Gary’s Rants & rAVes

A lot of people of been waiting for Extron to fill-out its digital media line with a set of products that were readily available. Now there’s no excuse as the company is now shipping its ultimate matrix switcher — the Crosspoint 84 — which is fully digital media compatible. Podcast: Play in new window | […]

If you haven’t heard, Christie has published a second coffee-table book with its “The Book of Transformations.” Available as a hard-bound, iPad (interactive), Android (interactive) or downloadable PDF, “The Book of Transformations” is all about image mapping and includes a chapter on how to get started in the image mapping market. In today’s special video-version […]

Arguably, Christie has always been the digital signage market – certainly people use displays like MicroTiles and Christie’s flat-panel displays in digital signage applications. But with the purchase of Arsenal Media, clearly the company has bigger plans.   Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Starin helped Barco launch ClickShare years ago and then helped Wow Vision launch Collab8 — both BYOD and network-based connectivity solutions. Starin will be at InfoComm 2014 with some new collaboration products as well as a new streaming video server. Today Starin President Bill Mullins talks about Starin’s plans in this special InfoComm 2014 Edition […]

It’s unlikely that you’ve noticed, but EPSON is in the large-venue projector category now with more than a dozen models ranging from 4,000 lumens to 10,000 lumens. Do you think they’ll ever catch Christie, Barco or Panasonic? Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Today’s podcast discusses an article on our website all about UDTV! Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Today’s podcast is a bit of ramble — not one single subject, but a lot of different subjects, all related to InfoComm. These are news stories or blogs on our website that I’m hoping you’ll pay attention to. Have a listen… Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

By now you probably read the news that HARMAN, parent company of JBL and Crown, purchased AMX today. The question is, is it a good purchase and what effect will it have on you? Listen to my opinions on this  podcast and see if you agree. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

If you’re an integrator and you do videoconferencing or telepresence or you’re in the unified communications industry, you should pay attention to what IMCCA puts on it InfoComm -listen to this podcast so you can find out how to sign up. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

For about a year now we’ve done a weekly feature called the Weekly Wrap-up. Listen to this podcast so you’ll understand why we do it and how you can find it! Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Sometimes mainstream trends find their way into the ProAV market and sometimes vertical market trends find their way in each other’s segments. This is the case with recent trends in the rental and staging market — listen to this podcast to find out what Gary’s taking about. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Today Gary talks about an interesting back and forth between rAVe blogger Mark Coxon, a sales rep for Chief, and columnist Scott Tiner, a technology manager at Bates College. Scott wants to be able to get sales and technical support direct from manufacturers, which he says is invaluable to him, even though he only buys […]

Today Gary tells you all about rAVe’s third annual Top 10 Tour Guide at InfoComm, which will feature the ten can’t-miss products being introduced on the show floor. rAVe is now taking submissions from manufacturers in order to be featured on this exciting and prestigious InfoComm tradition. Listen in to see how you can submit. […]

Today’s podcast is about Kevin Nelson, founder of Zealth Audio and the person featured in rAVe’s latest AV People column. Kevin’s speakers have an unusual design — but what’s really interesting is how Kevin actually got his speakers from a design on a scrap of paper to the well-reviewed and custom-built speakers he has today. Listen in to hear the […]

Extron is launching a certification program for their new control systems. Extron will provide traditional training as well as control specific resources. https://www.ravepubs.com/extron-eqip/ Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

We want you to check out Joel Hagen’s newest blog at the BlogSquad on content creation. There are so many services offering shortcuts and tools — but ultimately good content is still hard to come by. Listen to today’s podcast and read Joel’s blog for great advice. Forget Creativity at Your Own Risk – Creating Content […]

Today’s podcast highlights an article about the Heartbleed bug from our own BlogSquad blogger Corey Moss: Heartbleed: What You Should Know About a Heartless Cyber-Menace. It covers what you need to know and links to many useful resources. In particular, check out this link to the webcomic XKCD as well as this Mashable article. Podcast: Play in […]

Almo is hosting its next E4 AV Tour stop in Orlando this Wednesday, April 23rd at the Orlando Convention Center. Guest host Sara Abrons tells you why you should make the trip if you’re nearby, and about how to register. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Panasonic has launched the industry’s largest 4K monitors, the new LQ70 Series, which can be mounted vertically or horizontally. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

No question that laser light sources are the future of most projection technologies. A few manufacturers have stepped up to the plate and are already shipping laser-based projectors. One company launched a 10,000 lumen laser projector today – listen to hear which! Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

If you’re not already in digital signage, you will be one day. DOOH-Digital Signage Networks That Work — And Don’t Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Extron has a new version of its IN1608 switcher with integrated control processor – this very well could become, on its own, a game changer for the company. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

We’re on every form of social media you can imagine. If you combine all our different social media experiences and tools together we have over 20,000 followers. But there are three biggies that you should pay attention to. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Not many companies in any industry can claim to have a 39 percent market share in the products it sells. Epson can and has that claim now. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Sony is the first company to ship a pure-laser projector, which has two unique advantages over traditional light sources. Listen to this podcast and learn what those are. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

One projector manufacturer sells 39 percent of all projectors sold in United States. Do you know who it is? Listen to this podcast and you’ll learn. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

We’re starting the week with a lot of news already. You can start your week by listening to this podcast which covers the news so far this week and, for a Monday it’s already considered a busy week! Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

We did the industry’s first independent survey of our readers to see what they thought of LCD vs. DLP. The results are in and we talk about them in today’s podcast. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

As more and more companies debut DIY (do it yourself) smart home sensors, we see a trend where HomeAV integrators could get squeezed out. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

The 4K revolution isn’t just for home TV watching — it’s hit the digital signage market too, with a plethora of 4K media players now available. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Listen to today’s podcast to hear what we think is the coolest-looking UC conference phone ever manufactured. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

ALMO ProAV is making it easy to get into the digital signage creative services business as tomorrow they will launch Almo Digital Signage Creative Services. They’ll do the creative work for you and you can re-charge your clients. Genius! Today’s podcast is a discussion with ALMO’s VP of Marketing, Melody Craigmyle who explains how this service […]