URC to Debut Subsystems for Home Control
 URC MX-6000 - Available At Custom Installation Services Charlotte NC! Over the past couple of years, URC has worked hard to reposition itself as a whole-house control company – not just a maker of remotes.
In a symbolic gesture, the company even changed its name in March from Universal Remote Controls to just plain URC, which is what everyone has always called it anyway.
The name-change sets the stage for CEDA Expo 2010, where we’ll see URC’s most ambitious play in the home automation space.
The company promises a “monumental unveiling” of a new line called Total Control, which pushes URC “beyond controlling the home theater and becomes the whole house control company of choice,” according to a CEDIA teaser.
Of course, we’ve heard that claim from URC before. Likewise from virtually every manufacturer of higher-end remote controls.
So what makes this particular unveiling so monumental?
Today, “We offer whole-house control, but to a large extent it’s with third-party products,” URC marketing director Jon Sienkiewicz tells Electronic House sister publication CE Pro. “Now, we’ll have URC-branded products.”
URC-branded products? As in subsystems?
It wouldn’t be a first. With help from Lutron, URC developed its own line of natively compatible lighting controls in 2008. The company did recently unveil an energy monitoring app for its networked controllers. Could thermostats, multiroom audio, IP cameras and other subsystems be far behind? URC isn’t saying.
by Julie Jacobson
http://www.electronichouse.com/article/urc_to_debut_subsystems_for_home_control/
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Polk’s RTi A9 Speakers Deliver Full-Range Performance
 CIS-NC is Charlotte NC's Trusted Polk Audio Speaker Dealer! Polk Audio’s RTi A9 freestanding loudspeaker is efficient, easy-to-drive, affordable and it has a small footprint.
There’s no question that over the past decade the performance characteristics of a typical in-wall or bookshelf loudspeaker have been greatly improved.
However, there is also no question that there is no replacing a full-range loudspeaker with their ability to provide high sound pressure levels (SPLs), dynamic sound reproduction capabilities and seamless, multi-octave soundstages.
Polk Audio‘s RTi A9 is an example of how manufacturers have evolved their in-room products to meet the needs of a much different consumer demographic that requires sleek industrial designs, unobtrusive room integration and reasonable price points.
Standing just under 49 inches tall the RTi A9 has a cabinet depth of 21.375 inches and a width of just shy of 9 inches.
Internally, the speaker employs three 7-inch polymer-composite woofers, two 5.25-inch polymer-composite midrange drivers and a single 1-inch silk-polymer, composite dome tweeter that operate together on 12dB crossover slopes (second-order).
The Maryland-based company also utilizes a ported cabinet design that includes its PowerPort Plus technology to help the speaker reproduce a frequency response of 18Hz to 27kHz, and it offers dual-binding post options for bi-wiring connectivity.
The RTi A9s run $1,699 per pair.
by Robert Archer
http://www.electronichouse.com/article/polks_rti_a9_speakers_deliver_full-range_performance/
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Facebook, Google Maps Come to Samsung TV Apps
If you were the type of person to spend countless hours in front of a TV as it is, how much time do you kill now with the added video streaming and web access that today’s connected TVs deliver?
Or maybe you just plug away hours in front of your computer instead?
We keep getting closer and closer to a glorious combination of the two, so soon we’ll have no reason to leave the couch. Toward that end, Samsung wants to make sure you stay planted by bringing more cool services to its Samsung Apps platform, which was announced at CES this year.
Its latest two additions to the Apps lineup are a couple of cool time wasters you may have heard about—Facebook and Google Maps.
You can download the apps directly from all 2010 Samsung Blu-ray players, Blu-ray Home Theater Systems (HTIBs) and the majority of Samsung TVs with screen sizes 40 inches and bigger, the company announced.
We’re sure you’ll have a blast hosting guests for dinner parties, too, when you can pull up everyone’s Facebook pictures and then show them the aerial and street views of their houses on a big-screen TV.
And you thought staying up to date with Facebook on your tiny smartphone screen was cool.
by Arlen Schweiger
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