WolfVision Launches Cynap PURE Wireless Presentation System at ISE 2019
WolfVision announces an important extension to its system portfolio with the new vSolution Cynap Pure wireless presentation system. The product will be …
Is the AV Industry Getting Soft? Part 2: Hiring in 2019
Last month I asked if the AV Industry was getting soft. I hope that it is… because it should be. In a time when technology is advancing at an alarming …
Wellness Checks
The connected era we live in is pretty amazing. A huge proportion of my job can be done by phone, text, and email. But there’s still replacement for meeting …
Credentials, What Are They Good For?
One of the items that popped up in my feed this week was the news that Google no longer requires job candidates to possess a four-year degree. Further …
Voice Control Is The Future, Even If You Think It’s Dumb
Some people fear change. Some people embrace change. And I suspect that for many of us it’s a mix of both, depending on the circumstances. Despite somehow …
Don’t Just Field Warm Calls, Create Them
Articles and blog posts about selling talk a lot about cold calls, but seldom deal with warm calls. While I think cold calling has an undeservedly bad …
Reaffirming Top-Down Selling
We all have things that we hold dear. And often, the things that we believe are so internalized that we take them for granted, assuming that everyone else …
Selling Soft Serve(ices)- Hurdle Two: Sales Compensation Plans
If you haven’t already been following the conversation about selling AV software and services, I encourage you to catch up on my last couple blogs where …
Dark Horse and Underrated Tech
We live in society where newer equals better. Every month, if not every week, tech companies race to create and release newer, faster, sleeker, sexier gadgets. …
New Huddle Room Collaboration Product to be Launched at InfoComm 2018
LAS VEGAS and RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CALIF., APRIL 23, 2018— Huddle Rooms and Collaboration are some of the hottest buzzwords in AV, and AVPhenom will be …
PreSonus’ WorxAudio Loudspeaker System Helps Dripping Springs United Methodist Church Keep Its Congregation Engaged
Dripping Springs, TX – April 2018… With a focus on helping people expand their spiritual levels through worship, study, mission, and social action, …
The Latest on the New HDMI Standard: HDMI 2.1
By John Purvey Belden To support higher video resolution and refresh rates and real-time, interactive technology such as virtual reality, the HDMI Forum …
Focusing on Vision
In AV, we are sometimes very product-focused. Manufacturers build best in class products and then engage a dealer channel to make sure those products have a …
Yamaha DXS12mkII and DXS15mkII Powered Subwoofers Debut
Yamaha today announced the DXS12mkII and DXS15mkII portable powered subwoofers that combine a super-efficient Class-D amplifier putting out 1,020 watts of …
Yamaha DXS12mkII and DXS15mkII Powered Subwoofers Bring Even Bigger Bass in a Small Package
ANAHEIM (January 25, 2018) — Yamaha today announced the DXS12mkII and DXS15mkII portable powered subwoofers, which provide clean, punchy, loud low-end to …
Sony Upgrades Vision Exchange Classroom Collaboration System
Today, Sony announces version 1.1 of its interactive collaboration and active learning solution Vision Exchange. The upgrade adds Skype for Business (but, …
Strange ReTales: Something Doesn’t Add Up
I’ve got no real point to this anecdote this week. I just wanted to reminisce and allow readers to bask in some corporate schadenfreude. I dislike legacy …
New Extron SME 211 Offers Streaming in a Compact Package
Extron just introduced the SME 211, an H.264 streaming media encoder for distributing audio and video signals over IP networks. The SME 211 accepts an HDMI …
IHSE to Demonstrate the Extension and Switching of Virtual and Augmented Reality Signals
At Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in Amsterdam, IHSE will be introducing a solution to extend and switch immersive reality signals over long distances …
ISE 2018: Adamson Previews New Point Source Models from Acclaimed IS-Series
Adamson Systems Engineering will be at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2018 with a pair of new point source additions to its heralded IS-Series of …
What Would Be in My AV Degree
I woke up Sunday morning to some interesting Twitter conversation started by fellow AV professional Chris Neto about the subject of AV education. The question …
Twitter’s Credibility Problem: Signal To Noise Ratio
This weekend the New York Times published an in-depth investigative piece, The Follower Factory. It details the use and abuse of fake accounts on Twitter. It …
CES2018 and an AV Prediction
I want to start by saying that I am not one who writes blogs declaring the death of specific technologies or market segments. In fact, most of the time, I …
Volume 11, Issue 1 — January 12, 2018
Volume 11, Issue 1 — 12, 2018 Tiner’s Take ISE: If You Sell to Education, You Should Go Scott Tiner : …
Sound Control Technologies to Debut New RemoteCam Solutions at ISE
Sound Control Technologies (SCT) will be using ISE 2018 (Stand 11-F160) to unveil four new solutions in the RemoteCam product portfolio for digital PTZ …
Amazon Prime, or: Nobody’s Perfect
This is a confession blog. We all have blind spots, sometimes. And I’m not too proud to admit that sometimes I’m not the brightest. Anyway, I’ll just say …
New TASCAM CD-400U Media Player Debuts
TASCAM has introduced its CD-400U media player. Combining a slot-loading CD player, AM/FM tuner, stereo SD recorder and Bluetooth wireless and …
Chasing Westworld: Machine Learning and AI
I went to an amazing conference put on by the TEA this year on Storytelling, Architecture, Technology and Experience. There were a number of great speakers and …
iRoom Implements Apple HomeKit Technology into iPad Docking Stations
Origin Acoustics has announced Apple HomeKit implementation into the iRoom iPad Docking Stations. Origin Acoustics says that iRoom is one of the few …
Clear-Com’s HelixNet Gains New Capabilities, Boosting its Flexibility
ALAMEDA, USA – November 15, 2017 – Clear-Com has further enhanced the HelixNet digital network partyline system to do more within the small yet …
USITT and the Greening of a Conference
Recently the registration for the upcoming United States Institute for Theater Technology (USITT) Conference opened with a great renewed focus on providing a …
Leave Your Propeller Hat At Home
It is absolutely possible to have too much of a good thing. In the various AV and CE channels, you’ll find that at least a trickle of nerdiness runs through …
