Some time ago, Mark Coxon wrote a compelling editorial entitled “Stay in Your Box” and other Bad Ideas. Mark did his usual great job, and compelled me to want to build on his thesis: that it’s imperative to challenge yourself with taking on new directions. Looking back, the cognitive framework that makes the most sense […]
This week I did something I have never done. I took down a piece of content at someone else’s request. What happened with AV Power Up! 5 Reloaded? Please spend a few minutes with me in my audio blog to find out, and then hang around to have a larger discussion about how the legacy […]
Another week has come and gone and it is finally Friday or Friyay and it is time for the Weekly Wrap-Up! Every week we give you five or so top stories from the week that you can’t miss. This week’s wrap-up features the latest Crew Call column, 100 things about the AV industry, the the […]
A zoologist, an amateur fighter and an AV systems designer all walk into an InfoComm reception… No, that’s not the beginning of a joke, and it’s not three separate people — it’s our friend and blogger Mark Coxon, all rolled into one smart, dynamic person. Mark is all over the AV industry. He’s a dedicated […]
The show is over and it looked to be a very successful venture for many of the manufacturers and solutions providers in the industry. Collaboration, digital signage, high end projection, interactive display technologies and more seemed to be the major focus and the largest draw looked to be Microsoft with their 84″ Surface Hub interactive […]
Here it is — Episode 7 of The cAValry Rides Show: Hijacked! Women, AV, Pirates – Don’t Touch That Dial! After 6 episodes of a show that began in late November 2014, we believe that each show builds bigger and our guests have all been terrific. Each show has been unique in its format and even […]
rAVe has been covering Integrated Systems Europe – the world’s largest AV trade show – with our unique LIVE coverage system since 2011. While not every dealer, consultant or end user can afford to send someone to Amsterdam to see the latest and greatest AV gear every February — they can go to rAVe’s ISE […]
After completing four episodes of The cAValry Rides! Show on rAVe RADIO, we have received accolades from many — in fact our show has been called everything from Drive Time to Morning Zoo. Our guests Tweet out after every show recording in excitement telling about their show experiences. For our latest Episode 4: Rabbits, Potholes […]
Happy Thanksgiving AVTweeps! We hope you all had a great holiday and enjoyed the day off, if you had it. Here are the top stories from the week, in cased you missed any of them and need a second look. • Celebrating 100: A Look Back • Good AV Kickoff Show: Networked Video Like Nothing You’ve Seen […]
First congratulations Mark Coxon for writing the blog on writing your 100th rAVe [Publications] blog. Happy anniversary — all have been great. My turn… It all started for me in April of 2013 and the story in itself is interesting. Gary Kayye, who we know is the owner of rAVe, sent out a tweet one […]
There was a lot of news this week so if you missed anything, here are a few of the top stories from this week. Enjoy! And, if you think we missed something, please let us know! Post by rAVe.
