Volume 3, Issue 5 — May 30, 2014
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The WEEK GreenAV AV Insider Rants and rAVes
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The WEEK Recap
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May 8, 2014 |
Episode 71: Onsite at Comradity |
This week, Joel talks with Jim Kern, president of Comradity, a networking and virtual office facility for creative professionals. |
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May 22, 2014 |
Episode 13: How to Implement a Green Policy…It’s Simpler Than You Think! |
This month, Midori Connolly had the joy of hearing Eric Andersen of QSC Audio describe how one person at a manufacturing company was able to craft and implement a green policy. His story is authentic, approachable and provides incredible insight into how you can duplicate this type of effort. Eric speaks to business benefits, governmental implications, stakeholder management and tips for making it happen. It really is more simple and meaningful than you think; this is one interview that is short, sweet and can’t be missed for anyone considering sustainability for their organization. |
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May 23, 2014
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Episode 22: Bay Audio Solved Audio Esthetics and Performance Issues |
Ira Friedman, CEO of Bay Audio, speaks with Johnny about audio problems, with regards to aesthetics and quality, and how Bay Audio has come up with a range of solutions that solves them. They cover custom solutions for the high-end integrator, 70V landscape audio, and custom tuned home theater solutions. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider. |
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Rants and rAVes
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May 29, 2014 |
Episode 261: InfoComm 2014 Special: Starin President Bill Mullin Talks InfoComm |
Starin helped Barco launch ClickShare years ago and then helped Wow Vision launch Collab8 — both BYOD and network-based connectivity solutions. Starin will be at InfoComm 2014 with some new collaboration products as well as a new streaming video server. Today Starin President Bill Mullins talks about Starin’s plans in this special InfoComm 2014 Edition of Gary’s Daily Rants and rAVes. |
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May 28, 2014 |
Episode 260: EPSON Gets Brighter |
It’s unlikely that you’ve noticed, but EPSON is in the large-venue projector category now with more than a dozen models ranging from 4,000 lumens to 10,000 lumens. Do you think they’ll ever catch Christie, Barco or Panasonic? |
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May 27, 2014 |
Episode 259: So, What is UDTV? |
Today’s podcast discusses an article on our website all about UDTV! |
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May 22, 2014 |
Episode 258: A Potpourri of AV News |
Today’s podcast is a bit of ramble — not one single subject, but a lot of different subjects, all related to InfoComm. These are news stories or blogs on our website that I’m hoping you’ll pay attention to. Have a listen… |
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May 21, 2014 |
Episode 257: My Take on Harman Buying AMX |
By now you probably read the news that HARMAN, parent company of JBL and Crown, purchased AMX today. The question is, is it a good purchase and what effect will it have on you? Listen to my opinions on this podcast and see if you agree. |
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May 20, 2014 |
Episode 256: IMCCA Announces Free Training at InfoComm |
If you’re an integrator and you do videoconferencing or telepresence or you’re in the unified communications industry, you should pay attention to what IMCCA puts on it InfoComm -listen to this podcast so you can find out how to sign up. |
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May 19, 2014 |
Episode 255: Have You Seen Our Weekly Wrap-up? |
For about a year now we’ve done a weekly feature called the Weekly Wrap-up. Listen to this podcast so you’ll understand why we do it and how you can find it! |
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May 8, 2014 |
Episode 254: Rental and Staging Market Trend Predictions for 2014 and Beyond |
Sometimes mainstream trends find their way into the ProAV market and sometimes vertical market trends find their way in each other’s segments. This is the case with recent trends in the rental and staging market — listen to this podcast to find out what Gary’s taking about. |
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May 7, 2014 |
Episode 253: Should Manufacturers Be Able to Talk Info Direct to End Users Without Upsetting Their Dealer Base? |
Today Gary talks about an interesting back and forth between rAVe blogger Mark Coxon, a sales rep for Chief, and columnist Scott Tiner, a technology manager at Bates College. Scott wants to be able to get sales and technical support direct from manufacturers, which he says is invaluable to him, even though he only buys through a local dealer. But he’s found this hard to get – and Mark explains why. Listen in to find out more about what they have to say and what Gary thinks. |
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May 6, 2014 |
Episode 252: Submit Your Product for rAVe’s Top 10 Tour Guide at InfoComm |
Today Gary tells you all about rAVe’s third annual Top 10 Tour Guide at InfoComm, which will feature the ten can’t-miss products being introduced on the show floor. rAVe is now taking submissions from manufacturers in order to be featured on this exciting and prestigious InfoComm tradition. Listen in to see how you can submit. |
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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.
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 March 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 March 2009. We added rAVe GHGav [Green, Healthcare & Government AV] 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
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