Gary Kayye (01:04)
We are live and we are back. This is Gary K and I’m here with

Steph Beckett (01:08)
Steph Beckett back in North Carolina.

Gary Kayye (01:11)
Yeah, we’re back here for rave

tv the industry’s only live weekly tv show reporting about everything kind of this is like our curated news version of what’s going on this week in ⁓ in av and we come to you live on rave pubs on youtube on ⁓ linkedin actually you can see us live on linkedin and ⁓ we should add some of the others because All these new social platforms are favoring live content stuff. I don’t know if you knew that or

Steph Beckett (01:35)
Where else?

Okay, what

are the new social platforms? TikTok?

Gary Kayye (01:42)
Well, I mean like LinkedIn or

like a well, Tik Tok and Instagram are both really favoring live content. So we should probably go live on those as well. So.

Steph Beckett (01:49)
okay. Go live on TikTok and Instagram. Okay. I don’t

know how to do that, but I will.

Gary Kayye (01:57)
come on, we could figure it out.

Steph Beckett (01:59)
We have, there are people here who know how to do that.

Gary Kayye (02:03)
Yeah, we know how we have people that can do it. You just have your people contact my people.

Steph Beckett (02:08)
Yeah, yeah, we’ll do. So I just got back from Vegas yesterday morning on the red eye and yeah, NAB was pretty good. Honestly, I think it is a little less busy this year than it was last year, surprisingly. But I think that that has to do with the gas prices and everything right now. So I think that it made it a little bit hard for certain people to travel. Of course, like

Gary Kayye (02:14)
How was it?

Steph Beckett (02:36)
Journalists and everything were still there, but NAB has also started catering to this creator crowd. ⁓ So it was a very interesting show because of course there was like traditional broadcast, some traditional AV, some kind of broadcast, kind of AV products, and then like full on consumer products to stream and go live.

Gary Kayye (02:45)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Huh.

Steph Beckett (03:04)
So it’s a really, really interesting show. since the audience is so wide reaching, I thought it would be busier than it was. But I think some of the creator crowd ended up maybe not coming because of how expensive it is to travel right now.

Gary Kayye (03:24)
But at the same time, I don’t know that that’s the right audience for them. I don’t know if that was a good idea or not. Because I think creators, they don’t need to go to NAB to figure out what they need. mean, they can buy complete packages from companies like Shure that have everything that they need. I mean, literally. ⁓ I mean, you just look at what other podcasts are you using. This is like the mic everybody’s using, right? mean, you know, in what you really want. And as far as cameras go, let’s be honest, a lot of people are using

Steph Beckett (03:38)
Mm.

Yeah.

Gary Kayye (03:51)
You know, ⁓ iPhones as cameras because they’re good. ⁓ Where I’m using a Sony Alpha camera, which is, know, an off the shelf camera. You can get kind of anywhere. ⁓

Steph Beckett (04:00)
Sony brought the

Alpha to NAB. That was one of the things that they showed there.

Gary Kayye (04:05)
Okay. Yeah. mean, yeah.

And so I don’t know that I’m not sure what you would get as a creator out of going to NAB. If I were a creator, I’d be more interesting going to South by Southwest and NAB. Yeah. So I think maybe it was a, I think it was a, ⁓ it was a, a miss meaning I think, ⁓ strike one for NAB probably if that was their focus for the show, for 2026, I think they need to go back to their core.

Steph Beckett (04:19)
Yeah, I mean, I don’t know.

Gary Kayye (04:34)
market, just like CDA, CDA has finally decided that they’re going to be CDA again and go back to their core home, home, high end home integration market, not try to cater to consumer ⁓ products and product companies. I mean, it’s what killed DSE, right? The digital science, they tried to be too much. tried to, well, you know, they were a hardware show all about digital signage and they tried to be a software and content show and that you don’t need that. You didn’t need a show for software and content. So.

Steph Beckett (04:42)
Mm.

Yeah, it’s just, it’s hard because so many things already kind of fit. So I think that they just kind of started stretching the definition a little bit of like what kind of fits like at a show like NAB. But it was interesting. I mean, like, I don’t know, is this, is this the future where we’re all just, you know, if any of us need to stream, we’re sometimes using.

Gary Kayye (05:12)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Steph Beckett (05:30)
products that come from the channel, sometimes just consumer stuff. I just think it’s interesting that companies brought their stuff that needed to be properly integrated, but also stuff that was like so consumer.

