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Podcast #654: Best New Products CEDIA 2014

CEDIA (Custom Electronics Design & Installation Association) just wrapped up and with that the organization announced their Best New Products award. As you read this be aware that much of these products are geared towards home integrators.

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Best New Products CEDIA 2014

CEDIA (Custom Electronics Design & Installation Association) just wrapped up and with that the organization announced their Best New Products award. As you read this be aware that much of these products are geared towards home integrators.


Sentido by Basalte

The basic idea of Sentido is very simple, yet very innovative. Divide a square in equal surfaces that each control different functions. The entire surface is touch sensitive, creating a very easy and unique way of control. Here is a video describing the product (http://youtu.be/Sw-flWhSbIY).


Main features:

  • Four touch surfaces
  • Patented multi touch
  • Built-in temperature sensor
  • Double or quadruple version
  • Integrated multicolour LED backlight

 

Control4® Composer Express

Composer Express, a powerful mobile configuration tool that enables Control4 Dealers to dramatically simplify and accelerate the set-up process for home automation systems. Now, a Control4 Dealer’s technician should be able to configure most one-room home theaters in very short order, or set up hundreds of devices in the most complex whole-home installations in a few hours by using their WiFi-enabled tablet or smartphone and simply walking around the building, installing devices and having Composer Express auto-integrate them into the Control4® system.


Crestron Pyng

The Crestron Pyng™ app provides a quick, easy solution for setting up and controlling lighting, shades, thermostats, door locks, and security systems in a home. This free home automation app enables complete setup from an Apple® iPad® and control from iPad, iPhone®, and iPod touch® devices.


Lutron Sivoia QS Triathlon Roller Shade

Sivoia QS Triathlon is the most fashionable, flexible, and affordable motorized shading system available today. This battery-powered solution offers a 3-5 year battery life for easy installation and maintenance, perfect for retrofit applications. Available in new roller shade or insulating honeycomb styles, these shades have a wide variety of beautiful fabric colors and textures to meet the functional and aesthetic needs of any space. Able to work as a standalone or system solution, these shades can be controlled at the touch of a button.


QMotion Motion Motorized Drapery Rods

QMotion's Motorized Drapery Rod collection is the latest innovation in automated window treatments. The first and only track-less motorized drapery rod in the market has arrived. The real beauty of QMotion's innovative new product is what you don't notice.  We've removed the external motors and wires and placed a battery operated motor inside the hardware itself.  Imagination, determination, and inspiration sparked the groundbreaking technology of QMotion's drapery rod system with Touch Wand Activation. The Touch Wand Activation feature provides customers with the convenience of manual and remote control. The Motorized Drapery Rod collection offers six beautifully crafted finial options and six popular finishes.  Add your own draperies for a truly custom design experience.


Sony Electronics VPL-VW600ES 4K Front Projector

Get the stunning clarity of Sony’s SXRD™ 4K movie theater technology with a 4K Ultra HD projector featuring a resolution greater than 4 times regular 1080p HD, plus anamorphic 3D and HD to 4K upscaling. Added installation flexibility makes it possible to experience immersive 4K content in a wider array of rooms.

 

  • 4K resolution (4096 x 2160) that’s greater than 4 times 1080p HD
  • Upscaling that transforms turns HD content into a 4K experience
  • HDMI® 2.0 compatible for 4K resolution at up to 60 frames per second
  • 200,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio with SXRD™ technology
  • Brightness of 1,700 ANSI lumens
  • Auto Calibration function
  • $15,000

Product Hall of Fame

  • Sonance: Sonamp 260 two channel amplifier
  • TiVo, Inc.: TiVo
  • Crestron: CNX-PAD8 Audio Distribution Processor
 

 

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Reader Comments (1)

Funny you should mention DLP TV's. I just got a new one yesterday! OK, I got a new DLP chip for my Samsung HLT6187 and installed it to relieve the white spot problem that was metastasizing. This 2007 TV should have a lot of life left, I read somewhere Samsung stopped testing it when the LED's reached 65,000 hours. I wanted to keep this TV going because A) it really does give a good crisp 1080p picture and B) I don't want to buy a new TV until the next generation of 4K TV's start appearing after the next CES (maybe even the year after). I kind of think with all the TV sales going on right now we might be close to the same change that took place a few years ago when 720p quietly disappeared and everything became 1080p. At least I hope so.

Yes, Scorpion, Gotham and others are close to being stricken from my TiVo. I will give the annoying (why does every main character have to be given at least two lines to another main character that is, basically, "You are so wonderful"?) NCIS: NO a few more episodes to develop. If you go back to the first episodes of NCIS it took a while for them to solidify everyone's personality and then it really took off. Hoping for the same here. If they are still having to prop up their co-worker's self esteem by episode 15 I will have to let this one go. And I see NCIS: LA as being the NCIS version of CSI: Miami. Quicker cuts, less story. Designed for the younger, shorter attention span crowd.

October 4, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterRick K.

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