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Volume 1, Issue 2 — November 30, 2012
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Introduction
Welcome to the second edition of the new rAVe Radio Recap email newsletter! Every month we're bringing you new podcasts hosted by a variety of industry experts, posted on our website throughout the month. This newsletter will summarize and link to the month's podcasts in one convenient space.
You can listen to our podcasts on our website here, or subscribe to them on iTunes. All of them are free to listen to. Here are the iTunes links:
THE WEEK
GreenAV
WAVEcast
Gary Kayye's (Almost) Daily Rants and rAVes
For help on listening to our podcasts on your mobile device, or other places besides our website, read this blog here.
As always, let us know what you think.
-Gary Kayye, CTS
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THE WEEK Recap
Date | Link to Listen | Description | Week of Nov. 5, 2012 | Episode 5: The WAVEs and Hurricane Sandy | Joel Rollins speaks with Jennifer Willard and rAVe's Sara Abrons about Women in AV not being just for women — and they also discuss the effect of Hurricane Sandy on New York and the AV industry. | | | | Week of Nov. 12, 2012 | Episode 6: Quality Pays | Joel speaks with Mario Maltese, executive director of the Association for Quality in Audio Visual Technology, about adopting quality metrics in the AV industry. | | | | Week of Nov. 19, 2012 | Episode 7: Coming Back From Sandy | This week, Joel talks with David Stout of KBZ, a longtime New Orleans resident and Hurricane Katrina survivor, about the AV industry's recovery after Katrina, and what we can expect after Sandy. | | | |
Week of Nov. 26, 2012 | Episode 8: AV in the Big Apple | This week, I talk with Ike Eckstein, president of Visual Word Systems in NYC, about the unique challenges of being a Manhattan-based AV company, and what it has been like since Sandy. Ike is a genuine NYC character with a unique viewpoint, and I think you'll enjoy the perspective of a colleague who describes his company as "Save Your Ass AV." |
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GreenAV Episode 2: From Design to Stage, Green AV at the Theater!
In this month's show, Midori chats with Raymond Kent, the Managing Principal of Sustainable Technologies Group and the 2012 Green AV Award recipient. He gives an outstanding overview of a few theatrical projects where the emphasis was on sustainability, with impressive numbers and data to show for the projects. We talk a bit about the importance of modifying human behavior to truly achieve sustainable AV and Raymond also shares his ideas on the coolest Green AV trends and where he sees us moving forward.
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WAVEcast Episode 7: 2012 InfoComm Award Winners
In this episode of the WAVEcast, we talk with two of the recently awarded 2012 InfoComm International Award winners. Women in AV winner Malissa Dillman of Kramer Electronics and Young AV Professional Christina Minihan of Visix Inc. share their thoughts about what it means to win their award, where we stand as women in AV, how we can help Hurricane Sandy victims and what role social media will be in AV's future!
All our congratulations to Malissa, Christina, and each of the 2012 InfoComm Award Winners on such a well-deserved recognition! You can read more about the winners on InfoComm's website: http://www.infocomm.org/cps/rde/xchg/infocomm/hs.xsl/7161.htm
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Gary Kayye’s (Almost) Daily Rants and rAVes Recap
Date | Link to Listen | Description | Nov. 1, 2012 | Episode 20: The STAR WARS Winner | Well, you knew I just had to talk about Disney buying Lucasfilm and STAR WARS, huh?
