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For total control of your home theater and or HDTV system a man needs a proper remote control. The types of remote controls for today's home theater and HDTV video systems are varied yet quite powerful. Consumers can program, using their PCs, an under $1000 remote to jump through hoops. High end home theaters look for more high performance remotes from the likes of Crestron, Control4 and AMX. Depending on your needs, there is a remote control or home automation solution for you that you can afford. For home theater remote control system news, HomeTheaterReview.com has the latest release from AMX, Crestron, Pronto, Control4, RTI, Universal Remote Control and many others.
Gefen Adds Next Generation Matrix Switchers to Route Video
Gefen has introduced two new next generation switchers with the GefenPRO line that allow new ways to route video with a wide variety of control and interface options with more ease than Gefen has offered before.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
The AVC Group Introduces Control Solutions for Home Builders
The AVC Group has created control solutions that are designed to work with a variety of home options by combining products from ELAN Home Systems, Niles, Xantech, Sunfire, and ATON.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
ELAN Announces Support for Lutron HomeWorks Control System
ELAN continues the company's relationship with Lutron, while explanding integration options by improving the g! control system to work with Lutron's HomeWorks whole home control system.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Niles IntelliControl ICS System Now Features iPad/iPhone Control
The Niles IntelliControl ICS System now supports control through iPhones and iPads thanks to an update to the GXR2 Modular MultZone Receiver which the company claims is future-proof.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Crestron Controls AV in Entourage Star's New Home Theater
Kevin Connolly has been receiving a great deal of attention from AV companies with the makeover of his media room as part of the DIY Network show Hollywood Hi-Tech. Crestron participated in setting up an impressive theater for Connolly.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Microsoft Creates Home Control that is Body-Based
Microsoft Research has begun to harness the power of the Kinect gaming technology in a new and evolved way, taking the motion control concept to the world of home automation control.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
KMI Introduces Multi-Touch Foot Controller
Those with disabilities or those that have to perform the same repetitive tasks can breath a sigh of relief as Keith McMillen Instruments has released a multi-touch foot controller than can ease the burden.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
IOGEAR Bluetooth Mini Keyboard Has Inputs for Six Devices, Including Tablets and Smartphones
With more and more devices becoming touch-based, typing can become a little difficult. Especially on smaller screens. Now, IOGEAR offers and intuitive and versatile solution to combat this problem.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Xantech Introduces QuickConfig Mode for MX88 Multi-Zone Media Controller
Tired of spending hours upon hours programming your control system. Now you don't have to. Xantech's new QuickConfig mode allows for programming of the MX88 control system in nearly no time at all.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
ELAN Introduces a Killer Combo
ELAN Home Systems has introduced a new combo to help people get introduced to the idea of whole home automation. This system can start with controlling only one room and then build to the whole house.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
CasaTunes Adds Control Apps for iPad and Android
CasaTunes, a company that produces multi-room audio control products, has extended their control options to Apple iPads as well as the many new models of large screen Android tablets that are being released.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Crestron DigitalMedia 8G Provides Entertainment at Virgin Airlines
Crestron teamed up with Virgin Airlines and system integrator Avensys to bring an entertainment and media control system to the Upper Class Lounge at Heathrow Airport in London.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
ELAN Debuts 10" In-Wall Color LCD Touch Screen: the TS10 Touch Screen
ELAN Home Systems has released a new 10-inch in-wall color LCD touch screen controller that integrates into the g! system already released by the company and it comes with plenty of features.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Crestron Updates Apps for Apple Mobile Devices
Crestron updates its apps for Apple mobile devices to make an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch even more compatible with a Crestron system, including customizable interfaces as well as other features.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Savant Introduces New Control Systems: SmartSystems
Apple has its slices in a lot of pies, so to speak. One example, as reported by TWICE.com, is Savant's line of SmartSystems audio-video controllers, which are based on Apple technology and feature media servers that accommodate Apple's iDevices.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Rovi Extends Cable Video to Tablets and Smart Phones
Rovi, the leader in streaming media for HDTVs, Blu-ray players and beyond, now has a solution that will allow set-top box users of HDTV to stream their media from their HDTV feed to their mobile devices like iPhones and iPads.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Minnesota Builder Pre-wires Every House for Elan Home Automation
There's nothing like a truly enthusiastic supporter to help get a good product out to the public. In the case of Minneapolis home builder Rocky DiGiacomo, his love for Elan's g! Series IP-based Home Control System has led him to install it in the new structures he erects.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Crestron MC3 3-Series Control System Redefines the Future
Okay, maybe it didn't come from the year 3092 with the Doctor in the Tardis, but Crestron's MP3 3-Series Control System does seem like something well ahead of its time, with cloud-based architecture and IT platform engineering.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Crestron Introduces the TPMC-9 Touchpanel
