Latest headlines: Joel Rollins on rental and staging being beta testers for the industry, Scott Tiner has a schedule for tech managers attending InfoComm, a tour of the Samsung executive briefing center, plus news from RTI, RealMotion, QSC, Bose Professional and others
May 1, 2019 | Volume: 17 | Issue: 17
I really think there must be a conference room of people at Samung who just sit around and think up new ways (or just really specific ways) that displays can be incorporated into people’s lives at work, at home and out in the world. Their latest display shenanigans involve a bet on people (millenials, I guess) wanting to watch, on a larger screen, content taken from mobile devices and shot in a vertical format — that comes in the form of the Sero, a 43″ television that can rotate between vertical and horizontal orientations. We have a story below. And speaking of Samsung, a few of our people headed out to Southern California last week of the opening of Samsung’s new west coast experience center. rAVe [PUBS] Assistant Editor Jacob Blount interviewed several of Samsung’s executives about the new space. Check out the full interview below.
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For the same number of years, I have been ranting that we needed to redefine the audiovisual rental and staging company. From our beginnings as an industry, most companies have structured the price of an event around the price of the technological parts that were used, absorbing much of the work done in building and maintaining a rental company as internal costs, while charging mostly for equipment. As the price of equipment dropped in the digital age, and as the computer replaced so many rentable pieces of hardware, it became more and more difficult to do business this way, especially since the cost of personnel was rising at the same time.
For tech managers, InfoComm can be an overwhelming experience. When I have staff attending InfoComm, I tell them to spend more time in training and networking than walking the show floor. Publications like this one do such an amazing job covering the new products that waiting in line to speak to a rep is often not the best use of your time. So, what do you do? Included below is my recommended schedule for any tech manager who is trying to put together their agenda.
Samsung cut the ribbon on a new Executive Briefing Center (EBC) last week in Irvine, Calif. and we joined to take part in the launch event. The new location is the third briefing center for Samsung in the United States behind New Jersey and New York, and the first in California.