rAVe Founder Gary Kayye to Lead AV-over-IP Panel, Teach Two Classes at Integrate in Australia

We will be heading to Sydney, Australia, next week to cover the entire Integrate Show — ANZ’s largest AV show. We have already set-up a show microsite here: rAVePubs.com/Integrate2018 and it’s populated with new product news and will, eventually, host the 500+ videos we will shoot on the show floor. Integrate is not a show […]

rAVe Founder Gary Kayye to Lead AV-over-IP Panel, Teach Two Classes at Integrate in Australia

Gary Kayye’s 2018 UBTech Conference Keynote

**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. For the second year in a row, rAVe Founder Gary Kayye was the opening keynote speaker for the UBTech Conference. UBTech is an annual conference and trade show on higher education technology leadership. UBTech highlights emerging trends in IT and AV technologies and […]

Gary Kayye’s 2018 UBTech Conference Keynote

Gary Kayye Delivers Opening Keynote at UBTech, Talks About Designing His Perfect Classroom

rAVe Founder Gary Kayye opened up the 2018 UBTech Conference to a full house of about 800 in the Mirage Resort in Las Vegas yesterday. UBTech is an annual technology conference aimed at higher education leaders. Gary’s message was all about the journey that led him to design what he hopes is the perfect collaborative […]

Gary Kayye Delivers Opening Keynote at UBTech, Talks About Designing His Perfect Classroom

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Personal AV Tech Controls the Future of AV and Doesn’t Even Realize It

Maybe I’m a skeptic. I don’t think I am but, maybe. Having lived in technology for nearly 30 years, it’s not often a new tech product debuts that I get excited about. The iPhone was a giant WOW. Wireless networking was an “its about time” kind of moment as I was one of those power-travelers […]

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Personal AV Tech Controls the Future of AV and Doesn’t Even Realize It

The Non-AV-AV Is Getting to Be Bigger than the AV Parts of AV

Since the introduction of the plethora of collaboration boards launched February at ISE, I’ve noticed a troubling and concerning trend: In some segments of AV, the non-AV’ers are doing more AV than the AV’ers are doing. What the heck do I mean? Well, let’s take the huddle space as an example. At first, the AV […]

The Non-AV-AV Is Getting to Be Bigger than the AV Parts of AV

Rumors of the Demise of the Projector Has Been Greatly Exaggerated: The Future of Projection

**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. For almost a decade, industry pundits have been predicting the death of the projector – yet, sales keep growing. And, in the biggest irony of all, the projector has invaded the the one-and-only market deemed as a display-only segment: digital signage. That’s right, […]

Rumors of the Demise of the Projector Has Been Greatly Exaggerated: The Future of Projection

Crestron Rumored to Be Starting an AV-over-IP Alliance with Microsoft and Intel

Update: I spoke to Robin van Meeuwen, president and CEO of Crestron EMEA, at ISE 2018, where he confirmed this story to be true. I think it’s possible that Crestron is, behind the scenes, forming an “alliance” of sorts of AV-over-IP companies that focus exclusively (for now) on the 1Gig method of sending AV signals over an IT […]

Crestron Rumored to Be Starting an AV-over-IP Alliance with Microsoft and Intel

ISE 2018 Will Be the Biggest and Best AV Trade Show in History

If you’re not headed to Amsterdam next week for ISE, you should be. So, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE make reservations to go next year. ISE has quietly and quickly become the most important AV trade show on this planet. I don’t know which show AV people on Mars go to, but on Earth, nearly all of them are […]

ISE 2018 Will Be the Biggest and Best AV Trade Show in History

So You Want to Go to CES? Nah, No You Don’t. Really, You Don’t – Here’s Your CES 2018 Guide So You Don’t Have to Go

During the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) each year, nearly every big consumer tech company debuts something new — and many of them will declare it “disruptive” or “game-changing” or “innovative” or one of a dozen or so other self-congratulatory adjectives that mean nothing. And all the while, the city for Las Vegas commences to ripping people off […]

So You Want to Go to CES? Nah, No You Don’t. Really, You Don’t – Here’s Your CES 2018 Guide So You Don’t Have to Go

Creativity Matters in Public Relations – Barco’s PR Team Needs a Raise

PR (public relations) in the AV industry, generally, sucks. Trust me. Not only do I teach to PR students at the University of North Carolina and see (and read) great PR pitches all the time from them, but the agony of reading boringly written or overly-flub-ridden press releases from MOST (not all, just most) PR […]

Creativity Matters in Public Relations – Barco’s PR Team Needs a Raise

ZOOM Video’s Happiness Principal Drives CEO Eric Yuan — And He Wants You to Be OK with ZOOM Rooms

