Going HD or How I spent my winter. By David Basulto
As I prepared to make my second feature film, Fiesta Grand, I knew I wanted to step up the look and feel of the film. This film (or movie I should say as I no longer use film!) was a follow up to my horror feature, Death Clique, which I made for next to nothing on my Panasonic DVX100a and received a distribution deal to Blockbuster. My insiders suggested I make the next film in High Definition even though the distributors hadn?t asked for it. "Why", I asked...
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Apple iPhone Reaction By Stephen Schleicher
Today, Apple Inc. unleashed the iPhone on the world. Consumer Electronics Net?s Stephen Schleicher takes a look and offers his gut reaction to the announcement.
...Read More »
When Marketing People Go Amok By Esther Schindler
Honest, we understand. It's a marketing person's job to make a presentation sound exciting and relevant as well as informational. But the TechEd presentation titles are, quite literally, beyond audience comprehension.
...Read More »
Way Too Hard = Way Too Bad By Gary Kayye, CTS
A recent study by a major university on the Netherlands found that product complexity actually caused over 50 percent of product returns. Graduate student Elke den Ouden of the Technical University of Eindhoven studied people who purchased consumer electronics products and how they tried (and in many cases failed) to use them, successfully. In virtually all cases where a consumer tried and failed to figure out how to use a product and then gave up, the product itself was actually in good working order. There was no product failure.
...Read More »
A Column for AV Guys: The Guillotine By Gary Kayye, CTS
I was sooo excited while watching the Super Bowl coverage earlier this month to see that someone finally, FINALLY, crossed the 4-blade razor blade barrier. The long-overdue 5-blade system has finally made its debut. The oh-hum [insert yawn here] market of the 3-blade and 4-blade systems that has dominated the shaving market with has-been gear like Gillette?s Mach3Turbo and the Schick Quattro has finally been shaken up with the 5-blade Gillette Fusion. I ran out and bought one the very next day.
...Read More »
KNews Insider: The Final Sayye with Gary Kayye By Gary Kayye, CTS
I?ve had the October 14, 2005 issue of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on my desk since the day it came out. I?ve been meaning to write this story for a long time, but just didn?t have the time or opportunity. But, now it?s time.In the Marketplace section of the WSJ on that day had an article entitled ?The Laptop Backlash,? well-written by Gary McWilliams. Well, you know what I think? Boo-fricking-hoo.
...Read More »
Kayye's Krystal Ball - v.06 By Gary Kayye, CTS
Welcome to my seventh annual Krystal Ball feature article about predictions for the upcoming year for Professional AV, and even some Home 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
...Read More »
Addressing the Overlay Graphics Proliferation Problem By Guy Wright
In this digital age of content re-purposing, affiliate programs, cross promotions, and multiple deployment options screen real estate is becoming more and more precious - and more and more people are trying to stake their claims.
...Read More »
Service Contracts are Easy to Sell: Sell Job Security By Gary Kayye, CTS
If you?re a regular reader of my columns, you know that our firm works with dealers, on occasion, to help them become more profitable. In some cases, it?s a box company wanting to learn how to sell systems. In some cases, it?s a systems integrator trying to sell design/build contracts. In some cases, it?s a design/build firm trying to get better cost accounting on jobs. But, in almost all cases, they are all equally frustrated at the level of success they have selling their most profitable product: service contracts.
...Read More »
Annual rAVe CEDIA Awards By Gary Kayye, CTS
Gary Kayye is a big fan of the CEDIA (Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association) show, and attends it every year. Here are his picks for the best of the best from this year's exhibition.
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Product Activation and the World of Tomorrow By Kevin Schmitt
Now that us lowly users have been unwillingly pushed down the slippery slope that is product activation, this particular article is equivalent to the proverbial closing of the barn doors after the horse has escaped. Actually, it's more like picking up the door and leaning it on the charred ruins of the barn after it burned down years ago, what with the horse having run out to flee the fire, but I digress. Since activation refuses to just go away entirely, I still (naively) think that there's a balance that can be struck between legitimate users and software publishers.
...Read More »
Content Undercover: Video iPod and The Art of the Deal By Miles Weston
Apple CEO Steve Jobs's announcement of an "experiment" into video content delivery with the new video-enabled iPod is nothing new, nothing earthshaking. His announcement of a video iTunes database "experiment" is nothing new. Disney CEO Bob Iger's announcement that his company will offer some of the most popular TV shows as "pay-for-play" downloads the day after their appearance is nothing to write home about.
...Read More »
LCD or DLP Projection? Decisions, Decisions By Gary Kayye, CTS
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines ? projector engines, that is. Since 1998, Texas Instruments' DLP division has out-marketed, out-maneuvered, out-published and, according to many sales figures, even out-sold LCD in virtually of the leading projector vertical market segments. I say "virtually" because there are some markets in which DLP hasn't been playing ? but when it does, it generally wins.
...Read More »
Have you Crossed the Chasm? By Gary Kayye, CTS
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore is probably the single most important book to read as a ProAV system salesperson (or systems designer) today! It is, in my opinion, the blueprint for the customer sales and marketing process of AV technology. When it was published in the early 1990s it was geared toward the computer industry. Its prophecies, however, are now becoming a reality in the ProAV market of today.
