ProAV Roundup By Gary Kayye, CTS
For the latest news and product views, here's a roundup of what's new in the ProAV market. Find lots of information about the newest products that are important to the ProAV market, such as projectors, displays, presentation equipment, trade show news and much more.
...Read More »
ProAV Roundup By Gary Kayye, CTS
Awards and trends -- there are plenty of both in this ProAV Roundup. CEA and Popular Science Magazine both announced their technology award winners recently and plenty of our industry's own home theater companies came out on top. Here's the latest news for the AV market.
...Read More »
Fiber Technology Today for A/V Systems - Part 1 By John Lopinto
Decades ago, the idea of sending audio, video, voice and data through a glass fiber instead of a copper wire was the dream of every communications engineer. It was obvious to those who understood fiber optic technology at the time that fiber had many technical and potential economic advantages over copper wire for transmitting these signals. Although the advantages were obvious at the time, the technology was not equal to the requirements of the A/V market and the costs were prohibitive for most all applications.
...Read More »
Latest ProAV News By Denise Harrison
For the latest news and product views, here's a roundup of what's new in the ProAV market. Find lots of information about the newest products that are important to the ProAV market, such as projectors, displays, presentation equipment, trade show news, screens, and much more.
...Read More »
Change Your Commission Structure, Fast! By Gary Kayye, CTS
Change your commission structure. Think about it. The Sales Department has not been the most profitable part of the average ProAV dealer in years. In fact, it's not even the second most profitable department. In most cases it's dead last, after rental, service, design/engineering and installation. So, all the "customer service" or labor service-related departments are more profitable than sales. Don't believe it? Figure it out for yourself.
...Read More »
Latest ProAV News By Denise Harrison
For the latest news and product views, here's a roundup of what's new in the ProAV market. Find lots of information about the newest products that are important to the ProAV market, such as projectors, displays, presentation equipment, trade show news, screens, and much more.
...Read More »
The Convergence of HomeAV and ProAV By Gary Kayye, CTS
There is an emerging trend that many of you have already noticed. It's the convergence of the HomeAV market and the ProAV market. For example, hasn't it become a lot easier to tell your neighbors what you do for a living? HDTV and the need for higher resolution displays in the home have driven the trend. In fact, more plasmas have been sold into the home than through the ProAV distribution channel.
...Read More »
Like I Said, Get into Service By Gary Kayye, CTS
Virtually everyone has been predicting that a time will come when we will no longer be able to make money selling most ProAV products without selling services along with them. Most of us felt comfortable that that time was still a few years off in the future. But, after InfoComm 2004, it's clear to me that that time is here.
...Read More »
AV Hall of Fame: Alan C. Brawn By Gary Kayye, CTS
Alan Brawn started life in Wood River, Illinois: Population 11,000. The small town, 25 miles east of St. Louis, offered a classic 1950?s style upbringing, says Brawn, with three oil refineries employing most of the adults and sports occupying the time of much of the youth.
...Read More »
infoComm04 Post-View By Gary Kayye, CTS
ProAV guru and expert Gary Kayye, fresh from an adventure both in the convention hall and behind the scenes, gives you the scoop on what was hot at this year's biggest show for the ProAV marketplace.
...Read More »
What a Great InfoComm! By Gary Kayye, CTS
Attendance was up over 22,000, booths were packed, new product introductions were everywhere and the special events such as the Projection Summit, EduComm and the Digital Cinema Forum were packed! So before we get into the new products that I saw at the show that are going to be hits in 2004 and 2005, here's my opinionated show wrap-up as well as my annual rAVe Radical Product Awards for InfoComm 2004.
...Read More »
At infoComm, Focus on Education By Gary Kayye, CTS
Forget about the exhibits. Don't plan your infoComm experience backwards. Most people attending infoComm plan their show experience around the exhibits and their ability to peruse the show floor and see all the manufacturers they need to see. Then, depending on the appointments they make and the meetings they attend in the booth they determine the leftover time slots for taking in a course or two through infoComm's extensive show educational offerings.
...Read More »
D-Class Amplifiers: Small Size, Lower Power, Big Sound By Gordon Moore
Some industry experts have said that in the coming years, technical advances will be coming to us not from the professional world but more from the consumer world. In effect, the early adopters (in their higher numbers in consumer products) will help fund the research and development that used to lie in the realm of professional products. The phenomenon holds particularly true in the field of audio. Case in point: D-Class amplifiers.
...Read More »
ProAV Industry Leader Russ McDonald Dies By Gary Kayye, CTS
These are the worst kind of announcements to have to make. The ProAV market has lost another great man. Russ McDonald died at his home on Saturday (1/24/04) at the age of 55. Although currently a member of Clarity's Regional Management Team, Russ is best known for his 15-year tenure with Christie Digital (formerly Electrohome, Ltd.). Russ was passionate about display technology and was always willing to share his knowledge with anyone -- and, acted as a mentor to many.