In today’s world of video, there are a lot of numbers swirling around. We have resolutions like 4096 (4k), 2160p (UHD), and 1080p. We have frame rates like 24, 29.97, 50 and 60. We have color bit depths of 8, 10 and 12. And we have data bit-rates of how fast all this data is […]
Miss anything last week? Here are the six stories we think you shouldn’t miss. Catch up on each story below for last week’s top headlines. Disruptive Forces: The Leaders Speak – Mark Loney, StarLeaf Android Signage Goes Dual Screen With VIA ALTA DS 2 Registration Opens for Integrated Systems Europe AV Buddy Pro: An In […]
Back in the spring of this year I had the idea to write a piece on AV/IT convergence, and where I felt we were at with the concept as an industry. I have seen glimpses of convergence in different segments of the AV and low voltage worlds, and it seemed like it was possible to […]
Here’s what you missed this week. Each week we wrap-up the top stories we think deserve a second look. Blogger Mark Coxon tackles 4K with the NFL’s RedZone, Corey Moss writes a blog featuring Christie Digital’s Powerwall, we tell you why design is so important in digital signage and more! If you think we missed […]
After my last piece on 4K and UHD and the infrastructure challenges we face in order to implement it in its best form, I honestly thought I’d be done with the topic for a while. After all, the most recent piece I wrote on 4K before that was in May 2013, almost a year prior. […]
It’s Friday and time for the Weekly Wrap-Up! Every week we give you a second look at some of the top stories from the week. This week’s wrap-up features some new product announcements from Extron and Christie, a post from Matt Cooper on the state of virtual reality in the AV industry, a review of […]
Did you miss something last week? Well, we have gathered some of the past week’s most important news stories so you can catch up. Each week we post the Weekly Wrap-Up featuring the stories we think you can’t afford to miss. This week we are featuring a post from Mark Coxon about AMX and Harman, […]
Happy Friday, and once again, we have the Weekly Wrap-Up for you. Every Friday we post this past week’s most important news stories in case you missed them or so you can get a second look. As we are getting ready for InfoComm 2014 we posted a preview of THE GAME 5.0 at this year’s […]
Hello to the rAVe World! I am told that many of the readers of this publication are manufacturers reps and integrators. That is good, because I am calling all of you out right here, right now. You may want to do some homework before reading any further. I wrote a blog about this in April, […]
I’m always up for a challenge and recently, Mark Coxon threw down the gauntlet and asked me to get a little more specific on what a home theater gaming setup would look like. Although it’s true I haven’t worked directly for a true AV integrator — I have done some HomeAV design and install work […]
Last month, we considered the idea that it isn’t just the disciplines of IT and AV that are converging, but that the tools and components of both disciplines are combining in many AV shows or installations. This earned me some criticism about the way I had misused the term “convergence” (much of it from another […]
At the end of every week, we give you some of the top stories you won’t want to miss. This week we’ve included the latest blog post from Mark Coxon, an episode of Gary Kayye’s Rants and rAVes Podcast on Sony’s Laser Projector Technology and Epson now holds 39% of the projector market share in […]
The proliferation of consumer technology in professional AV has been a hot topic as of late both in the office and amongst my fellow AV bloggers. Over the past week we got commentary from Mike Brandes, Josh Srago, Mike Brandes again. It’s also been a recurring topic on LinkedIn and Google+ AV professional groups. There […]
About what do AV designers talk? Design certainly, in all of its forms. Past projects and wish lists. Perhaps most of all, we talk about technology. For all of our talk on these things, there are relatively few actual product reviews or comparisons. I’ll talk about products here, but stop short of a formal endorsement […]
AV social media maven and rAVe Pubs founder Gary Kaye is making waves with a recent blog post in which he lambasted the HDBaseT Alliance for its failure to properly monitor and implement the “standard” of HDBaseT. His article is well researched, and makes a number of very valid points. A few weeks prior to Gary’s post, another well-respected AV blogger, Leonard […]
There are two major areas of buzz in the display market right now. The first is 4K, (or really 2160p), a technology that is arguably not ready for prime time for most applications until the content catches up to the standard (if you missed my thoughts on 4K, see them here). The second display technology […]
Many of my friends and followers of my Twitter feed, @AVPhenom, may have gathered that I ended up with a little bit of “unexpected” free time lately. That left me with a touch of extra insomnia as well, and as such I turned to my old friend the DVR. I had Field of Dreams on […]
rAVe blogger Mark Coxon has told us that his company, Horizon Display, is holding its first ever “MultiTouch Rocks!” photo contest. The winner will receive a free-standing 22″ MultiTouch display worth about $1,000. To enter the contest, take a photo that expresses what MultiTouch means to you, your business, or your specific market. Post it […]
I usually have a pretty good sense of direction, but when in new cities, I have to get my bearings. The other night I was out walking back toward my hotel, after finding the convention center, and using that as my known landmark. As I was walking, a white SUV passed me, then slowed and […]
My scavenger hunt was a success. I received a box of Cat5e cable from Windy City Wire in Booth 3287. They showed me how their wire is marked with ascending and descending footage, so I was able to pull 300 feet easily, thanks to their rack pack spooling technology! Look for the associated video that […]
