James King and Steve Greenblatt debut a creative episode format called Maintain/Update/Deprecate. Questions are posed with three answers, which James and Steve each rank from best to worst and explain why.The theme of this episode is the selection and design of AV control systems. What is the future of AV control?a. Traditional dedicated control systemsb. Software-based homegrown with off-the-shelf hardware control systemsc. Control built into other products What user interface is most effective?a. Touchpanelsb. Button panelsc. Web pages What control architecture is most effective?a. Local controlb. Centralized controlc. Cloud control This podcast is supported by Control Concepts, the industry leader in AV software development and API integration. Control Concepts develops the building blocks programmers use to seamlessly integrate products or add functionality to their systems. To learn more, visit controlconcepts.net and ccisupported.net.To join the conversation or have your question answered on a future episode, join the Ask The Programmer group on LinkedIn and post a message, leave a comment, or reach out to us @AV_JamesKing or @stevegreenblatt on LinkedIn, X/Twitter, or Bluesky, and be sure to include #AskTheProgrammer.The Ask The Programmer podcast can be found at @AVProgrammerPod on X/Twitter or on Bluesky as @asktheprogrammer.