...Read More »
Kayye's Krystal Ball - v.04 By Gary Kayye, CTS
Welcome to my 5th Annual predictions for the upcoming year for Professional AV technology, trends and products. If you're a regular reader of this column, then you know that each year I actually start by reviewing my predictions from last year's column that appeared in the January issue of Sound & Communications magazine. Then, after the humbling experience of taking the time to rate how I did in predicting the trends of 2003, I will jump into my predictions for 2004.
...Read More »
InfoComm 2004: A Chili Cook-Off? By Gary Kayye, CTS
I recently had dinner with Jason McGraw of ICIA. Jason is ICIA's Senior VP of Expositions and is most famous for organizing the ProAV market's premier trade show, InfoComm. We had a great meeting and he shared with me some of the exciting new plans for both the upcoming InfoComm 2004 in Atlanta, GA, to be held June 9-11, 2004 and the ISE show in Geneva, Switzerland, February 2-5, 2004. It is clear to me that both of these shows will help lead our industry into the AV/IT Convergence.
...Read More »
What's Gary Kayye's rAVe? By Gary Kayye, CTS
As some of you may know, I started a new eNewsletter called Gary Kayye?s rAVe in February of this year. This newsletter is in no way competitive to KNews; in fact it?s complementary to it.
...Read More »
Hey, All Those Wireless Naysayers, Say Yea! By Gary Kayye, CTS
Everyone knows that I have been a proponent of the integration and convergence of the IT and AV worlds. There's no question that networked systems are on the horizon for everyone, not just the university community who has quickly embraced it so far. In fact, the simple network monitoring features such as managing projector lamp hours, theft prevention and even controlling AV gear across a network, have caught on so rapidly that just about every projector manufacturer has jumped on the network bandwagon.
...Read More »
CEDIA Rocked By Gary Kayye, CTS
Earlier this month, I attended my eighth CEDIA show and was thoroughly impressed. CEDIA, the leading home theater and home automation show in the world, is like an older person's toy store. It's full of all those gizmos and gadgets that we all want in our home.
...Read More »
2003 Predictions Review By Gary Kayye, CTS
Each year for Sound & Communications magazine, AV Guru Gary Kayye, CTS writes a "crystal ball-style" article that addresses products, technologies and trends that he believes will make an impact in the upcoming year. And, each year, about half way through, he takes the opportunity to review the year's predictions and see how well (or poorly) he's doing so far.
...Read More »
NO...Doesn't have a thing to do with "that" smartphone...or "that" store...or "that" tablet. It's the next generation. Kids and we mean little kids. That's what today's products are being designed for/targeted at. You happen to buy one...fine. Watch a little, little kid pick up a smartphone. He/she just uses it. They've come pre-wired and we're still trying to figure out how to IM. It's the IGen. They want it instantly. They want to use it instantly. They expect their photos, their video, their music, their stuff immediately when/where/how they want it.
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In this clip, lynda.com host Mark Abdelnour takes a look at proxy bidding. He discusses the strategy and how it works. He also discusses the maximum bid, and when to use Proxy bidding.
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The blood, gore, adrenalin challenges that were unveiled at E3 and enjoyed at ComicCon are fun to look at, easy to hold but are they really the games people want to plunk down their credit cards to own or rent time with? Seems as though the investors, the players who control the controllers have a different idea of a "good" game than the kids who develop them. While mobs of people play educational, informational, stimulating games our kid huddles in his room and mumbles "The Few, The Proud, The Gamers."
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ProAV Roundup
For the latest news and product views, here's a roundup of what's new in the ProAV market. Find lots of information about the newest products that are important to the ProAV market, such as projectors, displays, presentation equipment, trade show news and much more.
...Read More »
ProAV Roundup
Awards and trends -- there are plenty of both in this ProAV Roundup. CEA and Popular Science Magazine both announced their technology award winners recently and plenty of our industry's own home theater companies came out on top. Here's the latest news for the AV market.
...Read More »
Fiber Technology Today for A/V Systems - Part 1
Decades ago, the idea of sending audio, video, voice and data through a glass fiber instead of a copper wire was the dream of every communications engineer. It was obvious to those who understood fiber optic technology at the time that fiber had many technical and potential economic advantages over copper wire for transmitting these signals. Although the advantages were obvious at the time, the technology was not equal to the requirements of the A/V market and the costs were prohibitive for most all applications.
...Read More »
Latest ProAV News
For the latest news and product views, here's a roundup of what's new in the ProAV market. Find lots of information about the newest products that are important to the ProAV market, such as projectors, displays, presentation equipment, trade show news, screens, and much more.
...Read More »
Change Your Commission Structure, Fast!
Change your commission structure. Think about it. The Sales Department has not been the most profitable part of the average ProAV dealer in years. In fact, it's not even the second most profitable department. In most cases it's dead last, after rental, service, design/engineering and installation. So, all the "customer service" or labor service-related departments are more profitable than sales. Don't believe it? Figure it out for yourself.
...Read More »
Latest ProAV News
For the latest news and product views, here's a roundup of what's new in the ProAV market. Find lots of information about the newest products that are important to the ProAV market, such as projectors, displays, presentation equipment, trade show news, screens, and much more.
