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211 – What’s Next for Camino with Eric Edens
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We’re always working to innovate and improve our products and services, and our Camino solution is something we’ve targeted with specific ideas for new features. To hear about those features and capabilities, Justin and Matt are joined by Eric Edens, Daktronics Camino Solutions Engineer. He explains what Camino is, what it can do and our plans for …
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1367: Planar’s WallDirector Could Signal the Future of the AV Cloud
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Could Planar’s WallDirector Cloud software-as-a-service ecosystem, designed to manage Planar’s LEDs, be the cloud-based management platform that every other display company ends up emulating? I think it’s possible! Today’s Rants & rAVes episode features Planar’s Robert Detwiler, who talks about WallDirector and its management of the Planar ecosyste…
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1366: The Peerless-AV STS650 Monitor Mount Includes AV Gear Racking (and Won a 2024 Readers’ Choice Award!)
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Peerless-AV’s STS650 Universal Scissor Wall Mount made its debut in 2024 and immediately became a hit with AV integrators and end users alike due to its unique ability to allow for AV gear to be racked behind it professionally (sans cable ties). Peerless-AV VP Sales, North America and APAC, Brian McClimans, joined the latest episode of Rants & rAVe…
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210 – Experiencing Match-Day at Sporting KC with Josh and Blake
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With new technology at their fingertips, Sporting Kansas City is putting on a great match-day experience at Children’s Mercy Park. To get a look behind the scenes, Justin and Matt sat down with Josh Blackford, Vice President of Operations and GM at Children’s Mercy Park, and Blake McFarland, Director of Match Experience for Sporting Kansas City. Th…
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209 – NACDA Booth Podcast Series with Reece Kurtenbach, Dana LeRoy and Eric Cain
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In our special NACDA series, we recorded from our booth in the trade show exhibit hall. To kick things off, we spoke with our President and CEO Reece Kurtenbach to hear about our history with NACDA and the college marketplace. We then spoke with NACDA’s Dana LeRoy about the convention, their mission and Daktronics. Finally, we talked with our own E…
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208 – Bringing a New Arena Online at Augustana University
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Augustana University recently opened the new Midco Arena in Sioux Falls, SD. To hear about the entire project, including their centerhung LED display system, Justin and Matt visited the arena and were joined by Josh Morton, VP of Athletics, and Luke Groth, Associate AD of Operations. Links: News release: https://www.daktronics.com/news/augustana-un…
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1365: Sony Will Show All Its LEDs for the First Time Ever at IC24, Plus New AI Functionality and BRAVIA Partnerships
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Sony has a plethora of things to show you in its booth W2201 at InfoComm 2024, and the latest episode of Rants & rAVes features Sony’s director of sales and marketing for the B2B group, Mark Bonifacio, who talks about everything you can expect. This is a thorough review of all Sony will show at IC24, so watch!
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1364: Sharp Will be at InfoComm 2024 With 4K Projectors, New LED Solutions and A Plethora of New Flat Panel Products
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This pre-InfoComm-2024 videocast features Sharp Business USA SVP of Display Marketing and Product Management Jennifer Cheh and VP of Product & Solutions Marketing Keith Yanke. They thoughtfully detailed everything attendees will see in booth W1201 at IC24. Watch this to get a full sneak peek!
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207 – Learning About DakClassroom with Faith Gustafson
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Faith Gustafson, Daktronics Services Supervisor, joins Justin and Matt to share the details of DakClassroom and how it helps schools prepare their teachers and students to run their video displays for live events. They discuss how to get started, create content, run the show, and sell sponsorships. Links: DakClassroom Sign Up: daktronics.com/dakcla…
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1363: Lightware Is the Go-To USB-C Company; It Will Add Dante, AV-over-IP and Dual-Screen USB-C Too
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Lightware president and CEO, Clint Hoffman, and its SVP of education, Roger Takacs, joined me on the latest episode of Rants & rAVes to preview some new products and tech coming to InfoComm 2024. In addition to adding a bidirectional Dante version to its USB-C lineup of TAURUS products, Lightware will also show a dual-output version as well as its …
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1362: The Humly Desk-Booking Device Is Way More Than Just Aesthetically Beautiful
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In today’s episode of Rants & rAVes, Humly’s CEO Anders Karlsson joins as my guest to talk about how his company is focused on making things work seamlessly in both co-working and open workplace environments. From adding sensors to detect device usage on the fly to leveraging Microsoft Places to encourage collaboration, Humly is offering AV integra…
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1361: Televic Will Use InfoComm 2024 to Show How Its Smart Audio Control Works Everywhere
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My latest pre-InfoComm-2024 videocast features Televic vice president of sales, Peter Papageorge, who details exactly why both integrators and end users will benefit from the company’s audio products — in meeting rooms, classrooms and everywhere else. The company will also use IC24 to launch the Unite Platform. Want to know what this is? Watch!
