At a time in an industry where commoditization is leading to thinner margins and online price wars, the discussion of Good, Fast or Cheap is sorely needed — before your organization wins the race to the bottom. Most of us know the Venn diagram below, depicting the reality of choosing any two, but never all […]

Is it better to spend more on a higher priced technology than to go for the cheaper alternative? This is a question of the ages that has been exploited on both sides of the same coin by the marketing teams at manufacturers, seemingly forever. We’ve all had situations where the axiom “you get what you […]

There are many A/V/L systems in place at churches of every size, location and style. Many are there because they were the lowest bid price point; others are stitched together over time, mostly borne out of necessity — and yet others are in place because an integrator specified what worked in other churches. Finally, there […]

Perhaps no other technology is as poised to be used in more churches than LED. Seemingly the perfect balance of functionality, size, cost of operation and product lifespan, LED is almost perfect for the house of worship market. LED Is Everywhere Once reserved for those in the rarified atmosphere of near-unlimited budgets, LED technology has […]

The 2014 version of Integrated Systems Europe has come to a close, but our coverage here will live forever here — on this ISE 2014 microsite! We have so much coverage — and there’s so much information on this ISE microsite that it can be overwhelming. So, please take moment to read this so we […]

We’ve had a documentary film crew following us around for the past couple of months (we’ll pass along their documentary video when it’s done) and we’re using some of the footage in our Year-in-Review video for 2013. We hope you enjoy it — it’s only three minutes long and your company might just be featured!

Welcome to the all new rAVePubs.com! We have been working on this site for the last few months and we are so excited to bring you an even bigger and better website to serve our industry. There are a lot of ways you can now read and interact with rAVe… this infographic gives you a […]

Last week, ihiji asked rAVe founder Gary Kayye to kick off its new quarterly AV Thought Leaders Webinar series. He was asked to address where the convergence AV and IT stand at this moment in the industry. It’s a short, 30-minute webinar that addresses where we are and where we’re likely headed in the not too distant future with networked AV […]

rAVe had a crew of 14 people in Amsterdam last week for the ISE 2013 show in Amsterdam. ISE is basically InfoComm and CEDIA combined (in Europe) and the past two years it has been the best-attended AV industry tradeshow ever held, anywhere in the world. We covered it all with more than 1,200 videos, […]

With the introduction of our all-new rAVe NOW service at InfoComm last week, rAVe Publications took a major leadership position in digital publishing.  In an effort to continue to make our coverage of the AV market better and even more valuable to our readers, we launched rAVe NOW as a virtually real-time way to report […]

rAVe Founder Gary Kayye will help bring a high-profile panel of manufacturer expertise together on the first day of ISE 2008 in Amsterdam in January 2008. The first ISE Manufacturer Forum will follow the successful formula applied at past InfoComm International shows, and will be free for all ISE Attendees and Manufacturers to attend. Running […]

30-Year Staging guru, Joel Rollins, to be Contributing Editor and Columnist Kayye Consulting, publisher of rAVe Pro and rAVe Home eNewsletters for the commercial and residential audiovisual channels, announces rAVe Rental [and Staging]. The new publication, to be published on the rAVe website and distributed via email in the same fashion as rAVe Pro and rAVe Home, will be […]

rAVe just learned that Harman International agreed to an acquisition by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. and GS Capital Partners. You might remember KKR as the giant investment company that bought such huge companies as RJR Nabisco and Beatrice back in the 1980s. According to the company website, KKR, founded in 1976 has completed […]