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Arthur Holm’s new double-sided (two sided) monitor acts as both a giant name-tag for the attendees of a conference or meeting while display the presentation content right in front of each attendee. The DynamicNameTag sits flush with the table when retracted and, when needed, rises up into position and automatically turns on to display the […]

James Banfield, president of Terra Speakers, and Alex Steed, marketing and communications at Terra Speakers, talked to host Johnny Mota about Terra Speakers’ custom audio options for the residential, commercial and house of worship spaces. We learn that a previous AV Insider friend and guest use their drivers in some of there of products, patent […]

Gary caught up with Arthur Holm’s International Sales and Marketing Manager Motse Romero today. Arthur Holm is using ISE to launch a handful of new products including a new, slimmer DYNAMIC3 and X2, as well as totally new foldable Dynamic1H and a giant digital nametag monitor called the DynamicNameTag. If you aren’t already a dealer […]

Welcome to the new revolution in AV online media! The AV industry’s “Jill of All Trades” Tory Holmwood (I’m @ToryHolmwood and don’t you forget it) joins us as our new co-host and boy does she bring it! Of course Mark Coxon (the self-proclaimed @AVPhenom), Corey Moss (you #@*% bet I’m @Cbmoss), Chuck Espinoza (call me […]

I was intrigued by some figures I saw on a study commissioned by Jupiter Systems, which cited the growth potential of the worldwide collaboration market is $2 Billion. I spoke to Jupiter’s VP of marketing and strategic alliances, Brady Bruce, to get the details and how Jupiter is playing into that segment of the market […]

Anthony is the person we featured this month in our AV People column. You may have heard of his name because he is our primary columnist for the rAVe HOW [House of Worship] e-newsletter. But in this month’s AV People feature, you learn a lot about his personal life and how it affected his professional […]

The digital signage market is growing faster than any market of AV technology. And you should know what’s going on in that market whether you’re in digital signage yet or not. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft, sort of, entered the AV market last week with an 84-inch version of its Surface tablet. Aimed at that meeting room market, the tablet accepts wired or wireless content, integrates videoconferencing and is multi-touch. What do you think? Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

You walk into a theater, buy the popcorn, settle into your seat and the film begins… So ya, Thought ya, Might like to Go to the show. To feel that warm thrill of confusion, That space cadet glow. Yep, that about describes it!Join the interplanetary cAValry rebellion with your hosts Mark (search your feelings… you […]

Today Gary had an ISE video cast scheduled with dnp’s http://www.dnp-screens.com Johnny Jensen, the company’s senior product manager. The topic for discussion was dnp’s Supernova XL as it will make its European debut at ISE in Amsterdam in stand 1-Q14 (in Hall 1). But, in addition to telling Gary all about their ISE plan for the XL, […]

Gary caught up with AMX VP of Product Management, Shaun Robinson, to talk about the company’s ISE plans — including the new product announcements we can expect from AMX. Shaun hinted at 4K developments, more wireless BYOD products and AMX’s plan to integrate HiQnet from HARMAN at ISE. Be sure to visit AMX in stand 1F6.  

While walking the show floor at CEDIA Expo 2014, Gary saw a carpet company exhibiting there the piqued his interest — yes, carpet. But, it wasn’t the Home Depot kind of carpet — it was really cool home theater-style carpet. Joy Carpets (www.joycarpets.com) is a Georgia-based carpet company that’s aiming to set-up AV integrators as […]

InfoComm has started a women’s-only group called Women of InfoComm. They’re going to be hosting a breakfast at both the ISE show next month in Amsterdam as well as the InfoComm show in June. For more details, listen to my podcast. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Welcome to the unbalanced battle of the sexes where Mark Coxon (the heavily overmatched host), Corey Moss (is there a blog in it for me?) and Chuck Espinoza (this is driving me to drink — wait, what am I complaining about?) are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Helping out our Woman of […]

The ambient light rejection category of screens was invented by dnp http://www.dnp-screens.com, first with its rear-screen materials and then added to its front-screen line. Since then, every screen manufacturer has attempted to emulate what dnp has done. At ISE 2015, dnp will focus on the Supernova XL and Supernova STS for both residential and commercial […]

