Re: Dedicated Z-wave sites?

["Dean Roddey" <droddey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you look at AVSForum, the A/V Distribution section has 8 times as many
posts as the automation section (and they are mostly populated by the same
folks and are in the same major sectio of the forum.)

I just searched the Custom Installer forum at RemoteCentral, where mainly
professionals hang out, and searched first for 'audio' for the last year and
then for 'security'. Audio got 1200+ threads. Security got 212.

Anecdotal of course, but informative.

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Dean Roddey
Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems, Ltd
www.charmedquark.com
"Robert L Bass" <robertbass1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I'm not in any real position to say what
>> the numbers are out there overall...
>
> I suspect that's true for both of us, Dean.  Your product is advertised as
> media friendly.  I would expect the vast majority of people coming to you
> to be looking for a media friendly product.  Likewise, I advertise
> specific products with specific, well-known capabilities.  As such, the
> universe I see is actually a subset of the true universe.  The same is
> true for you.
>
> Another factor contributing to our diverse experiences is manufacturer and
> industry group promotion.  We both see lots of ads in trade rags (or at
> least I do) promoting media servers as the be-all and end-all of HA.  For
> those who build such systems and for those who sell them, perhaps it is.
> However, for a very significant portion of the HA market (neither of us
> can be certain what percentage it is) media control and distribution is
> irrelevant.
>