Dave Bright
President
Clint Hoffman
VP of New Business Development and Marketing
 Kramer Electronics
"Wireless transmission standards that would allow HDTV signals to be sent wirelessly around the home. Lasers may become the light source of choice in projectors and will take projected image quality to new levels."

 



Patricia A. Basteri
Chief Executive Officer
Mass AV

"One of the major influences on the industry is the merging of the IT and AV industries. The AV industry needs to hold on to its position by providing services utilizing the Internet, such as Web streaming and videoconferencing at the desktop."

 


Scott Miller
Chairman, President, CEO
 AMX


"Products are more network-based than they have been in the past. Networking growth, IP mergers and acquisitions, and rapid growth in the technology market have been the impact of the changes."


Pierre Berthet
President
Analog Way

In the next years, people will make all the demonstrations, training, meeting, conferences ... by the Internet without moving from their office.



Miriam Geller
Senior Product Manager, Shockwave
Macromedia
"The incredible, and daunting, thing about the Web is that it's always changing. Change means that new ideas are exciting and always arising, but standards are cherished."



Frances Flood
President and CEO
Gentner Communications
"The entire landscape of how and where people communicate is going to change dramatically, and moreover, there is going to be fierce global competition from markets that, today, we don't even consider."

Jay Dellostretto
Vice President and General Manager
 Sony Electronics' Broadcast & Professional Company
"I have seen first hand the drawing power of plasma, and it certainly has the capability to help increase brand awareness and create impulse buying. "



Randy J. Pagnan
Chief Operating Officer
Large Screen Display Rentals
"The market of video display based NOCCs remains in relatively good shape… control rooms are relatively "recession proof" due to their long development cycle and planning time. "


Randy Klein
Executive Vice President
 Crestron Electronics, Inc.
"Creative and committed people are what drives this industry forward and keeps it growing. The supply, education and continued motivation of people to develop expertise and career paths is paramount to the future growth of our industry."

Marc Hochlerin
President and Chief Operating Officer
 ACE Audiovisual
"These days, there is more promise for the "full-service" audiovisual companies that have made the investment into their products, resources and people over the years."


John Van Scoter
General Manager, DLP Products
Texas Instruments
"Who'd have thought that digital projection technology that could rival film or could be so close to reality today?"


Kevin Thompson
President
The Whitlock Group
"Everything will have an I.P. address including your doorknob."


Chad Gillenwater
President
SPL Integrated Solutions
"The challenge for systems integrators is to effectively execute a roll-out plan for delivering a standardize system to many conference rooms for worldwide installation."


Greg Jeffreys
Managing Director
Paradigm Audio Visual Limited, UK
"Consultants will need to be more project managers than egg-heads as AV becomes more akin to putting a printer on the network... A shortage of engineers willing to get their hands dirty...


Scott Walker
Principal
Waveguide Consulting, Inc.
"Despite the recent plunge of technology stocks and talk of a possible recession, the A/V markets appears to be extremely healthy right now."


S. Mark Hand
Sr. Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Lightware, Inc.
"The cost to produce has not decreased at the same rate that the cost to buy has."


Gerry Remers
President and COO
Christie Digital Systems
"Digital cinema will drive the high end, and this will also drive higher quality devices for the home market."


Jack L. Saltich
President and CEO
Three-Five Systems, Inc.
"As bandwidth becomes available to allow streaming video and anywhere/anytime wireless web access, the need for high quality displays will become even more critical."
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