In what appears to be a particular boon to the graphic design business, Crestron is bringing out the TPMC-9 Tilt Touchpanel, with a wide nine-inch screen that better allows users to view both popular and custom graphic interfaces.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
CasaTunes Releases First Android App for Muli-room Audio Control
Android devices have caught on even better than the science-fiction writer who coined the term could ever have imagined. Case in point: CasaTunes has brought out the first Android application intended to make it easier to control multi-room audio.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
RTI Ships New Universal Controllers: T2-C+ and T3-V+
In increasingly component-heavy environments, properly programmed universal controllers can be lifesavers. Recognizing the fact, Remote Technologies Incorporated (RTI) is bringing out two new universal controllers, the T2-C+ and the T3-V+.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Onkyo to Launch iPhone/iPod-compatible Remote Control App
A new iPhone/iPad application will allow owners of Onkyo receivers to use their iPhone or iPod Touch as a fully functional, touch-driven wireless remote control for their receivers. The new app will be available at the end of January, 2011.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
11 Year Old Invents Stunning iPad Stand
Ever get the feeling your children aren't just a little smarter than you when it comes to matters of technology but in fact are a lot smarter than you. Well Dino Zaharakis is living proof that you don't have to hold a degree from MIT to be called a genius for his home made iPad stand is starting to make waves.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
RTI Now Shipping RK10 In-Wall Touchpanel
If a PC computer married a touchscreen control system, the resulting offspring might well be the KR10 In-Wall Touchpanel from Remote Technologies Incorporated (RTI). The company is now making this product available for purchase.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
New Crestron HD Touch Screens Now Shipping
Want to create 3D effects on your widescreen display? Crestron's recently introduced TPMC V-Panels allow for this, as well as control of all sorts of audio and video and environmental systems, from home theaters to security cameras and even pool/spa temperatures.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Philips Discontinues Pronto
"Pronto" means "right away" in Italian. However, in the lexicon of Philips, Pronto now means a product line that is going away. According to CEPro.com, the TSW9500 in-wall touch screen is still being shipped for awhile longer before the line is discontinued.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Logitech Announces Line of Google TV Accessories
Logitech has launched a complete line of Google TV-friendly products. From the Revue set-top box to the TV Cam to the Mini Controller, Logitech is doing its part to help you make the most of your Google TV experience. Read on for more details.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Denon Releases Remote App for Apple Touchscreens
Denon's Network 11 series is getting a boost from a remote application for Apple Touchscreens that works with four different Denon audio/video receivers, the AVR-4311C1, the AVR-3311C1, the AVR-991, along with Denon's latest, the AVR-A100.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Savant Introduces Touch TV Models With HD Displays
When is a touch TV more than a touch TV? There are probably a number of answers to this. Two of these include Savant's eighteen-and-a-half-inch TTV-2018 and the twenty-four-inch TTV-2024 are HD displays that also work as control interfaces for Savant systems.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
ProntoTunes Application Creates Two-Way Apple Integration For Pronto Control Panels
A two-way controller for a slew of Apple applications has been developed in collaboration between Philips Pronto and the Australia-based ProntoProject.com. The new controller allows its users increased ability to interface and use Apple digital media.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Control4 Releases OS 2.0, Opens 4Store
The Control 4 OS 2.0 is the most powerful automation product so far from the Control4 organization. The newly-released Control4 OS 2.0 combines Flash technology for developers and the functionality to remotely control AV technology within the home.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Philips Pronto Launches New Accessory Line
Polar Bear Solutions sounds like it could either be what large white Arctic mammals are doing to combat global warming, or what Arctic humans are doing about large white Arctic mammals. In fact, it's a new accessory line from Philips Pronto.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Meridian Sooloos iPad App Now Available
To make your experience with the Meridian Sooloos Digital Media System even better than it already it, Meridian now has an iPad app that enables you, without charge, to download anything you might want or need from the online Apple App Store.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Xantech Using Apple iPad As Controller
In a move I see more and more manufacturers making, Xantech is turning their control over to the hot, touch panel of choice -Apple's iPad. While the iPad may be revolutionizing tablet computers it's poised to turn the CE world on its head with virtually every manufacturer scrambling to maximize their involvement with the sleek little tablet.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Clean Remote Company Says Hotel Remotes Are Filthy
You've seen the movie version of The Shining, and maybe the TV miniseries as well. You've seen Vacancy. Oh, and of course you've seen Psycho. Well, in addition to supernatural forces, sadists and lunatics, now you can worry about hotel remote controls.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
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24-Tech: Ideas On How To Get Your Home Theater Working Like It's Installed At CTU -
24 was a great show that had some ridiculously impressive technology. So impressive, it defied the reality of the actual technology used. However, the ideas are great. Jerry Del Colliano thinks about how those ideas could be translated to home theaters.
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