Gary Kayye (05:45)
Yeah, that’s the problem is that either you’re going to be a consumer show, you’re going to be a commercial show, right? You can’t, there’s not a successful case of being both. And in fact, when you go towards a consumer, tends to favor consumer shows. like CES would be more successful adding commercial stuff than a commercial show would be adding consumer stuff. ⁓ I mean, that’s where I think Infocomm has done a really good job. I mean, Infocomm has struggled because

Steph Beckett (05:49)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Gary Kayye (06:11)
of the market changes. really hasn’t recovered from the pandemic and sort of people’s perceptions of shows, right? That’s been tough. But what Infocomm has done really well is really focused on the core audience, which is commercial AV integrators, right? The high-end integrators doing whatever kind of work that they’re doing. This is the show to go to. And live events managers and facility managers, people like that. They haven’t tried to skew from that. I think that will, know, short term it’s hurting.

The hurting them because the numbers aren’t there yet, but they’ll come back. They’ll come back if you stay on that path They will come back

Steph Beckett (06:47)
I fullheartedly agree. So NAB is an interesting one. I think it’s still an important show because I’m seeing a lot. I saw so much AV technology there. I saw so many people there that I know or companies that I know that I think that that is picked up in the last year as well. I just don’t fully understand why the consumer stuff is picking up too. ⁓ But…

Gary Kayye (07:02)
Mm-hmm.

Steph Beckett (07:13)
I’m gonna keep an eye on it. I’d love to go again next year. I think it’s a show that we need to still have on our radar, for sure.

Gary Kayye (07:21)
Well, ⁓ how do I see your coverage from it? Like, I you went when it when we’d be able to see your coverage and how do we see it?

Steph Beckett (07:27)
⁓ So just straight ravepubs.com and definitely go to our YouTube. We have started uploading the videos from that show. got a few. I was doing the show solo, so I was kind of like taking pictures for social and also networking and also getting product videos. So, ⁓ and then I’m gonna probably write a story in the next couple days that’ll live on the homepage of ravepubs. So if you’re interested in more of my thoughts on what I saw on the show floor and what I think of where it’s heading.

ravepubs.com is going to be your easiest place to look. ⁓ And speaking of the AV broadcast convergence, ⁓ NAB maybe want to focus on that this month for our monthly temperature check survey. So if you would be so kind, please go and fill that out on our homepage. It’s three questions and we always pick two respondents every year, every year, every month to get one of two.

Gary Kayye (08:15)
So, thank you so much.

Steph Beckett (08:25)
$50 Amazon gift card. So very good deal for not a lot of work on your part. So please go fill that out and tell me how

the convergence is affecting you and your workflows, if at all. And that kind of helps me frame my coverage for the next few months and or year. So thank you guys.

Gary Kayye (08:36)
you

Yeah, and we have a special message from sure ⁓ We got it. We got a more of a demo this time of the Intellimix ⁓ bar Pro So this is worth watching check this out. You’re gonna actually see it demoed

Awesome sauce.

Steph Beckett (12:26)
⁓ I have not heard anyone say that in years.

Gary Kayye (12:31)
That’s

because I’m old, I say it all the time.

Steph Beckett (12:33)
⁓ well, all right.

So let’s go into the news a little bit. So Genentech released a state of physical security report and the findings were kind of interesting. They surveyed physical security end users, channel partners, integrators and consultants. And from that pool, they learned that public safety agencies are primarily using physical security data to support those frontline operations, which makes sense. And 81 %

rely on the data that they get to improve the real time situational awareness while responding to public safety emergencies is obviously cited as another top application. And when asked what metrics justify spending.

Gary Kayye (13:21)
Excellent.

Steph Beckett (13:23)
on physical security, most said increased officer safety, ⁓ and then faster response times and improved situational awareness. So a lot of this is like stuff that is obviously very, makes a lot of sense to us within that industry, but if you want ⁓ some more of the full findings from that study, you can go check it out on ravepubs.com.

Gary Kayye (13:49)
Excellent.

In other news, Clarecom announced a new cellular-based wireless intercom system so you can use their intercom systems over a cellular network, not requiring Wi-Fi or anything else. And actually, I think we have a product video in this, don’t we, Steph? We have a product video in this? Yeah, let’s check. Let’s play it.

Steph Beckett (14:03)
Mm-hmm. Yep, that I got from NAB.

So, ⁓ there’s Gary. I was like, Gary, where’d you go?

Gary Kayye (14:52)
I’m still here. I’m studying go anywhere. You want to talk about jet belt?

