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Rants and rAVes — Episode 226: Atlas Sound’s Dealer Protection Program
Atlas Sound is the first manufacturer that I know of to come up with a program where it protects dealers who work on systems and punishes dealers who steal jobs. Listen to the podcast and then read...
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Are You Installing Or Are You Experimenting?
Not long ago, I received a phone call, out of the blue, from a friend who owns a distributor for Hi-Fi and automation system brands. The reason for the call was even more unexpected. My friend was...
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Corey Moss: Getting AV/IT Business Done in the Great White North Leonard Suskin: Consumerization in Pro AV Scott Tiner: Don’t Let Your AV Be a Target Kevin A. Busza: The New Rep Line Card –...
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Michael Schaffer Named Scala Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer
Scala, Inc. announced this month that it has hired Michael Schaffer as its new chief financial officer and chief operations officer. Reporting to Scala CEO Tom Nix, Schaffer started Jan. 20, 2014....
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THE WEEK – Episode 64: Doing Business Overseas
At the very close of ISE, THE WEEK host Joel Rollins had a chance to sit down with Bob Snyder of rAVe Europe to talk about the finer points of doing business overseas. An American who has worked and...
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Peerless-AV Promotes Brian McClimans to Vice President of Global Business...
Peerless-AV has announced the promotion of Brian McClimans to vice president of global business development effective immediately. McClimans will be expanding his role into a stronger international...
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Organically Certified Displays: OLED May Become Cheaper (And More Organic)
Recent research has discovered a new approach to Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) that may reduce or eliminate the need for the rare (and costly) metals needed to manufacture OLED displays. Thanks...
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Biamp Introduces Vocia 1.6 With Nurse Call Integration at HIMSS 2014
BEAVERTON, Oregon — Feb. 21, 2014 — Biamp Systems, a leading provider of innovative, networked media systems, is introducing the new Vocia® 1.6 with Nurse Call Integration (NCI) at HIMSS 2014. Designed...
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Inventory Highs And Lows
It’s now been many years since I’ve had to do inventory. That’s one of the advantages to working twelve hundred kilometers away from our head office and warehouse. Earlier in my various careers I...
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Rants and rAVes — Episode 227: Extron’s Pro Series Control System Offers...
THE WEEK podcast host (and AV integrator and AMX dealer) Joel Rollins joins Gary to talk about the impact of Extron’s new Pro Series Control System line on the big-boys: AMX and Crestron.
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GatorVision Enhances University of Florida In-Venue Sports Production with...
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, February 24, 2014 – GatorVision is the University of Florida athletic department’s broadcast and production initiative, handling live and on-demand event streaming and in-venue,...
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Famous Last Words
Each year at this time, I am alerted to the coming of spring by that special fragrance that’s in the air, by those sounds that indicate the coming of a new season. In our business, that fragrance is...
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Everything is Becoming Software (And That’s a Good Thing)
I recently had an interesting conversation with someone in the product design space at a university that I wanted to share — and get your thoughts about. He asked, “You used to be a professor — should...
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Sonance Ships New Visual Performance Series VP80R
Sonance has finally shipped the long-awaited VP80R Visual Performance Series entry-level one-piece round and square in-wall speaker. Designed using a micro-trim grille that makes the speaker flush with...
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Cairo’s St. Therese Basilica Gets Mackie HDA
Cairo, Egypt – February 2014… In a region renowned as the birthplace of modern religion, this sprawling metropolis on the banks of the Nile isdotted with houses of worship large and small. Constructed...
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Long Beach Arena’s Pacific Ballroom is Covered by Renkus-Heinz
Long Beach, CA – February 2014… Covered on the outside by one of the world’s largest murals, “Planet Ocean,” The Long Beach Arena is an unmistakable part of the city’s skyline. Built in the early 1960s...
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tvONE Introduces new Control Software for the CORIOmaster & CORIOmaster mini
ERLANGER, KY, February 24, 2014 – tvONE (www.tvone.com), a leading designer and manufacturer of cutting-edge video and multimedia processing equipment, is pleased to announce its newest product in the...
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Off to InfoComm Live 2014
Well, after a frantic week of catchup caused by being in Amsterdam for a week for ISE, I am preparing to go off to Atlanta for the InfoComm Live event. For those of you not familiar with it, InfoComm...
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Texas Instruments Unveils Smallest HD DLP Pico Chipset
Today at Mobile World Congress, Texas Instruments released the 0.3” HD Tilt & Roll Pixel (TRP) DLP Pico chipset, its smallest, most power-efficient micro-mirror array. This chipset can generate...
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Display Summit – Abstracts Due March 21
Display Summit (www.displaysummit.com) is the new name for Projection Summit – an event Insight Media has organized in conjunction with InfoComm since 2000. Display Summit focus new and emerging...
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