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Auro Technologies’ StormAudio to Launch at CEDIA16

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Auro Technologies Launches Hardware Brand to Support all Advanced Surround Formats

StormAudio logoThe creator of one of the top three advanced immersive movie surround sound formats, Auro Technologies (Auro3D), is launching a new venture called StormAudio to market a high-end, high-performance line of processors and amplifiers that supports all of the advanced surround formats – including its competitors Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. The launch will officially kick off at this month’s CEDIA16 show in Dallas, TX from September 15-September 17 in booth #6628.

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iPhone 7: The Best iPhone Ever?

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Company Touts Incremental Upgrades of Mainstay Product

photo of iPhone 7Apple, Inc. announced today the eagerly awaited iPhone 7, the next iteration of their biggest selling product. Already, the press leading up to the announcement – along with the blogs of several prominent Apple watchers – were suggesting this might be the year to skip. For those who were anticipating an incremental upgrade, well, ironically, you weren’t disappointed.

Still, Apple CEO Tim Cook declared to the crowd assembled at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium that it is the best iPhone they have ever made. He even sounded moderately enthusiastic saying so.

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Beats Wins; Monster Loses Lawsuit Over Alleged Dirty Dealing

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Trial is Now on Defendants’ Efforts to Recover Lawyers Fees

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Dr. Dre & Jimmy Iovine of Beats

The fat lady hasn’t sung yet, but it’s pretty much all over for Monster LLC and Noel Lee’s lawsuit against Beats Electronics LLC, Andre Young (a/k/a Dr. Dre), Jimmy Iovine, Paul D. Wachter (a Beats director), HTC America Holding, Inc and Does 1-25 (defendants to be named later). LA Superior Court Judge William F. Fahey has dismissed Monster’s lawsuit in its entirety, and has scheduled a trial that is now only on the claims by the defendants against Monster for attorneys fees and other costs.

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Sharp in Negotiations to Buy Back Building Sold Only Months Ago

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New Owner’s Moves Continue to Confound the Japanese Media

Graphic of Sharp's LogoNews comes out of Japan that the new owners of Sharp are in the process of buying back a building the old management sold off when seeking to improve profitability by reducing overhead. Now, new management – made up of former Foxconn executives – are doing an about-face and looking to repurchase the building, in a move that has Japanese media scratching their heads.

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Will CEDIA 2016 Be The Sonos Show?

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Sonos Launches Integration Partners Program with Software, Music Service & Hardware Companies

Sonos logoSonos surprised the industry this week with several announcements, some of which were directly targeted at the custom integration market just two weeks before the launch of the CEDIA 2016 show. But one announcement didn’t surprise us – we first told you about it a month ago when we revealed that we had learned that after announcing they were pulling out of the show, Crestron was back…in partnership with none other than Sonos.

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TiO Announces CEDIA Show Giveaway

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Partners with KEF on Exciting Daily Drawing

TiO logoTurn it On (TiO), Anuva Automation’s savvy and simple smart-home automation solution, announced today that it will have an exciting giveaway at next month’s CEDIA show in Dallas, TX. The company has partnered with KEF to offer a free daily drawing of exciting products in booth #2919.

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Promoters of 8K Broadcasting in Japan Admit They’re Getting Pushback

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8K Super Hi-VisionA consortium of companies in Japan, including large public broadcaster NHK, this month began testing a broadcast system of 8K TV signals via broadcast satellite (BS) channels. This test of an 8K broadcast system has been in the works for a couple of years now, as the country races to prepare for Ultra High Definition broadcasting of the upcoming Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

But promoters of the system admit they are getting significant pushback. Why? Read on to see what the detractors are saying.

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Inside AudioControl’s Unique ‘Sound Partners Program’

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Audio Control logoAudioControl announced last week that it was launching an all-new program called the Sound Partners Program. But this isn’t just a new program…it’s a unique concept in speaker/amplifier integration.

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Changing Its Mind, Sharp to Negotiate to Buy Back the N. American TV Biz

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Photo of Sharp solar panelSharp Corp., a division of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. – better known as Foxconn – is rethinking its previously determined plans for business success. As the company was struggling with financial hardships prior to the closing of their acquisition by Foxconn, Sharp made several cost cutting moves, including selling the North American and Europe rights to the Sharp TV brand to certain OEM manufacturers. Now, as they ponder how to drive revenue growth, there are reports they are changing their minds on these and other deals.

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Multiple Reports: Kaleidescape is Closed

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BREAKING NEWS

Kaleidescape logoWe have been inundated with multiple reports that media server kingpin Kaleidescape has ceased operations as of the end of the day yesterday (Friday). Furthermore, all employees both internal and external, have reportedly been let go.

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