LG Electronics expanded digital signage portfolio, including a vast line-up of signage solutions from 10-inch to 98-inch displays to fit virtually any commercial installation, is front and center at the InfoComm 2016 trade show (Booth #C8308) in Las Vegas this week. Debuting this year is LG’s commercial OLED high-end display collection – including the Dual-View […]

Honestly, this may have been one of the harder videos to shoot today as their booth was packed the entire time we tried to record it — so, Prysm is hot at InfoComm 2016! I was joined by Prysm’s Paige O’Neill, Chief Marketing Officer, who took me through a booth tour and explained all the […]

Both Executive VP,Sam Taylor and VP of Marketing Melody Craigmyle joined me this morning for a candid talk about the ProAV market. There’s no doubt that the projector market’s been hit with declining sales (and margins) in the meeting room sized spaces – thanks to flat-panels- but both are bullish on all the new technologies […]

Early this morning, I was given an exclusive booth tour of the entire BOSE Professional display at InfoComm. David Prince, Manager of Field Engineering at BOSE, actually took the time to describe the philosophy behind each of the product’s development and applications. The ends with the reveal of their all-new DeltaQ line Loudspeakers aimed at […]

Rajeev Mishra, VP Commercial Marketing for Epson, talked to me on camera about their entry into the Rental/Staging market with a 25,000 Laser Projector using inorganic LCDs. It was a 2-year process to get this product line to market and Mishra is excited with the creative options that opens for Epson and their clients. In […]

This is a great interview with Dave Labuskes, InfoComm’s Executive Director, who is candid about what both InfoComm and their members need to do to thrive in the future. InfoComm set certification records in 2016 as well as educational records and  will certainly set an attendance record. So, what does Dave think InfoComm will be […]

Chief Marketing Manager Karen Smidt and Product Manager Kathryn Gaskell joined me for a video interview today at InfoComm 2016 to launch their new Fusion Modular Mounts. This system doesn’t seem revolutionary, but it is. Chief has always had a plethora of standard configurations for video walls and menu-board mounts, for example, but now you […]

Rafik Anadol did an amazing job designing digital art using projection at the Epson Booth here at InfoComm 2016. His creative use of laser-based projection, image mapping and color is used to project digital art on top of printed art to create a moving canvas of image. In addition, he also built an Infinity Room […]

Clint Hoffman and I have known each other for over 25 years and I have a lot of mutual respect for him. Kramer used InfoComm 2016 to launch a new totally cloud-based control system and it’s a bold move as the rest of the market is hardware-based. Is it before its time? Will the AV […]

I love talking to Jeevan Vivegananthan, Christie’s Senior Director of Product Management, Displays & Processing, as it’s clear he loves AV technology – and so do I. But, there’s no question that the best booth at InfoComm 2016 is Christie’s as they constructed a hockey arena onto show floor and integrated with all sorts of […]

Anchor Audio’s VP of Sales, Alex Jacobs debuted a wireless version of their Liberty battery-operated powered speaker — called Liberty Air. It’s aimed at the educational and live events market and it’s water resistant, and has a 5-6 hour battery. Oh, and you can daisy-chain up to 10 of them together! Check out my video […]

I have an annual video interview with NEC’s Rich Ventura as he’s THE expert at digital signage applications. So, he’s a plethora of information. We stood in front their giant 8K video wall made from 16 55” LCDs and talked about NEC’s new analytics system, their digital canvases and how they’ve morphed into the display […]

Cisco’s Marketing Manager, Kim Nguyen joined me for an awesome overview about their entire product line at InfoComm 2016. Cisco is squarely focused on supporting the AV integrator community and their newest products like PresenterTrack, Spark and their SX and MX room systems prove that. I hope you’ll watch this video interview with Kim:

I caught up with Powersoft’s Paul Freudenberg, General Manager, who talked about their power amps and how they are able to continue to squeeze more power out of their amplifiers out of the same energy-efficient design. It’s magic! I ache always admired Powersoft for their aesthetics – they aren’t black boxes. Here’s my video interview […]

QSC used last year’s InfoComm to launch themselves into the installed systems meeting room market with Q-SYS. They are at InfoComm 2016 continuing that launch with their collaborative solutions to address web-cam conferencing as well as more meeting room products. I caught up with QSC’s Director of Installed Systems, TJ Adams, and VP of Marketing, […]

Sennheiser happened to win our Readers’ Choice Award this year for they website, but they are at InfoComm focusing on wireless charging of mics, a new TeamConnect system and a plethora of new products. Kai Tossing, Portfolio Manager for Sennheiser, talked to me about what they launched this year. Here’s the video interview:

