Repackaging InfoComm

Well another InfoComm has come and gone, and another Las Vegas record was set this year with over 38,000 attendees at the 2016 show. By attendance alone, you’d have to agree that the show is as healthy as ever. The InfoComm show is an amazing place to connect with industry peers, showcase new products to […]

Repackaging InfoComm

JBL by HARMAN Expands Intellivox HP Series Column Loudspeakers with New Smaller, High-Power Offering

LAS VEGAS––JBL by HARMAN is continuing its commitment to providing maximum intelligibility for any environment by expanding the popular Intellivox beam shaping loudspeaker series with the new HP-DS170 column array. Announced at InfoComm 2016, the new HP-DS170 has been designed for use in even the most challenging of acoustic environments. With built-in amplification, onboard Digital […]

JBL by HARMAN Expands Intellivox HP Series Column Loudspeakers with New Smaller, High-Power Offering

AMX by HARMAN Provides Affordable HTML5- Based Control of SVSI Systems with N-Touch Panels

LAS VEGAS—AMX by HARMAN is furthering its commitment to providing simple, cost-effective control solutions for a variety of markets by announcing new 7” AMX N-Touch Panels. This update to the AMX N-Series panels brings a larger touch screen and improved hardware design. The panels, which are available in 7” tabletop or wall-mount options, are based […]

AMX by HARMAN Provides Affordable HTML5- Based Control of SVSI Systems with N-Touch Panels

Want to Learn How to Develop Products the Right Way? Ask Milestone AV

I am not sure there is a better example for how to design and market products right now in the ProAV market than how Milestone AV Technologies – parent company for Chief Manufacturing, Da-Lite, Vaddio, Sanus and Projecta — is doing it. I won’t bore you by going through each and every product case over […]

Want to Learn How to Develop Products the Right Way? Ask Milestone AV

My Interest in Podcasting, and Some Great Influences

For those who know me, they know I like to be serious and have a good time as well, and I always call the ratio 70/30 – you can guess which falls where (getting down to business is an entirely different story though). For those who know me in person or have listened to me […]

My Interest in Podcasting, and Some Great Influences

Transforming the Industry at InfoComm 2016 : My Disruptive Top 10

For the third year at the show I picked my top 10 solutions, however this year I actually looked for a different angle – as in has disruptive become a worn out term in the industry? I asked around, on the verge of a social media game, to come up with that word to replace […]

Transforming the Industry at InfoComm 2016 : My Disruptive Top 10

Can There Finally Be a “New UCC Mindset?”

To refresh the memories, when entering the UCC Pavilion at InfoComm 2016 this is what you were witness to: Videoconferencing and telepresence systems Remote worker / teleworker technologies Cloud services Unified communications and collaboration technologies Networked interactive whiteboards Unified communications as a service (UCaaS) providers Videoconferencing as a service (VCaaS) providers Managed services providers Collaboration […]

Can There Finally Be a “New UCC Mindset?”

InfoComm from Afar

And… one more quick one post-InfoComm post. For the second consecutive year, family obligations kept me away from the big show. Last year it was my lovely bride’s recovery from major back surgery; this year was a more joyous occasion as my son graduated pre-school (and yes, this is important; another tradeshow will always come, […]

InfoComm from Afar

Sony’s Canvas Display — Best of Show at InfoComm 2016?

I can’t really crown Sony’s CLEDIS display my best of show winner, as I have only been here one day and have not seen all the cool stuff yet – but this one will be hard to top. It truly is a new display category, as it is the first commercial product using a new […]

Sony’s Canvas Display — Best of Show at InfoComm 2016?

My InfoComm 2016 Video Interview at InFocus

I had a chance to sit down with both Chief Marketing Officer Brady Bruce and CEO Mark Housley of InFocus at InfoComm this year. This is the first time both of them have done an interview tougher since InFocus acquired Jupiter Systems last year. We talked about their merger, the fact that they’re opening a […]

My InfoComm 2016 Video Interview at InFocus

My Video Interview with Milestone’s Senior Marketing Manager, Melissa Rone

Milestone is doing something that EVERY manufacturer in the ProAV market should be doing — asking their customers how they can redesign their products to make them better. Simply genius! InfoComm 2016 represented the first U.S. show where Milestone combined both Chief and Da-Lite in to one booth and it included flying 6 Christie Projectors […]

My Video Interview with Milestone’s Senior Marketing Manager, Melissa Rone

My Annual Video Interview (& Booth Tour) with Visix’ Sean Matthews

In addition to talking about the new gear from Visix at InfoComm, Sean Matthews, Visix’ President, took me on a booth tour! Visix launched paper-white ePaper signs that are batter operated (and color), room signs that can use Android tablets, an augmented reality mapping program that’s super-impressive and a hand-held digital signage player. If you […]

My Annual Video Interview (& Booth Tour) with Visix’ Sean Matthews

Our InfoComm Coverage Is BIG-TIME, Includes Over 1650 New Product Videos!

This year at InfoComm, we shot over 1650 new product videos, recorded over 60 podcasts, we debuted rAVe [TV] with over 40 new TV show (featuring one-on-one interviews with rAVe’s very own Joel Rollins), we took over 300 show floor photos, we live-streamed over 90 times from the show floor using Facebook LIVE and Periscope, […]

Our InfoComm Coverage Is BIG-TIME, Includes Over 1650 New Product Videos!

Earthworks Debuts FMLR FlexMic Podium Microphones With LED Light Ring

Earthworks has expanded its FlexMic Series of podium microphones to include the FMLR models, which feature a single color LED light ring at the top of the microphone. The LED light ring can be programmed via an external media control system to indicate on/off status. The FMLR microphones are available with either a green or […]

Earthworks Debuts FMLR FlexMic Podium Microphones With LED Light Ring

Getting Close

This month, I take a quick break from writing about ITIL. Why? Well, it is June and in the AV world that means InfoComm. We all know that InfoComm is the closest that all of us AV people get to a national holiday.  I won’t be in Vegas this year but will be watching intently […]

Getting Close

A Locksmith, a Monkey and the Oldest Profession: On Disruption

While I’m not attending InfoComm in meatspace this year, I’ve managed to flitter in and out of the show via Twitter, Periscope, Snapchat, etc. I’ll talk more about the experience of the trade show from afar, but today I’d like to discuss the keynote speech, a recent visit I made to my locksmith and what […]

A Locksmith, a Monkey and the Oldest Profession: On Disruption