Volume 11, Issue 9.2 — September 20, 2018

RaveEd — Volume 11, Issue 9.2 — September 20, 2018
Latest headlines: Extron enter AV over IP market, Scott Tiner doesn’t think AVaaS makes sense, plus news from TASCAM, NEC Display, Zoom, Epson and more

September 20, 2018 | Volume: 11 | Issue: 9.2

First off, huge news as Extron finally enters the AV-over-IP market with a new system called the NAV Series. See all the details in our story below.

As you may know, I teach advertising and branding at the University of North Carolina in the School of Media and Journalism. I’ve been teaching there for nearly 10 years in a 100+ year old building. Teaching my new media technologies class was always tough in our building as it was only outfitted with the same thing nearly every other university classroom has — a projector, a switcher, a computer, an HDMI porter laptops, etc. I couldn’t teach remotely, students couldn’t join the class remotely, we couldn’t even collaborate inside the room, much less do it remotely.

But that all changed when the assistant dean offered up a dedicated room to build my “dream classroom” last semester. Thanks to Nureva, Extron, Altia Systems, Zoom and a handful of other partners, I literally built what is for me, the perfect classroom — and made the As-Builts available to you for free! Oh, and you can even take a VR tour of the room, too! So, make sure you check out the very first story, below, from Nureva — who wrote-up case study of the room called, “Active learning classroom of the future becomes a reality at UNC.”

Oh, and Bates College’s own Scott Tiner, has decided not to integrate AVaaS on his campus — read his column to understand how he ran the numbers and why it makes no since, to him, to use the AVaaS model to integrate new technology, yet.

-Gary Kayye

COLUMNS

+ AVaaS: It Just Does Not Make Sense [Scott Tiner]

One of the things that has struck me as I read about AVaaS is that every perspective I have read is from the integrator’s point of view, or aimed at the integrator. The basic point is, you need to start creating new revenue streams and get away from the dying (dead?) revenue of box sales. The point is true, but simply making up new revenue streams does not mean they work or make sense. I have not yet seen one of these articles or presentations actually present a compelling case for the integrator.

+ Active learning classroom of the future becomes a reality at UNC [Nureva]

Gary Kayye builds his dream classroom.

PRODUCT NEWS

+ Extron Enters AV-Over-IP Market With Both 1-Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Systems [Gary Kayye]

Extron’s new NAV Series distributes video, audio and USB 2.0 over standard Ethernet networks, including “visually lossless” video over IP at resolutions up to 4K@60Hz with 4:4:4 chroma sampling. Using Extron’s own PURE3 codec, the system allow an IT department to “dial in” the amount of bandwidth the signals take up, from either 40 Mbps to 1 Gbps or from 40 Mbps to 10 Gbps (at any bandwidth in between), depending on which Extron NAV system is used.

+ Epson Launches Pro Cinema 4050 4K PRO-UHD Projector with HDR [Sara Abrons]

+ Sony Launches Three New 4K HDR Home Cinema Projectors [Sara Abrons]

+ Extron Ships HD CTL 100 to Automatically Turn On and Control Displays [Gary Kayye]

+ TASCAM IF-E100 Card Enables Ethernet Control of CD-400U Media Player [Jacob Blount]

+ Christie Launches Multi-Touch 86-inch 4K UHD LCD Display [Gary Kayye]

+ NEC Display Adds New Indoor and Outdoor LEDs in F- and Q- Series dvLED [Sara Abrons]

+ Optoma’s New ProScene ZU750 Is Aimed at ProAV [Gary Kayye]

+ Comprehensive Launches CHE-HDBT2020 – Pro AV/IT 4K 18G HDBaseT Extender Kit [Jacob Blount]

+ DVIGear Adds DVI AOC to HyperLight Cable Series [Jacob Blount]

+ Zoom Corporation Debuts the H3-VR VR Audio for Recording, Capturing and Encoding 360-Degree Audio [Gary Kayye]

+ Extron Launches ShareLink Pro 1000 Wireless and Wired Collaboration Gateway [Gary Kayye]

+ Atomos AtomX Sync Module Adds Wireless Timecode, Genlock and Bluetooth to the Ninja V [Jacob Blount]

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