Steph Beckett (14:56)
Yeah, sure. So JetBot introduced this new feature for JetBot, which if you guys remember, they came out with that last year. It’s their proprietary AI engine ⁓ for use exclusively with their JetBot solution. So basically they launched this thing called Recommend, and this is designed to aid the work of system designers. It suggests appropriate products.

quantities and system configurations for each product and or project and it can also generate a full list of materials, apply labor and structure the project within your jet built environment that you create. ⁓ So it also is just kind of like for reducing time spent on initial project frameworks and kind of is made to automate a lot of that like repetitive setup work. So I think that that’s really interesting.

Gary Kayye (15:50)
Yeah, I think I mean, they’re very creative. I like the guys over at Jetbuilt. They’re doing some really creative things. know, they’re a different kind of organization. There’s a lot of companies doing this kind of stuff in the industry, and they’re doing it differently. And I like what they’re doing. I just was just the other day, one of the

Steph Beckett (15:54)
I do too.

Gary Kayye (16:06)
big, big, big display brands came to me and asked my opinion on the different organizations. And I told them they should check out JetBuilt. One of our ⁓ fairly new sponsors is ViewSonic. And as you know, we’ve talked about this, that they have pre-configured all-in-one LEDs. They’re gonna be showing those at Infocomm, along with a bunch of other new products. Check out this video from them.

Steph Beckett (18:01)
Okay, so we got a couple of pieces of NAB news. I’m expecting that to kind of be a lot of what comes about over the next couple of days. I think today is actually the last day of the show. ⁓ So Waves Audio, they talked about fader expansions, mixing consoles, processing engines. They basically brought the full lineup to NAB. Everyone knows their Emotion LV-1 control. It’s a fader expansion for their mixing consoles.

Gary Kayye (18:15)
Thank

Thank

Steph Beckett (18:31)
⁓ with 17 motorized faders, 17 encoders, and 17 mini displays featuring per channel LCD metering. And then they brought the LV-1 Classic, which is their live mixing console, of course, for those live production and broadcast workflows. ⁓ And again, these are products that are very…

that I expected to see that are very like AV mixing over with broadcast because of course live production is something that matters a lot to us. And of course matters a lot to broadcast. So this is like things that I was expecting to see there. And I was like, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Whereas like, you know, consumer microphones to plug into your iPhone. I was like, that’s weird. So.

Gary Kayye (19:20)
Well,

well, can I do that? Can I do the next story about diversified? So Tyler after Affleter has been appointed the chief revenue officer, basically head of sales, fancy name for head of sales for diversified. Of course, diversified is sort of going through a re-engineering process of the organization. And, you know, he’s ⁓ he brings some experience ⁓ coming from, you know, companies like AT &T and Verizon.

Steph Beckett (19:22)
Do you

Gary Kayye (19:50)
So yeah, hopefully that’ll work in their favor and and you know diversified diversified You know, they kind of got off to track a little bit They they they they’re a big company, you know They’re one of the top three integrators in the world and and everybody’s kind of watching them to see if they sort of like Align themselves with the industry a little bit better and I think bringing in some of the new people probably help them So I’m excited to see how Tyler does

Steph Beckett (20:02)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I think so. They also had a presence at NAB. They had kind of like a booth outside in the hall, like in the lobby area. So I thought that that was pretty cool, know, like definitely putting a presence, because broadcast is something that is very important to them that I’ve learned. And so, you know, I think they are really like aligning themselves back with the channel, back with the industry. So, yeah.

⁓ Atomos was also at NAB. They brought, of course, a very broad lineup as a lot of companies did. They brought ⁓ their 19 inch 4K HDR monitor recorder switcher, say that five times fast. ⁓ They also, they kind of did, you know, the same thing that a lot of companies did. They brought their broadcast stuff, live production stuff, multi-camera stuff. They brought rack mounts.

Gary Kayye (20:59)
Heh.

Steph Beckett (21:12)
They brought Flypaks, ⁓ which the Flypack is a little bit like, you know, that is something that is not necessarily consumer, but is made for the creator on the go, ⁓ for on the side of the road use, for mobile deployment, for wherever you need to go. But then they also brought stuff for like PTZ production. ⁓ So it was just like another one of those companies that brought like a full…

Lineup of stuff that was like professional but also a little bit on the consumer side like we’ve been talking about

Gary Kayye (21:47)
Excellent day. And I always wondered how to pronounce that. So I’m glad that you did it because I’ve been saying Adamos. I’m sure that’s wrong. No, I don’t know which one of us right to actually think that you you’re more likely to be right than me. So you could double check that. But I’m pretty sure you’re right.

