Everyone’s used component video for HD.  Everyone.  In fact, some surveys find that as many of 85 percent of ProAV installations using HD are still being integrated over component video. Who cares? Well, did you know that as of December 31, 2010 analog outputs decrypted (AACS) content will be limited to 480i and 480p (maximum […]

By Gary Kayye, CTS First things, first: Thanks, Ron!  Thanks for all the ways you supported me and your dealers!!! In the ProAV market, I am perceived as a manufacturer’s rep-hater.  Interestingly enough, this couldn’t be farther from the truth.  I am, in fact, a manufacturer’s rep supporter – at least of the good ones! […]

By Gary Kayye, CTS As many of you know, the ProAV industry’s largest trade show (InfoComm) was held earlier this month in Orlando.  After walking the show floor for three days, teaching a few classes and meeting with both exhibitors and some of the more than 29,000 people (a record for InfoComm at an east […]

By Gary Kayye, CTS We simply cannot cover InfoComm09 in one issue.  We will, like in years past, publish at least three issues to cover this show.  Below you will see Part 1.  In Part 2, we’ll cover more news and then in Part 3, we’ll publish our most anticipated issue of the year – […]

 By Gary Kayye, CTS Years and years ago, the ProAV market dominated the AV space and community.  Products would debut at commercial AV shows like NAVA, InfoComm, NSCA and even broadcast AV shows like NAB and eventually trickle on down to the HomeAV world. That all changed in the late ‘90s.  Some says it was […]

Don’t miss rAVe Founder Gary Kayye speaking at InfoComm: 1. Projection Summit: The first time Gary will speak at InfoComm will be (June 16th) Tuesday morning at 8:30 a.m. at Insight Media’s Projection Summit where he will deliver a short keynote: Not Quite Symbiotic: The display system used to be the most important part of a ProAV […]

For years, we at rAVe have been writing about the value of InfoComm – not necessarily as the mega-AV tradeshow, but as THE BEST one-stop-shop for ProAV education. Well, at InfoComm 2009, you’ll have two – not just one – ProAV associations offering hundreds of courses at the show:  both NSCA and InfoComm. Have you […]

Don’t miss rAVe Founder Gary Kayye speaking at InfoComm: 1.  Projection Summit:  The first time Gary will speak at InfoComm will be (June 16th) Tuesday morning at 8:30 a.m. at Insight Media’s Projection Summit where he will deliver a short keynote entitled: Not Quite Symbiotic:  The display system used to be the most important part of […]

By Gary Kayye, CTS Have you given up?  Not me!  The spending here in North Carolina on education and the government has already started (thank you, EPA). For months, I’ve been writing about how we need to take advantage of what’s been presented to us (bigger government, more federal spending, more public projects and a […]

By Gary Kayye, CTS I love this industry! Upon graduating from college back in 1987, I was lucky enough to be offered a job at Extron Electronics way back when they were probably less than a 20-person company.  Although at first I didn’t feel like I wasn’t doing what I went to college for (Marketing), […]

By Gary Kayye, CTS Using a PC as a content transmitter and receiver for Digital Signage networks sucks. Microsoft and their myriad problems have bled all over the DS market too. And, everyone’s been screaming for non-PC based solutions since the beginning. But, there haven’t been many that have, well, not sucked too. At least […]

By Gary Kayye, CTS This article originally appeared in the 4th issue of rAVe HomeAV Edition, way back on March 31, 2004! We thought you might find interesting our experiences back then INSIDE AN ACTUAL CIRCUIT CITY STORE and our insight into their operation — 5 years ago.   So, now they’re liquidating and we all […]

By Gary Kayye, CTS The DS market is dominated — and I mean dominated, by IT integrators, advertising agencies and even graphics designers who are all, quite honestly, wondering how this fell into their lap and counting the money, in most cases. Trust me, it’s true. Before deciding to launch rAVe DS [Digital Signage] I […]

rAVe Founder Gary Kayye will help bring a high-profile panel of manufacturer expertise together on the first day of ISE 2008 in Amsterdam in January 2008. The first ISE Manufacturer Forum will follow the successful formula applied at past InfoComm International shows, and will be free for all ISE Attendees and Manufacturers to attend. Running […]

