News / Media

Crestron ADMS Intermedia Delivery System

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The ADMS Intermedia Delivery System dramatically revolutionizes and simplifies the way home entertainment is acquired, managed and enjoyed, by removing the boundaries between movies, music, TV and the Internet once and for all. ADMS is much more than a mere media server with a bay of hard drives that store whatever you rip to them. ADMS is a dynamic, real-time entertainment delivery technology that brings any media you want right to your home theater, all from your Crestron touch screen or remote. To access the voluminous but fragmented flood of online music and videos available today, homeowners have to search each source independently through its own proprietary interface. Until now. For the first time, the universe of digital entertainment can be captured and enjoyed right from your couch. And ADMS doesn’t just serve the audio and video content you own. Exclusive, WorldSearch® technology locates and displays anything the homeowner desires. Search online movies, TV, & videos through Netflix®, Hulu™, Metacafe®, Vimeo™, YouTube™, ESPN, CNN, ABC News, Comedy Central and many other online sources The new paradigm for managing media, ADMS consolidates and streamlines home and online source information, saving precious time when seeking a music file, new blockbuster release, video clip or online TV episode. A beautiful, intuitive menu guides you along the way, displaying cover art and metadata for music and movies, with multiple ways to find the precise content you want, fast. ADMS brings all your digital media together into one attractive solution, incorporating an audiophile-grade multimedia server, Blu-ray Disc-compatible DVD player, Web browser and streaming media player.

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Best products in 35 categories unveiled at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
January 06, 2011 by Steve Crowe

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Electronic House has announced the winners of its 2011 Product of the Year Awards during an awards presentation at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
Covering 35 different categories, the winning entries were chosen by a panel of industry experts, integrators and the editors of Electronic House. Judging criteria included creativity, innovation, incorporated equipment, obstacles overcome, aesthetics, and lifestyle benefits.

Security Panels & Sensors

Honeywell LYNX Plus



LYNX Plus is a self-contained wireless security control used to guard against residential burglary. The product provides homeowners with two-way voice, a combination control panel, keypad, dialer and speakerphone. The vibrant display is easier to use than traditional security systems—it announces the exact type and location of an alarm and gives homeowners information they need to react quickly. Additionally, two-way voice communication with the central station operator helps ensure that the proper emergency response personnel will be dispatched to the home in the event of an alarm. LYNX Plus also puts security and convenience at a homeowner’s fingertips. It serves as a home control with options to turn lights on or off and control garage doors with the touch of a button. For busy households, LYNX Plus’s family message center lets everyone record and playback voice memos for one another. As plain-old-telephone service (POTS) declines, LYNX Plus is a critical security asset for any homeowner.

Power Management, Conditioning and back up

Panamax M4315-PRO



The Panamax M4315-PRO Power Conditioner takes the category of power management to a new level, offering full cloud-based remote control and energy management functionality via Panamax/Furman’s exclusive BlueBOLT® platform. Engineered for professional integrators, the M4315-PRO features eight rear panel AC outlets with catastrophic surge/spike protection, over/under voltage protection, and Linear Filtering Technology optimized for audio/video frequencies. With BlueBOLT, integrators can remotely reboot problem components without the time and expense of a service call. Since control is at the outlet level, BlueBOLT’s control functionality allows full hard-reboots (the same as unplugging a component from the wall and plugging it back in) to immediately address a myriad of common system issues ranging from locked up components to bad communications handshakes. Additionally, BlueBOLT’s robust energy management features provide integrators with a tremendous value-add for any installed system, allowing users to monitor power usage and power quality in real time or over history, including energy consumption in dollars.

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Best products in 35 categories unveiled at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
January 06, 2011 by Steve Crowe

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Electronic House has announced the winners of its 2011 Product of the Year Awards during an awards presentation at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
Covering 35 different categories, the winning entries were chosen by a panel of industry experts, integrators and the editors of Electronic House. Judging criteria included creativity, innovation, incorporated equipment, obstacles overcome, aesthetics, and lifestyle benefits.

