A Closer Look at Insta360
A company rooted in action cameras has brought a different set of assumptions to wireless audio, desktop video, and meeting-room collaboration. The company’s enterprise collaboration portfolio now includes the Insta360 Mic Pro wireless microphone system, the Insta360 Link 2 Pro…
Social Media Is Broken
This post is for paid full subscribers. How can people find a well-curated source of industry truth, and how can companies get their messages out now that social media…well…sucks. This post is for paid full subscribers. How can people find…
TalkingPointz PickHitz Showcase – InfoComm 2026
With InfoComm 2026 now in the rearview mirror, the TalkingPointz PickHitz Showcase was once again a great vehicle for companies to get their messaging out above the noise floor of the show. We had eight participants in the program this…
The Device Is Just the Beginning
Announced this morning, Fox’s proposed acquisition of Roku is the latest reminder that in technology, distribution and recurring revenue are increasingly worth more than the devices themselves. As I leave for InfoComm this morning, Fox has announced its intention to…
David Danto Presentation for InfoComm 2026 – Choosing Wisely
David J. Danto’s presentation at InfoComm 2026 focuses on a growing challenge in the AV, collaboration, and unified communications industries – choosing long-term technology partners wisely. Across the industry, some vendors have significantly reduced staffing levels, often in pursuit of…
A Closer Look At Q-SYS’ June 2026 Activate
Innovation Through Intentional Choices The collaboration industry has always had a tendency to converge around common approaches. One manufacturer introduces a successful feature and others quickly follow. A preferred operating system emerges and suddenly most room systems begin to look…
The Smartest Meeting Rooms Are Built for Reality, Not Ideology
For years, enterprises approached meeting room strategy a little like rooting for a favorite football team. Once an organization picked its side, the room was expected to wear that jersey, run that playbook, and defend that platform at all costs….
The Myth of the Unequipped Room
At least twice in recent weeks, I’ve heard manufacturers explain that new products debuting at the upcoming InfoComm 2026 are specifically targeting the smaller huddle room market because of the enormous number of unequipped meeting spaces around the world. The…
Goodnight Dial Tone
I never thought I’d voluntarily disconnect a phone line. As someone who started his career at AT&T headquarters, learning the history, structure, and mythology of “the Bell System,” the idea almost feels sacrilegious. Somewhere, a retired Bell Labs engineer probably…
TalkingPointz Research: NAB2026 – The National Association of Broadcasters Conference 2026 Report
David Danto/TalkingPointz at NAB 2026 David Danto attended NAB 2026, his 42nd year attending the NAB Conference. Here is a summary of his findings and experiences. [caption id="attachment_46233" align="alignleft" width="308"] David Danto/TalkingPointz at NAB 2026[/caption] David Danto attended NAB…
Beyond Video: My Perspective on Zoom
Hold the Phone I recently attended Zoom Perspectives, the company’s nearly annual analyst event. This isn’t your Uncle’s meeting app. I say Uncle because Zoom is only 15 years old, too young for a paternal reference. But “perspectives” was right…
Flying in America: The Gold Standard Has Rust
Let’s be honest: American aviation, once the undisputed champion of the skies, has traded its gold standard for a participation trophy. We used to brag about our rigorous engineering; now, we’re just grateful the wings stay on. The industry insists…
The Potential Rebirth of InfoComm
(As originally posted on LinkedIn here) After many years of trying, it took a herculean effort by InfoComm show organizers to get Microsoft to exhibit at that show at all. If we set the Wayback machine to June 2014, when…
Room Videoconferencing and Video Bars in 2026: A Practical Buyer’s Framework
We are currently living in a post-ISE, pre-InfoComm market. That matters because ISE tends to show where the manufacturers want the market to go, while InfoComm is often where buyers, integrators, and end users start deciding what of that vision…
The Blog That Erased $300 Billion
The dramatic market reaction to a paper from Citrini Research and a widely-shared blog post by AI influencer Matt Shumer illustrate three new realities: Viral posts and sensational research on AI are shaking investors. Investors are confused and fearful of…
MDEP – A Check-In Before ISE 2026
When we published the original MDEP research note in July 2025 (with details and way too similar phrasing that have since shown up in a number of analyses by others), the thesis was that Microsoft was not just creating another…
CES 2026: A Show of Relevance, Restraint, and Real Use Cases
CES has always been a circus, but this year the calliope sounded and felt a little different. The spectacle was still there, but the tone was more measured and grounded, with fewer products shouting for novelty and more genuinely trying…
Reading the CES 2026 Tea Leaves
As CES 2026 approaches, the real themes are already emerging from the pre-show noise. With just about a week to go before CES 2026 officially begins, some clear themes are already emerging via the steady stream of analyst and media…
The State of Videoconferencing at the End of 2025: Thirty Years In, Still Not Done
Thirty years is a long time. Let’s ask Mr. Peabody to set the Wayback Machine to 1995. If you wanted to make a video call back then, you weren’t casually tapping a glass-covered rectangle in your hand. You were likely…
Center-of-Table Cameras: Back to the Future of Meeting Equity
COT cameras are the latest not-so-new thing. It stands for “center of table,” not the thing that hurts your back on a camping trip. Center-of-table (COT) cameras move the primary room video capture point to where the conversation actually happens:…