ZOOM Video Communications was the brainchild of WebEx founder Eric Yuan. He wanted to find a way to make people happy using videoconferencing — not frustrated. In six years, it’s gone from his idea to a company with headquarters is in San Jose, Calif. that’s projected to be valued at well over $1 Billion. And, Yuan […]

ZOOM Video’s Happiness Principal Drives CEO Eric Yuan — And He Wants You to Be OK with ZOOM Rooms

Almo Pro A/V E4 AV Tour Stops in Irvine, Calif. Next Week

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST Almo Professional A/V, a North American professional audio visual distributor with global reach, is making one final stop on the fall 2017 E4 AV Tour to Irvine, California, on Oct. 3. Watch a video interview where rAVe founder Gary Kayye talks to Almo Pro A/V’s Sam Taylor about Almo services […]

Almo Pro A/V E4 AV Tour Stops in Irvine, Calif. Next Week

CEDIA’s Keynote Speaker Has Plenty of Irony to Go Around

There’s no doubt that Amazon’s Sarah Zenz will be one of the best keynote speakers CEDIA has ever heard. She’s one of the smartest people at AMAZON, she’s an amazing speaker and she was a kick-ass product manager. But, in a doubly-irony, she’s been asked, by the ALL-MALE CEDIA board to address the attendees who […]

CEDIA’s Keynote Speaker Has Plenty of Irony to Go Around

HDBaseT Over IP: Courting Disaster

The HDBaseT Alliance used InfoComm to officially debut the first set of products using their new HDBaseT over IP infrastructure — designed to compete against the SDVoE Alliance standard, more commonly known as the AptoVision BlueRiver NT+ AV-over-IP system. This is a disaster waiting to happen. Why? Well, I love HDBaseT. The transport platform that was originally launched by — and is still […]

HDBaseT Over IP: Courting Disaster

All the Best, David Silverman

When David became the editor of Sound & Communications Magazine, I was already a technical advisor and columnist for them for four years running. And I was their “video guy.” Sound & Communications (S&C) had been 99 percent audio when I was brought in in 1996 to start a column and consult for them on […]

All the Best, David Silverman

Watch rAVe TV LIVE at 6 p.m. Each Day During InfoComm

Well, Gary Kayye and I have just finished our first podcast about the show. This threatens to be the largest Infocomm in history, with advance registration far ahead of previous years. As usual, we are both excited about the show, but disagree about the reasons. Right now, while I am excited about the presence of […]

Watch rAVe TV LIVE at 6 p.m. Each Day During InfoComm

Christie’s Use of SDVoE Validates Standard, But rAVe Gets Scoop Bigger Than That

The SDVoE just got the biggest endorser yet. SDVoE is currently the only off-the-shelf technology that offers a “full stack solution” for AV-over-IP.  SDVoE addresses the full seven-layer OSI network stack and offers solutions at every layer. SDVoE technology creates a flexible hardware and software platform which can enable many applications including matrix switches, KVM switches, video walls controllers and multiview image processors. It can also be integrated […]

Christie’s Use of SDVoE Validates Standard, But rAVe Gets Scoop Bigger Than That

rAVe Anoints Dan Dugan the Most Honest Guy in Audio as He Launches AES/ADAT Automixer

The Most Honest Guy in Audio, Dan Dugan, founder of Dan Dugan Sound Design, will be introducing the Model E-3A, an automatic microphone mixing controller with AES digital I/O. The E-3A is designed to connect to standard mixing consoles via insert points, making it a useful tool for sound engineers who frequently manage multiple microphones at live events […]

rAVe Anoints Dan Dugan the Most Honest Guy in Audio as He Launches AES/ADAT Automixer

When Will CEDIA Hire a New CEO? I’ll Tell You

To say that the “perceived” sudden departure of CEDIA‘s short-time president and CEO, Vin Bruno  isn’t big news would be a lie. It’s all nearly every Home AV manufacturer I’ve spoken to over the past two weeks has asked about it, asked if I know what happened, asked if I knew if Vin got fired, asked if […]

When Will CEDIA Hire a New CEO? I’ll Tell You

Even Apple Sees the Future Is Services – Not Just Products

I have been harping on this for years. I have been telling everyone in the AV industry that to survive the future of AV, services need to be front and center, along with the products. Sure, a good mix of products with both established technology as well as future-forward, emerging technology is a giant part […]

Even Apple Sees the Future Is Services – Not Just Products

The Future of Meeting Rooms and Classrooms is the 4K Digital Canvas

**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. No technology will impact the future of the meeting room or classroom like 4K. Sure, HD brought us better quality video and images but 4K is way, way more than prettier pictures. 4K projection will mark the dawn of the Digital Canvas. What […]

