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DLO Makes HomeDock Pro for Custom Channel
Dock for delivering iPod music/video to the TV has an IR port, discrete on/off and serial control.
The folks at DLO (Digital Lifestyle Outfitters) are visionaries. You know DLO -- the guys that make iPod accessories that have the highest attachment rate for iPods sold at retail. With all of its success at retail, though, the company still has enough sense to pay attention to the custom market.
DLO is now shipping HomeDock Pro, the custom version of its popular HomeDock Deluxe, a docking station that delivers iPod video to connected TVs.
Because consumers like it so much, custom installers have been selling and installing the Deluxe -- begrudgingly because it lacks integration features and, of course, they couldn't make money on it.
DLO listened. "This [HomeDock Pro] was made for integrators," says DLO's Mike Woods. "They wanted discrete on/off and remote in…They were using the Deluxe and sticking an IR emitter on it, which falls off, and there's another service call."
In the HomeDock Pro, dealers not only get discrete on/off and an IR port, they get serial control and margin.
The product ships with an RJ-45/DB-9 adapter, and manufacturers are just starting to build drivers for operating the product through a third-party control system.
The HomeDock Pro, which "retails" for $300 (twice as much as the Deluxe), is available only to the trade. Currently, the product is sold through the EDGE group of distributors, Capitol Sales and two members of the Digital Delivery Group: Shifting Sands and Wave Electronics.
Sonos, are you listening?
DLO is now shipping HomeDock Pro, the custom version of its popular HomeDock Deluxe, a docking station that delivers iPod video to connected TVs.
Because consumers like it so much, custom installers have been selling and installing the Deluxe -- begrudgingly because it lacks integration features and, of course, they couldn't make money on it.
DLO listened. "This [HomeDock Pro] was made for integrators," says DLO's Mike Woods. "They wanted discrete on/off and remote in…They were using the Deluxe and sticking an IR emitter on it, which falls off, and there's another service call."
In the HomeDock Pro, dealers not only get discrete on/off and an IR port, they get serial control and margin.
The product ships with an RJ-45/DB-9 adapter, and manufacturers are just starting to build drivers for operating the product through a third-party control system.
The HomeDock Pro, which "retails" for $300 (twice as much as the Deluxe), is available only to the trade. Currently, the product is sold through the EDGE group of distributors, Capitol Sales and two members of the Digital Delivery Group: Shifting Sands and Wave Electronics.
Sonos, are you listening?
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Julie Jacobson, Editor-at-large, CE Pro
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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