Sound & Communications launched the industry’s first streaming internet talk show. VIEWpoint will feature the industry’s most recognizable and knowledgeable professionals talking about the hottest, most important issues facing systems integrators today. Sound & Communications expects lively, and sometimes controversial, discussions. This really is a must-see! VIEWpoint’s debut covers Digital Signage. Industry veteran Lyle Bunn, […]

30-Year Staging guru, Joel Rollins, to be Contributing Editor and Columnist Kayye Consulting, publisher of rAVe Pro and rAVe Home eNewsletters for the commercial and residential audiovisual channels, announces rAVe Rental [and Staging]. The new publication, to be published on the rAVe website and distributed via email in the same fashion as rAVe Pro and rAVe Home, will be […]

By Gary Kayye, CTS By now, you’ve probably all seen the HDMI connector (the connector standard for high-resolution HD-TV content) on something. It’s everywhere. It’s on HD-DVD players, Blu-ray Disc players, HD DirecTV set-top boxes, Explorer 8300 HD Cable TV boxes, HD-flat panel TV’s, Sony’s PlayStation 3 – everywhere you see HD content. But, it’s […]

The National Systems Contractors Association (NSCA) has named Gary Kayye as the NSCA University College of Business Instructor of the Year. Kayye was selected based on student evaluations of his course, “Crossing the Chasm,” which he presented at the 2007 NSCA Expo. “NSCA is honored to present this award to Gary,” said NSCA Executive Director […]

Tuesday May 1, Sheraton Palo Alto, California, and Wednesday May 2, Hyatt Regency San Francisco, California While at the seminar, you will learn more about one of the hottest topics in today’s conferencing market, the convergence of AV, IT and IP, from Gary Kayye of Kayye Consulting, a leading marketing and consulting firm for the […]

InfoComm announced the special events we can expect at the upcoming conference. The fourth annual Manufacturers Forum, scheduled from 4-5:30 pm on June 18th, offers a glimpse into AV industry trends and predictions from some of the biggest names in the business. This free event is moderated by Gary Kayye. CTS, of Kayye Consulting, and […]

By Gary Kayye 10. Just look at the panelists. Heck, just having Andrew Edwards, President of Extron, and George Feldstein, founder of Crestron, on the panel together is reason in itself to go. 9. I think I will sit George and Andrew next to each other. 8. Harman’s Michael MacDonald will be there and his […]

InfoComm’s Director of Certification, Lou Nanni, will retire at the end of April after more than a decade with the organization. A personal reflection of Lou from Gary Kayye: “I have never been to Lou’s house, but I will bet you that his garage is the most organized garage you’ve ever seen – including every tool […]

By Gary Kayye, CTS When I saw the Cisco’s version of HD videoconferencing, called Cisco TelePresence, I was extremely impressed, as I have been with all the HD-based VTC systems.  But, when I started to ask a question of Cisco, I was stopped mid-sentence and told this was, “not videoconferencing; that’s a bad word with […]

By Gary Kayye, CTS I have long been a videoconferencing pundit.  I have never used a system that worked, perfectly, and have, literally, never talked to a customer of VTC technology that was completely satisfied with their installation.  And, it’s not that I didn’t try.  I have asked over and over in seminars, articles and […]

Did you know you’re selling to a different type of buyer than you were five years ago? That was Gary Kayye’s message during “The Future of AV in Everything,” a presentation he delivered to roughly 75 attendees to his event. Gary’s main premise confronts experienced system integrators with the fact that as AV broadens, the […]

It that time of year, again… Welcome to my eighth annual Kayye’s Krystal Ball feature article about predictions for the upcoming year for Professional AV, and even some Home AV technology, trends and products. If you’re a regular reader of this column, then you know that each year I actually start by reviewing my predictions […]

A one-day seminar in Chicago was announced by NSCA. The November 7 event is a full day of classes hosted by Sound Marketing, Middle Atlantic Products and Harman Professional. Normally a $260 cost, the event is free to AV professionals. Two of the courses will be taught by Gary Kayye. The first, “The future of […]