I love new technology. In fact, I teach a course on how new technology effects Advertising, Marketing and PR at the University of North Carolina. But, sometimes I hate it. Remember when your TV just turned on? Oh, how I long for this days… Now, then you hit the TV power button on your remote […]

For the second time this spring, Almo Professional A/V welcomed a packed room of hundreds of resellers, integrators and consultants to its award-winning E4 AV Tour in Atlanta, GA on April 27. The event featured a combined Almo and IAVI staff presenting on a unified front as the acquisition details are finalized. E4 also included […]

Last week, rAVe Founder Gary Kayye delivered his keynote for the Almo ProAV E4 AV Tour in 4K (3840×2160) resolution — the first-ever 4K keynote. And, best of all, it was all about how to use 4K in ProAV installs. In the keynote, Gary discusses the misinformation about 4K, such as exaggerated specs, compatibility and […]

On Friday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Media and Journalism recognized rAVe founder Gary Kayye with their 2016 Adjunct Professor of the Year Award. According to the School’s website, the Val Lauder Award for Teaching, recognizes an adjunct, instructor or other non full-time faculty member for excellence in teaching. An […]

Barco has teamed with Almo Professional A/V to invite AV professionals to experience the future of 4K now at the E4 AV Tour, coming to Atlanta, Ga. on April 27. Barco will showcase its latest products in the growing ClickShare wireless presentation family and its pioneering laser phosphor business projector during this event. Now in […]

The Truth and Facts About 4K — from Gary Kayye — that’s the name of rAVe founder’s new keynote and it’s the first, ever delivered in Full 4K resolution (3840×2160). You may not be building systems in 4K yet, but you will be. And, better quality images aren’t the biggest reason 4K will be part […]

The 2016 Almo Pro A/V  E4 AV Tour keynote address delivered by Gary Kayye in Washington D.C. is everything you REALLY need to know on how to specify, sell and integrate 4K systems right the first time. No myths, no “spec talk” – just the facts. View the full presentation below or by clicking here. 4K: […]

Almo Professional A/V today announced its E4 AV Tour is back on the road this spring, featuring an entirely new theme focused around experiencing the business information, tools and equipment resellers and integrators need to succeed in the future. The tour, which includes the first 4K keynote, and new hands-on workshops, educational sessions and exhibitors, […]

Almo Professional A/V today announced a new educational webinar series for resellers focused on providing tools, tips and specific information necessary to achieve maximum growth and profitability. The year-long series — which begins on March 9 — is being led by Gary Kayye, industry guru and founder of rAVe Publications with participation from guest sponsors. […]

Just a day after announcing their 2015 financial results and earnings,  Barco CEO Eric Van Zele sat down with me in an exclusive video interview at ISE 2016 in Amsterdam. In addition to discussing the earnings report, he’s very frank about what they plan invest in with the over €250 Million in cash Barco is […]

I caught up with ISE Managing Director Mike Blackman on the last day of the show (day four) here in Amsterdam and we discussed the impact of a fourth day of the show as well as the show results. He hints at final attendance numbers, too. It’s certainly a record attendance as we can see […]

Wolfgang Lenz is a good barometer of the AV market in the EMEA. His company, COMM-TEC is the leading distributor is Germany with an office in Hong Kong and soon to be in mainland China, and I have interviewed him at the end of ISE each year as I think he’s a good barometer of […]

I had a chance to sit down today with the keynote speaker for ISE 2016, Michio Kaku — author of the book Physics of the Future. I have truly been a big fan of his since 2011 when I read his book. Since then, I’ve required all my students at UNC read his book predicting […]

Colin Boyle is Canon’s European marketing specialist for projectors and he spent some time with me explaining how they fared in 2015 and what their growth plans are for 2016. Canon is heading in to much brighter projectors for 2016 including a 7500-lumen lamp-based projector and a 5000-lumen 4K resolution projector.

Crestron’s Toine Leerentveld is the control system security expert. I caught up with him at ISE and asked him about the industry’s current concerns with the security of control systems and what Crestron is doing to address it. He also tells me about a security guide that Crestron has to help integrators deal with this […]

So did I. So, I asked Randy Klein. I sat down with Randy at ISE and he gave me the first, and only, video interview to explain why they decided to pull out of CEDIA and, more importantly, what their future HomeAV plans are. Randy is candid and direct in this interview where he shares […]