The Future of Meeting Rooms and Classrooms is the 4K Digital Canvas

Display Summit 2017: Expanded Focus and New Date – rAVe to Sponsor

Insight Media, the organizers of the annual Display Summit conference, announced today that the event will now expand its focus and move the date one week further out to October 4-5, 2017. The location remains the same; the Rockwell Collins facility in Sterling, Va. “The expanded focus is best described as Immersive Displays,” noted Chris Chinnock, founder of Insight Media. […]

Display Summit 2017: Expanded Focus and New Date – rAVe to Sponsor

Gary Kayye’s “All About 4K” Educational Session Will Come to InfoComm

If you want to learn everything you need to know to specify, design or sell systems with 4K displays, projectors, signal routing or cabling, you should hurry (as space is VERY LIMITED) and sign up for my 4K educational session at InfoComm in Orlando. Being held on Thursday, June 15th at 10:30 a.m, the 1.5 […]

Gary Kayye’s “All About 4K” Educational Session Will Come to InfoComm

#ICYMI: Thank God No One Is Using the Stupid, Trying-to-Sound-Cool Term “IoT” at ISE – Ugh, But They Will at InfoComm

In 2016 some industry self-appointed pundits in the AV-industry were overusing the trite term known as the “Internet of Things” (aka IoT) way, way too much last year. I keep seeing content marketing and blogs using the term — as if we are really part of it. We aren’t. Thank God we are in 2017 […]

#ICYMI:  Thank God No One Is Using the Stupid, Trying-to-Sound-Cool Term “IoT” at ISE – Ugh, But They Will at InfoComm

This Lightform Image Mapping Projection Technology Will Help Kill the Under 100″ Screen Market

The responses to my recent blog explaining why I believe the projection SCREEN (not projector, but screens) market is heading for a downward spiral have been mixed — sort of. I heard from systems designers, integrators/dealers and manufacturers. On the manufacturer front, surprise-surprise, the screen manufacturers nearly (I say nearly as ONE agreed with me) […]

This Lightform Image Mapping Projection Technology Will Help Kill the Under 100″ Screen Market

Is the Microsoft Surface Hub An Overpriced Collaboration Board?

With the deluge of new collaboration boards that will hit the market over the next six months (this was the most popular launch product at ISE  in Amsterdam, last month), there’s no question that Microsoft will have to cut the price of their Surface Hub — or, no one who knows any better will buy it. They can’t keep ripping […]

Is the Microsoft Surface Hub An Overpriced Collaboration Board?

Rants and rAVes — Episode 583: The Prysm Digital Canvas – Collaboration on Steroids

The word collaboration is hackneyed in AV — but, I feel we need keep using it as it does, in fact, define a trend in business. People want to connect, share and work in groups — whether they are in-person or working via the Internet. Many would argue that Barco started all this, in AV at least, with their wireless collaboration […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 583: The Prysm Digital Canvas – Collaboration on Steroids

Updated: Is ZOOM Your Next Competitor?

Update: I spoke to ZOOM CEO Eric Yuan this morning. He told me that it’s correct that they do try to establish relationships directly with the clients. But, he says that ZOOM’s policy about this is very specifically defined: If an AV integrator has an existing client relationship, all they need to do is register that […]

Updated: Is ZOOM Your Next Competitor?

I loved AVI’s LIVE Show – Here’s Why

I was honored to be the Luncheon Keynote Speaker at the AVI LIVE 2017 show yesterday in Cincinnati, Ohio, yesterday. And, it was incredible. Everything about it! The branding, the education, the atmosphere, the venue, the vendors, the customers, the food — well, OK, the food was decent, but the rest was awesome. The Branding: AVI Systems founded in […]

I loved AVI’s LIVE Show – Here’s Why

Gary Kayye to Speak at UBTech Conference in June

rAVe founder Gary Kayye will give the welcome address at the UBTech conference, held in Orlando, Fla. at the Omni ChampionsGate Junst 14-16, just prior to InfoComm 2017. Kayye will speak about the arrival of The Digital Canvas in higher education and the new opportunities presented by 4K in flat-panels and projection. He will also […]

Gary Kayye to Speak at UBTech Conference in June

We Are Attending the Almo E4 AV Tour — Why Aren’t You?

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST Almo’s E4 AV Tour is back! The AV industry’s favorite distributor roadshow kicks off 2017 in the Chicago area next month (March 22nd) at the Drury Lane Theatre and Conference Center and in April in San Jose, California at the DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose — and this year’s event has a lot of […]

We Are Attending the Almo E4 AV Tour — Why Aren’t You?

Is the Screen Business About to Disappear?

In the ProAV market, unless you’re blind (or just like to deny truths), you see the writing on the wall, LITERALLY (you’ll get that pun if you keep reading). The projection screen market is about to nearly die a somewhat rapid death. Let’s look at the reasons why: 1. The flat screen monitor (LCD and […]

Is the Screen Business About to Disappear?