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1360: Matrox Video Bring the Industry’s First AV-over-IP Gateway to InfoComm — Dubbed Vion
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I received some new product scoop on today’s pre-InfoComm-2024 videocast via Matrox Video’s business development manager, Ron Berty. Ron explained that the new Vion lineup will allow Matrox’s ConvertIP AV-over-IP product lineup — using the IPMX standard — to ingest and output video and audio virtually anywhere (even to competitive decoders or from …
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1359: Daktronics Is in the ProAV Market With a New Flip Chip CoB LED. Here’s How It Works.
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The latest pre-InfoComm-2024 episode of Rants & rAVes features Daktronics National Sales Manager Jim Vasgaard, who walks us through the company’s new Flip Chip CoB LED technology. Rumor has it, it’s a lot cooler and brighter than typical LED wall tech. Jim explains how CoB works as the new LED format — aimed at TAA-compliant (and non-TAA) installs …
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1358: Here’s What You Can Expect from SpinetiX at InfoComm 2024
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SpinetiX will be at InfoComm debuting a very cool partnership with Q-SYS — you’ll have to watch this pre-InfoComm-2024 videocast with Spinetix CEO Francesco Ziliani to get a hint about it or head over to its booth in the West Hall (W2007). In addition to the Q-SYS partnership, SpinetiX will show the all-new four-output 4K signage player/media serve…
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1357: Here’s Everything TD SYNNEX Has Planned for InfoComm 2024
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My latest pre-InfoComm-2024 videocast features TD SYNNEX Senior VP Sandi Stambaugh, as this is always a big event for the and its partners. In addition to hosting a reception open to all AV integrators (register here!), TD SYNNEX will focus on both digital signage and UCC in its booth W1745 at the show. Watch this and plan to stop by!
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1356: XTEN-AV Will Debut 3 New Features at InfoComm 2024. Here They Are.
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Another day, another pre-InfoComm-2024 videocast! On this episode of Rants & rAVes, XTEN-AV founders Vibhav Singh and Sahil Dhingra join as the special guests to demo three new features in XTEN’s platform. In addition to an awesome AI feature in which the platform will automatically find mistakes in system designs, XTEN has also added a wall-plate …
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1355: Catchbox Heads to InfoComm With New Catchbox Plus Room System — Includes Dante and DSP!
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This pre-InfoComm-2024 episode of Rants & rAVes features Catchbox VP of commerce, Aleksejs Kolpakovs, who explains the company’s new Catchbox Plus room system aimed at higher education installs and meeting rooms. The system includes the famed Catchbox throwable mic along with a handheld and universal wearable lab mic (all charge wirelessly and are …
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1354: Optoma Will Be at InfoComm 2024 With New IFPs, 2 New Short-Throw Projectors and 20K+ Lumen 1-Chip DLPs
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Optoma will use InfoComm 2024 to debut a new lineup of Interactive Flat Panels (IFPs) that include all the features you expect from collaboration boards but these IFPs also include room sensor technology, as well as Google EDLA certification. In addition, the company will show some new 20,000+ Lumen 1-chip DLP projectors and two new short-throw pro…
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Rants & rAVes — Episode 1353: Here’s Everything FSR Is Showing at InfoComm 2024
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FSR’s director of global sales, Chaz Porter, joins this episode of Rants & rAVes to review all that the company is doing in the Central Hall (booth C8227) at InfoComm 2024. FSR has a new long-distance USB-C cable that carries 60 watts of power, a new all-in-one Ceiling Box for AV-over-IP applications, projective covers for touch panels and an amazi…
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