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Almo ProAV announced at its E4 AV Tour today that it’s adding installation services as a product that dealers can buy. Listen to this podcast to find out more details.

Extron sent out news of its brand-new BYOD product, the ShareLink 200. At first rAVe founder Gary Kayye was not impressed because the market already has products like that from Barco and Crestron. But if you listen to this podcast, you’ll find Extron does have a handful of features these other products don’t have within […]

BenQ wasn’t at CEDIA but that didn’t keep the company from launching two new, aggressively-positioned home entertainment projectors with the HT1075 and the HT1085ST (ST, of course, stands for short throw). These are uniquely positioned as higher-end projectors that are in the $1,200 price range but are meant to be moved around at will. BenQ’s […]

Amazon may be getting into home control, which we found out this week thanks to a Reuters scoop, and which Gary wrote about in a blog. Do you think this move will affect control manufacturers and dealers in the HomeAV or ProAV markets?

Being green isn’t always about the environment. In some cases, sustainability is about making technology more accessible to the masses by the smart design of products that more people can afford without sacrificing quality. In doing so, more individuals can receive education and ultimately improve their quality of life. In this interview, Midori Connolly chat […]

I’m honored to be the keynote speaker at both stops of the Almo E4 AV tour in October — Boston and Washington, DC — and I hope you will attend. This podcast will give you all the details.

Tim Bigoness, VP of sales and marketing for D-Tools, speaks with Johnny Mota about D-Tools SIX, the coming launch of D-Tools 2015, plus the mobile apps the company currently has and will launch at the end of the year. They talk about how its apps are perfect for saving integrators more time to figure scope […]

With two more stops in Boston and Washington, DC next month, the Almo ProAV E4 AV tour kicks off with a brand-new keynote focused on smart buildings.

CEDIA Expo 2014 is behind us. rAVe’s dedicated MicroSite covers everything we saw, heard and reported on at the audiovisual industry’s largest HomeAV show. We’ve also now released our Best of CEDIA Awards. Listen in to find out more.

I hope you will listen to this podcast as it contains my observations of what I noticed to be overarching themes on day two of CEDIA here in Denver, Colorado.

In today’s podcast I give you my observations for how the CEDIA Expo is doing here in Denver, Colorado and what new stuff I noticed on day one of the show!

I caught up with TDG’s co-founder and CEO, Dan Kippycash, today here in Denver and we talked about how they’re not only sticking to their commitments to their dealer network to only launch products at CEDIA that are ready to ship, but how they’ve stayed true to their service roots. The company looks at integrators as […]

Joe Perfito, president of Gordon J. Gow Technologies INC., Tributaries Cable and Clarus Cables talks to Johnny about audiophile grade cables and how sound waves are affected by differently shaded wires. They cover every type of cable the company makes, and why they sound better using these methods. They also demystify the smoke and mirrors […]

For today’s podcast, Gary is joined by BARCO Residential head Tim Sinnaeve, who will have a busy week as he readies the official launch of the 80-year old projector company’s first line targeted exclusively at the residential market. BARCO chose CEDIA 2014 in Denver for the launch. rAVe got a scoop with this podcast as […]

I had the pleasure of speaking with Bob Hadsell of Draper, Inc. this month. Listen as we weave together the story of how core company values can lead to the most technologically advanced products in a marketplace. You won’t want to miss hearing this interesting preview of the exciting new products they will have on […]

I caught up with Stealth Acoustic’s VP Steve Olszewski this morning and he told me all about the company’s foray into upgrading the outdoor space around a home into a full-fledged home theater environment. In addition to offering custom designed engineered services to integrators to help them design a high-end patio theater, Stealth will offer […]

I caught up with Christie’s new Director of Home Entertainment George Walter, formerly of Digital Projection. Today he told me what the company has planned for CEDIA next week in Denver. Christie will be making its debut at CEDIA using projectors aimed at the cinema channel but, George says Christie will have a line of […]

Raise your hand if you like your cable TV company. That’s just what I thought. Nobody likes their cable TV company — even the people working for them don’t like their own cable TV service. But, there’s absolutely, positively nothing we can do about it. Their monopoly continues to dominate the airwaves and we have […]

CEDIA Expo is the audiovisual industry’s largest home AV and smart home technology show. It gets started in a few weeks in Denver, Colorado. Did you know we are already covering the show before it starts?

You may think you know Joel Rollins but you don’t know everything. He’s our AV People feature this month, so listen, read and find out more!

Last week, Gary posted a blog about making mountains out of carbon fiber and received a lot of positive and some negative feedback. The biggest critics were not in favor of carbon fiber because they didn’t believe it could be manufactured inexpensively enough. Gary agrees, sort of.

Extron, Crestron, Polycom and FSR have all launched new gear this month. I condense them into one handy three-minute podcast!

rAVe columnist Lee Distad poses the question on our website with his latest column about when we should build a system using wired technology versus wireless technology?

Maybe you don’t care about how much mounts weigh, but I do. TV mounts are heavier than the TVs themselves and it’s making it hard hang monitors. But I have a suggestion.

The Home AV industry’s largest trade show is in less than a month. CEDIA heads back to Denver and will showcase the latest in 4K technology, smart home technology, control systems, Green AV & IT technology and The latest an app based home control. We will be there live covering the show with about 10 […]

David Kirk, VP of product marketing at Epiphan Systems speaks to Johnny Mota about realtime screen capture technology in the government, healthcare, transportation, IT/computing, security and broadcast markets. These are great solutions for integrators in the commercial spaces. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider.

The art of selling is about more than just selling something to someone.

Quantum Data has a new series of 4K resolution test generators, which Gary talks about in today’s podcast.

InfoComm has the best networking course for AV pros that’s out there. The next three-day class is coming up in a few weeks. Listen to learn why you should attend and how to sign up!

DropCam’s head of marketing Sean Lindo speaks with Johnny about the brilliant cameras that Nest now has to offer. They’re small, have two-way audio, and are easy to setup. All this and more on this episode of AV Insider.

If you’re familiar with technology such as Uber (a mobile app that lets you find a ride nearby in over 70 cities from pre-vetted drivers), you recognize disruptive technology when you see it. In the IPTV/Video Over IP market, the potential for disruption is massive. Just as Voice-Over-IP transformed the PBX industry, so does the […]

Is marketing a product as being the cheapest, least expensive or entry-level the best way to market a product or just an easy way to market a product?