Fire Safety

In-O-Vate Technologies Inc LintAlert



According to the U.S. Fire Administration, clothes dryers were involved in an estimated 15,600 U.S. structure fires, fifteen deaths, 400 injuries, and $99 million in direct property damage, annually, between 2002-2004. While the majority of lint is trapped by the dryer’s lint filter, a fair portion escapes past this initial filter screen and is suspended in the moist heated exhaust air. Due to the characteristics of the exhaust conduit and the vent hood, lint build-up is a natural occurrence. Over time this lint buildup in the dryer vent reduces air flow and accelerates more lint buildup. Lint blow-back into the appliance is the result and becomes the ultimate ignition concern. Technical innovation revolves around the use and integration of the MB-LPS1-01 series low-pressure sensor. The transducer is a MEMS-based thermo-anemometer on a monolithic silicon chip. Rejustor technology combined with CMOS circuitry provides on-chip-integrated analog-only compensation and conditioning electronics. Essentially, the less air-flow a sensor requires through its body to make its measurement, the more ideal is the behavior of the sensor, and the better is the immunity to dust-bearing air. Our sensor provides very high flow impedance and therefore is very well suited for the challenge of the dryers’ environment. The LintAlert would not be what it is without this remarkable pressure sensor. A custom tap fitting is installed in the dryers’ transition hose at or near the dryers exhaust port. This SmartTap™ fitting is connected to the alarm module by a 1/8” I.D. vinyl PVC clear tube and allows the pressure sensor to monitor pressure levels in the dryers’ flex transition hose and the balance of the exhaust conduit. Dual purpose considerations were important in the design. The alarm module doubles as a simple night light, and the pass through electrical terminal provides an extra outlet.

Displays

LG Electronics LX9500 3D LED HDTV



The 55LX9500 is LG’s first 3D Ready LED LCD HDTV. The 3D ready capability of this model allows consumers to enjoy their home entertainment as if the action was unfolding right in their living room, offering them an extraordinary gaming and entertainment viewing experience with special glasses. LG’s 3D technology works with active shutter glasses and an emitter built directly into the television. LG increases LCD motion response time with TruMotion 480Hz technology, using a combination of 240Hz processing and scanning backlight to achieve a new level of motion performance. Combined with LG’s unique IPS panels, this virtually eliminates motion blur and improves picture quality at different viewing angles. TruMotion 480Hz technology also eliminates messy transitions between images by constantly timing each section of the screen until the pixels are ready with the new image. The end result for the consumer is a crisp, clean picture that eliminates the “zigzags” in rapidly-moving images. LG also improved overall style and picture quality with “Full LED Slim.”

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Best products in 35 categories unveiled at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
January 06, 2011 by Steve Crowe

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Electronic House has announced the winners of its 2011 Product of the Year Awards during an awards presentation at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
Covering 35 different categories, the winning entries were chosen by a panel of industry experts, integrators and the editors of Electronic House. Judging criteria included creativity, innovation, incorporated equipment, obstacles overcome, aesthetics, and lifestyle benefits.

Surveillance Cameras

VideoIQ iCVR-HD High Definition Camera



VideoIQ’s patented video analytic technology is the only system capable of processing full megapixel streams on-camera – producing the highest accuracy and greatest range. iCVR-HD analytics deliver more than two times the range of D1 analytics. Additionally, with a wider field of view and higher resolution than standard resolution cameras, VideoIQ’s iCVR-HD cameras allow operators to capture greater detail and track objects for longer periods of time, delivering better context and perspective on suspicious behavior. Finally, the camera’s real-time threat detection relies on VideoIQ’s award winning adaptive analytics, which calibrate in minutes, maintain calibration over time, and are capable of uniquely distinguishing people, vehicles and boats from other objects, animals and scene movement. Leveraging VideoIQ’s patented analytic technology, iCVR-HD cameras support IQTrack™ to automatically identify, track and digitally zoom in on people, vehicles and boats, delivering enhanced detail, while continuing to monitor and record the entire scene.

Fixtures/LED/Fiber Optic

Salamander Designs Lighting System



The Salamander Lighting System gives consumers unprecedented flexibility to subtly or dramatically illuminate their TVs, A/V cabinets or full home entertainment systems. The Lighting System consists of slim, LED-based lighting bars designed to connect through a four-port USB-type hub. It is operated using a handheld infrared remote. As a system, it presents consumers and installers with a unique combination of modularity, expandability, affordability and adjustability, since the lights can be dimmed or brightened as users prefer and even include preset scenes.

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LG Press Release

With World’s First “Flicker Free” Certification, LG CINEMA 3D TV Offers the Ultimate in Smooth, Comfortable and Bright 3D Viewing

SEOUL, Feb. 16, 2011 – LG Electronics (LG) today announced the Korean release of its new CINEMA 3D TV, which boasts the first third-party endorsed “flicker free” 3D images, along with more comfortable glasses, a brighter picture and a wider viewing angle. Together, these features make it more comfortable than ever for viewers to enjoy 3D content in the company of family and friends.

“Having used our expertise in 3D to address consumer concerns about 3D, such as the sometime flickery picture and unwieldy glasses, today we’re ready to unveil a real breakthrough in 3D with LG CINEMA 3D TV,” said Havis Kwon, President and CEO of LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company. “LG CINEMA 3D TV will be a real game changer in 3D TV, pushing 3D viewing to new heights of excitement and taking 3D technology firmly into the mainstream of home entertainment worldwide.”

