Dealerscope

We recently had the pleasure to welcome as our Dealerscope Podcast guest, Mitch Klein, the Executive Director for the Z-Wave Alliance. The organization recently announced they have completed incorporation as a solely independent non-profit organization.

With the 2020 Virtual CEDIA EXPO set for mid-September, the Dealerscope Podcast Team was excited to catch up Vanco’s Mark Corbin and chat about what he sees on the AV horizon as we get ready finish up 2020 and roll into 2021.

With the holiday selling season right around the corner, President of the HDMI Forum, David Glen discussed the most important aspects retailers need to know about the new HDMI 2.1 specification as well as highly anticipated release of the Ultra High-Speed HDMI Cable.

The Dealerscope Podcast team recently caught up with the NPD Group's Stephen Baker, the renown research organization's primary voice on hardware.

Since its inception, the Nationwide community has packed meals at various events around the country, delivering a portion of those packed meals within the local host cities, and the rest to children and their families in locations such as Haiti and the Bahamas.

Peter Weedfald talks about Sharp’s new Kitchen Suite of products that includes their Superheated Steam Cook ovens, Induction Cooktops, Wall Ovens, Slide-in Range, Microwave Drawer Built-In Ovens and Over-The-Range microwave ovens.

San Jose-based Atlona recently launched AtlonaComm on June 1st, an exclusive, online event offering a complete schedule of product offerings, training and education experiences, and personalized meeting opportunities for customers, partners and other visitors.

Among the many things that HDMI.org does is they act as the licensing agent to administer licensing of HDMI Specification, the on-going promotion of HDMI technology and education on the benefits of HDMI interface. Rob Tobias touches on these and other HDMI relevant topics in this edition of the Dealerscope Podcast.

The Dealerscope Podcast crew recently sat down with WiSA president Tony Ostrom and among the topics covered were the current momentum the organization is generating and the future of the wireless home theater category. 

We recently caught up with Nationwide Marketing Group’s VP of Technology Jennifer Danko and she discussed how she’s helping independent retailers ramp up their digital marketing efforts.

CyberLink continues to push boundaries and their new FaceMe AI facial recognition technology is taking the the category in some interesting new directions.

Enclave Audio continues to redefine the future of the home theater experience and we sat down with their CTO Rob Jones to discuss where wireless audio technology is headed and how it will reshape the home theater category. 

Nationwide’s VP of Merchandising, Derek Mattila, discussed the ways in which Nationwide members can get a piece of the $490 billion connected home market.

While attending the Nationwide PrimeTime event in Houston, Editorial Director Mike McEnaney sat down with Doug Wrede, VP of Merchandising at Nationwide Marketing Group. Among the many topics the two discussed were the continued success Nationwide is having with their private label TV endeavor, where the industry is headed when it comes to 8K, and the interesting evolution that Nationwide has seen with regard to the independent retailer. 

While attending the Nationwide PrimeTime event in Houston, Lee McDonald, Director of Consumer Electronics at Nationwide discussed the company's new AT&T program and the bridge it is building for their members to get involved in the connected home space.

Nationwide Marketing Group's president and chief member advocate, Tom Hickman, discusses why he feels independent retailers are thriving and the many ways Nationwide plans on making sure they continue to well into the future.

Assurant President & CEO Alan Colberg discusses the many many ways his company is demystifying consumer technology for the masses and the important data that is coming to light from their research efforts. 

One Firefly founder and CEO, Ron Callis, discusses the importance of having a strong marketing strategy to stand out in the custom integration space.

Alfredo Garcia, Head of Business Development & Product Planning for Google Nest, details the differing needs of consumers across the US and Latin America, and how Google Nest adapts to their diverse community of users.

Gurjit Sandhu, Marketing Manager at Yes Marketing, describes the marketing trends she's noticing in Q4 of 2019 and how retailers are combatting the shorter shopping period between Thanksgiving and Christmas.