Matt Cooper

Matt Cooper

Matt Cooper, a former rAVe employee, enjoyed the endless opportunities for creativity in many different formats. Whether it was print, web, e-mail, 3D illustration, video, screen printing or any number of new forms of media – he had the opportunity to try it all while getting rAVe’s message out. Every day has new design and project management challenges – but it’s what he loves to do and wouldn’t trade it for the world. Matt lives in Durham with his wife and two cats. He likes fiction podcasts, NPR, game nights and watching obscure television on stations you’ve never heard of. Matt knows a ton of facts about random topics, and he regularly likes to correct Gary and Sara when they are wrong.

Extra Vegetables Shows Two-Way URC Total Control module for Sonos at CEDIA Expo

Extra Vegetables has announced that the URC Total Control module for Sonos is now available from the Extra Vegetables website. By leveraging the power of URC’s Total Control Accelerator, Extra Vegetables has enabled comprehensive two-way integration via a new module. The module is simple to install and enables the following features in Total Control: • […]

Extra Vegetables Shows Two-Way URC Total Control module for Sonos at CEDIA Expo

Autonomic Unveils New Features for the Mirage Audio System

Autonomic will be demonstrating new features of the Mirage Audio System (MAS) at CEDIA, including compatibility with SiriusXM Radio 2.0, Slacker Radio and Gracenote as well as a secure Dealer Portal enabling integrators to gain remote access to their customers’ Mirage Media Servers for diagnostics and firmware updates without having to send a technician onsite. […]

Autonomic Unveils New Features for the Mirage Audio System

Women in CE Dominates CEDIA

The Women in CE Breakfast is this Saturday, Sept. 28th, at the Four Seasons Ballroom and there are only a few tickets left, with online sales now closed. More than 300 tickets have been sold so far and nearly 20% of them are to men. The guest speaker will be Nicole Mangina. Nicole is the […]

Women in CE Dominates CEDIA

Stealth Acoustics Debuts StingRay Flat Speaker

Stealth Acoustics’ new StingRay 6 is the smallest member of the Stingray family at only 15” wide and less than 4” in depth. Like the larger StingRay 8, the Stingray 6 utilizes Stealth’s proprietary FidelityGlass solid-front radiating surface and carries an environmental protection rating of IP-68 (as measured to IEC), which ensures the StingRay’s internal […]

Stealth Acoustics Debuts StingRay Flat Speaker

JL Audio to Debut E-Series Subs at CEDIA

The JL Audio E-Sub powered subwoofers feature a new switching amplifier with a compact switching power supply. This design allows us to keep the E-Sub’s dimensions compact while delivering what JL says is ample clean power that will fully exercise the drivers’ excursion ranges. There are four versions that range from 1,200 to 1,500 watts […]

JL Audio to Debut E-Series Subs at CEDIA

Rants and rAVes

Date Link to Listen Description January 28, 2014 ISE Special: A Videocast with Paul Ingebrigtsen of Williams Sound I caught up with Paul Ingebrigtsen, the CEO and President of Williams Sound, and he actually demo’d the new Digi-Loop for me as well as showed me the brand-new Digi-Wave-Dock that basically allows the Williams Sound assistive […]

GreenAV Recap

Date Link to Listen Description January 23, 2014 Episode 11: Power Innovation in Australia: A Conversation With Meegan Jones This month we are lucky enough to have Meegan Jones, managing director, operations, Greenshoot Pacific based in Sydney, Australia. Besides listening to her fabulous accent, she shares some really interesting work being performed globally that lends […]

WAVEcast Recap

Date Link to Listen Description August 30, 2013 WAVEcast Episode 22: WAVE is More Than WorldWide: Part 2   Let 2013 InfoComm’s Women in AV Winner Aneeta Gupta tell you what and why women are important to our industry.

AV Insider Recap

Date Link to Listen Description January 20, 2014 Episode 14: BitWise Controls Everything Scott Miller, director of technical services for BitWise Controls, talks with host Johnny Mota about controlling your home (even with other manufacturers products). He also mentions the future of Bitwise, a new feature that will be announced in Q1, and where you […]

The WEEK Recap

Date Link to Listen Description January 22, 2014 Episode 59: Cisco Prepares for ISE Joel covers the news, and then have a talk with Cisco’s Paul Depperschmidt and Steve Pryor about their stand and their objectives for ISE 2014 in Amsterdam.       January 16, 2014 ISE Special: Cisco Focuses on UC at ISE […]

THE WEEK – Episode 40: Joel talks with Chris Bianchet of Herman Integration Services

Joel talks with Chris Bianchet of Herman Integration Services at InfoComm 2013 Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

THE WEEK – Episode 40: Joel talks with Chris Bianchet of Herman Integration Services

Rants and rAVes — Episode 136: Gary Interviews InfoComm Attendees on Their Day 1 Impressions

I spent an hour walking the show floor interviewing attendees in the aisles of the InfoComm 2013 show. And, although we’re barely half-way through day-1 of the show, the attendees pointed out specific things they saw that they were impressed with. And, it wasn’t all about 4K (although about half of them mentioned 4k) as […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 136: Gary Interviews InfoComm Attendees on Their Day 1 Impressions

Rants and rAVes — Episode 135: My UBTech Interview with Extron’s Dir. of Education Programs Tim Schnabel

Extron might not be exhibiting here at InfoComm in Orlando – which opened today – but they are right down the road at the UBTech Conference – the higher education tech show. They had a booth in the UBTech exhibit hall and Tim taught a session Monday about classroom AV technology. I caught up with […]

Rants and rAVes — Episode 135: My UBTech Interview with Extron’s Dir. of Education Programs Tim Schnabel

THE WEEK – Episode 32: Special Edition – a pre-infocomm talk with Dataton and ShowSage

A pre-InfoComm THE WEEK where host Joel Rollins speaks to leaders from DATATON and ShowSage about their amazing InfoComm plans including significant new product upgrades. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

THE WEEK – Episode 32: Special Edition – a pre-infocomm talk with Dataton and ShowSage

Gary Kayye’s Rants & rAVes – Episode 11: HDBaseT vs AVB

Gary Kayye’s Rants & rAVes – Episode 11: HDBaseT vs AVB

Rants and rAVes — Episode 130: Almo Pro A/V to Distribute Barco ClickShare

Barco and Almo Pro A/V have jointly announced that Almo is going to distribute Barco’s ClickShare product, which will now allow any dealer to sell and integrate ClickShare.

Rants and rAVes — Episode 130: Almo Pro A/V to Distribute Barco ClickShare

Rants and rAVes – Episode 128: All About Sound Control

Sound Control Technologies is one of those “glue” manufacturers that specializes in solving connectorization issues with remotely locating VTC cameras away from their accompanying CODECs – today’s podcast is all about them! Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Rants and rAVes – Episode 128: All About Sound Control

InfoComm Spotlight: All About ATOMOS

If you don’t know ATOMOS new, you will after InfoComm next month in Orlando. ATOMOS, an Australian manufacturer specializing in “glue” products for the production market, is bringing their converters, recorders and production tools to the ProAV market and have asked AV-veteran Matt Ivey (of Grass Valley and Tektronix fame) to help them by appointing […]

InfoComm Spotlight: All About ATOMOS