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OnePlus, the upstart Oppo offshoot that made a splash last year with its debut smartphone, has thrown down the mobile gauntlet, again. The Chinese...

Best Buy threw down the holiday gauntlet by offering free shipping on all online orders, and by staging special in-store seasonal events in select...

Wireless multiroom-audio pioneer Sonos will open up its API to make it easier for home-automation suppliers to integrate with Sonos speakers and soundbars without...

Savant, the supplier of custom-installed home-automation systems for the luxury market, is going retail and direct to consumers for the first time with the...

DIY Products Find A Home In Custom Installers’ Toolboxes Electronics systems contractors who went to the CEDIA Expo found a variety of products that...

New York has a bad case of baseball fever right now, and those who are suffering from it — long-suffering Mets fans as it...

The HDMI Licensing organization launched a voluntary testing program for HDMI cables. The program intends to certify that cables designated as Premium High-Speed HDMI...

Epson is expanding its selection of 1080p Pro Cinema projectors with four new models designed for use in rooms with higher levels of ambient...

KEF arrived at the CEDIA Expo with a new line of entry-level in-ceiling speakers with thin bezels, its thinnestever square architectural speaker, a shallow-mount...

Control4 released the OS2.8 version of its home-control operating system to add new security capabilities and new streaming-music capabilities. With the update, the HC-250...

Thin speakers launched by Phase Tech for wall and stand mounting by thin TVs can be used with the company’s new three-channel mini amp,...

Accessories supplier Peerless-AV is launching the industry’s first powered outdoor-rated (IP65) soundbar for use with outdoor TVs, the company said. Other outdoor soundbars are...

SunBriteTV arrived at the Expo with its first two outdoor Ultra HD 4K TVs, one of which is the largest 4K outdoor TV announced...

Origin Acoustics, the year-old custom-speaker startup led by industry veteran Jeremy Burkhardt, is launching its first in-wall and in-ceiling subwoofers. Origin is also expanding...

Four new MartinLogan products on display at CEDIA are the brand’s first with DTS’s Play-Fi wireless multiroom-audio technology. They are $999-suggested Crescendo X wireless...

The Harman Luxury group is bringing Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, and Auro 3D surround to its line of high-end JBL Synthesis home-theater electronics/speaker packages, which...

For its largest product launch ever, multiroom-audio plays a prominent role. None new products also include its first two AVRs equipped with Dolby Atmos,...

NAD is bringing the high-resolution wireless multiroom-audio technology of sister brand BlueSound to NAD-brand custom-install products for the first time. NAD previously incorporated BlueSound’s...

Holiday sales of CE products are expected to hit nearly $34.2 billion this year, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) said. Driving the season’s 2.3...

Black Friday is so over, and other eye-openers for Q4 A survey of over 2,000 consumers and 230 retailers and vendors by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)...

Technological advances in TV and audio are giving past purchasers of custom-installed audio and video systems a lot of good reasons to update and...

U.S. consumer satisfaction with PCs is down for the third consecutive year, and this includes what they think about tablets. Satisfaction with TVs and...

Object-based surround sound and flat-panel TVs have emerged as key themes for audio suppliers here at the CEDIA Expo, where multiple companies are launching...

Clare Controls is giving homeowners more control over their home-automation systems and bringing its home-automation solutions to a lower price point. To give consumers...

Enters laptop market, readies virtual reality developers kit, adds 3 phones, wearable Microsoft entered the laptop market and launched the Surface Pro 4 tablet,...

Home Control Systems Integration Opens Doors For Installers Wireless home-automation solutions are putting in a strong showing at this year’s CEDIA Expo, with multiple...

Wireless multiroom-audio staked out a presence at the CEDIA Expo in years past the years, and this year’s show is no exception as multiple...

LG came to the CEDIA Expo on the heels of 30 to 45 percent price reductions on its OLED Ultra HD 4K TVs and...

Keeping you connected wherever you are Technology is always advancing and tablets are simplifying our lives; they are they are changing the ways we...

A s industries go, the consumer electronics business is second to none in the rate of change. Blink and the technology landscape may lap...

New TV Technologies TV is a major contributor to the upgrade trend, Holzer added, citing the lunch of Ultra HD TVs, OLED TVs, and...

Doing business with Walmart has always been tough, as the discounter relentlessly drove out costs in pursuit of its low-price customer promise. But the...

Filling Its Boxes With Boutiques Question: If you are Best Buy, how do you follow up what might have been the retailer’s best week...

CEDIA To See Multiple Business Drivers Everything is coming together in the custom-installation market. Rapidly evolving technology enables electronic systems contractors (ESCs) to tap...

But Apple TV gets a big fat “Meh” Analysts had positive things to say about the new iPhones and iPad Pro tablet but weren’t...

The AllSeen Alliance moved closer to making it easier for smart appliances and networked entertainment devices to work together and with other products based...

Upgrades Include Siri, App Downloads But Not 4K When the fourth-generation Apple TV hits the market in late October, many of the complaints about...

Logitech has redesigned its top-of-the-line Harmony remote. The Harmony Elite, engineered for both home-automation and home-theater control, is an updated version of the Harmony...

As is the norm, nothing stays the same in CE retailing. It’s been a crazy summer and the last two weeks saw a flurry...

D&H Distributing is bucking the trends. The national IT and CE distributor reported that it’s outperforming its two-step peers and is successfully managing its...