master Video · 07/15/2021 ·

• FUN Facts! - SYSTEMS INTEGRATION evolved from its military, engineering-based, origins in the 1940s and 1950s to modern-day strategic capabilities across all industries.

Systems Integration

FUN Facts; Systems Integration rapidly developed in the 1940s and1950s in the military arena, and then spread to other high-volume industries. Evolving from an engineering practice to strategic business activity, Systems Integration has become essential for organizing digital media platforms and security networks across a wide variety of industry sectors.

Master Video is a national Systems Integrator of digital audio, video, and broadcast technologies that empower organizations to better communicate with their audiences.

We help clients succeed by designing, installing, and supporting solutions to improve communications, collaboration, & content creation.

Master Video's Integration Teams are highly qualified and experienced, working together to bring clarity, certainty, and reliability to the table. Our experienced Project Managers work from logistics to coordinating schedules, so everyone knows the next steps from start to finish ensuring projects are on time, on budget, and within scope.

'One Company-One Source' Solutions

Master Video is a 'One Company-OneSource' low-voltage systems integrator that specializes in television, sound and video, and security solutions, utilizing the latest in technology for over 60 years. Our end-to-end, design to completion solutions serve the markets of Healthcare, Hospitality, Stadiums, Entertainment Venues, Education, Commercial buildings, and other markets.

System Integration is the Foremost Factor to Enable Consistent Productivity.

“Master Video Systems Integration Solutions are designed to deliver the latest and best in entertainment, information, communication, and security to our customers for facility enhancement, cost savings, and new revenue opportunities.”
Mike Lawshe – President

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Video Walls

Master Video · 07/08/2021 ·

• DYK - The first Video Walls emerged in the early 1980s when standard 28” CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitors were stacked together, resulting in large gaps between screens.

Why Video Walls?

Did You Know; The story of the first Video Walls in the early 1980s begins when large 28-inch CRT screens were stacked and cubed together to make a “Video Wall.” It was such a revolutionary concept, that the large bezel gaps between the screens were hardly even noticed back then.

The first Video Walls used expensive software and processors to “Image Split” a single input video signal. For example, 16 separate image signals could produce one large image on a 4×4 array of CRT monitors to create a 10' x 10' Video Wall.

Today, technology has come a long way in size, shape, and resolution. Video Wall Systems are an integrated solution consisting of multiple components; An array of high-resolution displays driven by a powerful processing system and software. Together, the video wall behaves like a single display that can deliver performance, flexibility, and interactivity that simply is not possible with more basic display solutions.

Types of Video Walls
Video walls come in a large range of display technologies, including LCD, LED, blended projection, projection cubes, and more. Each display type offers unique advantages in terms of resolution, brightness, reliability, cost, and other factors.

► Watch this 60-Second Sample of Video Walls

Why Video Walls?
• Larger display area; improve audience draw and retention.
• Higher aggregate resolution; deliver more detailed content.
• Distributed displays; deliver content to multiple locations.
• Multiple content sources; deliver multiple simultaneous messages.

Master Video offers best-in-class Video Walls, with a wide-range of premium features and customization options to meet unique demands in any environment. Video Wall Systems are extremely versatile and can provide benefits for virtually any application and environment. Video Walls deliver outstanding visual performance, flexibility, and reliability for any business in every market.

Superior Visual Performance

• Higher Resolutions - Video walls are also much more scalable than projectors, since the display surface can be expanded without sacrificing image quality.

• Powerful Processing - Superior processing abilities enable video walls to deliver fluid visual performance and display large amounts of high-resolution content.

• Superior Brightness - These displays maintain consistent brightness regardless of their size, while front-projected images become dimmer and blurrier when they are enlarged.

Flexible Interactive Presentations

• Display Virtually Any Content - A video wall processor can capture signals in different resolutions and formats from a wide range of devices, like cameras, computers, cable boxes, and more.

• Dynamic Content Placement - The video controller enables individual display “tile” displays to work together as a single canvas, from a single display, stretched across multiple displays, or dragged across the display surface.

• Content Manipulation Features - A video wall software processor is a feature-rich interface, providing a range of tools for managing and manipulating content on the displays that can be arranged, scaled, zoomed, cropped, and layered.

Superior Reliability and Versatility

• Reliable & Resilient - Video Wall systems are built from professional-grade components, many specifically designed for 24/7, mission-critical environments, providing Video Wall reliability and resilience.

