Residential AV news, argued over with a grin.
ResiWeek is AVNation's residential AV news show, with host Matt D. Scott and industry guests trading views on control-system partnerships, cybersecurity and how integrators make money. The cold opens are mostly jokes, and the conversations that follow get serious about service agreements, labor margins and what AI means for privacy.
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ResiWeek is AVNation's show about the residential side of the AV business, and it keeps asking what the news means for the companies doing the installing. Matt D. Scott hosts and introduces his guests as good friends. Recent guests include Avi Rosenthal, Kat Wheeler of One Firefly and the editor-in-chief of Projector Central. The cold open comes first, and it is rarely serious. In one, a former editor named Jason is banned from using the word 'data' and gets caught saying 'information' instead. In another, nobody can explain a title about 'the cave of pain'. A best-of episode opens with a stand-in host joking that Matt Scott won't return calls. The news covers a lot of ground. Josh AI's JVC announcement leads to a discussion of how a new control-system driver can make a dealer more likely to install one platform over another, with C4, Crestron and Savant as reference points. Harman and Sound United, Netflix and Warner Brothers, OpenAI and lighting trends all appear in the episode rundowns. Cybersecurity comes up again and again: compliance, and a warning about a podcast invitation used to examine the invitee's network during the conversation. Someone quickly jokes that nobody here is examining anyone's network. AI gets a cooler reception, and a returning guest admits to deep cynicism about where private conversations might end up. The business conversations are the strongest part of the show. One guest cites D-Tools figures showing that residential integrators take on commercial work far more often than commercial firms go residential. The same guest argues that recurring revenue from service agreements and monitoring, along with a protected labor margin, has to offset equipment becoming a commodity. Another discussion starts from the book '10x is easier than 2x' by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy and its idea of the gap and the gain, then asks whether pessimism has a place in business. The answer is contingency planning, because the industry depends on discretionary spending and has been hit by housing busts, supply-chain delays and COVID. A Residential Systems article by Matt Bernath, which calls December a competitive advantage, is discussed as a guide to priorities for the new year, starting with subtraction. There is even some Canadian content: the show revisits a Canadian federal order for Hikvision to close its operations in the country, and what such bans mean for integrators. Titles like 'You Could Probably Start A Heist With AV | ResiWeek 502' and 'The Three Main Keywords for Residential Lighting | ResiWeek 510' show how far the topics range, from security to lighting. For a first listen, try the year-end pair on 2025 and 2026.
Made for: Suits a listener who works in or around residential AV integration and wants industry news judged by what it does to margins, service revenue and security, with plenty of joking along the way.
What sets it apart: ResiWeek doesn't review gear. It treats residential AV news as business news and asks what a control-system driver, a brand announcement or a government ban means for the integrators who have to respond. The silly cold opens keep it from sounding like a trade bulletin.
From AVNation, a weekly look into residential side of the audio visual industry. We cover network, security, home audio, and video as well as the impact on your business.
At ResiWeek, a 'free installation' rescue plan becomes your reminder to protect the labor margin.
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A practical ResiWeek panel on how residential AV integrators may need to rethink revenue as equipment margins tighten.
ResiWeek 514 treats 2026 less as a forecast than as a test of the residential AV business model. Looking back at 2025, Matt D. Scott and guests Jason Knott, Katie McGregor-Bennett, and Richard Fregosa focus on what happens when equipment margins can no longer carry the same…
A loose, useful ResiWeek year-end review of tariffs, Hikvision, and 2025's residential AV questions.
ResiWeek 513 uses a weekly residential AV news format to take stock of the industry's 2025 pressure points, from February's tariff confusion to the Canadian federal government's order for Hikvision to close operations in the country.
A grounded residential AV discussion about keeping optimism practical when business conditions change.
