Volume 4, Issue 12 – December 30, 2015
AV Insider
AV Power Up!
Good AV
Rants and rAVes
Selling AV
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December 17, 2015
Episode 60: ARCAM: Bringing Music and Movies to Life
Andy Moore, product manager at Arcam, speaks with Johnny Mota about the audio playback experience goal being simple: “make it sound real.” They cover all products from A&R Cambridge, more commonly know as ARACM. Johnny and Andy discuss two channel and multi-channel having the same goals in the playback experience — simply “pressing play…” Well, actually there’s more to it than that, but you’ll have to listen to this episode to find out what else there is involved. Other topics they cover include DIRAC, Dolby ATMOS, DTS:X, HDMI 2.0/HDCP 2.2 and many other important technologies this year has to offer, moving us forward into the future of sound and vision. All this and more on this episode of AV insider. |
December 2, 2015
Episode 59: AudioControl: Making Good Sound Great Onkyo/CEDIA Spoilers Ahead
Chris Kane, vice president of sales and marketing at AudioControl, talks with host Johnny Mota about new products from AudioControl (Dolby Atmos, HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2 compatibility) and how they started off in the audio industry with EQ. There are also a few teasers for new and upcoming products and a few more audio goodies you can only hear about here on this episode of AV Insider. |
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December 22, 2015
Episode 36: A Year in Review (and More to Come)
Join Crew members Corey Moss (@Cbmoss) and Johnny Mota (@JMOTA3) and KMB Communications’ Katye McGregor Bennett (@katyemcgregor) as they talk about current stories in tech and rAVe Radio Shows – The WEEK (which they did together) as well as AV Power Up.
They begin with three stories – as in the podcast show techXchange (27 minutes):
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Johnny met with the CEO of CEDIA Vin Bruno last Friday and talks about the conversation they had.
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Katye talks about Stewart Filmscreen and their contributions to the first three Star Wars movies with T-Matte screen technology and “bluescreen.”
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Corey talks about the Federal Aviation Administration approving test flights for Terrafugia’s TF-X flying car.
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December 22, 2015
Episode 7: How to Futureproof Your AV Business With 4K Content
If you’ve hesitated to step into the next phase of video because you’re unsure about costs, technology or business case, then you need to listen to this podcast! As always, host Midori Connolly has hunted down the most interesting Subject Matter Expert she could find. Dusty Kraatz, owner and producer at XI Media Productions gives us a lively and invaluable look at what it takes to produce the next generation of video content. |
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December 28, 2015
Episode Episode 16: Avoiding the “Free” Trap
There is an interesting new blog on rAVe by Omar Prashad that coins a new term called “Scope Seep.” If you haven’t read it, check it out here.
Based on that, this week on Selling AV, I thought I’d give some advice on avoiding the “free” trap. Take it for a spin — it’s only five minutes.
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December 18, 2015
Episode 15: Real Estate Agents
Real estate agents are highly sought after networking partners, which means that sometimes it is hard to establish yourself as their go-to AV expert against your competition. This week’s Selling AV gives you some advice on how to isolate the right agents and then give yourself the best chance to earn their referral business. Think of it as your five-minute sales manager.
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December 9, 2015
Episode Episode 14: Other Trades
Do you want to trade referrals for AV work? Then you need to get out there and network with other trades. Tune into this week’s Selling AV to find out who the best networking trade partners are. Think of it as your five-minute sales manager.
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For all you REGULAR listeners of rAVe Radio out there, hopefully you enjoyed another opinion-packed issue!
For those of you NEW to rAVe, you just read how we are – we are 100 percent opinionated. We not only report the news and new product stories of the ProAV and HomeAV industries, but we stuff the articles full of our opinions. That may include (but is not limited to) whether or not the product is even worth looking at, challenging the manufacturers on their specifications, calling a marketing-spec bluff and suggesting ways integrators market their products better. But, one thing is for sure, we are NOT a trade publication that gets paid for running editorial or product stories. Traditional trade publications get paid to run product stories – that’s why you see what you see in most of the pubs out there. We are different: we run what we want to run and NO ONE is going to pay us to write or say anything good (or bad).
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A little about me: I graduated from Journalism School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (where I am adjunct faculty). I’ve been in the AV industry since 1987 where I started with Extron and eventually moved to AMX. So, I guess I am an industry veteran (although I don’t think I am that old). I have been an opinionated columnist for a number of industry publications and in the late 1990s I started the widely read KNews eNewsletter (the first in the AV market) and also created the model for and was co-founder of AV Avenue, which is now known as InfoComm IQ. rAVe [Publications] has been around since 2003, when we launched our original newsletter, rAVe ProAV Edition.
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