**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. The Future of Events Is #Live and #Hybrid — Here’s What to Do Projection mapping, trade shows, roadshows, experiential marketing and events were some of the fastest-growing parts of AV, while 2020 was predicted, by all accounts, to be the biggest year in […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. Once just a proof of concept, hybrid and hyflex classrooms are now in high demand as universities worldwide look to implement solutions. The college classroom or lecture hall is no longer a confined space within four walls. Every classroom needs hybrid capabilities, while […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. Collaboration technology is, all of a sudden, everywhere. Once relegated to the meeting room or maybe huddle spaces, it’s now allowing digital signage displays to become wireless sharing monitors. Collaboration technology is making it possible to implement IoT and analytics for both meeting […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. We’ve been living in a tech-renaissance of the AV classroom, boardroom and meeting room for 25+ years. More than two decades in, our industry is designing and installing, for the most part, the exact same way. Sure, the technology and products have changed […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. Just five years ago, LED wasn’t considered a serious contender to projection. Now, LED is considered in applications that used to be exclusively projection and LED is taking business away from the 75″ and 84″ LCDs too! All while the projection is actually […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. 2021 is NOT going to be like 2020. Or is it? For the past 20 years, Gary Kayye, founder of THE rAVe Agency and rAVePubs.com, has written the industry’s go-to piece for predicting how the upcoming year will evolve. Every year, Gary asks: […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. What’s the state of the Digital Signage industry? Well, in case you didn’t know, the digital signage market is going through a renaissance – some due to COIVD and some due to new tech. And, if you’re not in digital signage, you should […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. The AV Industry is riddled with misinformation about 4K including exaggerated specs, compatibility and performance. Meanwhile, AV integrators are left to sort out what’s real 4K or simulated 4K, only to be left vulnerable to making serious mistakes. Gary Kayye is an expert […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. No other segment of the AV market was affected by COVID-19 more than education. One could argue that corporate AV took the greatest hit from the pandemic, but AV in education was thrust into survival mode over the past five months. First, being […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. Nearly everyone out there is lying to you about AV-over-IP. It’s not easy, it’s not lossless compression and it’s not going to happen overnight. But, it IS the future of AV signal distribution. There is NO STANDARD that everyone has adopted for sending […]
**Note: CTS RU credit is only available for LIVE attendees. Although we didn’t have a physical InfoComm this year, we had a virtual one; InfoComm Connected. And, 50+ AV manufacturers have also held their own “virtual shows” focused on launching new products since April. So, the AV industry is filled with new tech, new gear […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. Are you confused about the plethora of AV-over-IP options out there? You should be. The AV-over-IP market is saturated with lies, hype, over-promising and under-delivering technology. Most of it is point-to-point, not actually IP-based, and some of it just sucks. Now that AV-over-IP […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. Nothing in the world has gained the ProAV and UCC markets more attention than what Zoom did to help the world adapt during the new coronavirus shutdown. Zoom went from delivering an average of just under 10 million video calls per day to […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. Do you design, sell or use UCC-based collaboration systems like Zoom, Webex, Microsoft Teams or BlueJeans? Do you prefer one ecosystem over the other, or are you tired of interoperability problems? Are you thankful for Zoom’s simplicity and frustrated by Microsoft’s inability to […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. The AV Industry is riddled with misinformation about 4K including exaggerated specs, compatibility and performance. Meanwhile, AV integrators are left to sort out what’s real 4K or simulated 4K, only to be left vulnerable to making serious mistakes. Gary Kayye is an expert […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. Nearly everyone out there is lying to you about AV-over-IP. It’s not easy, it’s not lossless compression and it’s not going to happen overnight. But, it IS the future of AV signal distribution. There is NO STANDARD that everyone has adopted for sending […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. Esports is giant — did you know that? I realize most of us look at gaming as something that teenagers do in their basements instead of studying but, did you know that universities like Ohio State, Florida, the University of Missouri, Penn, Miami […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. Do you design, sell or use UCC-based collaboration systems like Zoom, Webex, Microsoft Teams or BlueJeans? Do you prefer one ecosystem over the other, or are you tired of interoperability problems? Are you thankful for Zoom’s simplicity and frustrated by Microsoft’s inability to […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. Every year, Gary likes to release a top 10 list of his favorite things that he has seen at Integrated Systems Europe. In collaboration with Almo Pro A/V and Barco, Gary hosted a webinar in which he expanded on just that. He also […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. This is the one webinar you DO NOT want to miss. Gary Kayye’s annual Krystal Ball series, now in its 20th year, is one of the most-read news articles in AV every year. Why? Well, he’s usually right – like 90+ percent of […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. A lot of people are lying to you about AV-over-IP. It’s not easy. It’s not lossless compression. And it’s not going to happen overnight. But it IS the future of AV signal distribution. There is currently NO adopted standard for sending AV signals (video, audio, […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. The idea of AV-as-a-Service first emerged a few years ago — mostly as a platform for controlling AV gear via the so-called cloud. But even if AV integrators wanted to offer AVaaS in 2016, it wouldn’t have been “real” AVaaS; it would have […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. The AV Industry is riddled with misinformation about 4K including exaggerated specs, compatibility and performance. Meanwhile, AV integrators are left to sort out what’s real 4K or simulated 4K, only to be left vulnerable to making serious mistakes. Gary Kayye is an expert […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. It all started with Barco’s ClickShare, the market leader in BYOD and wireless collaboration, back in 2012. But, now Crestron, AMX, Extron, Vivitek, Lumens, Kramer and even a tiny company called AirTame all have wireless sharing and BYOD devices aimed at small meeting […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. Interactivity used to be relegated to the most expensive plain-old whiteboard anyone ever purchased – the SmartBoard. As you know, most of them were installed with good intentions but ended up being used as, well, just a whiteboard. But, companies like Avocor and […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. You may not have been able to attend InfoComm 2019, the largest AV trade show in North America, but you can still learn what the top-10 things Gary Kayye saw there this year. InfoComm 2019 was home to nearly 1,000 exhibitors, with too […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. This webinar is designed to be the perfect “state of the audio industry” session. AV includes audio. The V in “AV” gets all the glitz and glamour, but the A, ironically, is more profitable. While video is an art, audio is a science […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. The digital signage market is only a decade old but it’s already been anointed “the future of advertising”. Just a few years ago, nearly $180 Billion was spent worldwide on TV ads. But, as fewer people are watching what’s known as “linear TV,” […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. This is the one webinar you DO NOT want to miss. Gary Kayye’s annual Krystal Ball series, which comes out each January, is likely the most-read news article in AV every year. Why? Well, he’s usually right — like 90 percent of the […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. Nearly everyone out there is misleading you about AV-over-IP. It’s not easy, it’s not lossless compression and it’s not going to happen overnight. But, it IS the future of AV signal distribution. There is no standard that everyone has adopted for sending AV […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. It all started with Barco’s ClickShare, the market leader in BYOD and wireless collaboration, back in 2012. But, now Crestron, AMX, Extron, Vivitek, Lumens, Kramer and even a tiny company called AirTame all have wireless sharing and BYOD devices aimed at small meeting […]
**Note: CTS RUs are not available for webinar or educational session recordings. LED has experienced explosive market growth over the past three years. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find any other display technology that’s experienced the market growth that LED has. And it’s not Just for stadiums, arenas and billboard anymore. Now, LEDs are […]
