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Gary was joined by Intel’s Global Director of Sales, Thomas Loza  today to talk all about their ISE plans – including a booth in Hall 12 as well as one in Hall 8 – C240. The Intel Unite platform is universal so it supports nearly every UCC video collaboration system and allows for room, gear and even environment control, […]

Gary was joined by easescreen’s own Echnaton Birkmann who took him through a live video demo of the easescreen digital signage solution and software. easescreen will be at ISE next week in Amsterdam in Hall 8 stand E120 and they have three different software solitons: Simple, Business and Enterprise. The Simple system was live-demo’ed here on rAVe RADIO and […]

Gary was joined, via video, with Aurora Multimedia‘s CEO, Paul Harris, today to talk all-about-ISE. Aurora has some big launches planned for the show — in Hall 5 stand S85 — next week in Amsterdam and this will be the first public showing of the finished ReAX Java-Script based control platform and he’s use it to debut two […]

Vivitek EMEA will kick-off the ISE show celebrating 10 years in the EMEA market by launching a few major new products including brighter projectors, more interactive panels, non-interactive panels with built-in NovoConnect and a new 4000 lumen projector integrated with their NovoConnect Wireless Collaboration System. Gary was joined with Vivitek’s General Manager for EMEA, Holger Gräff  who talks […]

In this edition of his pre-ISE podcast, Philips teases a totally-new product line they will launch at ISE next week. Gary was joined with Philips’ VP or EMEA, Franck Racape to not only talk about the new product line but also their plans in wireless streaming for both the corporate meeting room and huddle rooms space but also inhospitality […]

Gary was joined with WyreStorm’s CTO Dave Silberstein today to talk about two major initiatives they will launch at ISE. In addition to to showing the first AV-over-IP integration of Domotz’ Remote Monitoring & Management platform they will be showing the capability to both build video walls with AV-over-IP sources but also tile multiple sources on one screen – what Gary […]

Gary was joined on his pre-ISE podcast today with Absen’s Christian Czimny, Director of R&D, to talk all about their ISE plans. As we reported earlier this week, Absen has big plans at ISE and, after being recognized as the top exporter of LED in the world for the 10th year in a row, they will be all about […]

At ISE 2018, NEC Display Europe was awarded Best Booth by rAVe — and a host of other publications covering the show. Their 3-applications areas really simplified the technology for the attendees. And, for 2019, they’re back — the three areas are retail/digital signage, Collaboration and Large Venue and the entire thing, according to NEC’s Section Manager Strategic Product Marketing, Thomas […]

BrightSign just changed the digital signage world forever, with their new BSN.cloud. It’s the future of how all digital signage will be controlled, managed and distributed. Don’t believe me? Well, then listen to this podcast and let the CEO of BrightSign, Jeff Hastings  explain it — then you’ll understand why I can confidently make this claim. And, […]

There’s no doubt that Barco is leading the wireless collaboration market with their ClickShare lineup of collaboration devices and, just last week, launched two new units — the ClickShare CS-100 Huddle and the CSE-200+ with a 4K Output. In addition to integrating enterprise-level security, adding extended desktop and universal App connectivity to all models they are also […]

NETGEAR will again be in the SDVoE Alliance Booth (Hall 3 stand B150) at ISE next week and they will be demo’ing a reference design for an HDMI input card directly into the 96X series of NETGEAR switches. The advantage of a on-board card is that racked sources can be connected directly to an AV-over-IP switch without the need for […]

OLED is the most innovative of the direct-view display technologies — even companies without OLED talk about OLED. And, LG is leading the OLED revolution in monitors by miles. They have transparent, bendable, curved, convex, wallpaper and now rollable OLED. What’s next? And, what’s the use case — can you use OLED in a retail application where the […]

The SDVoE Alliance will be at ISE, again, in Hall 3 Stand B150 with 40+ other companies showing the industry’s only AV-over-IP standard of products. Gary was joined on today’s podcast with Justin Kennington  the SDVoE Alliance President, to talk about the state of the AV-over-IP market and the products that will be at ISE — including an […]

When Stephanie Gutnik was graduating from McGill University in Montreal just 8-years-ago, she had no idea she’d  be working inside the industry most creative professionals think of as the future of advertising. But, she is. And, not only is she, at less than 30-years-old, already the Vice President of Business Development for Broadsign (a leading DS provider), but she’s also on the […]

Jeff Curtis, & Josh Thurman were invited back to AV insider to discuss the most important thing about AV, which is your network. Don’t agree with me? Listen to these two important key players at Legrand’s networking brand, Luxul, discuss the importance of continually continuing networking education, what type of devices live on your network, […]