...Read More »
Live From infoComm: Attendance Record Broken By Gary Kayye, CTS
ICIA announced another record attendance here at the show this week, with a more than 10 percent increase over last year, totaling 25,821 as of Thursday. Expect the final numbers to be even more impressive. Also, it?s that time of year again. The year is half way over and it?s time to review my 2005 predictions.
...Read More »
How Much Time Does Apple Have? By Dave Nagel
Set sentimentality aside. Set aside the pride and the unfounded fears and all of the little irrelevancies I've seen people worrying over for the last five days about Apple switching to Intel. Focus, instead, on the big one: Will there be a Mac platform in two years? The answer to that will depend on whether Apple sticks to the plan announced at WWDC. If it does, then by this time in 2007, you will be doing your computing on a Windows box.
...Read More »
infoComm 2005 Coming Up! By Gary Kayye, CTS
I can't wait! No, I dread flying into Las Vegas for anything, much less a trade show, but I can't wait to get there for the ProAV industry's annual trek into the world of new presentation tools. But, me, I don't go for the show. What? Forget about the exhibits. Don't plan your infoComm experience backwards.
...Read More »
DVD Insider: The Game, The Video, Death of the Disc? By Miles Weston
Videogames aren't games to the people who create them and the systems are far from game systems. Should Hollywood take more of a page from the game industry in its approach to customers? The most poignant question: Is all the hassle over DVD media for naught? Are they like dinosaurs? Naw...
...Read More »
ProAV Product Alters the Market By Gary Kayye, CTS
Every once in a while a product will come along that I feel will change the market dynamics in a major way and will find its way into the Final Sayye column. Not often, but sometimes. Well, today?s one of those days. I?ve been playing with a new product from Grass Valley this week and I can tell you this is a MAJOR DEAL. You MUST go see this at InfoComm. ProAV has officially entered the server market with a product that will certainly set the bar and one that consultants like Waveguide and Shen are already embracing.
...Read More »
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Bluetooth headsets have become more and more popular throughout the years and now more and more cell phones have been able to take advantage of this technology. In this review we'll be looking at a brand new Bluetooth headset from iTech, the SolarVoice 908, one of the first solar charging headsets on the market.
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Thank goodness you're a pack rat! You know, have to grab, keep everything that flies by...ok everything except that report or news item or YouTube yuck you saw last week and now desperately need. Can't find it it save your behind. And still you don't have enough storage...there are new worlds to conquer, new worlds to destroy or take home with you. Don't worry Flash will always be there for you Dale!!!!
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On this Veteran's Day 2009, as we honor those who served and gave their lives for America, there are stories about man's best friend being told by those who fought alongside their "War Dogs of the Pacific." Most Americans have no idea that dogs were trained to sniff out the enemy during World War II, 549 to be exact fought with the U.S. Marines on Guam, Saipan, and other battlegrounds of the Pacific Theater.
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Did you hear? Microsoft is releasing a new version of Windows - should you buy it? Windows 7 is here. In this article you will find out if Windows 7 is worth the wait and whether or not you should upgrade. Or is Windows 7 just another Vista?
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Going HD or How I spent my winter.
As I prepared to make my second feature film, Fiesta Grand, I knew I wanted to step up the look and feel of the film. This film (or movie I should say as I no longer use film!) was a follow up to my horror feature, Death Clique, which I made for next to nothing on my Panasonic DVX100a and received a distribution deal to Blockbuster. My insiders suggested I make the next film in High Definition even though the distributors hadn?t asked for it. "Why", I asked...
...Read More »
Apple iPhone Reaction
Today, Apple Inc. unleashed the iPhone on the world. Consumer Electronics Net?s Stephen Schleicher takes a look and offers his gut reaction to the announcement.
...Read More »
When Marketing People Go Amok
Honest, we understand. It's a marketing person's job to make a presentation sound exciting and relevant as well as informational. But the TechEd presentation titles are, quite literally, beyond audience comprehension.
...Read More »
Way Too Hard = Way Too Bad
A recent study by a major university on the Netherlands found that product complexity actually caused over 50 percent of product returns. Graduate student Elke den Ouden of the Technical University of Eindhoven studied people who purchased consumer electronics products and how they tried (and in many cases failed) to use them, successfully. In virtually all cases where a consumer tried and failed to figure out how to use a product and then gave up, the product itself was actually in good working order. There was no product failure.
...Read More »
A Column for AV Guys: The Guillotine
I was sooo excited while watching the Super Bowl coverage earlier this month to see that someone finally, FINALLY, crossed the 4-blade razor blade barrier. The long-overdue 5-blade system has finally made its debut. The oh-hum [insert yawn here] market of the 3-blade and 4-blade systems that has dominated the shaving market with has-been gear like Gillette?s Mach3Turbo and the Schick Quattro has finally been shaken up with the 5-blade Gillette Fusion. I ran out and bought one the very next day.
