Gary’s Rants & rAVes

Listen to Gary Kayye’s exclusive podcast – Rants & rAVes. Every episode, Gary talks with some of the biggest names in the AV industry and covers all the latest trends. Tune in, #AVTweeps!

Rants and rAVes — Episode 673: ISE Special Podcast: ZeeVee Will Bring H.264, 1Gig and 10Gig AV-over-IP Solutions to ISE

Most AV-over-IP companies have embraced one technology over the others. But, ZeeVee can send AV over an IP network in all three flavors – H.264, over a 1Gig and over a 10Gig network. So, depending on the application, the client chooses — the NFL, for example, chose H.264 for the Super Bowl. Listen to today’s podcast with […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 673: ISE Special Podcast: ZeeVee Will Bring H.264, 1Gig and 10Gig AV-over-IP Solutions to ISE

Rants and rAVes — Episode 672: ISE Special Videocast: Mike Blackman Shares Details on Next Week’s ISE Show in Amsterdam

ISE Managing Director, Mike Blackman, joined Gary on a special video edition of his Rants and rAVe’s podcast today to share details on the two new ISE Halls, how to register for exclusive Projection Mapping Shows and on every special event at the show. This year’s show will be the biggest AV show ever- he even […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 672: ISE Special Videocast: Mike Blackman Shares Details on Next Week’s ISE Show in Amsterdam

Rants and rAVes — Episode 671: ISE Special Podcast: InFocus Will be at ISE With New Jupiter PixelNet 2.0

InFocus will not only focus their ISE stand on the family of Mondopad collaboration boards but they’ll use the annual mega-AV-show to highlight they new Jupiter PixelNet 2.0 distributed display wall system – an AV-over-IP video wall system including 4K, audio and fiber support. And, InFocus’ CMO, Brady Bruce, joined Gary on today’s podcast and hinted at new projectors for InFocus […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 671: ISE Special Podcast: InFocus Will be at ISE With New Jupiter PixelNet 2.0

Rants and rAVes — Episode 670: ISE Special Podcast: HDMI 2.1 Means Cleerline Fiber Could Explode in Growth

In case you haven’t heard, the HDMI Alliance’s new 2.1 standard passed and it means that, unless you take HDMI over the network, you’ll likely be distributing it via fiber. Cleerline Fiber not only has a family of fiber cable, but also a test kit designed specifically for AV integrators, the SSF-TKITE-100  and a new super-thin, fishing-line-like fiber (SSF-CLEER900UM) cable […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 670: ISE Special Podcast: HDMI 2.1 Means Cleerline Fiber Could Explode in Growth

Rants and rAVes — Episode 669: ISE Special Podcast: IDK Will Bring IP-NINJAR to ISE

IDK was one of the first SDVoE Alliance members and has a 10Gig AV-over-IP solution that not only includes a transmitter and receiver but also a separate external controller – allowing both legacy AV products and AV-over-IP products to be controlled simultaneously. Gary was joined by IDK’s Executive Director, Ryohei Iwasaki, and their CTO, Chris Miller, to talk about […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 669: ISE Special Podcast: IDK Will Bring IP-NINJAR to ISE

Rants and rAVes — Episode 668: ISE Special Podcast: Absen’s ISE Launch Includes Chip-on-Board Technology

Absen’s Polaris 1.9mm COBALT (Chip-on-Board Advanced Light Technology) is Absen’s first Chip-On-Board solution. Everyone’s been talking about this technology for years and now Absen plans to make it mainstream. What is Chip-on-Board and why does it matter? Listen to today’s podcast with Absen Europe’s Product Director, Liam Winter, as he explains that as well as what they have planned […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 668: ISE Special Podcast: Absen’s ISE Launch Includes Chip-on-Board Technology

Rants and rAVes — Episode 667: ISE Special Videocast: Aurora Will Debut HDBaseT Supercharged at ISE

Aurora CEO, Paul Harris, was a guest on a special video-edition of Gary’s podcast today to talk about their new HDBaseT Supercharged system that will debut in Hall 2 Stand A34 at the ISE Show in Amsterdam next month. Supercharged HDBaseT ism exclusive to Aurora and he explains how it’s different and how it not only provides a high-bandwidth version […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 667: ISE Special Videocast: Aurora Will Debut HDBaseT Supercharged at ISE

Rants and rAVes — Episode 665: ISE Special Podcast: Christie is All About SDVoE at ISE

