Back before I boarded this leg of Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride and became a custom installer, I was a golf professional. (There is definitely a correlation here beyond just a walk down memory lane, so bear with me.) I worked at a couple of public courses before landing at a very private club in the Bay Area for about five yea

I did a major car trash clean-up the other day, and I stumbled across a dusty old binder in my trunk. It was left over from the last time that I had to go and perform a Runco CRT calibration and it contained all of my notes for dialing knobs, turning switches, bullying phosphors, and making a three-lens RGB projection

I chatted last week with Fred McNickle, director of sales and marketing for THX Video Technology, about the upcoming THX hands-on Video Certification Workshop, and he shared an interesting tidbit with me. He said that in his relatively short time working for THX, he was amazed at how many Best Buy sales people were sho

To salt one's game: To publically insult or demean someone even if it's unintentional, especially when they're around someone they're trying to impress – Urban Dictionary   Big jobs are tough enough to come by these days, so when that supposed “sure thing” falls into yo

If you’re a Control4 dealer – as I am – you received an e-mail earlier this week from Glen Mella, company president and COO, titled ominously enough, “A Letter from the Control4 COO.” Not often is a missive sent to a manufacturer’s dealers from so far up the mountain, so I opened it and started reading.   And, I must

Remember those crazy deals that you’d hear about back in the Reagan-licious 1980s where European countries were apparently so starving for the U.S. Green that they would practically PAY you to come over and pick up a car. “Ja! We have terrific car deal! You buy car, we fly you to Deutschland. We put you up in fine-q

Philips recently announced that it is closing the doors on its Pronto remote control division. Distributors will be able to place orders through the end of November – or until inventory runs out – and Philips will honor all of its warranty obligations. The Pronto remote certainly will continue to exist in the marke