| Volume 3, Issue 12 — December 31, 2014 |
AV Insider
Rants and rAVes
cAValry Rides
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AV Insider Recap Date | Link to Listen | Description | | | | | | | | December 9, 2014 |
AV Insider – Episode 36: Onkyo Audio & Dolby ATMOS |
Rian Steffens, Onkyo USA’s eastern business development manager, speaks with Johnny about Onkyo Audio products offerings for homeowners and integrators. They cover everything from Onkyo’s highest quality audio products to the Dolby ATMOS experience, and how you can get it now in your home. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider. | | | | | | December 5, 2014 | AV Insider – Episode 35: Symetrix Is Making (Sound) Waves In Pro AV |
Mark Ullrich, international sales manager for Symetrix, speaks with host Johnny Mota about Symetrix and everything you want to know about its DSP offerings. They announce three new major surprises, and help you get trained up on it all. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider. | | | | |
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 Rants and rAVes
Date | Link to Listen | Description | | | | | December 17, 2014 | Rants and rAVes – Episode 329: New Additions to the AV Hall of Fame | Did you know that we started the AV Hall of Fame? We want your input on who we left out and who should be inducted next. See all 11 of our inductees here and then listen to my podcast. |
| | | | | December 16, 2014 | Rants and rAVes – Episode 328: A Fun Fundraiser for our Podcast Partner cAValry Rides |
Listen to my podcast today because our podcast partner has a fundraising campaign that we’d love for you to participate in: https://www.ravepubs.com/cavalry-rides-ise-2015-show-must-go/ |
| | | | | December 11, 2014 | Rants and rAVes – Episode 326: The New 98″ LCDs Will Kill the Screen Market |
Right now is not a good time to own stock in the screen manufacturer. Listen to Gary’s podcast and find out why. | | | | | | December 10, 2014 | Rants and rAVes – Episode 325: Are the People the Problem? |
In Anthony Coppedge’s latest column on rAVePubs.com, he ponders the question: In a sophisticated system, is a problem because of the technology or the people? Although he aims this article at the house of worship market, it should be read by anyone in the ProAV market. | | | | | | December 9, 2014 | Rants and rAVes – Episode 324: The HDBaseT Rule of Thumb |
HDBaseT inputs and outputs have started to appear on products from just about every signal routing and distribution manufacturer. But do you know the one rule of thumb to follow? Listen to this podcast and find out what it is. | | | | | | December 5, 2014 | Rants and rAVes – Episode 323: Our Weekly Wrap-Ups |
Did you know that we produce a weekly summary of all the articles that appeared on rAVe that week each Friday? It’s an easy way for you to keep track of what the top five or 10 stories are we covered for that week. | | | | | | December 4, 2014 |
Rants and rAVes – Episode 322: The Vicious Systems Cycle – Sucks? | New rAVe columnist Mario Porto writes a familiar tale. | | | | | | December 3, 2014 | Rants and rAVes – Episode 321: cAValry Rides Twice |
We already have two podcast episodes from our partnership with cAValry Rides. Who are they and why should you care – listen and find out! | | | | | | December 2, 2014 | Rants and rAVes – Episode 320: Portable Simulation? | Yep, Barco just launched it! |
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| December 1, 2014 |
Rants and rAVes – Episode 319: Do you know how to sell? |
We already have two podcast episodes from our partnership with cAValry Rides. Who are they and why should you care – listen and find out! |
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Date | Link to Listen | Description | | | | | December 12, 2014 | cAValry Rides – Episode 4: Rabbits, Potholes and Brett Favre, Oh My! | Welcome to our last cAValry Rides! Show of the year!
In this episode, Mark leads us to the pinnacle of ridiculousness, Corey helps Sony Pictures put the ass in password, Chuck informs us of Washington, DC beltway traffic insanity and Stacy shows her everlasting love for Brett Favre (pronounced Favre). Our guests include Shen’s Leonard Suskin, who questions the content of Mark’s 100 rAVe-ing blogs, John Greene of Advanced AV, who comes back from Episode 3 with “unspecific unprepared unfinished” business and Chara Kelley, our new Glass Explorer and Google
friend that brings Egyptian rabbits and flaming potholes. Johnny Mota also calls in with a vote for Pedro
(Corey doesn’t get it) and Gina Sansivero calls in from a remote location in Kansas City (you have to hear
this one).
New features include cAValRants and Corey’s cAValry Sports Bash Report. The group discusses Corey’s
blog “Sony-pocalypse,” as well as home thermostats, Google Glass and more. |
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| December 8, 2014 |
cAValry Rides – Episode 3: What’s in a Name? |
So you go into a Starbucks and order your favorite coffee. The friendly barista asks for your name to write on the cup and you say Emma. Believe it or not you just got your cup with your name spelled perfectly – that is if your name was Nemo.
Join cAValry Riders Mark Co(x)on, Cor(e)y Moss, Chuck (just call me Norm) Espinoza and their guests the Misspelled Wonders: John Green(e), Rene(a) Dalton and George Fournier (we don’t know where to begin with his last name) as they talk about name foul-ups, Starbucks “baristafails,” Mark’s 100 pats on the back and more. Special guest appearances from Mark’s (unbelievably accepting) wife Lesley and Renea’s daughter Gracie. In his first Chucktoberfest segment, Chuck talks brews with Kellan Hetrick at Chocolate City Brewery in Washington, DC. Is today your birthday? If so you’re in luck, as John Greene will show up at your door with an #AVCak (can we buy a 141st Twitter character?) and an #AVsweater! And of course, what show would be complete without discussing Corey’s issues with dishes?
So if you have a name that is constantly butchered, listen in and saddle up!
Support for cAValry Rides and other rAVe RADIO shows comes from Ingram Micro. |
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| December 2, 2014 |
cAValry Rides – Episode 2: A Dysfunctional rAVe Family Thanksgiving |
Join cAValry Riders Mark Coxon, Corey Moss and Chuck Espinoza with their guests the Cross-Country Three: Gina Sansivero, Johnny Mota and Scott Tiner. In this episode: “A Dysfunctional rAVe Family Thanksgiving,” listen as:
Mark leads the charge
Corey goes all five boroughs (of New York)
Chuck chugs a beer (listen for the cheers)
Gina “rAVes” about Matt Scott’s hair
Johnny brings the wine country (to Gina)
and Scott can’t keep the power on
And for your added listening pleasure – the #AVPuppy! Chuck talks to Bailey Labrie, manager of the DITM Band, and Pete Cordalis (Cordalis Media/Music Services), who works with DITM in his Sound Check segment. Finally, Corey delivers a very special message of support for a cause that is close to the cAValry Riders’ hearts. Don’t miss it, and saddle Up! |
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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). To send me feedback, don’t reply to this newsletter. Instead, write directly to me at gary@ravepubs.com or for editorial ideas, Editor-in-Chief Sara Abrons at sara@ravepubs.com. 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 June 2004, is, by far, the largest ePub in the HomeAV market. We added rAVe Rental [and Staging] in December 2007, rAVe ED [Education] in May 2008 and then rAVe DS [Digital Signage] in June 2009. We added rAVe GHGav [Green, Healthcare & Government AV] in August 2010 and rAVe HOW [House of Worship] in August 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 To read more about my background, our team and what we do, go to https://www.ravepubs.com Back to Top |
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