CINEMA 3D TV’s outstanding 3D viewing experience begins with its Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) technology, which optimizes the separation of images for the left and right eye. Those images are then matched up with CINEMA 3D glasses specially designed to receive each image, creating an outstandingly smooth 3D picture.

The resulting picture has earned CINEMA 3D TV “flicker free” certification from Intertek and TÜV, two world-renowned certification agencies based in Europe, making it the world’s first 3D TV to receive the designation. With such a smooth picture, the Cinema 3D TV practically eliminates the feelings of dizziness or eye fatigue that could occur with previous 3D TVs, meaning viewers can enjoy 3D content for longer and in greater comfort.

The Cinema 3D TV also comes with comfortable and lightweight 3D glasses. Tipping the scales at just 16 grams, the glasses have no electrical parts, so they are free of electromagnetic waves and never need to be recharged. And because the CINEMA 3D TV’s glasses don’t need to be synced or shuttered, they ensure CINEMA 3D stays entirely free of onscreen flicker.

Further ramping up the picture quality is LG’s 3D Light Boost, a thin film covering the CINEMA 3D TV’s screen that ensures 3D images are shown at full brightness. By counteracting any dimness that can sometimes occur with 3D content, 3D Light Boost creates brighter, clearer images for a superior 3D viewing experience.

Thanks to its wider viewing angle and flexible viewing positions, CINEMA 3D TV is ideal for watching 3D with big groups of friends or family, while sitting or lying down in practically any spot in front of the TV.

Besides superb picture quality in 2D and 3D, CINEMA 3D TV boasts all the advantages of LG’s Smart TV technology. With its simple Home Dashboard and Magic Motion Remote Control, LG CINEMA 3D TV makes it easy to access a full array of premium content via top global providers, the best in locally sourced shows, and the growing range of LG Apps designed specifically for use on its Smart TVs.

Following its Korean release, LG CINEMA 3D TV will be rolled out globally from March.

LW5700 Specifications:

• Light and Comfortable Glasses

• 3D Light Boost

• Wide Viewing Angle

• Smart TV

• DLNA/WiFi/DVR ready

• 2D to 3D conversion

• LED Plus

• Local Dimming

• TruMotion 120(100)Hz

• DivX Plus/HD

• Smart Energy Saving Plus

SANUS, the leading global brand of audio/video mounts, furnishings and consumer electronics accessories, announces the release of a mount adapter that allows easy attachment of an iPad™ to any TV wall mount that is VESA 100 x 100 compatible. The new VisionMount® VMA301 iPad™ Mount Adapter provides an easy solution to iPad™ mounting anywhere in a home, office or kitchen.

With the VMA301, iPad™ mounting has never been simpler. The mount adapter is incredibly easy to install and use. It features:

• A custom molded design and material for a snug and durable fit
• A convenient release tab for quick device removal; no tools are required to attach or remove the iPad™ from the adapter
• Compatibility with any VESA 100 x 100 mount

Best products in 35 categories unveiled at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
January 06, 2011 by Steve Crowe

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Electronic House has announced the winners of its 2011 Product of the Year Awards during an awards presentation at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
Covering 35 different categories, the winning entries were chosen by a panel of industry experts, integrators and the editors of Electronic House. Judging criteria included creativity, innovation, incorporated equipment, obstacles overcome, aesthetics, and lifestyle benefits.

Lighting Controllers & Accessories

Lutron Electronics HomeWorks QS



Save energy with unparalleled total home control. HomeWorks QS offers a new level of total home control that provides increased energy savings and features greater integration capabilities than before, including lights, shades, HVAC and appliances. HomeWorks QS integrates the control of all your light: interior and exterior, electric light and daylight. The system also integrates with other manufacturers’ audio-visual and HVAC controls, for broader control of your home environment. And it does all of this while saving energy, so you’re not only choosing a system that will redefine your way of living—you’re investing in a system which can pay for itself over the life of your home. HomeWorks QS operates via The Power of Quantum®, Lutron’s newest product platform.

Universal Remote Controls

ELAN Home Systems HR2 Handheld Remote Control



ELAN’s HR2 Handheld Remote Control is a striking extension to the company’s “g!” control interface with all the function of a touchscreen packaged in a sleek 1-inch thick remote that weighs a mere 8 ounces. Its stylish, ergonomic design feels at home in your hand and is ready at a moment’s notice with a built-in accelerometer that instantly turns the HR2 on when you pick it up. Integrated Wi-Fi and IR ensure both rich metadata content as well as speedy local control of sources and TVs. Nearly 6 months of R&D went into the button layout alone – with 46 backlit buttons logically arranged in a very pleasing and easy-to-use configuration. Three hot keys provide instant access to commonly used features like the now playing screen, media guide and remote’s home page. But the real magic is in the 2.4” OLED touch display that provides the perfect blend of feedback and control to complement the hard buttons required for easy TV viewing.

