Volume 6, Issue 4 — April 29, 2017
AV Insider
Tech Chaos
The Floating Point
Rants and rAVes
Selling AV
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April 21, 2017
Episode 102: Uteology: Software-Designed AV
Joey D’Angelo, VP, Design & Engineering, and Frank Pelkoffer, CO-Founder, and CEO, of Utelogy, speak with me about Utelogy 2.0. We cover everything they showed off at ISE in Amsterdam, what Software based AV is capable of, how it saves time, energy, and money as a system & service. untraditional AV Insider fashion, we cover some info you can only find here before it’s announce on this episode of AV Insider.
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April 10, 2017
Episode 101: ihiji: Brodmann Acoustics: Love at First Sound
Brad Paulson, national sales manager of Brodmann Acoustics, speaks with me about Vienna Austria’s most beautifully made musical interments, which double as gorgeous speakers. Brodmann, most famously known for Joseph Brodmann pianos for the last 200 years, and over the last 40 years, equally as beautiful looking/sounding loudspeakers, has been acoustically redefining the sound of love. Brad gets into detail of finishes, sounds boards, uniqueness, quality, visuals, and a bit on what is next to come. AS usually, we give you some AV insider announcements, that you can only hear first, on this episode of AV insider.
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April 13, 2017
Episode 11: Huddling Together
It’s April in New England, which means that it’s been oscillating between snow and 80 degree weather.
Floating Point host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) put on a light jacket, braved her hotel WiFi, and then joined Harman’s Paul Zielie (@paulzielie) to talk about large-scale systems (spoiler alert: even huddle rooms can be large-scale if you look at them just right) and how to make programmer’s work together.
Treat your programmers right, people, or else they will delete all of their files, throw their laptops at your head, and then quit. We talk about how to protect against some of that (hint: it rhymes with shmautomated shmackups). But, seriously, treat your programmers right.
We close with tales of flying across oceans to press buttons. Remote access: it’s a good thing!
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April 4, 2017
Episode 25: Is Your Content Preserved?
In this episode, Sean Brown (@Sonic_Sean) joins host Christa Bender (@AVChrista) to talk about how Kansas State University is preserving up to four decades of content with Mediasite. They also talk about the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and how they are using Mediasite to record lectures, continuing legal education and campus events in their new downtown Phoenix facility.
Sean and Christa talk about finding VHS tapes and the joy in finding out what is recorded on the tape as it rarely matches the title. They also talk about their new favorite movie (hint: they both like the same movie).
These topics and more can be heard on this episode of Tech Chaos.
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April 27, 2017
Episode 587: Have You Heard of Gear Box Pro?
Nope, I am not getting paid to podcast this – as many of you may have assumed. I found this cool company called Gear Box Pro that’s aimed at solving audio and power distribution in LIVE EVENTS. They’re small, out of Canada and their stuff is cool. I asked John Adams to join me today and tell me where the idea for his product line came from. If your win Rental or Staging, you will want to check them out at: http://www.gearboxpro.com
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April 3, 2017
Episode 585: InfoComm Talks TIDE
Gary was joined by InfoComm’s own Jason McGraw and Rachel Bradshaw to talk about their new pre-InfoComm-show TIDE conference. TIDE is a brand-new, pre-show conference that will focus on applications of AV beyond the products themselves – using AV in experiences and creative applications. TIDE truly has an unbelievable lineup of the people behind the world’s biggest brands will present their perspectives on storytelling and how they have incorporated technology in unique and innovative ways – including speakers from companies like Pixar, NASA, the people behind the musical “Hamilton” and Stanford University.
TIDE will be held at the Hyatt Regency Orlando (opposite the Convention Center) and you can register here.
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