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CEDIA 2016
Totem Gets Surround-Friendlier
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 16, 2016
Montreal's Totem Acoustic is a speaker brand we haven't celebrated as often as we'd like because for many years its lines didn't reflect a surround sensibility. But CEDIA 2016 turned up two new lines—one with a center speaker, the other with an LCR—that got our attention.

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GoControl’s New Smart Doorbell Camera Sees All
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Sep 16, 2016
GoControl’s new Smart Doorbell Camera joins the growing list of retrofit-engineered smart doorbells with built-in video cameras and wireless connectivity. This model from GoControl is Wi-Fi-enabled, includes a 720p HD video camera with a 180-degree wide-angle lens, and features two-way audio enabling homeowners to have a conversation with whomever (friend or foe) is at the door.
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CEDIA 2016
KEF Reveals $10,000 In-Wall LCR Speaker
Joe Palenchar  |  Sep 16, 2016
KEF America thinks it has the perfect audio solution for a high-end home theater built around LG’s new $19,999 77-inch Signature series OLED TV or Sony’s new $60,000 100-inch LCD TV with Backlight Master Drive HDR technology.
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CEDIA 2016
Datasat Drives Spectacular 9.4.4 DTS:X Demo
Al Griffin  |  Sep 16, 2016
A big advantage of attending a show like CEDIA is getting the chance to hear demos of new object-based surround sound formats carried out with ultra-fancy high-end gear. One such demo of DTS:X was conducted by Datasat, a maker of surround processors and amps for professional digital cinemas and high-end home theaters.
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CEDIA 2016
Denon Seeks Sound Bar-Like Simplicity In Heos AVR
Joe Palenchar  |  Sep 16, 2016
Denon came to CEDIA 2016 to unveil a slim-line Heos audio/video receiver that it thinks will appeal to consumers who are interested in sound bar-like convenience but who want better performance.
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CEDIA 2016
JVC Launches True 4K Flagship Projector with HDR
Tom Norton  |  Sep 16, 2016
BLUEscent. That’s the moniker for JVC Kenwood’s newest LCOS projector, the DLA-RS4500. Larger than it looks in the photo above, and available with or without carrying handles (I’d recommend the handles!), it’s designed around three of JVC’s true 4K LCOS imaging chips.
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CEDIA 2016
LG’s New 77” Flagship OLED Impresses
Tom Norton  |  Sep 16, 2016
The booths at CEDIA are invariably more modest in scale than what you’ll see at CES. But in LG’s case, that’s not for lack of trying. Outside the entrance, visible on the left side of the photo here, fifteen 55-inch OLED displays were clustered closely together, their thin bezels rendering the seams between them barely visible.
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CEDIA 2016
Bluesound Soundbar Offers Hi-Res TV Solution
Rob Sabin  |  Sep 16, 2016
Bluesound, the hi-res compliant multiroom audio platform from Lenbrook, the makers of NAD audio electronics and PSB speakers, has added a critical new product at CEDIA in its first soundbar. Priced at $999 and available later this month, the Pulse Soundbar is designed for screens 42-inches or larger, and offers up a number of features that should please audiophiles who want to start building a Bluesound system or extend an existing system into the TV room.

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CEDIA 2016
SI Transformer Switches Aspect Ratio Like Magic
Tom Norton  |  Sep 16, 2016
Screen Innovations (SI) showed their Transformer screen last year, but it’s only now being readied for full production. It can service films of varying aspect ratios, primarily 2.40:1 and 16:9.
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CEDIA 2016
SIM2 Projector Advances 4K “Wobulation”
Tom Norton  |  Sep 16, 2016
At last year’s CEDIA we reported on a new DLP imagining chip from Texas Instruments that offered one-half the pixels required for full 4K resolution. To produce 4K, the digital micromirrors first display half the pixels in the image, then microseconds later shift by a fraction of a pixel to show the others. While this is similar to the pixel shifting (a.k.a. wobulation) now used by JVC in most of its projectors (the new BLUEscent excepted), and by Epson in its laser model, TI argues that its micromirrors can shift far more rapidly.
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