Volume 7, Issue 8 — April 23, 2021

AV Buyers.Club — Volume 7, Issue 8

April 23, 2021 | Volume: 7 | Issue: 8

What an issue for new product news. We’ve got announcements in esports. Hospitality. Beam lighting. Videoconferencing hardware. Videoconferencing software. Resources for all your needs as an AV/IT buyer or end user.

Also exciting is the news that our friend and rAVe BlogSquad writer Mark Coxon has announced his new gig at HD Distributing, where he’ll be the firm’s new Western regional sales director. Mark had been teasing the announcement on his social media for a couple weeks, and we were all too excited to see where he was headed next. Best of luck to Mark in his new job at HD!

How has everyone been feeling otherwise lately? Can you guess which of these upcoming events we are looking forward to the most?

A) Jabra LAVNCH & LEARN (Apr. 27)

B) TEC 2021 (May 3-6)

C) Epson LAVNCH & LEARN (May 11)

D) Bluescape LAVNCH & LEARN (May 20)

E) LAVNCH WEEK 4.0 (May 27-29)

F) Sharp/NEC LAVNCH & LEARN (Coming Soon)

G) ViewSonic LAVNCH & LEARN (replay)

H) All of the above

You got it! All of the (many) above. So get going! Register!!

— Leah McCann

COLUMNS

+ How the Chip Shortage Could Decimate the AV, UCC and Digital Signage Markets and How You Can Avoid Its Effects [Gary Kayye]

Do not underestimate what I am about to tell you. In case you haven’t been reading the tech sections of the newspapers lately, there’s a global semiconductor shortage (branded as the “chip shortage of 2021”) and, although it hasn’t affected our market yet, it will, starting in late July.

+ LAVNCH & LEARN: ViewSonic — Collaborative Education and Workplace Solutions [Emily Holler]

On March 31, THE rAVe Agency Founder and Director Gary Kayye was joined by ViewSonic’s Ryan Strayer, Dan Sharpe and Chris Graefe for another installment of our LAVNCH & LEARN sessions. The session — titled “Collaborative Education and Workplace Solutions” — aimed to discuss ViewSonic’s exciting new products designed to foster collaboration in workplace and classroom environments.