Unless you have had your head in the sand over the past several weeks, you are aware of the dust up created by Crestron and their switcher “comparison.” If you are lucky enough to have had your head in the sand, catch up right now by reading my last blog. OK, are you back? Well, round three is now over […]
I am not the first person to write about this and surely I won’t be the last. But, heck it is too tempting to leave alone. In January,Crestron posted a video on their website that they purported to be a fair comparison of digital switching. In the video, they blew away the comparable Extron switcher in both timing […]
In December, I wrote a column on how Bates College went from Zero to Streaming in 10 Days. The article was a hit and I turned it into a webinar forInfoComm. This week I spoke at the NERCOMP (@NERCOMP) annual conference. I shared the stage with Aaron Coburn and Marcus DeMaio from Amherst College. We each gave a short introduction to what […]
First, let’s address the title of this blog. It’s a follow-up to my article in this month’s rAVe ED about using Skype and other consumer level video conferencing software. In reviewing comments that I received online and in email, the point of my article synthesized in my mind even more. You see, it does not matter whether you use […]
I had to wonder, is it just me? Is it the cold climate in central Maine? So I asked around. Have you had this problem? Turns out, yes — just about everyone else had the same problem? Then I had to ask. So, why has the problem not been fixed and why do we still […]
In my recent article “From Zero to Streaming in 10 Days,” I briefly mentioned that we use hardware encoders from Haivison. Haivision has a wide variety of products, from single hardware encoders to a massive “video furnace” that can provide video services for an entire campus. At Bates College we use only the hardware encoders. Specifically, we use the Barracuda (SD encoding) […]
Over the course of the past month I have received a few more emails and had more conversations with people about my initial article. I covered several of these discussions in my follow-up blog post, but wanted to follow up on a few more. Bo Warmbold from Vernon Hills High School wrote to tell me that at Vernon Hills, they use a software […]
After my first article for rAVe Ed came out, I had several people email or tweet me questions or comments. I thought they were so good, and thought provoking, that I decided to respond to them here. Mike Tomei (@miketomei) and Conner Krey (@connerkrey) wrote to me asking more about the Bonjour protocol. Mike wanted to know more about what it meant that […]
