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4 days ago | 
cepro.com | Nick Boever
Submissions for URC’s 2025 Unsurpassed Dealer Awards have opened. The competition is open to dealers who have purchased URC products directly with the only other major requirement being that the installation being submitted must have occurred within the calendar years of 2024 or 2025.
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4 days ago | 
cepro.com | Nick Boever
It’s no secret that an evolving trade dispute between the U.S. and many other countries—especially China—threatens to throw the custom integration industry into disarray. Rising product costs due to import tariffs, a shrinking inventory and factories going dark can greatly impact the product supply chain.
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1 week ago | 
cepro.com | Nick Boever
Officials working for LG have stated that the company plans on spending over $900 million developing new advancements to its OLED TV technology over the next couple of years. The initial news of the investment was reported by The Elec and comes following the sale of LG’s last LCD panel manufacturing facility, with the company signaling its intentions to focus solely on its OLED tech moving forward.
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1 week ago | 
cepro.com | Nick Boever
In its ongoing expansion of its art catalog, Samsung has added the Art Basel in Basel collection to its Art Store Platform. The new collection adds 38 curated digital works from artists and galleries across the world with the core theming of the collection being centered around Africa as a place of origin.
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1 week ago | 
cepro.com | Nick Boever
Among the many brands looking to develop dynamic lighting products that will create unique visual environments in response to music, Govee has joined the ranks with its Table Lamp 2 Pro, with audio provided by Harman’s JBL. Designed standalone product, the Table Lamp 2 Pro features an LED unit integrated with a 2.5-inch 500cc speaker and JBL’s equalizer algorithm.
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1 week ago | 
cepro.com | Nick Boever
Bose expands its portable speaker line-up, Samsung starts production trials for its RGB TV display tech, Lightology kicks off its summer show in Dallas and more, all on this edition of the Weekly Rewind. Bose Expands Portable Speaker LineupBose has broadened its SoundLink portable speaker range with two major updates, according to ZDNet.
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1 week ago | 
cepro.com | Nick Boever
HDMI Rev 2.2 (Ultra96) is steadily gaining traction across the HDMI ecosystem, signaling a renewed and collective push among industry stakeholders to expand the frontiers of speed, resolution, and audio performance. These advances, while impressive, bring with them elevated demands on transmission line performance—not just in terms of signal integrity and noise immunity, but also in power delivery. Which reminds me of a prior advancement introduced to HDMI: cable power.
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1 week ago | 
cepro.com | Nick Boever
Hunter Douglas has kicked off the next phase of its Spring 2025 launch with a special focus on design aesthetics being pushed across its smart shading portfolio. With this new phase, the company has announced expansions to its PowerView Automation, an update to its Lightlock solution, and an entirely new product: Pirouette A Deux.
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1 week ago | 
cepro.com | Nick Boever
Modern Atomics is adding two new power distribution units (PDUs) to its line-up with the new Neutron PDU and Tokamak power supply. NeutronAccording to Modern Atomics, Neutron Expands upon the initial design of Reaktor with a reportedly faster and more powerful energy storage system that allows it to work with Lutron and Creston as well as Matter, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave and Sub-GHz RF wireless control platforms.
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1 week ago | 
cepro.com | Nick Boever
In premium home audio setups, sometimes space is the stuff that comes at a premium. For that reason, it’s always a welcome sight to see a hi-fi product that tries to make the most of its form factor like with Cambridge Audio’s MXW70 power amplifier. The recent release is a part of Camrbidge’s MX range, which itself is a “half-width” range focusing on compact audio system components such as streamers and network players.