Steph Beckett (21:53)
Maybe I’m wrong.

They’re Australian,

so do we need to, we should say it with like an Australian accent maybe.

Gary Kayye (22:03)
Yeah.

I don’t

know. I don’t know. But I so Crestron is one of the supporters of rave TV as you know, ⁓ and they’ll be at info com. They’ll be the first booth you see when you walk through the show. Big presence at the show. They’re excited about the show. We’ll have Brad on talking about it in an upcoming episode. But for now, check out this on the 80 series touchscreens. If you haven’t seen these, this is a great opportunity for you to see them for the first time.

Steph Beckett (23:50)
All right, one of our last pieces of news. Mike Blackman is actually going to be in person and give the keynote at SAVE 2026, which is the conference that’s all about sustainability in the AV industry. I have attended every one. I do think they are worth it. So if this is something that is interesting to you, it’s going to be on October 13th and 14th at UCLA’s campus in California, so in LA. And so they partner a lot with HEPMA.

Gary Kayye (23:50)
All righty.

Steph Beckett (24:20)
Joe Way is a big part of this conference. He usually emcees it and kind of helps host a lot of the different sessions. And it’s really exciting that ISE and Mike Blackman have kind of also seen this as being important. So he’s also gonna fly all the way to California to, you know, give the keynote this year.

Gary Kayye (24:33)
Thanks.

Very good, and we have some we have some virtual events coming up using launch our virtual event platform ⁓ first off we have a ⁓ Event on the 29th, which is next Wednesday called from devices to systems Rethinking the modern meeting rooms in this particular session, which is at 2 p.m. On the on the 29th I’m not sure if it gets CTS for that or not Steph you have to tell me if we do or not But if you okay you exploit you’ll be able to explore the shift

Steph Beckett (24:45)
Yeah.

I don’t think so.

Gary Kayye (25:08)
from device-based design to system-level thinking ⁓ and sort of how, you know, where meeting rooms are today. Obviously things have changed. We’re moving from, you know, moving from putting a bunch of hardware into putting more all-in-one systems in. And what will be featured there will be the Shure Intellimix BAR Pro along with their ecosystem of partners. And then on the 30th, the next day on Thursday, next Thursday,

We’ll have a session called, it’s all about video now. Why AV and broadcast are finally in the same conversation. And that’s going to be something that Tim Albright and Steph, you are hosting. ⁓ And you’re going to talk about what you saw at NAB and sort of talk about the convergence of those two markets. A lot of it being driven by AV over IP.

Steph Beckett (25:50)
I’m ready.

Yeah, so we’re gonna talk a lot about that ⁓ and we’re gonna kinda show a few of the videos of the products that Tim and I bring up in the conversation. So it’s probably gonna be about 30 minutes long, so if you guys would like to come, attend, and check out the conversation for what Tim and I thought were pretty interesting parts of NAB and kind of a continuation of what I’ve been talking about today, I think that that is the perfect place to come do that.

Gary Kayye (26:23)
Well, thanks for watching everyone. You can always see all of our episodes of rAVe TV by going to rAVe pubs or go to youtube.com slash rAVe pubs or Click on the rAVe TV link on our website I did get a couple messages from people saying that they could not see us today on our website I think we have that fixed for future episodes but But you can always see this episode because it gets posted on our website and on YouTube right away. So Check it out Steph. It’s great seeing you

Steph Beckett (26:53)
Great seeing you, Gary. Same time. Oh, yes, I’ll see you next Wednesday. I’ll be in Arizona though. So what, don’t know. There are time zones, like a different time zone. There are time zones, like their own time zone.

Gary Kayye (26:54)
and I’ll see you next Wednesday.

Yeah, sometimes

it’s west coast and sometimes it’s mountain. So you’d have to look and see if they I can’t remember they don’t switch time. So I feel like that right now they’re on the west coast time, but you have to double check that. So maybe you want to get up as early as you think.

Steph Beckett (27:09)
Yes.

I But whatever time it is

for me, trust, I will be live. Whether that is 6 or 7 a.m., I will be there with bells on. We will have a couple of guests next week. think Brad’s gonna come on from Crestron. We’ll have someone on from Viewsonic as well. So we’ll be ending the month with a bang. So, all right. Thank you, and excellent, period. All right, thank you guys so much for watching. We will see you next week. This has been RaveTV, bye.

Gary Kayye (27:38)
Excellent day.