Last year, Christie Digital announced their intention to develop SDVoE AV-over-IP products and they debuted at InfoComm in the form of the Terra Series including a transmitter, receiver and controller. At ISE 2018, according to Christie’s Senior Product Manager, Karl Johnson, we will see SDVoE inputs on both the BOXER and CRIMSON series of projectors — furthering their alliance with the SDVoE standard as well […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 665: ISE Special Podcast: Christie is All About SDVoE at ISE

Rants and rAVes — Episode 664: ISE Special Podcast: Crestron Buried the Lead in Today’s ISE Podcast: An In-Booth Shootout with AMX and SDVoE

In today’s podcast with Crestron Director of Enterprise Technology Dan Jackson, Dan wanted to talk about Crestron’s new XiO Cloud and XiO EdgeControl services. But when he mentioned that “a large portion of their ISE booth” will be taken up with a side-by-side demo of their NVX (1Gig AV-over-IP solution) alongside the AMX SVSi and SDVoE solutions, shootout-style, […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 664: ISE Special Podcast: Crestron Buried the Lead in Today’s ISE Podcast: An In-Booth Shootout with AMX and SDVoE

Rants and rAVes — Episode 663: ISE Special Podcast: NEC Has Big Plans and New Stand at ISE 2018

Gary was joined by NEC Display Europe’s Strategic Product Marketing Manager, Thomas Walter, who explains what it will be like tour through Hall 5 Stand R20 at ISE Europe next month. NEC’s theme at the show is Create Endless Impressions and they’ll do that with three sections in the stand: Digital Signage, Corporate Meeting and […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 663: ISE Special Podcast: NEC Has Big Plans and New Stand at ISE 2018

Rants and rAVes — Episode 662: ISE Special Videocast: A Video Demo of VuWall’s Universal AV-over-IP Virtual Matrix Controller

VuWall’s founder and president, Paul Vander Plaetse, used rAVe RADIO to Launch their new TRx — a software platform for AV integrators and operators alike, who need to deploy and manage small to large-scale AV networks of encoder and decoder boxes. Just like all other VuWall products, VuWall’s TRx is open to multiple hardware platforms. It supports not only […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 662: ISE Special Videocast: A Video Demo of VuWall’s Universal AV-over-IP Virtual Matrix Controller

Rants and rAVes — Episode 661: ISE Special Podcast: Kramer’s ISE Plans Include More AV-over-IT, More Kramer Control and, Well, Listen

Gary was joined on today’s Rants and rAVe podcast by Kramer Electronic‘s David Margolin who explained how the ISE Show will be used to further their AV-over-IT product strategy as well as to debut dozens of new products in their stand — Hall 1 Stand F20. Kramer used last year’s ISE to debut Kramer Control and their Enterprise Management solutions […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 661: ISE Special Podcast: Kramer’s ISE Plans Include More AV-over-IT, More Kramer Control and, Well, Listen

Rants and rAVes — Episode 660: ISE Special Podcast: Vivitek Heads to ISE with Projectors and Monitors But Will Also Debut LEDs!

Vivitek used rAVe RADIO to talk about their brand-new LED lineup of fine-pixel-pitch displays from 1.2mm to 2.5mm. Of course, they’ll have their new laser-phosphor projection displays there, too — including a new 18K lumens projector and new laser-based rear-screen projection cubes. Vivitek’s General Manager EMEA for Vivitek, Holger Graeff, explained how Vivitek has leveraged their parent company, Delta […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 660: ISE Special Podcast: Vivitek Heads to ISE with Projectors and Monitors But Will Also Debut LEDs!

Rants and rAVes — Episode 659: ISE Special Videocast: Panacast Details ISE Plans and Demos 5K USB Camera System

Panacast, a USB-based camera line from Altia Systems, used rAVe RADIO to detail their ISE Show plans – they will be in Amsterdam in Hall 13 Stand E115. Panacast’s USB cameras literally repack the need for any PTZ camera in a meeting or huddle room. And, it’s all demo’d here on a special video edition of Gary’s […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 659: ISE Special Videocast: Panacast Details ISE Plans and Demos 5K USB Camera System

Rants and rAVes — Episode 658: ISE Special Podcast: Multitaction Will Use ISE to Demo Multi-Touch Collaboration Software and Hardware Solutions

