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Monday, April 16, 2007

Samsung has officially announced that they will be releasing the Duo HD player, a dual-format Blu-ray and HD DVD unit, “in time for the holidays.” View this story

Sunday, April 15, 2007

A 55-inch TV is a big screen, according to copyright law (Title 17 of the United States Code). The law also says that an establishment cannot broadcast copyrighted audio through more than four speakers in any room, and six in the entire establishment. View this story

Last year, GE Security upped its participation in AIN, and renamed the group GE Home Technologies. View this story

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Two old friends prove to be good business associates, evident by Home Systems’ formula for making complicated installations easy for clients to use. View this story

ResNet likes to put itself in its clients’ shoes—creating easy-to-use systems, providing after-sale support and explaining why that plasma costs $500 less online. View this story

Friday, April 13, 2007

Today, NHT has addressed limitations through the release of its “ultimate” system, which combines six of the XdS speakers, two of its XdW subwoofers, three of its XdA amplifiers and its home-theater processor. View this story

Mike Snyder, former president of ADT, has stepped down as CEO of Vonage just over one year after taking over the position. Jeffrey Citron, Vonage chairman and former CEO, will become the interim CEO while the company searches for a replacement. View this story

A recently announced company emphasis on selling installation, warranties and performance-enhancing products with flat-panels will be carried out by lower-paid employees, give Circuit City’s replacement of higher-paid associates. View this story

When it comes to home technology hotbeds, distributor AVAD is finding success with its Dealer-to-Builder (D2B) Program in some non-traditional places right along with the states that generally come to mind when you think of desirable homebuying destinations. View this story

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Does your work vehicle work for you? It should, because for most integrators their van or truck is the closest thing they have to a billboard. View this story

Many Media Center naysayers have suggested that Exceptional Innovation, maker of Lifeware automation software, would go out of business now that HP has dropped its flagship DEC Media Center. That’s just silly. EI never relied on HP; the two just had a great relationship that helped stimulate the Media Center category. Lifeware works on anyone’s Media Center PC, and EI will probably make its own machine to boot. View this story

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

With media centers gaining traction in the marketplace—at the same time that many DVD players are pricing themselves out of existence—whether your company’s target client is entry level, mid-range or high-end, there is a media center solution that is right for both you and them. View this story

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

In an effort to help integrators toward that end, CE Pro elicited some tips from interior designers themselves on how integrators can work with them and how to benefit from the experience. View this story

With all the talk of LCD and plasma displays being the technology of choice for most Americans seeking high-definition television (HDTV), it’s almost forgotten that Texas Instruments’ (TI) Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology is a major industry force. View this story

Monday, April 09, 2007

Sony’s third-generation Vaio XL3 Media Center is quiet and sleek, with Blu-ray and CableCard. But it’s still a PC, loaded with junkware, and not necessarily optimized for media-centric applications right out of the box. Still, the company insists it is committed to the category, and to the professional A/V integrators that will drive it. View this story