Check out my blog post on the subject here. | | | | Nov. 2, 2012 | Episode 21: The WAVE Survey | I talk to you about the importance of taking the first-ever Women in AV survey. It's for women only, but men should help spread the word, too! Link to Jennifer's blog and survey | | | | Nov. 5, 2012 | Episode 22: Where the Money Is | Gary talks about which AV markets are looking HOT for 2013 and which ones are NOT. | Nov. 6, 2012 | Episode 23: CNN's Virtual Senate Uses Augmented Reality | A great application of augmented reality is CNN's new Virtual Senate room, which allows the host to walk around as if the host is actually on the U.S. Senate floor. | | | | Nov. 7, 2012 | Episdoe 24: Extron Does HDMI Decora-Style & Brother Does HD VTC | Today I cover Extron's new HDMI twisted pair extender via Cat5 significance of Brother's entry into the VTC market. | | | | Nov. 8, 2012 | Episode 25: Are You Networked? | Why is the AV integrator so far behind the IT integrator in installing IP-enabled AV Gear? I explore the stats. | | | | Nov. 9, 2012 | Episode 26: Why You Should Be On LinkedIn | Everyone in AV should be on LinkedIn. Listen and I'll explain why. | | | | Nov. 12, 2012 | Episode 27: Panoramic Projection Has Arrived | Now there's a projector out there that'll allow you to project PowerPoint and HD video side-by-side in native resolution (no scaling). And, it's from one projector, not two edge-blended ones, thanks to projectiondesign. | | | | Nov. 13, 2012 | Episode 28: Help Sandy Victims | The AV industry (led by Women in AV) is helping victims of Hurricane Sandy and you can help, too. Listen in to find out how. | | | | Nov. 14, 2012 | Episode 29: The Randy Lemke Goodbye | My personal thanks to Randy Lemke. Story Links:
Randal A. Lemke, Executive Director and CEO of InfoComm International, Announces Retirement The Randy Lemke Interview | | | | Nov. 16, 2012 | Episode 30: The AV Economy | Gary asks what you think about the AV economy. | | | | Nov. 19, 2012 | Episode 31: Interactive Whiteboarding's Past and Future | I discuss how the interactive whiteboard market has changed over the last few years with projector manufacturers like Mitsubishi gaining ground. | | | | Nov. 20, 2012 | Episode 32: Are You Ready to Stream | The ProAV market's following in the footsteps of the HomeAV market as stuff moves from physical sources to streaming content and media. Are you ready? | | | | Nov. 26, 2012 | Episode 33: Good News in HomeAV's Future? | If display sales are any indication, the HomeAV market is tracking positive right now. Listen and see why Gary thinks so. | | | | Nov. 27, 2012 | Episode 34: Flat Panels Replacing Projectors? Not So Fast | All sorts of industry experts and pundits are claiming that flat panel displays are going to take over the projection display market in a matter of a couple of years — and some even make that claim that it's going to happen next year. I'm here to tell you that's not the case and there are some very good reasons why that's not going to happen. | | | | Nov. 28, 2012 | Episode 35: A rAVe Radio Exclusive: Sony's First ProAV 4K Projector | That's right. Sony's newest is a 4K resolution SXRD projector — but with only 2,000 lumens. | | | | Nov. 29, 2012 | Episode 36: Two Must-Read Blogs | Today I talk about two blogs written by two women in the AV market who provide some great insight to help you and how you can help yourself. | | | | Nov. 30, 2012 | Episode 37: The 2013 Trade Shows You Need To Attend | No spoilers here, as we're sure you already plan on attending InfoComm, but why aren't you planning on attending the DSE – the Digital Signage Expo – this coming March in Vegas? It's the show you NEED to make sure you attend if you are interested in the digital signage industry or in getting into the digital signage industry. I also talk about the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show, CEDIA and, of course, the biggie: InfoComm. |
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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). To send me feedback, don't reply to this newsletter. Instead, write directly to me at gary@ravepubs.com or for editorial ideas, Editor-in-Chief Sara Abrons at sara@ravepubs.com. If you are interested in being on a podcast or have questions specifically about rAVe Radio, contact our rAVe Radio producer NC Nwoko at nc@ravepubs.com 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. Everything we publish is Opt-in — we spam NO ONE! rAVe ProAV Edition is our flagship ePublication with what we believe is a reach of virtually everyone in the ProAV market. rAVe HomeAV Edition, co-published with CEDIA and launched in February 2004, is, by far, the largest ePub in the HomeAV market. We added rAVe Rental [and Staging] in November 2007, rAVe ED [Education] in May 2008 and then rAVe DS [Digital Signage] in January 2009. We added rAVe GreenAV in August 2010 and rAVe HOW [House of Worship] in July 2012. rAVe Radio, our podcasts, were launched in 2012. You can subscribe to any of those publication or see ALL our archives by going to: https://www.ravepubs.com To read more about my background, our team and what we do, go to https://www.ravepubs.com
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