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Optoma’s decided that the install market for projectors is where its future potential growth is going to happen. With that in mind, the company’s come out with a new line of projectors it’s calling ProScene that aren’t available through distribution.

Noah Kaplan, president of Leon Speakers, talks with host Johnny Mota about custom audio, hifi, and “Sound Sculpture” in the residential and commercials spaces. Leon has a new product that won’t be released until CEDIA but he tells Johnny all about it. That and more, on this episode of AV Insider.

Big news in AV and electronics this week, and Gary Kayye and Joel Rollins share a phone call about the biggest — Microsoft tries manufacturing yet again.

Let 2013 InfoComm’s Women in AV Winner tell you what and why women are important to our industry.

Today get two for the price of one as I plug two different things into one podcast. First is all about how much larger the Chinese projection market is than the US market, and for those of you who are considering attending CEDIA I tell you how!

Access Networks is a provider of pre-programmed networking solutions for the HomeAV market. The company developed its Access Unity Network, an enterprise-grade unified home network, to meet the growing AV and automation demands of high-end residential environments. This is a very cool service-offering that EVERY HomeAV integrator SHOULD be selling along with every system they integrate. […]

Joel covers this weeks news, and then holds a conversation with three industry consultants, Brad Malone, David McNutt, and Bill Sharer about a unique program they are co-developing for Infocomm’s Super Tuesday.

Mark and Johnny talk about his latest venture with Milestone Pro AV as the west coast rep and why it’s important to have reps who know and understand the products being sold, as opposed just dropping of literature and saying “call me if you have questions.”

Adam Stone, president of D-TOOLS, talks with Johnny about the importance of design and project management. They cover how and why DTOOLS was created and what integrators can expect from them over the next few years as a software company.

When you think of lighting control you most undoubtedly think of Lutron. And certainly Lutron has dominated the lighting control market. But now Savant has debuted a wireless lighting control system that used WiFi instead of RF.

I don’t necessarily agree with our blogger Mark Coxon and his review of 4K and OLED screens. Listen to my podcast and tell me what you think?

PSAV is for sale for $1 billion. They are best known for their live events management and their investor wants out after doubling the company’s growth.

It is vacation week in Connecticut, and Joel takes advantage of a day alone in the office to catch up with the news of the industry, including new products from several key manufacturers, new distribution agreements, and CEDIA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

What is it and why should you care? Read AV and BOYD here. 

We have a great two part series on why digital signage content is king on our website. If you’re already involved in digital signage or you want to be involved in digital signage, this is a great primer on what’s going on in the entire digital signage industry with respect to content being played on […]

After the news, Joel speaks with Neil Willis about a unique project he is doing to bring the power of digital learning to a rural village in Africa.

I have a special guest for today’s podcast: Darcy Harrell, CEO of Total Marketing, attended (and wrote a review: https://www.ravepubs.com/a-review-of-the-wainhouse-ucc-summit/) of last month’s Wainhouse UC&C Summit in Northern California and she explains why we, in AV, need to focus more on Unified Communications.

Listen to hear where you can find who won what in our Annual Best of InfoComm Awards.

What do you do when you are charged with leading sustainable production (and overall sustainability) for the world’s largest IT event (close to 52,000 attendees) and 8,000 global events per year? Well, Paul Salinger, vice president of marketing for Oracle and his team discovered this answer over the last several years. From achieving a 70 […]

Time Warner is the worst cable company on the planet. Period.

Host Jennifer Willard talks with 2013 InfoComm Women in AV Award Winner Aneeta Gupta.  Hear about the industry, how women such as Aneeta are leading the way and why. Aneeta also talks about what she sees for the future of our global technology industry. Visit her at: http://www.visionaire.com/

Last week, Joel discussed demonstrations with Bill Sharer of Exxel about how we send our demos south. This week, we discuss how to do it right and when it is appropriate to bring out the hardware.

On the first episode of AV Insider, Johnny Mota interviews Randy Kunin of Randall-K Designer HIFI. Randy discusses blending art with audio. Check out his website at http://www.randall-k.com/  

Following the news, Joel talks with Bill Sharer of Exxel about the traps and pitfalls of product demonstrations.

The results of our annual demographic survey are in! Listen to Gary tell you little bit about the average rAVe reader.

We have the details on who is going to win the CEDIA 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. The award goes to somebody you all know and respect and someone I’ve had the honor of teaching with. Listen to hear who won!

There are a lot of opportunities to integrate digital signage in education – both in higher education and K-12. Today I, hopefully, convince you to read a column on it at rAVePubs.com

Today Gary tells you about two audio things going on in our industry that you should be aware of: How to get a rebate on buying new stuff from Sennheiser and all about a really cool microphone lift system from Arthur Holm.

If you integrate AV systems using HDMI connectors, then you’re likely familiar with EDID handshaking problems. Now one manufacturer has introduced one box that solves all HDMI EDID connectivity issues in both HomeAV system and in ProAV applications.

The U.S. Department of Energy has released two things that can help make AV systems smarter. Marketing SmartAV systems is not only profitable — it’s also the wave of the future.

Following the news, Joel speaks with Mike Skryha of Eiki about the life of field sales management, its ups and downs, and what it takes to succeed in the role.

Today’s podcast is mostly about Digital Signage and a little bit about Crestron. What’s Driving Your Content? Digital Signage Media Player Choices Creative Uses for the Crestron Mobile App Creating Content for the Three Types of Digital Signage Networks