Just one I had to share with you really quick. ..I was in the Christie booth today (will be talking about that later) .But this was the real eye-catcher for me.. an awesome set of projectors mapped and masked to an irregular geometric back wall. JRR

Spent the bulk of the day looking around the professional AV area, meeting up with friends and arranging some serious demo time on some new products. The show is divided into separate areas for Pro AV, Home AV, Digital Signage, etc… and the array of exhibits is enormous. It really is like attending InfoComm andCedia at the same […]

Wow. This show could be a week long and you still wouldn’t have the time to see everything. But had a great morning, saw a number of great new products and demos, all of which are shown in detail at www.ravenowise.com. Of particular note, I spent some time at Mitsubishi getting a detailed demo on what […]

Well, it is 4:30pm here in a rainy, windswept Amsterdam, and I’m just winding up my second day here at ISE. The show is still open, but I’ve beaten the massive crowd for a taxi, got my blank receipt (there are no IRS subscribers that I know of) and am sitting down to edit my pictures and […]

The 2013 version of the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) has come to a close, but our coverage here will live for another year – until opening day of the 2014 event. We have so much coverage – and there’s so much information on this ISE microsite that it can be overwhelming. So, please take moment to read this […]

I had a chance to grab Wilfred de Man, general manager EMEA of Philips MMD, today at the ISE show here in Amsterdam on a busy Day 2. We toured his stand and shot a number of product videos that are posted on our ISE portal at http://www.rAVeNOWise.com under the VIDEOS tab — you can then type in Philips in the search box. Afterwards […]

I had a chance to sit down with Eric Van Zele, the president and CEO of Barco, today here atISE in Amsterdam on Day 2 of the show. In addition to asking him where he sees Barco three years from today, I talk to him about his vision for how Barco fits into the systems integration segment of the corporate AV market. […]

Just four weeks into his new role as CEO and executive director of InfoComm, Dave Labuskes (formerly withRTKL Associates) hit the ground here in Amsterdam at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show – the world’s largest AV trade, which is co-managed by InfoComm and CEDIA. ISE kicked off the show by celebrating its10th Anniversary and recognizing its founding exhibitors, including companies like AMX, Crestron, Vogol’s and Christie. After cutting […]

Acoustical analysis of any large or small space can be a very daunting task to take on for the average Audio, Video, or IT related position.  The fact that at least 80% of audio products are designed to reduce or minimize the effects that poor design has on rooms makes this even more important.  Most […]

In a first ever, Christie has integrated Corning’s Gorilla Glass into a forthcoming 55″ LCD display. Hidden above the show floor in a private suite, Christie took me to see a prototype of a new 55″ LCD where the company has bonded Gorilla Glass onto the surface of a screen that has less than a 6mm bezel. […]

After a couple of years of not being at ISE, Cisco is back and early indications are that the company will return in 2014. It had exhibited in the past under the Tandberg logo but, after it purchased the company back in 2009, didn’t attend ISE in 2011 or 2012. But as its ProAV guru Paul Depperschmidt told me last week […]

Digital Signage Expo (DSE) is a little less than a month away, but the president at Exponation, Chris Gibbs, found the time to fly into Amsterdam to check out the world’s largest AV tradeshow (ISE) to see what’s up with all this AV stuff. And, I happened to be heading into the Peerless-AV stand to shoot […]

First impressions: the show is huge, and everyone is lost. Which may not be a bad thing, because while I was lost I discovered a number of manufacturers I had never seen before, with some interesting products, which I’ll be going back to see. From my own point of view, and especially for you stagers, […]

I had the opportunity to sit down with Barco’s Dirk Hendrickx (VP of EMEA) yesterday morning ahead of the “official” announcement of the company’s ClickShare feature additions. He was upbeat about three specific additions to their one-click wonder. You may recallClickShare has the capability to route video via a network — without any cables or switchers required. All you do is connect a […]

rAVe Founder Gary Kayye was asked to moderate the Expert’s Panel at the end of the day-long AOpen Forum here at ISE 2013 in Amsterdam. It was attended by more than 140 people and experts on the panel included manufacturers, creative content companies and everyone else in the digital signage business chain including market analysts. Here’s a complete list of the panelists: […]

In this pre-show ISE 2013 video interview, rAVe’s founder Gary Kayye sits down withBarco’s vice president of EMEA, Dirk Hendrickx, and he speaks all about Barco’s future strategy. It’s way, way more than projectors. In fact, he outlines a really interesting vision forBarco’s future including something he coined as Cloud Visualization. He believes that Barco’s role in AV’s future will be to help in the convergence of AV and […]

