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26 High-Impact Products: The 2008 CHIPs
Despite innovations in energy management, Apple-based control and video-on-demand, dealers bestow CHIPs awards on things that make their jobs a little easier.
The CE Pro High-Impact Product awards (CHIPs) this year might be considered by some to be a little bit mind-boggling.
Dealers praised touchscreens and universal controls from AMX, Crestron and URC. Did these products really deliver earth-shattering innovations? Or, were they merely improvements or extensions of earlier models?
Indeed, some of the biggest praise was heaped not on great new control systems, but on little things that make integrators' jobs easier: an HDMI Cat 5 extender, an antenna, a surge protector/UPS, tool-less connectors and a one-cable solution for multiple satellite tuners.
Products that were recognized as 2008 CHIP winners are not brand new developments. They were shipped some time after August 2007, and they must have been sold, installed and embraced by integrators before September 2008.
As such, some favorites were excluded, including RTI's two-way remotes, Crestron's iServer and ADMS, Russound's Collage and NuVo's Renovia powerline-based audio solutions.
For the record, CHIPs nominations close Oct. 1 of every year. We solicit contributions from dealers via mass e-mails, notices in CE Pro magazine and on forms and forums online.
Don't see your 2008 favorite products here? Let us know what you think by adding a comment.
Click here to view the 26 High-Impact Products: the 2008 CHIPs.
Past winners:
Dealers praised touchscreens and universal controls from AMX, Crestron and URC. Did these products really deliver earth-shattering innovations? Or, were they merely improvements or extensions of earlier models?
Indeed, some of the biggest praise was heaped not on great new control systems, but on little things that make integrators' jobs easier: an HDMI Cat 5 extender, an antenna, a surge protector/UPS, tool-less connectors and a one-cable solution for multiple satellite tuners.
Products that were recognized as 2008 CHIP winners are not brand new developments. They were shipped some time after August 2007, and they must have been sold, installed and embraced by integrators before September 2008.
As such, some favorites were excluded, including RTI's two-way remotes, Crestron's iServer and ADMS, Russound's Collage and NuVo's Renovia powerline-based audio solutions.
For the record, CHIPs nominations close Oct. 1 of every year. We solicit contributions from dealers via mass e-mails, notices in CE Pro magazine and on forms and forums online.
Don't see your 2008 favorite products here? Let us know what you think by adding a comment.
Click here to view the 26 High-Impact Products: the 2008 CHIPs.
Past winners:
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Julie Jacobson is co-founder of EH Publishing and currently spends most of her time writing for CE Pro, mostly in the areas of home automation, networked A/V and the business of home systems integration. She majored in Economics at the University of Michigan, earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and has never taken a journalism class in her life. Julie is a washed-up Ultimate Frisbee player with the scars to prove it. Follow her on Twitter @juliejacobson.
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Note—the first 10 products are “Gold” winners and the rest (AMX and afterwards) are “Silver” winners. You’ll see them distinguished in the Dec. issue of CE Pro.
BTW, the picture of the TPS-6X is wrong. That pic looks like a TPMC-12. The 6X is much prettier.
Thanks, JB! We’re changing it. 6x is definitely prettier.
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+1 for the Sonance VP series. They sound great and customers love the way they look.
+1 more for the Magnum Dynalab ST2, easy to install and it works great, we’ve been using them for quite a while now.
And of course I love the Lumagen Radiance XD.
And last, but not least, the TPS-6X is too new to have made a big impact for us yet, but I foresee it outselling every other touchpanel very soon!