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The Source Home Theater shares the 23rd floor in a lower-Manhattan office building with a Wall Street broker/investment-banking firm that also happens to be...

A couple of weeks ago, I was called out to look at a job. The house had already been pre-wired and now that the...

In the custom installation channel, a balance of power exists – and must exist – between client and installer. It is much like the...

It’s been three years in the making, and the team behind the Prima Cinema digital movie server is leaving...

It was almost exactly a year ago that I walked into URC’s new training room in Harrison,...

It has been less than two months since Dolby Laboratories announced that it acquired the naming rights to what was formerly been known as...

Much like how the swallows return to Capistrano or the Monarch butterflies take their yearly sojourn to Mexico to fill up on off-brand, over-the-counter...

During my visit to Dolby Laboratories in San Francisco to learn about the company’s new TrueHD with advanced 96k...

Having read about the ceiling speaker aspect of Dolby’s new Atmos commercial movie theater surround sound technology, I was...

“Nothing is more important right now for small, independent AV specialists than the relationship they have with their vendors,”...

It’s less than six degrees that separates Michael DiTullo from Apple founder Steve Jobs. The director of DEI...

It’s great when a new product release excites a manufacturer’s dealer base. Things can get weird, however, when that...

There are several features that stood out for me as I learned more about Control4’s new HC-250 controller from...

by John Sciacca I’ve been doing my current job since 1998 and I’ll be honest, it is VERY rare that...

It was the summer of 1975, and I was four and half years old. Having a daughter that same...

by John Sciacca There is a disconcerting phenomenon in the retail world called “Showrooming” where stores are becoming virtual showrooms...

by John Sciacca There’s been some kinda-sorta negative stuff going around on the Interwebs lately about Kaleidescape and their awesome media...

by John Sciacca As a custom installer there are more than enough negative market conditions today to make you pessimistic...

by John Sciacca We’re about to come into March, and that means that CES is long finished and thoroughly digested...

by John Sciacca Several years ago, a new company burst onto the scene with a completely new take on the...

by John Sciacca Quick: Name a luxury automobile. Maybe you thought of Bentley, or Rolls Royce, or...

On the heels of last month’s International CES, where record numbers of exhibitors and attendees flooded sprawling convention halls,...

For a first-time attendee like me, the second day of Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in Amsterdam began to feel much...

by John Sciacca “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the...

I came to Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in Amsterdam, this year, so that I could get a taste of what...

by John Sciacca Well, the fat lady has sung, the curtains have been closed and CES 2012 is officially a...

by John Sciacca For my final day at 2012’s CES I returned to the Venetian to hit the numerous exhibitors...

by John Sciacca   My third day in Vegas began with a visit to what, in my mind, will always be...