ResiWeek 512 treats optimism as useful only when it has a counterweight. Matt D. Scott, Henry Clifford, and Jeremy Glowacki keep the focus on residential AV, where discretionary spending can leave firms exposed when housing softens, supply chains stumble, or Covid changes…
A December-focused ResiWeek connects year-end cleanup, AI privacy unease, and the practical start of 2026 planning.
ResiWeek 511 treats December as the month when residential AV businesses have to turn from the rush of installs to the less glamorous work that keeps a company steady: closing projects, chasing accounts receivable, checking for hidden expense waste, and using real data to shape…
A grounded ResiWeek look at lighting trends, Josh AI, and the dealer logic behind JVC projector support.
ResiWeek 510 treats residential lighting as a fast-moving category, using CE Pro's trend line of smaller fixtures, stronger performance, and more color as its starting point. Matt D.
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Test gear, teardowns and war stories from the bench.
Chips, consoles and coolers, talked through by two enthusiasts.
Product launches, read for the strategy underneath.
A weekly roundup of residential AV industry news, reviewing the most impactful stories of 2024 including tech layoffs.
A weekly roundtable discussion on the latest news and trends in the residential audio-visual industry, covering topics like AI hardware and home technology.
A weekly roundtable discussion on the latest news and trends in the residential audio-visual industry, covering products, business impact, and technology.
A roundtable discussion reviewing the biggest stories of 2025 and predictions for 2026 in the residential AV industry.
A weekly roundtable discussion on residential AV industry news, covering Samsung's smart TV market lead, 8K certification for projectors, and Daisy's expansion.
ResiWeek 514 from AV Nation is a year-end panel about the residential AV industry's 2025 changes and 2026 outlook.
["ResiWeek 513 looks back at 2025's residential AV stories, from tariff uncertainty and AI burnout to Hikvision's Canada closure and CEDIA Expo in Denver.", "Katie McGregor-Bennett and Bob Archer argue that tariffs make clear communication, shorter contractual timelines, and tighter warranty and payment language essential for dealers.", "Joe Whittaker, Ian Bryant, and Jason Griffin say AI works best as a narrow business tool, not a customer-facing substitute for people.", "The recap closes on CEDIA Expo demos, Sound Room 7, and a brand-messaging point: an elevator pitch only works when the whole company shares it."]
ResiWeek 512, Linked Wagons, centers on Matt D.
ResiWeek 511, "December Focus," opens with Matthew Scott, Ian Bryant of IES Communications, and Bob Archer of Canby Communications reacting to a CE Pro report that OpenAI bought IO for $6.4 billion and is working on a minimal context-aware device.
ResiWeek 510, titled "the airing of grievances," centers on CE Pro's 2025 lighting trends, Josh AI's JVC projector integration, and Residential Systems' service-contract question.
ResiWeek 509 examines Theory Audio Design extending its DLC loudspeaker control warranty from three years to five years.
ResiWeek 508 brings host Matt D.
ResiWeek 507 examines Eclipse Audio, an open-source immersive sound certification program, and whether it solves a problem beyond Dolby Atmos.
ResiWeek 506, recorded October 27, 2025, opens with the AWS outage a week earlier, which supplies roughly 40% of the cloud computing market and disrupted Josh AI, Control4 remote access and Echo voice control.
Matthew Scott, Katie McGregor Bennett and Joe Whitaker react to a CE Pro report that over 50% of homeowners believe security should be mandatory in new homes, with Whitaker calling the framing 'scare tactics' and citing roughly one million burglaries across 145 million US homes.
Rich Fergosa hosts a ResiWeek episode 504 with Brad Hinsey of Crestron and Patrick Norton of CTI covering three trade articles from Resi Tech, CE Pro, and Residential Systems.
A weekly roundup of residential AV industry news, featuring discussion on cybersecurity, compliance, and Harman plus Sound United.
A weekly roundtable discussion on residential AV industry news, covering tariffs, ISE trade show, and multi-room audio.
A weekly roundtable discussion on residential AV industry news, covering voice control, smart home trends, and upcoming events.