The BARIX SoundScape made its ISE debut in 2014 and now it’s starting to ship. But ISE 2014 only told part of the SoundScape story and ISE 2015 will introduce the industry to the entire audio signage product line — including a cloud-based management solution for SoundScape. BARIX is in stand 8-M245 and will exhibit […]

Today, Gary caught up with Joe Andrulis, AMX’s global VP of marketing, and talked to him about the company’s plans at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) next month in Amsterdam. AMX’s stand (Hall 1-F2) is integrated into the Harman Group’s presence and will incorporate three distinct areas along. They’ll also have afternoon receptions. Listen to get […]

Welcome (officially) to 2015! Here we go — new season, new look, same old John Greene! Follow the cAValry as they take you on yet another wild ride with Mark Coxon (did he make it to the show THIS time?), Corey Moss (what did he go ballistic about now?), Chuck Espinoza (beers? bacon? Pho Cyclo?) […]

Thomas Lee, president of the WiSA Association, talked to Johnny Mota about wireless audio and speaker technology, as well as the association’s own standard that is being adopted by everyone to some small startups to some of the biggest names in audio. They cover audio latency, wireless distance, uncompressed audio in wireless format, and everything […]

Gary caught up with ISE Managing Director Michael Blackman for today’s podcast and talked all about the upcoming show. ISE 2014 drew more than 51,000 AV’ers to Amsterdam last February and the 2015 show will be bigger and. Based on the enormous success of both InfoComm 2014 and Cedia EXPO this past September, the co-producers […]

Our blogger and 10-year AV veteran Leonard Suskin and his wife are about to embark on a $20,000 journey to bring his wife, Karine, a pain-free life. Leonard is an amazing guy and fantastic blogger. He’s also a systems designer at Shen Milsom & Wilke and we are trying to help them. Please listen to […]

The HDBaseT Alliance is asking IEEE to approve it as a tech standard. Listen to my podcast so you’ll understand why I’m completely against that. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Every year we produce a video that’s a summary of everything that happened in the audiovisual industry that year. Today we released our 2014 year in review video – I hope you’ll listen and then watch! Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Welcome to a new year, a new show and yes — those same four characters you’ve come to know and respect (maybe?). Listen in as Mark Coxon leads the show off the rails with great finesse from the word go (actually “Hi I’m”), Corey Moss reveals his “love” for another of the fifty states and […]

David Solomon, national sales marketing director, talks to host Johnny Mota about Tidal Hi-Fi. Tidal has made some of our audiophile friends want to throw away their NAS drives. While Tidal will not be at CES this year, 60 manufacturers will be using the company’s technology there. If you love music, and enjoy uncompressed audio, […]

Did you know that we started the AV Hall of Fame? We want your input on who we left out and who should be inducted next. See all 11 of our inductees here: https://www.ravepubs.com/announcing-first-ever-rave-av-fall-fame/ and then listen to my podcast. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Listen to my podcast today because our podcast partner has a fundraising campaign that we’d love for you to participate in: https://www.ravepubs.com/cavalry-rides-ise-2015-show-must-go/ Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

The InfoComm CTS program is the industry’s premier education and certification program – it’s even ANSI certified. Not only do CTS audiovisual professionals do better work, but customers are starting to request CTS designers and CTS installers. InfoComm’s Senior VP of Education, Certification and Standards Melissa Taggart joined Gary on today’s Daily Rants and rAVes […]

Welcome to our last cAValry Rides! Show of the year! In this episode, Mark leads us to the pinnacle of ridiculousness, Corey helps Sony Pictures put the ass in password, Chuck informs us of Washington, DC beltway traffic insanity and Stacy shows her everlasting love for Brett Favre (pronounced Favre). Our guests include Shen’s Leonard Suskin, who […]

Right now is not a good time to own stock in the screen manufacturer. Listen to Gary’s podcast and find out why. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

In Anthony Coppedge’s latest column on rAVePubs.com, he ponders the question: In a sophisticated system, is a problem because of the technology or the people? Although he aims this article at the house of worship market, it should be read by anyone in the ProAV market. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Rian Steffens, Onkyo USA’s eastern business development manager, speaks with Johnny about Onkyo Audio products offerings for homeowners and integrators. They cover everything from Onkyo’s highest quality audio products to the Dolby ATMOS experience, and how you can get it now in your home. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider. Podcast: […]