Radio

Howard Gladstone (CEO of Plitron, the engineers and manufacturers of Torus Power) talks to host Johnny Mota about its toroidal transformer power conditioners. They also discuss several high end audio companies such as Krell, Macintosh Labs and Pass Labs, which use Torus transformers in their amps. All this and more on this episode of AV […]

Last week we took six people to the Digital Signage Expo show in Las Vegas and we shot more than 300 product videos, recorded 15 audio podcasts, took more than 150 photos and wrote over 150 news stories about new digital signage products.

Ron Callis, Jr., CEO of One Firefly, speaks with host Johnny Mota about AV and home automation design — why it’s important, how most of our community doesn’t offer it and really needs to start doing so, as well as a few secrets you can learn about by listening to this episode of AV Insider.

Jesse Breidinger of ARAMARK sat down with us at the 2014 Digital Signage Expo and explained the process her award-winning integration for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens’ stadium went through to integrate digital signage that showed a clear ROI. She used Allure Global to manage the creative and integration and the results show the power to […]

The key to making a lot of money in digital signage is doing it right – and doing it all. That includes the creative content too. A company called Allure Global does creative content production, software and management specifically for digital signage systems. This is the “missing-link” for most integrators doing digital signage right. Listen […]

We are live at the DSE 2014 show. Lyle Bunn tracks every aspect of the digital signage market and he joins rAVe RADIO to share his top three trends in digital signage for 2014. Listen to hear them!

Rich has been selling digital signage displays since before the term digital signage was being used. He’s now the VP or Product Marketing and Solutions at NEC and he shares with us NEC’s new product launches here at DSE that include a projector aimed at the DS market and an applications approach to signage integration.

Steve Seminario, Planar’s Senior Director of Product Marketing stopped by our rAVe RADIO podcast station and talked about their new 84″ 4K resolution LCD that’s available in a 32-point touch tabletop and wall mount format (portrait and landscape and a non-touch version called the UltraRes.

Chief just debuted a totally new way to mount video walls and digital signage displays – it’s called ConnexSys and it all mounts on Unistrut. It’s designed to speed up and simplify video wall mounting and integration. Listen and hear how.

Gary caught up with 5th Screen CVP Keith Kelsen – a creative guru in the DS marketplace. In this podcast Keith gives some great examples of how ramification of digital signage is delivering sales results.

Jeff Porter was at SCALA for over 18-years and is now an independent consultant helping emerging companies and technologies to enter the digital signage market. He tells us about two of his newest companies and their unique technology. Jeff’s company is atwww.porterdigitalsignage.com

Lia Osburn, Director of Marketing with elevateDigital stopped by our podcast station in the SCALA booth to explain their unique outdoor offerings for retail and hospitality. They are the leading outdoor DOOH provider for custom solutions. You can learn more about them at www.elevateDigital.com

Gary sits down to talk with iSign Media CEO Alex Romanov in this DSE special edition of Rants and rAVes. iSign Media makes a simple-to-integrate bluetooth device that sends digital signage content to a mobile device – without loading an App on your phone! Listen to hear how it works and learn more at www.isignmedia.com

Gary caught up with BrightSign CEO Jeff Hastings  here at the 2014 Digital Signage Expo to talk about their new 4K resolution media player – the first in the digital signage market. He talks about the technology used to get the 4K resolution at 60fps and about how to become a BrightSign integrator.

We are live at the annual Digital Signage Expo (DSE) and right before the official opening of the show, we grabbed Scala CEO, Tom Nix, and he filled us in on what’s new at Scala, how their 2013 was and what to expect from Scala and the digital signage market in 2014.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we will be broadcasting live from the digital signage expo. Our coverage will include podcasts, video interviews, and all the news that’s announced that the Digital Signage Expo here in Las Vegas. It’s all at www.ravepubs.com/dse2014  

We are back from the ISE 2014 show in Amsterdam. Our show coverage includes 1300 Videos, 1000 photos, 15 rAVe RADIO podcasts and 400 new product news stories all at www.ravepubs.com/ise2014.

rAVe’s Gary Kayye and Joel Rollins wrap-up the 2014 edition of the Integrated Systems Europe show with one final podcast. They talk about their overall impressions of the show, the new products introduced at the show that will make an impact in 2014, show attendance and how ISE may effect the rest of the AV […]

We take an opportunity to sit down on the show floor at ISE with Mike Abernathy of Atlas Sound. We talk IED Electronics, about Atlas’ product lines, and hear his reasons for coming to the ISE show.

Social media marketing and monitoring will be a great market potential in the future for audiovisual integrators — listen to my podcast today and hear why!

rAVe RADIO host Joel Rollins speaks with Frazer Cousins of Smart technologies about ISE 2014 and Smart’s new push into the Unified Communications market in this special edition of THE WEEK.  

ISE 2014 set an attendance record but I think there’s something more important about the numbers than just the numbers themselves.

Gary Kayye and Joel Rollins comment on the technologies debuting at ISE 2014, including new wireless systems, new videoconferencing, cars with projection windows and refrigerators with movie capability.  

Christie has finally showed a finished version of its Brio product. Brio is Christie’s wireless BYOD solution that allows you to wirelessly connect to small and medium-size rooms on-the-fly. Aimed at the Barco ClickShare product, Brio has a couple of interesting features that no other BYOD solution has. Listen and see what you think.

A brand-new product from AVI-SPL called Block ME allows you to make sure your rooms are secure and nobody can listen or see you in a room that has videoconferencing or audio conferencing — no matter what.

Gary was joined today by Chief’s Director of Product Management Nathan Bohl, who used rAVe RADIO as a platform to debut the company’s new ConnexSys video wall mounting system. The system will simplify video wall mounting and maintenance with the ability to mount an entire wall from one point, speed leveling, quick-release pop-out maintenance, and six […]

Gary caught up with Rich Ventura, Vice President Product Marketing and Solutions with NEC, this morning and he gave rAVe the scoop on everything that their launching at the Digital Signage Expo in two weeks in Las Vegas. The three must-sees that he told us about were the company’s new 80″ multi-touch, its 55″ super-ultra narrow […]

We are heading over to Amsterdam and we will be reporting live from the Integrated Systems Europe show. We’ll shoot a lot of videos, write a lot of new stories, blog, podcast and more live from the show floor. Last year’s ISE show resulted in a lot of new product introductions that were not seen again […]

I caught up with Paul Ingebrigtsen, the CEO and President of Williams Sound, and he actually demo’d the new Digi-Loop for me as well as showed me the brand-new Digi-Wave-Dock that basically allows the Williams Sound assistive listening and tour-guide portable wireless systems of the DLT 100 (digital transceiver) and DLR 60 (digital receiver) to work in […]

Did you know that it’s possible to remotely locate videoconferencing cameras — including video, control, audio and VISCA Loop — up to 100 meters from the VTC codec? Well, thanks to Sound Control Technologies and its new RemoteCam 3x, you can put a VTC camera anywhere you want one. Using standard low resistance UTP wire, […]

The new BrightLink Pro from Epson is nice enough to put in any room – not just classrooms. Have you seen it?