• Minimal Maintenance - Most Video Walls have no consumable parts and require virtually no maintenance over years of operation, making them a more affordable long-term solution.

• Flexible Size & Shape - Video walls provide unique versatility, and can be wall-mounted, free-standing, curved, non-rectangular, three-dimensional, and can be small enough to be portable or scaled to massive dimensions.

Video Walls – The Ultimate Visualization System

“Master Video’s turn-key Video Wall solutions are designed for any environment, whether it’s for marketing promotions, critical decision-making, operations management, large-scale collaborations, or for enhanced learning and research visualizations.”
Brandon Lawshe – Vice President

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Video Content

Master Video · 07/01/2021 ·

• DYK - The first in-house local origination Video Content for rebroadcast was in the 1970s, using ¾” Sony U-Matic videotapes in hotels and hospitals across America..

Why Video Content?

Did You Know; The story of Video Content for in-house and local origination video for rebroadcast began in the early 1970s when Sony launched the first analog video cassette format, “U-Matic, which used a large 3/4" videotape. Before this innovation, previous video tape formats had only been open-reel.

First intended for the domestic market, the large U-Matic video player and 3/4” tape cassettes started bringing Video Content into the corporate marketplace.

The new “compact” video cassette quickly became popular in Hotels and Hospitals for in-house re-broadcasted programs and educational content.

Video formats have come a long way in the past few decades; from Betamax (1975) and VHS tapes (1976) to LaserDisc (1978), Hi-8 (1980), DVD (1996), MP4 (2001), HD DVD (2006), Blu-ray (2008), Streaming (2014), to 4K Ultra HD (2014).

Today, Video Content is one of the most powerful mediums for capturing and holding attention, and also one of the most versatile. Video Content works effectively as a communication and a marketing tool for Entertainment and Education, that can be distributed across multiple platforms in both digital and physical locations.

Master Video is an aggregator of interactive video content for Information, Education, Training, and Entertainment. We identify, source, and obtain the necessary licensing rights to allow video content to legally broadcast throughout your facility. We provide turn-key custom video content with engaging, actionable in-room television programming, to enhance the user experience.

► Watch Our 2-Minute Video Content Demo Reel

Popular Video Content Markets
• Healthcare Facilities; Bring the comforts of home to the Patient’s bedside.
• Hospitality Properties; Turn any Hotel into a home away from home.
• Business Enterprise; Easily entertain your customers or employees.
• Educational Institutions; Keep copyright-compliant in the classroom.
• Worship Houses; Connect with congregation & community in a new way.
• Correctional Facilities; Encourage positive behavior and free up staff.

Enhancing The Patient Experience

Video Content plays an important role in Healthcare and Hospitals to improve the Patient experience. Entertainment and Education during a Patient's stay, provide a positive distraction, reducing stress and the number of medical staff interactions with Patients and their visitors. Engage patients and their families with Video Content that promotes comfort and wellness, creating a relaxing environment.

Educate Patients, Improve Outcomes

Studies show that educated Patients can have better outcomes and Video Content is one of the most effective ways to educate and engage patients. Research shows Patients that are well informed about their condition and treatment options have the confidence to make informed medical decisions that can greatly save on a facility’s health care costs. With patient-doctor interactions limited and hybrid exams becoming more common, video education makes more sense than ever.

Premium Digital Content

• Full Copyright Protection
• Multiple Delivery Formats
• High-Quality HD Video
• Digitally Delivered
• Thousands of Titles

• Frequent Title Refresh
• Variety of Subject Matter
• All Age Groups & Genre's
• Edited Content
• Multi-Language

Video Content Licensing

Video Content, like Movies, Sports, Entertainment, and Education are protected by copyright law, which is a legal right of ownership that allows creators of works to control how it is used and if it can be copied. Unauthorized use of protected Video Content can result in copyright infringement, which could lead to legal challenges. Video Content licensing stays in compliance with Digital Rights Management (DRM) for works as stipulated by the U.S. Copyright Act.

Facilities require the proper licensing rights to show movies and educational content.

Expertise You Need to Deliver Better Experiences

“Master Video provides end-users with the right content and appropriate licensing to rebroadcast Video Content for Entertainment, Education, and Information, through Media Aggregation Platforms and Video Delivery Systems.”
Mike Lawshe – President

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