The CEDIA Designer Releases New Upgrades

The CEDIA Designer (TCD) has released a host of valuable upgrades. TCD is a cloud-based design tool that allows home cinema professionals to design any dedicated cinema/media room in minutes. The CEDIA Designer upgrades include: Ability to generate documentation report in Spanish Ability to specify sound bar products A new Project Progress feature “The new […]

The CEDIA Designer Releases New Upgrades

URC Adds Two-Way Total Control of QMotion Qadvanced Shades

URC today added a two-way module for Total Control of Qadvanced automated roller shading systems from QMotion (a brand of Legrand). The module, available to authorized URC installers via URC’s dealer portal, makes it easy for commercial or residential end users using any URC Total Control interface to raise, lower, stop and set the level […]

URC Adds Two-Way Total Control of QMotion Qadvanced Shades

StarField Ceiling Tiles Ship From Acoustic Geometry

Acoustic Geometry just started shipping its StarField Ceiling Tiles, an acoustical ceiling panel with a starry sky effect. This innovative sound management product is designed for home theaters, media rooms, studios, retail spaces, restaurants/bars and commercial businesses looking to inspire a “wow” factor. Designed to add the beauty of the night sky to any room […]

StarField Ceiling Tiles Ship From Acoustic Geometry

Home Automation to Experience a Boom to 2025 – But Potentially at the Expense of the CI Market

The global home automation systems market will reach $68.1 billion, annually, during by 2025 owing to growing adoption of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) automated devices in global households. Highlighted with 50 tables and 63 figures, this 135-page GMD report,“Global DIY Home Automation Systems Market by Offerings, Product, Technology, and Region 2014-2025: Growth Opportunity and Business Strategy” is […]

Home Automation to Experience a Boom to 2025 – But Potentially at the Expense of the CI Market

Gaming the AV Industry: A Game Plan for an AV Game Room

I’m always up for a challenge and recently, Mark Coxon threw down the gauntlet and asked me to get a little more specific on what a home theater gaming setup would look like. Although it’s true I haven’t worked directly for a true AV integrator — I have done some HomeAV design and install work […]

Gaming the AV Industry: A Game Plan for an AV Game Room

Barco to Enter Residential Market in 2014

One of the first products that Barco ever built was a radio — that was nearly 80-years ago. Now, nearly 40 percent of the digital cinema screens in the world at movie theaters are equipped with Barco’s projectors. It was only a matter of time before they entered the home theater and home cinema markets. […]

Barco to Enter Residential Market in 2014

Black Friday & the AV Industry: Does it Help, Hurt, or Hardly Matter?

It’s that time of year here in the United States – we just celebrated Thanksgiving and we’re in the thick of the holiday season. And, of course, the day after Thanksgiving (or, really, Thanksgiving day in many stores) means Black Friday – the day where people go crazy, hit the stores crazy early, and sometimes […]

Black Friday & the AV Industry: Does it Help, Hurt, or Hardly Matter?

The Future of Smart Homes

By Philip Masterson Guest Contributor When someone says, “The future is now,” many raise an eyebrow. After all, we’re still not living in a science-fiction like world with unimaginable technology. You may question if such technology is even possible. But, reality is in fact stranger than fiction. The technology available nowadays, although still expensive, is […]

The Future of Smart Homes