...Read More »
KNews Insider: The Final Sayye with Gary Kayye
I?ve had the October 14, 2005 issue of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on my desk since the day it came out. I?ve been meaning to write this story for a long time, but just didn?t have the time or opportunity. But, now it?s time.In the Marketplace section of the WSJ on that day had an article entitled ?The Laptop Backlash,? well-written by Gary McWilliams. Well, you know what I think? Boo-fricking-hoo.
...Read More »
Kayye's Krystal Ball - v.06
Welcome to my seventh annual Krystal Ball feature article about predictions for the upcoming year for Professional AV, and even some Home 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
...Read More »
Addressing the Overlay Graphics Proliferation Problem
In this digital age of content re-purposing, affiliate programs, cross promotions, and multiple deployment options screen real estate is becoming more and more precious - and more and more people are trying to stake their claims.
...Read More »
Service Contracts are Easy to Sell: Sell Job Security
If you?re a regular reader of my columns, you know that our firm works with dealers, on occasion, to help them become more profitable. In some cases, it?s a box company wanting to learn how to sell systems. In some cases, it?s a systems integrator trying to sell design/build contracts. In some cases, it?s a design/build firm trying to get better cost accounting on jobs. But, in almost all cases, they are all equally frustrated at the level of success they have selling their most profitable product: service contracts.
...Read More »
Annual rAVe CEDIA Awards
Gary Kayye is a big fan of the CEDIA (Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association) show, and attends it every year. Here are his picks for the best of the best from this year's exhibition.
...Read More »
Product Activation and the World of Tomorrow
Now that us lowly users have been unwillingly pushed down the slippery slope that is product activation, this particular article is equivalent to the proverbial closing of the barn doors after the horse has escaped. Actually, it's more like picking up the door and leaning it on the charred ruins of the barn after it burned down years ago, what with the horse having run out to flee the fire, but I digress. Since activation refuses to just go away entirely, I still (naively) think that there's a balance that can be struck between legitimate users and software publishers.
...Read More »
Content Undercover: Video iPod and The Art of the Deal
Apple CEO Steve Jobs's announcement of an "experiment" into video content delivery with the new video-enabled iPod is nothing new, nothing earthshaking. His announcement of a video iTunes database "experiment" is nothing new. Disney CEO Bob Iger's announcement that his company will offer some of the most popular TV shows as "pay-for-play" downloads the day after their appearance is nothing to write home about.
...Read More »
LCD or DLP Projection? Decisions, Decisions
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines ? projector engines, that is. Since 1998, Texas Instruments' DLP division has out-marketed, out-maneuvered, out-published and, according to many sales figures, even out-sold LCD in virtually of the leading projector vertical market segments. I say "virtually" because there are some markets in which DLP hasn't been playing ? but when it does, it generally wins.
...Read More »
Have you Crossed the Chasm?
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore is probably the single most important book to read as a ProAV system salesperson (or systems designer) today! It is, in my opinion, the blueprint for the customer sales and marketing process of AV technology. When it was published in the early 1990s it was geared toward the computer industry. Its prophecies, however, are now becoming a reality in the ProAV market of today.
...Read More »
InfoComm -- Good Show Means Great Market
InfoComm 2005 was a great show for the ProAV industry and the future of our market. Here?s why.
...Read More »
Live From infoComm: Attendance Record Broken
ICIA announced another record attendance here at the show this week, with a more than 10 percent increase over last year, totaling 25,821 as of Thursday. Expect the final numbers to be even more impressive. Also, it?s that time of year again. The year is half way over and it?s time to review my 2005 predictions.
...Read More »
How Much Time Does Apple Have?
Set sentimentality aside. Set aside the pride and the unfounded fears and all of the little irrelevancies I've seen people worrying over for the last five days about Apple switching to Intel. Focus, instead, on the big one: Will there be a Mac platform in two years? The answer to that will depend on whether Apple sticks to the plan announced at WWDC. If it does, then by this time in 2007, you will be doing your computing on a Windows box.
...Read More »
infoComm 2005 Coming Up!
I can't wait! No, I dread flying into Las Vegas for anything, much less a trade show, but I can't wait to get there for the ProAV industry's annual trek into the world of new presentation tools. But, me, I don't go for the show. What? Forget about the exhibits. Don't plan your infoComm experience backwards.
...Read More »
DVD Insider: The Game, The Video, Death of the Disc?
Videogames aren't games to the people who create them and the systems are far from game systems. Should Hollywood take more of a page from the game industry in its approach to customers? The most poignant question: Is all the hassle over DVD media for naught? Are they like dinosaurs? Naw...
...Read More »
ProAV Product Alters the Market
Every once in a while a product will come along that I feel will change the market dynamics in a major way and will find its way into the Final Sayye column. Not often, but sometimes. Well, today?s one of those days. I?ve been playing with a new product from Grass Valley this week and I can tell you this is a MAJOR DEAL. You MUST go see this at InfoComm. ProAV has officially entered the server market with a product that will certainly set the bar and one that consultants like Waveguide and Shen are already embracing.
...Read More »
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