Well, made it to Amsterdam just in time for the rAVe breakfast meeting. Huge crew of folks here getting ready to bring you the latest news as it breaks… This afternoon, I will be delivering a new presentation on The Next Wave of Client, as part of the European Future Technology Summit, for InfoComm. It ought to be […]

A positive workplace culture and realizing that we are all on the same team is the goal… it defines our brand, who we are and what kind of company our clients want to do business with. So stop and think about this for a second: Are you really a team player? I do believe that […]

Prior to CES I can tell that it’s coming, with the increased volume of press releases spamming my inbox. During CES, the spam reaches a fever pitch, and after, I feel what can only be described as “numb” to the barrage of PR flacks clamoring for attention. What I’m especially tired of is PR people bragging about how […]

Yesterday, the California Judicial Council, the policy making body of the California Judicial Branch, made an unprecedented and equally controversial move on the use of videoconferencing in courts. For the first time in the history of any justice system worldwide, the Council unanimously approved: The use of videoconferencing in all traffic infraction trials Adopted a […]

I had to wonder, is it just me? Is it the cold climate in central Maine? So I asked around. Have you had this problem? Turns out, yes — just about everyone else had the same problem? Then I had to ask. So, why has the problem not been fixed and why do we still […]

Last week’s CES had to be the most over-hyped trade show in history. It reminded me of one of the last years of the famed PC-industry shows called COMDEX – the coincidences aren’t lost on me. For example, CEA — the people who put on the CES-fest exclaimed at show’s end that it was the BIGGES CES, ever. In fact, they bragged there were over […]

Integrated Systems Europe is one of the largest AV and electronics tradeshows in the world. Taking place in Amsterdam, it covers most of the Amsterdam RAI and plays host to almost 900 exhibiting dealers and manufacturers. This year it will be its largest yet, having expanded to all 12 halls, and over 32,000 net square-metres. ISE anticipates welcoming over 40,000 […]

With two weeks to go before showtime, rAVe’s Gary Kayye, sat down with ISE’s Managing Director, Mike Blackman and gets filled in on all the pre-show preparation and what to expect as ISE 2013 opens at the end of the month! The key takeaways are BIG, BIG, BIG: Biggest AV Show ever Most exhibitors than any other AV show in history More show […]

We are excited to share this exclusive 30-minute interview with David Labuskes, the new executive director and CEO of InfoComm International. Our own Gary Kayye had the pleasure of “sitting down” with David last week for his FIRST interview in his new role — literally on the last day or his first week on the job. This interview is a […]

Recently I attended an IDCEC approved course called “Unleashing Creativity and Tapping into the Intuitive Mind.” The description of the course touted tools for reducing stress and problem solving at work and at home. When I signed up I remember being excited and thinking this course would have universal appeal. Who wouldn’t be interested in attending something like that? I was […]

Well, here we are in 2013. And, as with each year, I need to pick out the things that I am going to complain about this year. But this year there is no contest. It is the “dumbing down” of our industry. There is certainly no doubt that we live in an era of increasingly fast technology […]

Given last year’s utterly embarrassing and widely reported failure on the part of Consumer Electronics Association’s (CEA) president and CEO Gary Shapiro in response to being asking his opinion on “booth babes” and the subsequent backlash, I was hopeful 2013 would be a much better year. Never could I have imagined — or thought it was even […]

(Click for full-size comic) Just last week the cartoon posted above was making the rounds through my corner of Facebook. Why it’s funny is because, obviously, music listeners seldom know what they’re missing. I don’t mean to single out audio. But in the case of both audio and video do people really know what they’re […]

Today, rAVe is announcing that we are partnering with Insight Media to bring the AV industry even more in-depth video coverage and analysis at trade shows and major industry events. Chris Chinnock and I have been friends a long time. There’s a huge amount of mutual respect and he’s provided invaluable editorial content over the years with our partnership […]

The old adage that you get what you pay for is no more true today than it ever has been. The one thing has always rang true is that value is the only thing that separates most competition. This is one area of our business in AV that I learned early on.  Some people expect […]

The New York Times recently ran an article about a newer trend in creating church environments in unusual places. The article is worth a read, but I wanted to elaborate on what it means for the A/V/L industry. In short, the article cited examples of churches in Dallas, Washington, D.C. and Tampa where they created unique spaces that […]