The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Apollo Enclosures Booth Interview at CEDIA Expo 2019

Episode Date: September 13, 2019

Apollo Enclosures Booth Interview at CEDIA Expo 2019 Apolloenc.com See them at Booth #4146

Hi folks, Chris Voss here from thechrisvossshow.com and coming to you from the Cedia 2019 show. Wow, we're up here in Denver and we're at the Apollo Enclosures booth, 4146, and we're interviewing the lovely Lynn Stern, the president of Apollo Enclosures. How are you doing, Lynn? I'm doing well, Chris. Thank you. Awesome sauce. So you guys have got this beautiful booth here. What's the website people can look you up at? Website you can find us at www.apolloenc.com. So you guys have got a beautiful booth here, a lot of stuff going on.

Who are you guys and how do you do it and what do you do? Okay, what our goal in opening up Apollo Enclosures was to bring a beautiful, durable enclosure to market that would be affordable. So what we do is we manufacture a whole line of outdoor TV enclosures that allows a customer to make any TV an outdoor TV. So you can go buy a trusted brand TV, the LG, Samsung, Sharp, Vizio, and be able to get the technology that you want and be able to put it inside of our enclosure and have a beautiful outdoor TV. It looks just like an indoor TV, but now it's

environmentalized. Awesome. And what's new at Cedia that you guys are displaying here? This year at Cedia, we're introducing our new 98-inch enclosure. We have seven different sizes right now, and the 98 is our biggest and best. So beautiful that we had one of our dealers in Arizona installed it in a property and we won an award. So we're super excited about that for that technology. That's pretty awesome. So how big was the TV? The TV was an LG 98 inch TV and we built the 98 inch enclosure. Wow, that's freaking huge. And so what variations of some of the enclosures

do you guys make? What sizes? We have seven different sizes. So we have our Elite line, which carries a 43, 50, 55, 65, 75, 86, and now the 98. And in our Pro line, which takes care of direct sun and digital signage we have three sizes that are 55 65 and 75 so what are the aspects of outdoor tv viewing that apollo has

been able to improve on well what we do is we have an anti-reflective scratch resistant safety glass that cuts down reflectivity and helps you be able to view TV outdoors. So one of the better features that we have is the fact that we can keep it environmentally protected and you can see it well as long as you're watching it in a very comfortable environment. Most of our enclosures are meant for partial sun but our direct sun line is available as well. Just need to know if that's where you're putting it. So basically the enclosures can deal with all sorts of stuff outdoor weather sunlight glare all those sort of different things yep rain snow sleet insects dust we do it all

well awesome sauce so you guys have won some awards and and received different ignition recognitions where can we see, where are some famous places that Apollo Enclosures are at? Well, we have definitely won awards for CE Pro Best and Cedia Best and a couple of different technologies. Every year our products win awards. But we do have them, besides residential, because this is the residential market,

we have it in lots of homes. But for the commercial, we have LSU University, where we just recently installed over 300 of them there in LSU Purple. So that was super cool. But we have the Braves and we have Buffalo Wild Wings and we have a Pechanga Casino. We are all over the place in residential and in commercial applications. That's awesome. So does Apollo have solutions for commercial applications, outdoor screens, bars, restaurants? I imagine from what you just mentioned they do. Yeah, we do. You know, because our products are so affordable, the best thing about our product line in the commercial environment is that we allow them to be able to install

a regular TV inside of our enclosure, save a great deal of money in their budget, and then serviceability and exchange in the future-proofing technology is very cool because as technology changes, you're just popping in and out less expensive TVs rather than going with the outdoor TV route, which is already obsolete. Awesome sauce. So what sort of advice can you give to anyone looking for an outdoor TV for their home or business? I think that you have comparisons

you know depending on the technology that you want because you can get TVs that are low cost and you can get the QLEDs that are higher cost. It just depends on what kind of technology you're looking for to put in your backyard or in your restaurant. But it's a very simple installation. Our product is very beautifully designed and made. And so it's just a very simple step to go pick the TV that you want, put it in the enclosure, and you are set to go. Awesome. So they can go to your website now.

Can consumers get through this, or do you just work with vendors? Or how is your relationship with the... Well, we're here at Cedia because our primary business is through our dealer network. So we have an entire group of AV dealers that purchase our product to put in both residential and commercial installations. But we do sell through some e-commerce online. We have Amazon and Best Buy and Wayfair. And we also have, we're working with Houzz.

So we have a couple of really nice e-commerce channels that consumers can buy direct. And either they'll either put it up themselves, which they can do, or they'll hire one of our AV installers. Awesome sauce. Anything more we need to know about Impala enclosures? Well, another good feature that we have is that we're the only enclosure that has been certified to UL CSA safety standards, so no one else has done that. We also manufacture a line of outdoor TV mounts that are zinc-plated, zinc plated powder coated and they also have stainless steel hardware so you have a complete environmental solution that's really good to have stainless

steel hardware because then you know it's going to survive the elements and stuff and being out the elements but you know you can have great patios you know parties have the football parties all that sort of good stuff have the tv out there enjoy the back doors the outdoors and of course your commercial outlet you know these are real important, too, as well. Yes, and we bring the family unit together. It's a great gathering experience. People love watching TV outdoors. It gets you out of the house.

And now the extension of home theater and outdoor has been growing every year. So we're happy to be in the market. Just so massive. If you could give us your website one more time. www.apolloemc.com Thank you, Lynn. I certainly appreciate it. Thank you so much, Chris.

And if you're coming to Cedia, come to booth 4146. See the Apollo enclosure thing. It's right kind of back by the food court a little bit. And you should be able to find it on the app and the maps. But be sure to swing by, say hello, or check out their website if you get a chance thanks for tuning into my audience watch for more of our coverage today at cd show 2019 we'll see you next time