THE WORLD OF
Paul
Harris
From the workbench to the video wall
Paul talks AV over IP, interoperability and the people learning to put it all together. Explore his conversations, company milestones and appearances with the AV community.
Paul Harris
CEO & CTO · Aurora Multimedia
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Cutting Through
With Ben Thomas & Stephane Tremblay
Network knowledge matters in AV system design.
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Paul and SDVoE Alliance’s Stephane Tremblay join Ben Thomas to discuss AV over IP, interoperability and integrator education. Paul connects product choices with the practical work of meeting customer needs.
Published articleBen Thomas · Host / Stephane Tremblay · Guest
Original on MarketScale ↗Cutting Through
With Joe Way
The initiative connects a manufacturer with the higher education AV community.
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Paul and HETMA’s Joe Way discuss Aurora Multimedia’s investment in higher education AV through donated IP control products. The conversation focuses on access to equipment and learning.
Published articleJoe Way · Guest
Original on MarketScale ↗Cutting Through
With Bobby Brill
Paul credits the team behind Aurora’s progress.
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Paul joins Bobby Brill to reflect on Aurora Multimedia’s silver anniversary, its team and changing AV markets. The 2023 conversation also previews customer training and the company’s InfoComm plans.
Published articleBobby Brill · Host
Original on MarketScale ↗PAUL / FROM THE CONVERSATIONS
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As I tell everybody, there’s no such thing really as a standard. What really there is, is a popularity contest. Popularity wins, not standards organizations.
The network switch belongs in the training plan
Paul Harris and Stephane Tremblay on Cutting Through
Paul identifies switch education as part of making AV over IP work across different brands. In the same conversation, Stephane Tremblay describes SDVoE’s integrator training. Product compatibility and the team’s ability to specify and install the system have to be considered together.
Discussion prompt
Who will configure the network, and what training do they need before installation?
Equipment access can change what a campus can attempt
Paul Harris and Joe Way on Aurora’s HETMA contribution
Paul and HETMA’s Joe Way discuss Aurora’s $6.6 million equipment donation to higher education. For institutions facing budget constraints, access to the technology creates room to improve learning environments. The commitment concerns equipment, rather than a cash grant.
Discussion prompt
Which campus project is being limited by access to equipment?
A standard succeeds when people choose it
Paul Harris with Sean Heath · 2018
Paul distinguishes a specification from adoption. In his 2018 interview, he contrasts DisplayPort with HDMI and argues that selling a technology into the market matters alongside its technical definition. For manufacturers, his test is what customers can do with it and how much choice the implementation gives them.
Discussion prompt
What useful choice does the customer gain from this design?
Supply resilience starts inside the product design
Paul’s account of Aurora’s chip-shortage response
Paul connects Aurora’s experience during the chip shortage with decisions made earlier in development. He describes working closely with semiconductor manufacturers and choosing components that support lower power use and fanless designs. In this historical account, sourcing and engineering are part of the same decision. A product’s architecture influences both how it performs and which supply constraints the business must manage.
A product explanation is part of the product’s usefulness
Paul’s explanation of Aurora’s investment in education
Paul explains why Aurora invested in educators Chuck Espinoza and Marcus Yarborough: even an ambitious product accomplishes little if customers cannot understand it. Their discussion treats clear, accessible education as part of adoption. The work extends beyond documenting features to helping integrators and users understand the system well enough to apply it.
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Career & credits.
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AWAY FROM THE JOB TITLE
Beyond the job title.
His first business put computer images on T-shirts.
At sixteen, Paul combined an Amiga computer, a Video Toaster and an inkjet printer to make color-image T-shirts. He took the setup to carnivals and events, then sold the business while in college.
Read the source ↗Aurora turns twenty-five.
In the 2023 anniversary interview, Paul looks back at the team and market changes behind Aurora’s first twenty-five years, before looking ahead to InfoComm.
BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE
About Paul.
CEO & CTO
Aurora Multimedia
Connect on LinkedIn ↗Paul Harris is Aurora Multimedia’s CEO and CTO. He started experimenting with electronics and code at nine, built a T-shirt imaging business at sixteen, and went on to work in video-wall manufacturing, AV integration and control-system programming. In 1998, he opened Aurora Multimedia; two years later, he brought his audio-systems company, Zytec, into the business.
In conversation, Paul is specific about the problems between the product and the installation. Discussing AV over IP with Stephane Tremblay, he calls out the training required to make network switches and different manufacturers’ equipment work together. He is skeptical of promises to “future proof” a system; his emphasis is on a foundation that can accommodate change. Another interview covers Aurora’s equipment donation to HETMA and the budget constraints facing schools.
Some of those products began with an informal question. Paul recalls a Pioneer contact at InfoComm asking whether Aurora could put its work into a card. The collaboration led to tuner and HDMI cards for Pioneer displays. He describes learning the early HDMI problems firsthand, rather than having predicted where the standard would go.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Early career
Electronics, imaging and integration
Built DigiTrans at sixteen, then worked in video-wall manufacturing and control-system programming.
- 1998
Opened Aurora Multimedia
Began with control-system programming and expanded into product design and manufacturing.
- 2000
Brought Zytec into Aurora
Combined audio-system development with AV and control products.
- Today
CEO & CTO
Leads Aurora Multimedia’s business and technology development.
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