Volume 3, Issue 2 — February 28, 2014
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The WEEK AV Insider Rants and rAVes
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The WEEK Recap
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February 21, 2014 |
Episode 64: Doing Business Overseas |
At the very close of ISE, THE WEEK host Joel Rollins had a chance to sit down with Bob Snyder of rAVe Europe to talk about the finer points of doing business overseas. An American who has worked and lived in different parts of Europe for over a decade, Bob has an incredible perspective on the subject, and about how to do it right. Don’t miss it. |
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February 9, 2014 |
Episode 63: ISE Special: ISE 2014 Day 3 Wrap-up |
rAVe’s Gary Kayye and Joel Rollins wrap-up the 2014 edition of the Integrated Systems Europe show with one final podcast. They talk about their overall impressions of the show, the new products introduced at the show that will make an impact in 2014, show attendance and how ISE may effect the rest of the AV trade show world. Listen and enjoy. |
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February 9, 2014
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Episode 62: ISE Special: Joel Talks With Mike Abernathy of Atlas Sound |
We take an opportunity to sit down on the show floor at ISE with Mike Abernathy of Atlas Sound. We talk IED Electronics, about Atlas’ product lines, and hear his reasons for coming to the ISE show.
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February 5, 2014
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Episode 61: ISE Special: A Conversation with Frazer Cousins from SMART Technologies |
rAVe RADIO host Joel Rollins speaks with Frazer Cousins of Smart technologies about ISE 2014 and Smart’s new push into the Unified Communications market in this special edition of THE WEEK. |
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February 4, 2014
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Episode 60: ISE Special: Live from Amsterdam! |
Gary Kayye and Joel Rollins comment on the technologies debuting at ISE 2014, including new wireless systems, new videoconferencing, cars with projection windows and refrigerators with movie capability. |
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AV Insider Recap
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February 20, 2014
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Episode 16: Engineered To Perform And Protect like No Other |
Howard Gladstone (CEO of Plitron, the engineers and manufacturers of Torus Power) talks to host Johnny Mota about its toroidal transformer power conditioners. They also discuss several high end audio companies such as Krell, Macintosh Labs and Pass Labs, which use Torus transformers in their amps. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider. |
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February 18, 2014
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Episode 15: AV & Home Automation Design, Do It! |
Ron Callis, Jr., CEO of One Firefly, speaks with host Johnny Mota about AV and home automation design – why it’s important, how most of our community doesn’t offer it and really needs to start doing so, as well as a few secrets you can learn about by listening to this episode of AV Insider. |
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Rants and rAVes
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February 28, 2014 |
Episode 229: BTX’s Exclusive Distribution Deal with Mersive Brings Software-Centric BYOD Solution to ProAV Market |
Mersive’s Solstice is one of the hottest new products and technologies in the ProAV market. Think Barco ClickShare via software (no hardware needed) but with compatibility with every OS, computer and mobile device. Solstice is virtual signal routing via software and as our industry moves closer and closer to being one with the IT world, this represents a bridge for and AV’er to do IT. This podcast includes executives from both Mersive and BTX to explain the arrangement (and how you can try it out for 30-days for free🙂 as well as the technology behind the product. |
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February 26, 2014 |
Episode 228: Almo Pro A/V’s 2014 E4 AV Tour Kicks Off – Register Today for March Stop in Dallas! |
This morning, I talked to Almo Pro A/V’s VP of Marketing Melody Craigmyle about the company’s 2014 E4 AV Tour – with the first stop being in Dallas in two weeks. On Tues., March 11, Almo opens the all-new mini AV trade show and educational tour at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Dallas with a FREE event that includes my all-new Smart-AV Systems BIM (Building Information Management) keynote and nine other InfoComm CTS certified courses. If you are in Dallas, you need to attend! Here are the details: http://www.almoproav.com/Events/e4/ |
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February 24, 2014 |
Episode 227: Extron’s Pro Series Control System Offers Crestron- and AMX-Level Control |
THE WEEK podcast host (and AV integrator and AMX dealer) Joel Rollins joins Gary to talk about the impact of Extron’s new Pro Series Control System line on the big-boys: AMX and Crestron. |
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February 20, 2014 |
Episode 226: Atlas Sound’s Dealer Protection Program |
Atlas Sound is the first manufacturer that I know of to come up with a program where it protects dealers who work on systems and punishes dealers who steal jobs. Listen to the podcast and then read Atlas Sound founder Loyd Ivey’s letter explaining the program here. |
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February 19, 2014 |
Episode 225: We’re Back from the Digital Signage Expo; All Our Coverage Is Up On Our DSE MicroSite |
Last week we took six people to the Digital Signage Expo show in Las Vegas and we shot more than 300 product videos, recorded 15 audio podcasts, took more than 150 photos and wrote over 150 news stories about new digital signage products. |
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February 12, 2014 |
Episode 224: An Interview with ARAMARK’s Jesse Breidinger |
Jesse Breidinger of ARAMARK sat down with us at the 2014 Digital Signage Expo and explained the process her award-winning integration for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens’ stadium went through to integrate digital signage that showed a clear ROI. She used Allure Global to manage the creative and integration and the results show the power to dynamically influence purchases via digital signage. |
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February 12, 2014 |
Episode 223: Creative Content is King: In Digital Signage, That is… |