You may not have heard about Multitaction but Guinness Book or World Records has as they own the award for the world’s largest multi-touch display. Multitaction will be at ISE to demo two new software apps — SHOWCASE and CANVUS that help make collaboration simple and sharable worldwide. This is the kind of product that every AV integrator around the world […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 658: ISE Special Podcast: Multitaction Will Use ISE to Demo Multi-Touch Collaboration Software and Hardware Solutions

Rants and rAVes — Episode 657: Gary Talks (& Invites) You to His 2018 ProAV Tech Predictions Webinar

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST Gary used today’s Rants and rAVe’s to talk about his upcoming webinar — next Tuesday at 2pm EST. The webinar, part of the rAVe Almo ProAV webinar partnership, is based on his popular annual Krystal Ball predictions article — the 2018 edition was published here. The webinar will go in a bit more […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 657: Gary Talks (& Invites) You to His 2018 ProAV Tech Predictions Webinar

Rants and rAVes — Episode 656: ISE Special Podcast: SDVoE Heads to ISE with 30 Members and Only 10Gig AV-over-IP Solution

Last year at this time Justin Kennington, the SDVoE Alliance‘s President, was making ISE Show preparation in hopes that he’d have enough 10Gig AV-over-IP gear to show in his stand this year, he’s got over 30 Alliance members and over 60 products that all send AV over a 10Gig IP network and a new switch, from NETGEAR  that’s specifically […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 656: ISE Special Podcast: SDVoE Heads to ISE with 30 Members and Only 10Gig AV-over-IP Solution

Rants and rAVes — Episode 655: ISE Special Podcast: Semtech at ISE is All About SDVoE

Semtech acquired the core technology company that invented the AV-over-IP 10Gig system and standard that was once known as AptoVision.  Gary was joined by Semtech’s Vice President & General Manager, Kamran Ahmed, of the AptoVision products, on today’s podcast to give Gary an update on how the acquisition is going and how Semtech sees the future of AV-over-IP. […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 655: ISE Special Podcast: Semtech at ISE is All About SDVoE

Rants and rAVes — Episode 654: ISE Special Podcast: NETGEAR’s Entry into the ProAV Market Will Help Everyone

NETGEAR, a founding member of the SDVoE Alliance and best known for they networking products, is heading to the ISE Show in Amsterdam with a new network switch specifically aimed at making AV-over-IP easier. Their new 2U high M4300-96X is a scalable and modular network switch with 48 ports of built-in 10Gig fiber (or 24 post of 40Gig fiber) […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 654: ISE Special Podcast: NETGEAR’s Entry into the ProAV Market Will Help Everyone

Rants and rAVes — Episode 653: ISE Special Podcast: Wyrestorm Discusses ISE Plans

Gary was joined today by Wyrestorm‘s EMEA Director of Sales, James Meredith. Wyrestorm’s one of the few companies in the AV industry that has AV-over-IP at all data rates – from H.264 to 10Gig (SDVioE). And, they’ll be at ISE in stand 5-S60 demoing it all. Wyrestorm actually debuted their first AV-over-IP system almost five years ago and […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 653: ISE Special Podcast: Wyrestorm Discusses ISE Plans

Rants and rAVes — Episode 652: ISE Special Podcast: Nureva Details ISE 2018 Plans

Gary was joined by Nureva‘s CEO, Nancy Knowlton, today who used rAVe RADIO to announce some exciting plans for ISE 2018.  At this year’s show, Nureva will announce a new software release as well as a new version of their SPAN system. In addition, Nureva will use ISE 2018, next month in Amsterdam, to launch new dual HDL300 system powered […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 652: ISE Special Podcast: Nureva Details ISE 2018 Plans

Rants and rAVes — Episode 651: Audio: Still the Most Profitable Part of AV

Almo’s Audio Business Manager, Steve Alexander, joined Gary on his podcast today to talk about the A part of AV. Why is it? What’s the future of audio? And, who are the leading companies? This podcast answers all of that and why Dante is dominating networking audio everything.  Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 651: Audio: Still the Most Profitable Part of AV

Rants and rAVes — Episode 650: Rich Ventura Talks to Gary About the Future of Digital Signage

NEC Display’s, Rich Ventura, was just re-elected as Chair of the DSF – Digital Signage Foundation. The DSF is the only not-for-profit independent voice of the digital signage industry and they have helped the DS market explode. Gary speaks to Rich about their 2018 plans, where the digital signage market opportunities are and how you can get […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 650: Rich Ventura Talks to Gary About the Future of Digital Signage

