Latest headlines: Christopher Gillespie on language and communication in the AV industry, Leonard Suskin on the disappearance of esoteric AV job positions, plus news from Barco, ClearOne, Nureva, Zoom, Pexip and more
January 27, 2020 | Volume: 11 | Issue: 2
Barco debuted ClickShare Conference today at a launch event in Times Square, New York City. See our coverage from the event in this article, and especially check out the live video that Gary Kayye did on LinkedIn. The ClickShare Conference product allows you to join any type of video conference from your own device (laptop) in a huddle space, a meeting room or a board room.
We are still talking about ClearOne and the Shure MXA910 — see that article below. Enplug powers Zoom meetings over an entire digital signage network, Aveo Systems ships Mira Connect 10 and MSE Audio ships a new pendant speaker.
There are many words that have dramatically different meanings based on our experience and, most importantly, context. Take the name of our industry: AV. It means audiovisual, right? Not to everyone. If I was in IT, there is a good chance that I might define AV as anti-virus. And if I'm in the self-driving automobile space, then it's actually autonomous vehicles. So as we can see, it's important to ensure that we are on the same page as other folks PRIOR to getting into depth on what we want to accomplish.
Slowly but surely, the more esoteric parts of our job are fading. Software conferencing has replaced the difficult-to-configure video codecs. With physical media all but dead in most applications, the need for video switching has faded. With the loss of switching, we lose much of the need for control systems, for programmers, for many of the traditional lead tech roles. Even the helper techs no longer need to know how to terminate specialized AV cables.