The key to making a lot of money in digital signage is doing it right – and doing it all. That includes the creative content too. A company called Allure Global does creative content production, software and management specifically for digital signage systems. This is the “missing-link” for most integrators doing digital signage right. |
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February 12, 2014 |
Episode 222: Digital Signage Analyst Lyle Bunn Stops by rAVe RADIO |
We are live at the DSE 2014 show. Lyle Bunn tracks every aspect of the digital signage market and he joins rAVe RADIO to share his top three trends in digital signage for 2014. Listen to hear them! |
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February 12, 2014 |
Episode 221: DSE Special: NEC’s Rich Ventura Visits rAVe RADIO |
Rich has been selling digital signage displays since before the term digital signage was being used. He’s now the VP or Product Marketing and Solutions at NEC and he shares with us NEC’s new product launches here at DSE that include a projector aimed at the DS market and an applications approach to signage integration. |
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February 12, 2014 |
Episode 220: DSE Special: Steve Seminario of Planar Visits rAVe RADIO |
Steve Seminario, Planar’s Senior Director of Product Marketing stopped by our rAVe RADIO podcast station and talked about their new 84″ 4K resolution LCD that’s available in a 32-point touch tabletop and wall mount format (portrait and landscape and a non-touch version called the UltraRes. |
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February 12, 2014 |
Episode 219: DSE Special: A Conversation with Kathryn Gaskell of Chief |
Chief just debuted a totally new way to mount video walls and digital signage displays – it’s called ConnexSys and it all mounts on Unistrut. It’s designed to speed up and simplify video wall mounting and integration. Listen and hear how. |
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February 12, 2014 |
Episode 218: DSE Special: An Interview with Digital Signage Creative Expert Keith Kelsen |
Gary caught up with 5th Screen CVP Keith Kelsen – a creative guru in the DS marketplace. In this podcast Keith gives some great examples of how ramification of digital signage is delivering sales results. |
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February 12, 2014 |
Episode 217: DSE Special: A Conversation with 20-Year Digital Signage Veteran Jeff Porter |
Jeff Porter was at SCALA for over 18-years and is now an independent consultant helping emerging companies and technologies to enter the digital signage market. He tells us about two of his newest companies and their unique technology. Jeff’s company is at www.porterdigitalsignage.com |
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February 12, 2014 |
Episode 216: DSE Special: An Interview with elevateDigital’s Lia Osburn |
Lia Osburn, Director of Marketing with elevateDigital stopped by our podcast station in the SCALA booth to explain their unique outdoor offerings for retail and hospitality. They are the leading outdoor DOOH provider for custom solutions. You can learn more about them at www.elevateDigital.com |
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February 12, 2014 |
Episode 215: DSE Special: An Interview with iSign CEO Alex Romanov |
Gary sits down to talk with iSign Media CEO Alex Romanov in this DSE special edition of Rants and rAVes. iSign Media makes a simple-to-integrate bluetooth device that sends digital signage content to a mobile device – without loading an App on your phone! Listen to hear how it works and learn more at www.isignmedia.com |
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February 12, 2014 |
Episode 214: DSE Special: An Interview with BrightSign CEO Jeff Hastings |
Gary caught up with BrightSign CEO Jeff Hastings here at the 2014 Digital Signage Expo to talk about their new 4K resolution media player – the first in the digital signage market. He talks about the technology used to get the 4K resolution at 60fps and about how to become a BrightSign integrator. |
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February 12, 2014 |
Episode 213: DSE Special: rAVe RADIO Talks to Scala CEO Tom Nix on Opening Day at DSE |
We are live at the annual Digital Signage Expo (DSE) and right before the official opening of the show, we grabbed Scala CEO, Tom Nix, and he filled us in on what’s new at Scala, how their 2013 was and what to expect from Scala and the digital signage market in 2014. |
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February 11, 2014 |
Episode 212: We Are Live From The Digital Signage Expo |
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we will be broadcasting live from the digital signage expo. Our coverage will include podcasts, video interviews, and all the news that’s announced that the Digital Signage Expo here in Las Vegas. It’s all at www.ravepubs.com/dse2014 |
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February 10, 2014 |
Episode 211: Our ISE 2014 Show Coverage |
We are back from the ISE 2014 show in Amsterdam. Our show coverage includes 1300 Videos, 1000 photos, 15 rAVe RADIO podcasts and 400 new product news stories all at www.ravepubs.com/ise2014. |
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February 6, 2014 |
Episode 210: A New Market Opportunity for Integrators |
Social media marketing and monitoring will be a great market potential in the future for audiovisual integrators – listen to my podcast today and hear why! |
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February 5, 2014 |
Episode 209: ISE Special: ISE 2014 Day 2 Observations |
ISE 2014 set an attendance record but I think there’s something more important about the numbers than just the numbers themselves. |
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February 4, 2014 |
Episode 208: Christie Brio Finally Ready to Ship |
Christie has finally showed a finished version of its Brio product. Brio is Christie’s wireless BYOD solution that allows you to wirelessly connect to small and medium-size rooms on-the-fly. Aimed at the Barco ClickShare product, Brio has a couple of interesting features that no other BYOD solution has. Listen and see what you think.. |
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February 3, 2014 |
Episode 207: AVI-SPL Intros Block ME |
A brand-new product from AVI-SPL called Block ME allows you to make sure your rooms are secure and nobody can listen or see you in a room that has videoconferencing or audio conferencing – no matter what. |
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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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