Volume 5, Issue 8 – August 31, 2016
AV Insider
AV Power Up!
Tech Chaos
Good AV
The Floating Point
Rants and rAVes
Selling AV
AV Glue
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August 4, 2016
Episode 76: SVS: Elevate You Listening Experience and Join the Sound REvolution
Gary Yacoubian, president and managing partner of SVS sound (most commonly known for their subwoofers), speaks with me about the SVSound revolution. We cover affordable speakers, to more premium, yet budget friendly option(s). We cover 2-channel, surround formats (ATMOS, AURO 3D, DTS:X), and how a new product (Launching soon – AV Insider exclusive content) solves the forced height layer of audio, and why its a bad idea. All this and more, on this episode of AV insider.
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August 1, 2016
Episode 75: Power Control Simplified
Mark Bishop, owner/president of Lyntec, speaks with me about lighting controls for the Pro AV world. We cover digital signage, live events, house of worship, and massive productions, and all controlled by Lyntec products (third party integration as well).
LynTec is a leading manufacturer of innovative electrical power control solutions for professional audio, video, and lighting systems. Working closely with system designers, LynTec incorporates electrical protection, circuit switching capabilities, and an operational controller within a common enclosure — saving valuable wall space, lowering installation costs, and simplifying system operation. This state-of-the-art approach to electrical control solutions has positioned LynTec as a trusted resource for any demanding installation with complex power control requirements.
All this and more on this episode of AV insider.
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August 9, 2016
Episode 15: Listen Up with Scott Boekweg
Scott Boekweg, Product Manager at Listen Technologies, joins host Christa Bender (@AVChrista) to discuss ListenWiFi and ListenIR applications.
Scott talks about the difference in audio applications between Europe and the United States. Scott explains why he likes being involved in innovative technology and how he became interested in technology.
Scott and Christa also talk about which cities they enjoy running in and how you have to be aware of the cyclists in Amsterdam.
While Scott gains points for liking Star Wars, you will be shocked at the last movie he has watched.
All of these topics and more can be heard on this episode of Tech Chaos.
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August 5, 2016
Episode 8: AV Design for Hotels: Creating the Envelope
This month I had the great luck of spending a few minutes with Jeff Loether, president of Electro-Media Design. Jeff has 25+ years of AV design experience and he shares some of the coolest ideas and inspiration. I mean, it’s cool folks. Like how experience is the creation of emotional memory and emotion is often generated by a sensory experience… so good. Or how about the idea of how hotels are now “Tech Boutiquing” to showcase technology instead of hiding it?
Over the next two decades, the development of new full-service hotels will be the slowest in history. What this means is many hotels are going to invest in renovation, which includes budgets for AV upgrades! So listen and learn why and how you can be a part of this trend.
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August 18, 2016
Episode 5: Pigs, Parks and Open Architecture
It’s the 5th episode of the Floating Point and Chris Tatton (@Chris_Tatton) is playing hooky. Host Hope Roth (@BeerAndPie) holds down the fort from an undisclosed location. We still managed to keep producer Corey Moss (@Cbmoss) on mute the entire time, shattering our own world record for consecutive Corey Mute Minutes, Katy Ledecky-style
Jake Corlett (@corlett_jake) from Biamp joins Hope to talk about how we can make our control systems and DSPs play nicely (Hint: use instance tags and don’t even think about messing with the gain structure).
Things take a turn for the hilarious when they start talking about the horrors that they’ve found in certain AV racks.
What does all of this have to do with pigs and parks? You’ll just have to take a listen to find out.
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August 29, 2016
Episode 544: KanexPro Makes CEDIA Debut on rAVe RADIO
Gary had a videocast today with KanexPro’s Director of Product Marketing, Kash Khetia, today where he debuted their all-new 4K capable modular matrix – available in 8 x 8 or 16 x 16 configurations. The switcher is capable of switching up to 18Gbps and can handle HDMI 1080p, HDMI 2.0 4K@60Hz (chroma sample rate 4:2:0), HDBaseT and even 4K@60Hz with forthcoming DisplayPort cards. KanexPro will be in booth 1919 at CEDIA and you can check them out here.
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August 22, 2016
Episode 541: The Digital Signage Money
There have been acquisitions lately specifically related to digital signage market. Are you up-to-date on what’s going on in that market and where the money is? If not or if you’re interested, listen to Gary’s podcast today.
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August 13, 2016
Episode 35: Be Present
As sales people, it’s typically hard for us to deliver bad new or say “I don’t know.” However, when uncomfortable situations arise, it’s better to be present than to wait for the perfect answer. Find out why in this week’s Selling AV.
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August 3, 2016
Episode 34: Malissa Dillman
Products only succeed when companies have great people behind them. In this episode of Selling AV I give you a lead on an amazing industry veteran looking for a new home, Malissa Dillman.
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August 31, 2016
Episode 7: AptoVision
If you are interested in AV over IP and don’t know AptoVision, you need to. Their technology could become the “Intel INside” equivalent of AVoIP and if it does, will the Crestron and Extraon switching business go the way of Blockbuster video? We talk about all this and more so tune in and listen!
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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 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
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