ProAV news tested against real rooms.
AVWeek turns audiovisual industry news into working conversation, with Tim Albright and guests testing headlines against real rooms, budgets, standards, and support problems. The show moves from trade-show technology to conference-room audio without losing sight of who has to install, buy, or maintain the gear.
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AVWeek is built around the working consequences of ProAV news. Tim Albright hosts conversations that move quickly from headlines into design, integration, budgets, support, and user experience. The show’s recent range is specific: NAB 2026, InfoComm education, Sony and TCL, AV over IP, HDMI, Skype’s shutdown, Teams, managed services, stolen microphones, tariffs, building-management systems, room utilization, and classroom technology. It is not just product chatter. The recurring question is what a change means once equipment is specified, installed, refreshed, defended, or blamed. Interoperability is a major pressure point. Recent discussion treats proprietary systems as a real design obstacle, especially when speakers, mixers, control systems, displays, and signal paths need to work across manufacturers. Audio gets similar seriousness. A visually impressive room can still fail if people cannot hear, be heard, or keep confidential conversation contained. That gives the show a useful edge. It is technical without becoming abstract. It is business-aware without floating away from rooms, microphones, displays, access cards, and service calls. Tariff talk stays tied to AV and IT decision makers, integrator credibility, manufacturer communication, pricing volatility, and equipment availability. Managed services are framed through post-install responsibility, not just as a sales category. Broadcast technology appears as a source of ideas that can eventually reach ProAV and prosumer environments. The tone has room for dry humor, quick interruptions, and industry shorthand. Still, the editorial center is practical. AVWeek is most useful when a news item becomes a debate about who has to solve the problem later. It suits a listener who cares less about polished announcements and more about whether the system will function when the meeting, class, broadcast, or client handoff starts.
Made for: Suits a listener who follows ProAV, AV-over-IP, collaboration spaces, displays, audio systems, and the business pressures around integration. It also fits IT and facilities-minded listeners who want AV news translated into operational consequences.
What sets it apart: AVWeek stands out by treating industry headlines as design and support problems, not isolated announcements. Its discussions keep returning to interoperability, ownership, audio clarity, budgets, and what happens after the install.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
AV Week connects broadcast production habits to the software, displays, and hybrid rooms now reshaping AV.
Broadcast tech has a habit of previewing where AV is headed, and this AV Week episode follows that path with a clear throughline. The discussion links low-cost background replacement at home to the language of television production: multiple cameras, automated direction, and the…
A clear AVWeek argument that proprietary systems can turn interoperability gaps into real design costs.
AVWeek is strongest when it treats interoperability as a business pressure, not just a technical preference. The episode links Sony and TCL making their Bravia Inc.
A focused case for treating conference-room audio as essential infrastructure for privacy, clarity, and better meetings.
AVWeek frames conference-room audio as a core workplace concern, not a polish item added at the end. Its most vivid case involves a confidential faculty judicial hearing that carried into a nearby break area, making poor acoustic planning feel like a direct threat to privacy and…
A microphone theft points to everyday access failures before AVWeek turns to tariffs, memory pressure, and supply uncertainty.
AVWeek starts with the kind of security failure that feels mundane until the losses add up: at London's Royal Albert Hall, a worker stole 58 microphones worth more than 42,000 pounds across two incidents, then was able to return because his access card had not been shut off.
A grounded case for treating AV support as an ongoing service rather than an afterthought.
AV Week frames managed services around a problem that is difficult to wave away: Logitech and Avixa research found that one in three faculty members had seriously considered leaving because of poor technology.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
AVWeek episode 706 discusses the rental market for high-end DV LED, integrating building management with AV systems, and controlling the end user experience.
A roundtable discussion reviewing the biggest AV industry stories of 2025, including tariffs, AI, and AV over IP.
AVWeek 736 discusses the viability of holograms in the AV industry and covers recent acquisitions by Forte and Bauer Media Group.
The AV Week panel discusses Microsoft's shutdown of Skype and its implications for the AV industry.
AV Week uses its "Immersive AI" episode to connect X2O Media, JL Cooper, LG Magnit, Legrand AV, ViewSonic, and a NAB 2026 roundtable.
AV Week episode 783, recorded Friday April 3, 2026, turns a London science-museum IPMX install into a broader argument that proprietary AV gear forces redesign upstream.
AVWeek centers on whether the modern conference room is still broken, opening with a campus example where confidential speech leaked into a nearby coffee break area.
AV Week opens with a Royal Albert Hall worker stealing 58 microphones worth more than 42,000 pounds, then moves to tariff volatility, Neat's new CEO Javed Khan, and Infocom 2026's keynote pick.
Logitech and Avixa's survey of more than 1,600 people lands the biggest stat first: one in three faculty members has seriously considered leaving because of poor technology.
Omdia's tracker projects micro LED display revenue will rise from $52 million in 2025 to $6.8 billion by 2032.
AVWeek 758 examines return to office mandates through AV infrastructure, workplace design, and network security.
AVWeek 757 examines whether Microsoft’s MDEP display platform could narrow customer choice in professional AV.
AVWeek 719 discusses the impact of tariffs on AV technology, the acquisition of RTI by AVPro Edge, and the growing podcast industry's effect on audio equipment demand.