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By YUKARI IWATANI KANE And SHAYNDI RAICE FEBRUARY 9, 2011

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Apple Inc. has started manufacturing a new version of its iPad tablet computer with a built-in camera and faster processor, said people familiar with the matter.

The new iPad will be thinner and lighter than the first model, these people said. It will have at least one camera on the front of the device for features like video-conferencing, but the resolution of the display will be similar to the first iPad, these people said. It will also have more memory and a more powerful graphics processor, they said.

The new iPad will initially be available through Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc., but not Sprint Nextel Corp. or T-Mobile USA in the U.S., according to some of the people familiar with the matter.

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Best products in 35 categories unveiled at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
January 06, 2011 by Steve Crowe

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Electronic House has announced the winners of its 2011 Product of the Year Awards during an awards presentation at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
Covering 35 different categories, the winning entries were chosen by a panel of industry experts, integrators and the editors of Electronic House. Judging criteria included creativity, innovation, incorporated equipment, obstacles overcome, aesthetics, and lifestyle benefits.

Home Theater Furniture

Salamander Designs Floating Wall Bracket



Salamander’s new Floating Wall Bracket creates an unusual and dramatic look for all nine styles of Salamander’s flagship Chameleon Collection of A/V cabinets. The bracket mounts flush against the wall, and connects to the rigid crossbar of the cabinet’s sturdy aluminum framework. Fully mounted, it creates the illusion a Chameleon cabinet is floating above the floor. The bracket, which mounts to conventional wood wall studs, is the essence of simplicity, but the effect is quite dramatic. The bracket is available in the four sizes of each of Chameleon’s nine styles and single, double wide, triple and even quad lengths (which can be 90 inches or longer).

CE Gadgets

Gefen GefenTV Auto Volume Stabilizer with Digital Audio Decoder



This solution has a big impact on the way consumers enjoy their entertainment systems. When watching television, for example, commercials are often much louder then the program. This device enables a smooth transition and consistent level of volume when listening to TV, movies and CDs. It automatically equalizes audio from different sources for a steady volume; everything is heard at the same intensity for a more enjoyable experience. The device is easily installed, and comes with analog (L/R) and digital (TOSlink, S/PDIF) connectors. It incorporates Dolby 5.1 digital decoding and converting to 2-channel to expand its compatibility and convenience. It will work with today’s television sets, A/V receivers, CD players, DVD players and more. Multiple sources can be connected at the same time, and accessed with the IR remote or a selector to switch sources. Whatever source is selected will be automatically adjusted to maintain your optimal level of volume. There is also a bypass button to prevent automatic stabilizing, if desired.

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Best products in 35 categories unveiled at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
January 06, 2011 by Steve Crowe

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Electronic House has announced the winners of its 2011 Product of the Year Awards during an awards presentation at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
Covering 35 different categories, the winning entries were chosen by a panel of industry experts, integrators and the editors of Electronic House. Judging criteria included creativity, innovation, incorporated equipment, obstacles overcome, aesthetics, and lifestyle benefits.

Computers, Networking Devices & Storage

Plaster Networks Plaster Networks PLN3 Adapter



Plaster Networks delivers on the full potential of powerline networking by providing a more reliable network for home multimedia applications, such as streaming video and IPTV, over existing AC wiring. The proliferation of such applications pushes the limits of wireless networks (dropped signals or weak performance causes buffering and lag) while wiring Ethernet cable remains disruptive and expensive. Powerline adapters are now worth revisiting. Unlike other adapters, Plaster Networks is an intelligent powerline adapter that includes a dedicated network processor for network management, configuration, diagnostics and troubleshooting.

Energy Monitoring Devices & Services

AMX Power Distribution Unit (PDU)



The innovative AMX Power Distribution Unit (PDU) allows you to control the rack as well as control the room. This PDU adds a basic level of control by allowing remote reset of devices via a power cycle, reducing the need to send staff to a customer site. By managing power delivery, the PDU monitors energy consumption of each connected component and restricts power to any or all devices when not in use. With 8 individually monitored and controlled AC outlets, built-in 12 Volt power supply, 2 sets of 4 AxLink Bus Strips, and power monitoring for each outlet, the PDU is flexible and can reduce wasteful standby power usage. Native NetLinx control over AxLink integrates the PDU with AMX Control systems and Resource Management Suite (RMS).

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