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The universal remote control gurus from Remote Central released their latest video report on 15 new controllers from CEDIA Expo. The 14 minutes (including 720p for the owners of high bandwidth connection) video covers the technology, interviews with manufacturers and even gets you in to the Remote Central / Universal Remote Control Inc. CEDIA party.

Following remotes are presented in the video:

• Acoustic Research AARU449
• Control4 RCZ-SRC2-B
• Crestron MLX-2
• Marantz RC9001
• Marantz RC3001 & RC2001
• Niles iRemote TS
• Philips Pronto Professional TSU9400
• Philips Pronto TSU9200 and Prestigo SRU8015
• Universal Electronics Inc. NevoQ50
• Remote Control Systems Inc. TSR750
• Remote Technologies Inc. T2-Cs
• Remote Technologies Inc. T3-V
• Remote Technologies Inc. U2
• Universal Remote Control’s Complete Control MX-980
• Universal Remote Control’s Complete Control MX-810

What is your choice for universal remote control?

[via CEPro]

Here is a top five of the best new productions in the home automation industry chosen in CEDIA 2007:

• AMX for the AutoPatch PrecisLT with DSP Matrix Switcher.
• Audio Design Associates for their Structured Wiring Audio Network.
• OmniMount Systems for the ULPT-X flat-panel tilt mount.
• Sonance for the Architectural Series of in-wall speakers.
• Vantage/Legrand, Inc. for WebPoint 2.0 lighting control software.

[via CePro]

The trade show of Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) will take place 14 – 17 September 2006 in Denver, Colorado. This is the world’s #1 residential electronic systems industry show:

If you want the hottest, most profitable products for the residential electronic systems industry, you have to be at CEDIA EXPO. By the time your competition reads about these products or sees them somewhere else, you may have already cornered the market.

Many famouse companies are going to announce new hardware and software products there. Plutohome, the best open source home automation system, also will be showed on the exhibition. Let’s wish good luck to the Plutohome team!

We are going to keep an eye on show. So, be tuned!