Volume 3, Issue 3 — March 31, 2014
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The WEEK GreenAV AV Insider Rants and rAVes
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March 24, 2014 |
Episode 66: Pexip – Changing the Game? |
We catch up on the news in AV, and follow up with an interview with Asmund Fodstad of Pexip, recorded at ISE, about how the Unified Communications game is being changed by platform-independent, software-only products. |
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March 6, 2014 |
Episode 65: InfoComm Live Wrap-up |
After this weeks news, we share a conversation between Joel Rollins and Tom Stimson about the InfoComm Live event, its future, and the AV Rental business in general. |
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March 12, 2014 |
Episode 12: Green Tech at Home |
The buzz is growing about smart homes, the Internet of Things and living in a connected world. So from LED lighting to Nest, Greentech for the home might be the single greatest business opportunity for the Pro AV integrator. This month’s guest, Gino Hefner with EnergySquad, dishes advice on how our industry can capitalize on these trends. For more information, visit www.energysquad.com. |
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March 20, 2014
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Episode 18: Is Plum The Next Nest In Regards To The Internet Of Things? |
Former CEDIA CEO Utz Baldwin speaks with Johnny Mota about Plum, the tech startup where he is currently the CEO. We talk about the Internet of things and Plum’s revolutionary Wi-Fi smart dimmer (the world’s first), as well as its smart plug and outlet, which were all recently funded via KickStarter. Find out why Johnny thinks Plum could easily be the next Google-acquired startup (similar to Nest), and sooner rather than later. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider. |
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March 04, 2014
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Episode 17: ihiji Monitors/Manages The Internet Of Things |
Mike Maniscalco (co-founder) of ihiji talks to Johnny Mota about remote monitoring and managing the Internet of Things in your home. Everyone is used to troubleshooting wireless networked devices like smart phones and computers – sometimes they need rebooted or are just acting strangely. But imagine every device in your house needing this kind of troubleshooting on a regular basis – regular inspection, tinkering around to figure out what’s not working, rebooting. What if you’re the integrator responsible for managing all these devices? What if your client lives two hours away and only finds out about issues when he’s hosting a party on the weekend? Remote monitoring and management products like ihiji will save you some of these kinds of headaches. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider. |
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March 28, 2014 |
Episode 242: Are You Social? |
We’re on every form of social media you can imagine. If you combine all our different social media experiences and tools together we have over 20,000 followers. But there are three biggies that you should pay attention to. |
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March 27, 2014 |
Episode 241: A Great Blog About Epson |
Not many companies in any industry can claim to have a 39 percent market share in the products it sells. Epson can and has that claim now. |
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March 26, 2014 |
Episode 240: Sony’s Laser Projector |
Sony is the first company to ship a pure-laser projector, which has two unique advantages over traditional light sources. Listen to this podcast and learn what those are. |
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March 25, 2014 |
Episode 239: Imagine If You Had 39% Marketshare |
One projector manufacturer sells 39 percent of all projectors sold in United States. Do you know who it is? Listen to this podcast and you’ll learn. |
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March 24, 2014 |
Episode 238: LynTec, Barco and Crestron
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We’re starting the week with a lot of news already. You can start your week by listening to this podcast which covers the news so far this week and, for a Monday it’s already considered a busy week! |
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March 24, 2014 |
Episode 237: LCD vs. DLP Results Are In |
We did the industry’s first independent survey of our readers to see what they thought of LCD vs. DLP. The results are in and we talk about them in today’s podcast. |
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March 20, 2014 |
Episode 236: The DIY Smart Home Is Almost Here |
As more and more companies debut DIY (do it yourself) smart home sensors, we see a trend where HomeAV integrators could get squeezed out. |
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March 19, 2014 |
Episode 235: 4K Gear |
The 4K revolution isn’t just for home TV watching – it’s hit the digital signage market too, with a plethora of 4K media players now available. |
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March 17, 2014 |
Episode 234: Revolabs Just Debuted Coolest Looking Conference Phone Ever! |
Listen to today’s podcast to hear what we think is the coolest-looking UC conference phone ever manufactured. |
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March 10, 2014 |
Episode 233: ALMO Debuts Digital Signage Creative Service |
ALMO ProAV is making it easy to get into the digital signage creative services business as tomorrow they will launch Almo Digital Signage Creative Services. They’ll do the creative work for you and you can re-charge your clients. Genius! Today’s podcast is a discussion with ALMO’s VP of Marketing, Melody Craigmyle who explains how this service is a value-add that the distributor is offering to its integrators. |
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March 06, 2014 |
Episode 232: Extron adds HDMI to the PoleVault System |
Extron’s PoleVault is the standard system product used by most K-12 classrooms to route signals to a projector. All the signals go in ANALOG and come out CATx cable. But now, Extron has introduced a digital version with HDMI capability. |
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March 05, 2014 |
Episode 231: Extron’s XTP Systems Line is Complete |
Now that Extron is shipping the XTP T UWP 202 wallplate transmitter and receiver, the XTP Systems line is completely available. Listen here to learn more. |
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March 04, 2014 |
Episode 230: Our 2014 Readers’ Choice Awards |
We want you to participate in our 3rd Annual Readers’ Choice Awards – nominations are now open! Podcast |
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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 March 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 March 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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