Welcome to Technologist In Bars Talking AV! Come hang out with me and my guest Joe Way at GameCraft Brewing. We’ll have a drink, eat some spicy chicken, play Jenga… and if there’s still time left, maybe we’ll talk about Joe’s role in AV as well as his new book Producing Worship. Check out GameCraft […]

Nureva has clearly used the ISE Show  annually, as a launching pad for their new products. They have a big, new audio-based product coming at ISE but a whole lot more, too. In addition to some big Span updates, they will be there with simpler software functionality for casual Nureva Wall users and demo’ing their Microphone Mist technology. This podcast includes […]

Want to see a live, real-time demo of the new Altia Systems PanaCast 3 UCC camera? Gary was joined today by Altia Systems CEO Aurangzeb Khan and he did a demo of the PanaCast 3 — using the PanaCast 3. It’s smaller than the PanaCast 2, has three higher resolution cameras and is officially debuting stand number 13-B150 at […]

Gary had a chance to talk to DVI Gear’s Matthew Pulsipher who detailed what the DN 150 is and why it’s replacing the DN 100 Series  — it all has to do with 4K and the need to convert it into a “virtually matrix-able” AV-over-IP signal (10Gbps via SDVoE . And their demo of it is going to be pretty […]

On today’s pre-ISE podcast with CTOUCH CCO, Francois Barlinckhoff, it’s clear that they are laser-focused on the UCC market.  In fact, they have moved their stand, for the ISE 2019 show, to the UCC Hall — Hall 11 stand B150. CTOUCH already has a comprehensive lineup of 65” to 86” 1080p and 4K resolution collaboration and interactive touch displays, but if […]

Matrox is well known for their graphic cards as well as their streaming video technology. But, starting with ISE 2019, they want you to know them for their AV-over-IP technology — especially in the 1G AV-over-IP space. Gary was joined by Matrox’s Vice President of R&D, David Chiappini  today to talk about where Matrox stands and where they intend to […]

Gary was joined by both Birgit Jackson, Commercial Director of Visual Solutions and Jason Cort  Director of Product Planning and Marketing, at Sharp Europe to talk about their unique Windows Collaboration Display  While the rest of the collaboration board manufacturers are making stand-alone interactive boards for meeting rooms, Sharp’s been innovating a unique way to allow the their […]

The first Selling AV topic of 2019 comes to us from an integrator in Australia. How do integrators better work with consultants to deliver value? Tune in to find out!

Hamid Farzaneh, CEO of Alea Labs, and I speak about air quality and why it’s important to not only the your enjoinment outdoors, but more importantly, indoors. We cover this topic from residential to light commercial applications, and how Alea Labs has really created something unique that nobody else is doing yet — but should […]

Gary was joined by Kramer’s VP of Marketing, David Margolin  on today’s pre-ISE podcast to detail their plans at ISE — exhibiting in Hall 1 Stand F20. Kramer will debut an entire AV-over-IP product line including 1G and 10G distribution as well as an AVaaS platform — all while offering both control and AV-over-IP certification classes on the show […]

What do these four things have in common? Well it’s the subject of Gary’s first podcast of 2019. Big news, big news, big news. Listen, listen, listen!

HEGEL Music Systems, world-renowned for high-performance audio electronics, has appointed Brad Paulsen as their new National Sales Manager for the US. Brad will add to the existing team, working closely with Hegel senior sales management Eileen Gosvig and Anders Ertzeid to grow and expand the company’s presence in the US Market. Brad joins us again […]

Blake Vackar, VP Sales and Brand Manager at Screen Innovations, speaks with me about the latest and greatest “Screen Innovations” over at SI Screens. We cover everything to screen projections in space to, commercial applications, and phenomenal playback for all of us still living on earth. We talk about a few things I wont mention here […]

Not only has Penny Sitler paved the way for many women in the ProAV market by being one of the first females to do marketing for an AV manufacturer, but she just spent the last year as chair of the AVIXA Women’s Council. Penny has not only spent her entire professional career in Draper‘s hometown of Spiceland, Indiana, […]

Gina Sansivero, VP, Marketing and Corporate Communications at AtlasIED, speaks with me about her new role at Atlas IED. Gina & I speak about all things AtlasIED; what’s new, what’s coming, what to expect at tradeshows, and things she’s hopeful to achieve in the coming year of 2019. Of course we talk about AtlasIED’s roadmap, but […]

Laura Padilla, Head of Business Development & Channel at Zoom, speaks with me about Universal Communication and Collaboration, all things Zoom. We talk about what separates Zoom them from the pack of similar companies providing similar services in UCC. We also cover Zoom rooms, Zoomtopia, and a few AV insider “you can on hear about […]

I want to make Selling AV a collaborative effort in 2019, so here’s how I propose we do that with a new format in the New Year.