{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - Leftover money goes to you-know-who\u2026 the king","description":"Recorded July 10, 2026 Who owns the classroom, and who pays when the technology inside it breaks, ages out, or needs to be replaced?  This week, the AV SuperFriends compare the very different ways their institutions classify, schedule, fund, refresh, and support academic spaces. What sounds like a simple split between general-purpose and departmental classrooms quickly turns into covered spaces, shared rooms, temporary surge spaces, competing service levels, one-time grants, and departments that may not even want the rooms they have been assigned. The panel explores how those ownership models affect classroom standards, support response times, project planning, and long-term refresh cycles. Depending on the institution, technology may be centrally funded and maintained, or left to individual colleges and departments until something finally dies. That creates uneven classroom experiences, endless arguments over responsibility, and the recurring question of whether a problem is a support ticket, a project, or someone else\u2019s headache. Then, the conversation turns to the lowly document camera. Are faculty still using them, are they quietly collecting dust, or have schools simply stopped replacing them to see whether anyone notices? Along the way, the group praises SynAudCon training, proposes an unauthorized CTS study guide, debates whether the math really matters, and takes the usual scenic route through commissioning, punch lists, bad terminations, and dramatic lectern advertising.   News article: https:\/\/www.avinteractive.com\/news\/training-news\/avixa-offers-members-pro-audio-training-from-synaudcon-02-07-2026\/   Alternate show titles: It\u2019s like watching an old movie That\u2019s a feature, not a bug There is math, but it doesn\u2019t really matter What\u2019s going on at your school? \u2026and nobody has time for that I wish I was y\u2019all Is this a pyramid scheme? That\u2019s where I get a little cloudy We only upgrade when things die A DMPS with leather Good colleges who operate in an intelligent manner That\u2019s a seminar room! We\u2019re not allowed to ask about the budget How do you design around that? Everything\u2019s going to die and you\u2019re going to be hosed We had parts and we had whole rooms Just take \u2018em out We stream live every Friday at about 315p Eastern\/1215p Pacific and you can listen to everything we record over at AVSuperFriends.com    \u2580\u2584\u2580\u2584\u2580 CONTACT LINKS \u2580\u2584\u2580\u2584\u2580 \u25ba Website: https:\/\/www.avsuperfriends.com \u25ba Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/avsuperfriends \u25ba LinkedIn: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/avsuperfriends \u25ba YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@avsuperfriends \u25ba Bluesky: https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/avsuperfriends.bsky.social \u25ba Email: mailbag@avsuperfriends.com \u25ba RSS: https:\/\/avsuperfriends.libsyn.com\/rss   Donate to AVSF: https:\/\/www.avsuperfriends.com\/support ","author_name":"AV SuperFriends","author_url":"https:\/\/www.avsuperfriends.com","html":"