Rants and rAVes — Episode 649: Altia Systems’ New Panacast 2s Debuts with rAVe RADIO Videocast Demo

Gary recently wrote about the launch of the new Panacast 2s 5K resolution USB conferencing camera from Altia Systems and many of the readers responded, “why 5k?” So, Gary thought a video-demo would be the best way to show why 5K matters in a video call – even on a 1080p monitor. It’s all about […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 649: Altia Systems’ New Panacast 2s Debuts with rAVe RADIO Videocast Demo

Rants and rAVes — Episode 648: Is Hitachi One of the Best Kept Projector Secrets in Projection?

This is a promoted podcast Few projector companies have both types of SSD lighting technologies – Laser and LED and have both LCD and DLP technology. But, Hitachi does. Gary’s joined by Almo ProAV’s Business Development Manager, Todd Heberlein, who explains the Hitachi projector philosophy and lineup.    SaveSave SaveSave Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Rants and rAVes — Episode 648: Is Hitachi One of the Best Kept Projector Secrets in Projection?

Rants and rAVes — Episode 647: An AV-over-IP Update

Most agree that, eventually, AV will be over IP. But, it will take time. However, some manufacturers already have AV-over-IP solutions and products and Gary was joined on today’s podcast by Almo ProAV’s, Eric Olson, to discuss who is doing what and how much AV you can send over IP.  SaveSave SaveSave Podcast: Play in new window […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 647: An AV-over-IP Update

Rants and rAVes — Episode 646: Speaking of Collaboration Boards

Yesterday, Gary’s podcast was all about NEC’s ThinkHub – today, Gary talks to Almo ProAV’s Brian Rhatigan about the trend of Collaboration Board replacing both flat-panel LCDs and projectors in small meeting rooms. What’s next? Listen and see what Brian thinks… SaveSave SaveSave Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Rants and rAVes — Episode 646: Speaking of Collaboration Boards

Rants and rAVes — Episode 645: Is the ThinkHub the Best Collaboration Board on the Market?

NEC’s ThinkHub has quietly become one of, if not THE hottest collaboration boards on the market. While Microsoft’s Surface HUB and Google’s Jamboard have gotten all the press, NEC’s partnership with T1V has recently become the AV industry’s favorite collaboration system. Gary was joined by Almo Pro A/V’s John Wills today to talk ThinkHub. Podcast: […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 645: Is the ThinkHub the Best Collaboration Board on the Market?

Rants and rAVes — Episode 644: Want to See HDR Working (Live Demo) on a USB Camera?

My videocast with Altia Systems, using the Panacast 2 camera was pretty dang cool. We’ve all heard about HDR, but to see it demo’d on a real-time Skype call was effective.  I was joined by Altia Systems CEO and Founder, Aurangzeb Khan, and the HDR software engineer, Ted Vucurevich, and they explained the technology behind it and how it […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 644: Want to See HDR Working (Live Demo) on a USB Camera?

Rants and rAVes — Episode 643: Barco Uses rAVe RADIO to Debut UniSee LCD Panel VideoWall Line

With their new product UniSee, Barco is doing something that no company’s ever done in the video wall market – launching a turn-key product that includes a completely bezel-less 55” LCD monitor integrated with a purpose-built mount (specifically for UniSee) and integrated with a modular electronics design. Yes, it’s three things in one: a native 1080p panel with […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 643: Barco Uses rAVe RADIO to Debut UniSee LCD Panel VideoWall Line

Rants and rAVes — Episode 642: Do You Know What Almo CONNECT is?

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST When was the last time you installed a system in a room or facility without high-speed internet service? 1998? Well, that was the impetus for Almo ProAV’s CONNECT service — you’re selling AV systems that are connected to the network – and soon, they’ll be AV-over-IP; so, why not sell the network […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 642: Do You Know What Almo CONNECT is?

Rants and rAVes — Episode 641: The Biggest Buzz In Direct-view Display Technology

The biggest buzz in direct-view display technology right now in the market is coming from people fawning over LG Commercial’s OLED technology. OLED is finally ready for primetime and LG’s lineup is the world’s largest including their most famous: the Wallpaper display. They also have traditional OLED displays for digital signage, dual-sided OLED and more […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 641: The Biggest Buzz In Direct-view Display Technology