AV Week - MP3 Edition

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: Bradford Benn of Harman Professional and Steve Greenblatt from Control Conceps Record Date: 1/11/2013 CES just wrapped up and we already have some great stories. Stream TV has glasses-free 3D in 4K, Samsung with more wireless speakers, and a bendable OLED. BenQ gets into the flat panel market. Plus, [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: George Tucker from World Stage, Chris Neto of AV Helpdesk, and Todd Anthony Puma from Source Home Theater. Record Date: 1/04/2013 It seemed to be the year of the acquisition and the last couple of weeks has been no different. We kick around what the Microsoft purchase of id8 [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: George Tucker from World Stage, Dawn Meade of Net-AV, and Matt Scott from Omega Audio Video Record Date: 12/28/2012 On the last episode of 2012 we look back at what the biggest stories of the year were. From the year of OLED to Extron skipping the InfoComm 2012 show, [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: Record Date: 12/21/2012 2012 has been a crazy year here at AVNation. We would like to take a momet and say thank you to you, the listener, for continuing to support our little podcast. We are not the biggest, but we strive to be among the best. You have [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: Kevin Iselli of Crestron and Bill Stiteler from AppleTell Record Date: 12/14/2012 InfoComm has a new website. Check it out. Will Kaleidescape’s new download store be the thing to get around the DMCA? Belden has purchased PPC for… $515 Million. Is the glasses-free 3D revolution over? Plus, what do [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: George Tucker of World Stage, Joel Bilheimer of Pershing Technologies, Brock McGinnis from Westbury National, and Dr. Yoram Solomon of Penveu. Record Date: 12/07/2012 Mitsibishi has ended their consumer DLP TV line. CEDIA is offering THX training at ISE. Interactive displays have taken off in the UK. We talk [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: Dawn Meade of Net-AV, George Tucker from World Stage, and Matt Scott of Omega Audio Video. Record Date: 11/23/2012 It is Thanksgiving Week, so Happy Thanksgiving. We cover Panasonic getting rid of 10,000 jobs. Nortek is changing names and combining companies again. We take an Alan C. Brawn story [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: Brad Grimes from InfoComm, Adrian Boyd, and Andrew Robinson of Home Theater Review. Record Date: 11/16/2012 On this week’s show we ask if there is value in manufacturer’s training. The big three Japanese CE companies have lost their credibility. Is it just a matter of time before they are [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: George Tucker of World Stage and Craig MacCormack of Commercial Integrator Magazine. Record Date: 11/09/2012 With President Obama winning re-election, what does that mean for AV?  AV Help Desk is on the cover of Commercial Integrator magazine. We talk with Craig MacCormack about what makes them special. Audinate has [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: Rich Fregosa of Fregosa Design, Steve Greenblatt from Control Concepts, Fred Bargetzi, Nic Scott, and Toine Leerentveld from Crestron Record Date: 11/01/2012 This week we cover what you can do to prepare end users for disasters like Hurricane Sandy. Will we ever see a cloud based control system? Analog [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: Chris Neto from AV Helpdesk, Harry Meade of Ultra Electronics-Criticon, Aaron Wilson, Shaun Robinson from AMX, and Nathan Lively from the podcast Sounddesignlive.com. Record Date: 10/26/2012 We took a week off to move into our new studios. Here’s the first show from there. The worst kept secret in the [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: Stephen McKay of IAVI and Greg Brown from UCLA plus Steve Greenblatt from Control Concepts and Dawn Meade of Net-AV. Record Date: 10/05/2012 InfoComm International has announced their new Executive Director/CEO. David Labuskes, CTS, RCDD will start in his new post January 1, 2013. Polycomm announced this week that [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: George Tucker from World Stage, Betsy Jaffe of InfoComm International, and Steve Greenblatt from Control Concepts. Record Date: 10/05/2012 The REAL AV Week is a celebration of all things AV, brought to you by InfoComm. Betsy Jaffe explains all that is going on including the AV-lympics. Apple has a [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: Kevin Iselli of Crestron, Bill Brown from Ideas for AV, and Hi-Phi, Phil Cordell, the AV Professional from M3 Technology Group. Record Date: 09/21/2012 Sharp says it’s cutting 11,000 jobs from the workforce in Japan plus dumping some factory assets. What does this mean for the AV industry? Will [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: George Tucker from World Stage, Dawn Meade of Net-AV, Matt Scott from Omega Audio Video, and Chris Tatton of HB Communications. Record Date: 09/21/2012 On this episode of AVWeek, we talk about whether demand for Pro AV is on the upswing. Are we about to run out of IPV4 [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: Matt Scott and Adrian Boyd Record Date: 8/10/2012  This week we tackle the sub-$4000 projector market. Digital Projection has gotten into this section of the market. Home Automation is getting a shot in the arm from a Kickstarter company. Does this make them primed to be bought or make them a [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: Sara Abrons, George Tucker, Michael Drainer, Joel Rollins, and Bill Brown. Record Date: 8/06/2012   What a great way to spend our 1st Anniversary show. We discuss the Olympics and AV, why you are still using Cat5, and the next generation of networking for live events. Leviton bought HAI; now what does [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: Dawn Meade and Stephen McKay. Record Date: 7/30/2012  Apple’s newest OS has come out, Mountain Lion, and it has Airplay. Are we entering an age of switcher-less systems? We talk about what it means to be a mar building”. The South Korean government is getting behind flexible OLEDs. Plus we talk [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: George Tucker and John Huntington. Record Date: 7/24/2012  This week we go around the world and around the horn with George Tucker and John Huntington. The Olympics will be broadcast by the BBC in HD and 3 D; oh, thank goodness they’ll be in 3D. The Kinect has spawned a new [...]

Host: Tim Albright AVNation Founder Guests: Adrian Boyd, Aaron Wilson, and Joel Bilheimer. Record Date: 7/13/2012  We congratulate InfoComm and CEDIA for hosting the third fastest growing trade show in the world, ISE. It was named as such by Expo Magazine. What does that mean for the industry and for the Vegas/Orlando show? Microsoft went and bought [...]