...Read More »
The Convergence of HomeAV and ProAV
There is an emerging trend that many of you have already noticed. It's the convergence of the HomeAV market and the ProAV market. For example, hasn't it become a lot easier to tell your neighbors what you do for a living? HDTV and the need for higher resolution displays in the home have driven the trend. In fact, more plasmas have been sold into the home than through the ProAV distribution channel.
...Read More »
Like I Said, Get into Service
Virtually everyone has been predicting that a time will come when we will no longer be able to make money selling most ProAV products without selling services along with them. Most of us felt comfortable that that time was still a few years off in the future. But, after InfoComm 2004, it's clear to me that that time is here.
...Read More »
AV Hall of Fame: Alan C. Brawn
Alan Brawn started life in Wood River, Illinois: Population 11,000. The small town, 25 miles east of St. Louis, offered a classic 1950?s style upbringing, says Brawn, with three oil refineries employing most of the adults and sports occupying the time of much of the youth.
...Read More »
infoComm04 Post-View
ProAV guru and expert Gary Kayye, fresh from an adventure both in the convention hall and behind the scenes, gives you the scoop on what was hot at this year's biggest show for the ProAV marketplace.
...Read More »
What a Great InfoComm!
Attendance was up over 22,000, booths were packed, new product introductions were everywhere and the special events such as the Projection Summit, EduComm and the Digital Cinema Forum were packed! So before we get into the new products that I saw at the show that are going to be hits in 2004 and 2005, here's my opinionated show wrap-up as well as my annual rAVe Radical Product Awards for InfoComm 2004.
...Read More »
At infoComm, Focus on Education
Forget about the exhibits. Don't plan your infoComm experience backwards. Most people attending infoComm plan their show experience around the exhibits and their ability to peruse the show floor and see all the manufacturers they need to see. Then, depending on the appointments they make and the meetings they attend in the booth they determine the leftover time slots for taking in a course or two through infoComm's extensive show educational offerings.
...Read More »
D-Class Amplifiers: Small Size, Lower Power, Big Sound
Some industry experts have said that in the coming years, technical advances will be coming to us not from the professional world but more from the consumer world. In effect, the early adopters (in their higher numbers in consumer products) will help fund the research and development that used to lie in the realm of professional products. The phenomenon holds particularly true in the field of audio. Case in point: D-Class amplifiers.
...Read More »
ProAV Industry Leader Russ McDonald Dies
These are the worst kind of announcements to have to make. The ProAV market has lost another great man. Russ McDonald died at his home on Saturday (1/24/04) at the age of 55. Although currently a member of Clarity's Regional Management Team, Russ is best known for his 15-year tenure with Christie Digital (formerly Electrohome, Ltd.). Russ was passionate about display technology and was always willing to share his knowledge with anyone -- and, acted as a mentor to many.
...Read More »
Kayye's Krystal Ball - v.04
Welcome to my 5th Annual predictions for the upcoming year for Professional AV technology, trends and products. If you're a regular reader of this column, then you know that each year I actually start by reviewing my predictions from last year's column that appeared in the January issue of Sound & Communications magazine. Then, after the humbling experience of taking the time to rate how I did in predicting the trends of 2003, I will jump into my predictions for 2004.
...Read More »
InfoComm 2004: A Chili Cook-Off?
I recently had dinner with Jason McGraw of ICIA. Jason is ICIA's Senior VP of Expositions and is most famous for organizing the ProAV market's premier trade show, InfoComm. We had a great meeting and he shared with me some of the exciting new plans for both the upcoming InfoComm 2004 in Atlanta, GA, to be held June 9-11, 2004 and the ISE show in Geneva, Switzerland, February 2-5, 2004. It is clear to me that both of these shows will help lead our industry into the AV/IT Convergence.
...Read More »
What's Gary Kayye's rAVe?
As some of you may know, I started a new eNewsletter called Gary Kayye?s rAVe in February of this year. This newsletter is in no way competitive to KNews; in fact it?s complementary to it.
...Read More »
Hey, All Those Wireless Naysayers, Say Yea!
Everyone knows that I have been a proponent of the integration and convergence of the IT and AV worlds. There's no question that networked systems are on the horizon for everyone, not just the university community who has quickly embraced it so far. In fact, the simple network monitoring features such as managing projector lamp hours, theft prevention and even controlling AV gear across a network, have caught on so rapidly that just about every projector manufacturer has jumped on the network bandwagon.
...Read More »
CEDIA Rocked
Earlier this month, I attended my eighth CEDIA show and was thoroughly impressed. CEDIA, the leading home theater and home automation show in the world, is like an older person's toy store. It's full of all those gizmos and gadgets that we all want in our home.
...Read More »
2003 Predictions Review
Each year for Sound & Communications magazine, AV Guru Gary Kayye, CTS writes a "crystal ball-style" article that addresses products, technologies and trends that he believes will make an impact in the upcoming year. And, each year, about half way through, he takes the opportunity to review the year's predictions and see how well (or poorly) he's doing so far.
...Read More »
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