Latest headlines: Interviews with Xytech, Tascam, LG, David Labuskes, Aurora, Klipsch
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Volume 7, Issue 6 — June 30, 2018
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June 26, 2018
Greg Dolan, COO at Xytech Systems, speaks with me about control solutions for the media and broadcast industry, and how Xytech has a multitude of solutions, and some now that are a module-based/pick-and-choose as you go (Media Pulse). We discuss future roadmaps, solutions, their incredible product, Media Pulse, and more; and all this can be found on this episode of AV insider.
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June 12, 2018
Derek Badala, Director of sales at Sythax Inc (RME), speaks with me about interfaces, converters, cards, Madi solutions, pre-amps, accessories, and more!
We also talk about a few new things; some of which may or may not have been announced at Avixa’s Infocomm 2018, but there’s only one way you can find out, and it’s by listening to tis episode of AV Insider.
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June 29, 2018
InFocus used InfoComm to launch a totally new wireless point-to-point HDMI device called SimpleShare as well as new Mondopads — including one aimed at higher-ed. Gary was joined by InFocus’ VP of Marketing, Loren Shaw, today to talk about their InfoComm launches and how popular the SimpleShare really was. Listen!
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June 28, 2018
Gary was joined by IDK’s CEO, Ryohei Iwasaki, and CIO, Chris Miller, on today’s podcast to talk about their InfoComm presence. IDK was one off two dozen or so companies showing new AV-over-IP solutions. In addition, IDK had their entire commercial AV product line. You can see it all here: http://idkav.com/
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June 27, 2018
In addition to one of the coolest tech-demos on the show floor with ERO (Extended Ruggedness and Optics), Leyard and Planar launched the new DirectLight X LED, the 4K Clarity Matrix G3 and a new Versalight Series of LED Walls. We shot videos on all these, here.
ERO is a new micro-LED coming from Leyard and you’ll have to wait to see that in the coming months, in the meantime, however, you can listen to Leyard and Planar’s VP of Product Marketing, Steven Seminario, talk about what was hot at InfoComm. Listen as he even hints about their future direction in development.
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June 21, 2018
SiliconCore may be best known for being the first LED company to show CoB (Chip-on-Board) technology. And, according to Jim Wickenhiser, their Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, they won’t ship it until they perfect it. How significant is this to the future of LED, watch this videocast to see how small the form-factor is for CoB. But, their development of CoB led to a more durable LISA LED – as you will see in this video demo. Watch this and then head over here to watch the three videos we shot from their booth at InfoComm 2018 – including one on LISA-D and one on their new Camellia 0.95mm LED LED Display.
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June 20, 2018
Aurora’s founder, Paul Harris, joined Gary on this post-InfoComm 2018 podcast to talk AV-over-IP standards — which one he would recommend for each application in ProAV — as well as their new ope-standard, Javascript-based ReAX control platform. We shot seven videos at the Aurora booth at InfoComm and you can see them all here.
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June 19, 2018
Interestingly enough, one of the most popular products at InfoComm this year was in the back left corner of Epson’s booth — it’s called the LightScene and it’s basically a 3LCD laser projector built into an Accent Track Lighting system. But, certainly the most significant launch for them had to be the native 4K (3840 x 2160) resolution Pro L12000 — a 12K lumen large venue projector. Gary was joined by Epson’s Product Manager, Ramzi Shakra, to talk about their clear focus on laser including adding laser to both heir BrightLink Pro and their PowerLite series of projectors. We actually shot eight videos from the Epson booth at InfoComm and all of them are here.
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June 19, 2018
Put to bed every rumor you’ve hard about the InfoComm show leaving Vegas, leaving Orlando, stopping the rotation between the two cities and everything else you may have heard, in the rumor mill, as this post-InfoComm videocast with AVIXA‘s CEO, David Labuskes, answers all these questions and more. AVIXA’s first, ever InfoComm show set a Vegas attendance record, hosted more ProAV square-footage than any other North American-based show, ever, and likely saw a rise in end-user attendance. Each year, Gary talks with Dave at the end of the show to gauge his reaction to the event, what he noticed, the direction of the industry and where he sees trends like AV-over-IP heading. This is an easy videocast to watch (or podcast to listen to) as Dave and Gary have known each other for years and Dave is remarkably candid about it all. We hope you enjoy it!
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June 15, 2018
Gary was joined by Kramer CEO, Clint Hoffman, today to talk all about InfoComm. Gary and Clint talked about their booth traffic which was focused on three specific areas — Kramer Network, their wireless collaboration system VIA and a new 6×2 4K60 switcher that’s a hybrid digital and HDBaseT. Gary also asked Clint about when he thought AV-over-IP would be more than their traditional routing solutions, today. He’s brutally honest in his outlook — quicker than later. Listen and see when he thinks this will all happen.
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June 14, 2018
Over the past year, I’ve enjoyed developing a relationship with Laurent Masia, NETGEAR‘s Global Senior Product Line Manager for Switches. Why? Well, there’s no doubt that the future of our market is via the network. We’re already running a lot AV control, most of our audio and all of VTC’ing over the network. Next comes Video — and even up to 4K and 8K video. 1080p is easy via the network — but higher resolutions provide some interesting dilemmas and decision making — mostly, how much compression can our application allow. The SDVoE 10G standards is the least compression AV-over-IP system out there, so far. More is coming, however. And, 1G is all over the place now. So, we’re at the beginning of a — dare I say it — revolution?
Listen to this podcast with Laurent and hear NETGEAR’s predictions — based on data they’ve collected and sales data of their own, new M4300 Series and the newest of the family, the M4300-96X modular switcher.
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June 11, 2018
LG’s VP of Business Development, Dan Smith, joined me today on my daily podcast to talk about their InfoComm booth. Greeting attendees into the booth was a set of transparent OLEDs and giant transparent LEDs — using their new transparent LED film. But, the breadth of their product line was super-impressive and they set a record for leads, visitors and new product launches — all at InfoComm 2018. All the LG product videos we shot are here, and LG’s website is here.
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June 6, 2018
Gary just got a sneak-peek of a new feature launching from Altia Systems – makers of the Panacast camera system – that will debut at InfoComm next week (in booth N1668). Called Intelligence Sensing technology, a new software update from Panacast will allow users to detect who, or even what, is in a meeting. There’s no better way to understand how this works than watching this videocast between Gary and Panacast founder, Aurangzeb Khan. There are all sorts of creative applications for this technology for integrators to explore with their clients – just watch this and you’ll see light-bulbs of ideas turning on in your head!
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June 28, 2018
If you’re in residential integration, it’s hard to get a quick read on how technical your homeowner is. In this week’s Selling AV, I share a little trick I used to use to steer my technology conversations.
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June 21, 2018
InfoComm 2018 is behind us and we’re back to work, trying to close out the last half of the year. This week, find out how integrators can use InfoComm to boost sales over the next few months.
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