Savant is offering two private training sessions during CEDIA in ballroom 1B of the convention center:

Friday, Sept. 7, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Friday, Sept. 7, 4:00 - 5:30 pm

This 90-minute class will begin by presenting the Savant Architecture and current product offering. The remainder of the course will focus on Savant’s RacePoint Blueprint development and creation environment. RacePoint Blueprint is an advanced, intelligent and easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) tool for configuring, programming, and customizing RacePoint OS and all Savant products. This configuration tool collects basic information, such as what external components and Savant products are used, and how they are connected; and from this information automatically generates the control logic for all ROSIE controllers, touch panels, keypads, and remote controls within minutes without writing a single line of code.

The woman holding the Savant remote here was featured in Savant's announcement of the training sessions. The company did not specify if she would be presenting…

CHICAGO, IL – CEDIA 2007 – Peerless Industries, Inc., the industry leader in professional-grade audio/visual mounting solutions, today announced that Derrik Lam, Director of Mounting Solutions Business Unit, will be presenting a manufacturers training session, Keeping it Clean: Quick and Easy Steps for a Clutter- Free Installation on September 6th, 2007, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm at the CEDIA Expo, Denver, CO. By combining manufacturer research and industry installer expertise, this session will provide step-by-step installation techniques that will help clean up cables and cords in an installation, show how to install a mount into the wall, and will even show how to recess the entire flat panel screen into a wall. The session will be held at the Hyatt across from the Colorado Convention Center in Continental Ballroom G and will contribute .375 CEDIA CEU credits towards maintaining CEDIA certification.

Training Session
Peerless' session, Keeping it Clean: Quick and Easy Steps for a Clutter Free Installation provides installers with three levels for creating a clean and…

Press Release

Denver, CO – CEDIA EXPO 2007 – September 4-9, 2007 – Booth #208 - Richard Gray’s Power Company (RGPC) will announce a revolutionary new whole-house power management and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) product at CEDIA EXPO 2007. The product will be the first of its kind for the CEDIA market. As part of the product launch, RGPC is inviting CEDIA dealers to attend two training events during CEDIA EXPO that will provide a chance to learn more about the product and its benefits to their business and customers. Dealers may also visit RGPC in booth #208 at any time during show hours for a demonstration.

The dates and locations are:

• Wednesday, September 5, 10:00 a.m. at the Hotel Monaco, 1717 Champa Street, in Denver. This location is about four blocks from the Colorado Convention Center, site of CEDIA EXPO 2007. Food and beverages will be provided. For directions, visit http://www.monaco-denver.com/.

• Saturday, September…

We get a lot of press releases about manufacturer training at CEDIA, along with PR pleas to post them on CEDIAnews.com. Except for those of our sponsors, those pleas generally get ignored.

But here's a plug for Media Center training for Microsoft -- great prep, by the way, for more extensive full-day Media Center training at the Electronic House Expo in November.

Microsoft tells us there will be "sweet giveaways."

Microsoft Media Center Training

Introduction to Windows Media Center in Custom Installations

The purpose of this 90 minute course is to introduce installers to Media Center for Windows Vista. The course will outline the basics of Media Center as a great customer entertainment experience and robust media platform for residential entertainment systems.


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Capitol Sales is a major CE distributor based near Minneapolis. The company, best known for its tech support and customer service, is launching a series of online training videos taped at a recent dealer event.

Those training sessions, attended by some 325 dealers, will be available online come CEDIA."We can send the education we do at our show to a whole new arena of people who couldn't attend," says Capitol CEO Curt Hayes, adding, "There may be a dealer that has 10 people and they can't send five people. This will allow us to get to the them."

The online sessions are not raw video of the training. They are edited, with Powerpoints incorporated into the presentations, and chaptered for easy access to areas of interest.

Training videos are accessible free of charge to Capitol Sales customers.

The distributor will offer 12 online training sessions, the first four of which will be showcased at CEDIA:

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