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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Runco Announces Plans for CEDIA Expo 2009

Runco will launch more than a dozen products and will have a booth (#3069) on the show floor at CEDIA Expo 2009 in Atlanta.

Runco also will hold daily training sessions in rooms C-301 and C-302 inside the Georgia World Congress Center.

The company's booth, called the "Runco Dealer Red Carpet Lounge," is a dealer-exclusive space to meet with Runco's sales team, tech support, marketing and inside staff.

Here's the statement from Gerry Perkel, Planar president and CEO and GM for Runco:

"Runco is a founding member of CEDIA and we will be at EXPO in a big way. There have been many rumors, misinformation and speculation about what Runco plans to do at EXPO so we want to make it abundantly clear that we will be there with an arsenal of new products. These new products, combined with our recent flat-panel announcements, are providing an improved roadmap across the board. We…

Posted by Steve Crowe on 08/04 at 08:07 AM
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Monday, August 03, 2009

Get Ready for CEDIA Expo 2009!

Everything is new about CEDIA Expo 2009 in Atlanta.

Attendees will be greeted by new hotels and restaurants, a new portion of the Georgia World Congress Center, new education, and gobs of new products on the show floor.

But one thing hasn't changed: CEDIANews2009.com is the No. 1 source for news and information about CEDIA Expo.

Will there be another booth of dancing girls? Where will the best receptions be? Which products will be the hottest on the Expo floor? It's all here.

CE Pro is excited to once again present this Web site as a resource for new products, technologies, events and exclusive coverage of CEDIA Expo 2009.

Keep CEDIANews2009.com bookmarked to get notes from the show, photos of new products, tech trends, special events and more.

We hope CEDIANews2009.com will this year's Expo the best ever.

Posted by CE Pro Editors on 08/03 at 08:25 AM
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Buzz Aldrin to Keynote CEDIA Expo

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo 11 crew will be the keynote speaker at the CEDIA Expo.

Aldrin, who is celebrating the 40-year anniversary of the first lunar landing, will address CEDIA members during the association’s annual meeting and membership breakfast on Friday, Sept. 11 at 8 a.m.

The Annual Meeting & Membership Breakfast is open to CEDIA Members only. Members can register to attend as part of their registration for CEDIA Expo.

Like anyone who is old enough, I can vividly recall exactly where I was on July 20, 1969 when Aldrin and Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. I even have an A/V memory to go with it:

I was sitting inches away from the screen of my parent's clunky old RCA TV console cabinet watching. Boy, was it a lousy TV and that moment really exacerbated the bad reception. The images were fuzzy and…

Posted by Jason Knott on 06/24 at 02:12 PM
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

AMD, Crestron, HP, Intel, Lifeware, Microsoft, Niveus Launch Media Center Alliance

AMD, Crestron, HP, Intel, Lifeware, Microsoft and Niveus Media have founded the Media Center Integrator Alliance (MCIA) to "provide both integrators and manufacturers with best practices and training for technologies using Media Center."

Perhaps Windows Media Center hasn't been the runaway mass-market success that Microsoft and partners had intended. Now the key players are turning to the channel – the folks that can provide the best experience from the myriad Media Center services that consumers don't tend to know about.

The Alliance, which launches during the CEDIA Expo 2008, has four key missions, according to Microsoft's Kevin Collins, chairman of the board and president of MCIA:

Drive awareness of Media Center
Document best practices for installation, integration, and more
Train installers on Media Center "from soup to nuts"
Institute some kind of certification program

Since MCIA is new, the group hasn't hashed out specific plans. Working groups to address publicity, training, documentation and certification will form after CEDIA.

Posted by Julie Jacobson on 09/03 at 09:36 AM
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

CEDIA Elects New President, Executive Committee and Board of Directors

CEDIA has elected a new president, executive committee and board of directors. Utz Baldwin, who most recently served as vice president of the CEDIA executive committee, has been elected to his first term as president.

The 2007-2008 CEDIA Executive Committee includes:

Utz Baldwin, President – AD Systems, Houston, Texas
Ken Erdmann, Vice President – Erdmann Group, Springville, Utah
Randy Stearns, Secretary – Engineered Environments, Oakland, Calif.
Randy Vaughan, Treasurer – AE Systems Home Automation & Entertainment, Portsmouth, Va.
Ken Smith, Past President – Custom Electronics, Inc., Falmouth, Maine

The 2007-2008 CEDIA Board of Directors includes:

Jeremy Burkhardt – SpeakerCraft, Riverside, Calif.
Buzz Delano – Delano Associates, San Clemente, Calif.
Scott Fuelling – Phoenix Communications Corporation, Bartlett, Tenn.
Rich Green – Rich Green Ink, Palo Alto, Calif.
Eric Lee – Integrated Control Experts, Chicago, IL
Randy Wilson – Wilson Home Theater Systems, Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Gordon Van Zuiden –…

Posted by CE Pro Editors on 09/12 at 01:54 PM
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