Volume 2, Issue 11 — November 29, 2013
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The WEEK Recap
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November 11, 2013 |
Episode 54: Meddling in Medellin |
A great show this week as we talk with Nelson Baumgratz as he prepares to teach at the InfoComm show in Colombia. We talk about the show, education and the state of the AV community in Latin America today. But first, the news… |
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AV Insider Recap
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November 19, 2013 |
Episode 10: Noah Kaplan, The Edge and What’s Happening at Leon Loft |
Noah Kaplan, president of Leon Speakers, talks to Johnny about the company’s new power OTTO Sound Bars as well as the The Edge, a TV mounting system co-developed by Noah and Jonathan Graham of Media Decor (recently acquired by Leon Speakers). They also cover events at the Leon Loft along with Leon’s Audio Sculptures. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider. |
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November 15, 2013 |
Episode 9: Stewart Filmscreen’s Custom Projection Screens |
Dave McFarland, director of marketing at Stewart Filmscreen, speaks with Johnny about Stewart and its screen technologies. They cover fixed, motorized and custom screen solutions like rigid screens such as StarGlas for the digital signage and gaming industries. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider. |
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November 8, 2013 |
Episode 8: Everything Changes and Nothing Changes |
Rich Jackson, a 43 year audio vet, speaks with Johnny about the rise and return of HiFi’s full circle reappearance. We cover Analog audio, digital audio, compressed audio, and the importance of educating others about HiFi. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider. |
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Rants and rAVes
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November 25, 2013 |
Episode 185: My UNC Students Raise $5,000+ for Local Charities |
I teach a class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill about new media and marketing. This semester the two classes had to do a social media project to raise money for local charities, and they raised more than $5,000! |
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November 19, 2013 |
Episode 184: Did Middle Atlantic Just Destroy Its Own Traditional Rack Business? |
Middle Atlantic’s new under-table rack line is genius! Listen to hear why: |
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November 18, 2013 |
Episode 183: Video Over IP? |
Is this really a surprise to anyone? Some companies are ahead of others; take a listen. |
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November 17, 2013 |
Episode 182: Can Gaming Save the HomeAV Market? |
It’s no secret the HomeAV industry has suffered more than any segment of audiovisual technology in the last five years. We noticed about 25% of the products that were exhibited at CEDIA this year were actually ProAV products. But gaming could save HomeAV. |
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November 6, 2013 |
Episode 181: rAVe’s New Website |
In this podcast, I explain what was changed about our website to make it easier to find the most popular stories being read on our site each day. |
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November 5, 2013 |
Episode 180: The 2013 Best of CEDIA Awards |
We just issued our Best of CEDIA awards and I’d love for you to check them out here (https://www.ravepubs.com/2013-best-cedia-awards/) and let us know what you think. I also had an interesting observation at CEDIA Expo that I think you ought to know about. Listen and see if you agree. |
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November 4, 2013 |
Episode 179: Gary Interviews NEC VP Ashley Flaska and Almo Pro A/V EVP Sam Taylor |
rAVe founder Gary Kayye had a chance to record a video call with both Ashley Flaska, VP of marketing for NEC, and Sam Taylor, executive VP for Almo Pro A/V today. Check out the video chat! |
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For all you REGULAR listeners of rAVe Radio out there, hopefully you enjoyed another opinion-packed issue!
For those of you NEW to rAVe, you just read how we are — we are 100 percent opinionated. We not only report the news and new product stories of the ProAV and HomeAV industries, but we stuff the articles full of our opinions. That may include (but is not limited to) whether or not the product is even worth looking at, challenging the manufacturers on their specifications, calling a marketing-spec bluff and suggesting ways integrators market their products better. But, one thing is for sure, we are NOT a trade publication that gets paid for running editorial or product stories. Traditional trade publications get paid to run product stories — that’s why you see what you see in most of the pubs out there. We are different: we run what we want to run and NO ONE is going to pay us to write or say anything good (or bad).
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A little about me: I graduated from Journalism School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (where I am adjunct faculty). I’ve been in the AV industry since 1987 where I started with Extron and eventually moved to AMX. So, I guess I am an industry veteran (although I don’t think I am that old). I have been an opinionated columnist for a number of industry publications and in the late 1990s I started the widely read KNews eNewsletter (the first in the AV market) and also created the model for and was co-founder of AV Avenue, which is now known as InfoComm IQ. rAVe [Publications] has been around since 2003, when we launched our original newsletter, rAVe ProAV Edition.
Everything we publish is Opt-in — we spam NO ONE! rAVe ProAV Edition is our flagship ePublication with what we believe is a reach of virtually everyone in the ProAV market. rAVe HomeAV Edition, co-published with CEDIA and launched in February 2004, is, by far, the largest ePub in the HomeAV market. We added rAVe Rental [and Staging] in November 2007, rAVe ED [Education] in May 2008 and then rAVe DS [Digital Signage] in January 2009. We added rAVe GHGav [Green, Healthcare & Government AV] in August 2010 and rAVe HOW [House of Worship] in July 2012. rAVe Radio, our podcasts, were launched in 2012. You can subscribe to any of those publication or see ALL our archives by going to: https://www.ravepubs.com
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