HiddenWires ezine - 1 September 2003

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Articles and Whitepapers @ HiddenWires

Articles and whitepapers added this month:

Intelligent Homes - What's Possible (29/8/2003)

Building the Future into New Homes (29/8/2003)

Virus Protection for the Home (27/8/2003)

Light Up Your Cable: A Quick Way To Identify Cable Runs (26/8/2003)

Trends and Outlook for Wireless Home Networks (1/8/2003)

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Case studies @ HiddenWires

Casestudies added this month:

RSD Connects the Past with the Home Automation Future (28/8/2003)

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News @ HiddenWires

News items added this month:

Philips and Pixelworks to Deliver Low-Cost Reference Design For Rapidly Growing LCD Television Market (29/8/2003)

Thomson Strengthens Leadership in Consumer Products with New Home and Portable Technologies for Digital Entertainment (29/8/2003)

Philips Consumer Electronics Unveils 'Connected Planet' Strategy (28/8/2003)

Phase Technology Spacia Hide-Away Indoor/Outdoor In-Wall Music System with In-Wall or In-Floor Subwoofer (28/8/2003)

Sanyo and STMicroelectronics Develop Digital TV Technology Significantly Easing the Path From Analog to Digital (28/8/2003)

Philips Adds BT, Belgacom, T-Com and Telecom Italia to its European Broadband Partners (27/8/2003)

Ethernet in the First Mile: Provisioning Broadband on the Cheap (27/8/2003)

iRobot's Roomba Robotic FloorVac Gets Even Smarter: Colorful New Models Spot-clean, Work via Remote Control (27/8/2003)

Vestel Designs Genesis Microchip's Video Technology Into LCD TV Platforms (27/8/2003)

New Cirrus Logic Surround-Sound Codec Brings Advanced Features, High Audio Quality to Audio/Video, DVD Receivers (27/8/2003)

Parks Associates Brings Insight into Broadband and Multimedia Applications at Home Thru Fall Focus Seminars: Banking on Broadband Services and The Home Multimedia Experience (27/8/2003)

Movies and Music Come to Life With New Universal Pioneer DVD Player (26/8/2003)

Niveus Media's ONEbox Media Center Now Shipping; the Living Room Set-Top Computer With Character (26/8/2003)

Key Digital Systems Launches Next-Generation 'HD Leeza' HD/SD Video Scaler and Home Theater Backbone with DVI/SDI Inputs and DVI/RGBHV Outputs (26/8/2003)

Trident Will Showcase Its Next Generation DPTV(TM) Video Processor for Premier LCD TV, PDP TV, and Flat Screen CRT TV Applications at Berlin's IFA (26/8/2003)

Digital TV Prices Will Fall to 36 Euros by 2007; Digital Terrestrial TV Expansion Will Fuel Demand for New PVR and DVD Devices (26/8/2003)

Gracenote Named "Technology of the Year" by Electronic House Magazine (25/8/2003)

DPI unveils Mercury HD DLP home cinema projector (22/8/2003)

Eight Out of Ten Specialty AV Retail Shoppers are Likely to Buy a Flat Screen TV (22/8/2003)

AutoPatch introduces new conversion boxes (20/8/2003)

Hauppauge Launches Network Media Decoder, Bridging TV Sets and PCs Via Home LANS (20/8/2003)

New 42-inch Plasma TV Provides 'Best In Class' Picture Performance With High Altitude Functionality (19/8/2003)

Equator Technologies' BSP-15 Processor Selected For Use In New Broadband Plasma TV System (19/8/2003)

Innovations 2004 Awards Seeks The World's Best In Consumer Electronics Engineering And Design (19/8/2003)

Philips Licenses Memory Stick Technology From Sony (19/8/2003)

Aldous Systems announce contract with Syscom AE (19/8/20003)

Universal Remote Control Launches New RF Remote for Sophisticated Whole House Control (18/8/2003)

InFocus ScreenPlay 5700 WIns 2003-2004 European Projector of the Year (18/8/2003)

Auton to Showcase New Flip-Down Plasma Unit at 2003 CEDIA Expo (15/8/2003)

AU Optronics launches its first 30-inch LCD-TV panel (14/8/2003)

Sanyo Wireless DVD receiver system (14/8/2003)

2nd Generation Receiver for Digital Radio Mondiale to be presented at IFA in Berlin (13/4/2003)

UK launch of the First and Only Internet-Powered Universal AV Remote - the Harmony SST-768 (13/8/2003)

JVC XV-DDV1 HDD Recorder and DVD Player (13/8/2003)

LG Electronics Selects Genesis Microchip for New Line of LCD Projectors (13/8/2003)

Kuban Sets New Standards in AV Furniture Design (12/8/2003)

1394 Trade Association to Demonstrate Complete Home Network at CEDIA 2003 (12/8/2003)

HDMI Expected to Overtake DVI in Consumer Electronics (12/8/2003)

Sigma Designs And Mediabolic Collaborate To Provide Platforms For Consumer Entertainment Products (12/8/2003)

DivX Certified KiSS DP-500 Networked DVD Player Now Available for Sale on DivX.com (12/8/2003)

Home Audio Video interoperability Consortium Announces New Technical Initiative (12/8/2003)

Phase Technology Launches Velocity Speaker Line (11/8/2003)

MontaVista Software Joins CE Linux Forum (11/8/2003)

Samsung Electronics Chooses MontaVista Software for Cutting-Edge Digital Products (11/8/2003)

VCON and Orca Interactive Present High-Quality Videoconferencing for TV Set-top Boxes (7/8/2003)

ZigBee Alliance Announces Ratification of IEEE 802.15.4 (7/8/2003)

Samsung Selects SoftConnex USBLink Host Software Solution to USB-Enable Home Network Product Line (6/8/2003)

D-Link And TI Launch 802.11g+ Line Following 802.11b+ Success (6/8/2003)

Pragmatic launches TrueMusic(tm) 5.1 digital system (6/8/2003)

OSGi Alliance To Be Prominently Featured at IFA Congress; Berlin Exhibition Will Include and Highlight OSGi Members and Technology (5/8/2003)

Smarthome Launches Web-Based Home Automation Service (5/8/2003)

SRS Labs' WOW Technology Featured in New Flat Screen LCD Televisions From Market Share Leader Samsung (5/8/2003)

NEC drops projector and plasma prices (5/8/2003)

GE Interlogix Launches Distributed Audio Solution For Smart ConnectionCenter (5/8/2003)

Texas Instruments announce the shipment of its 2 millionth DLP subsystem (5/8/2003)

Vantage Point Adds Two New Stylish, Adjustable Speaker Stands To Their Series Of SoundStage Theatre (5/8/2003)

Xitel's New INport Allows Users to Record From Their Stereo To Computer & Digitally Save Vinyl Records, Tapes & Other Music With High Quality Sound (5/8/2003)

M&S Systems' WaveGuide Speakers offer unprecedented technology to in-wall home sound (4/8/2003)

M&S Systems' Award Winning AirVac BV2000Kit (4/8/2003)

Switching system from Lutron streamlines installation (1/8/2003)

Simplicity, Value and Style - The New Bose Lifestyle 18 (1/8/2003)

Samsung Electronics Introduces Integrated, Multi-functional Remote Control Units (1/8/2003)

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Books @ HiddenWires

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Titles added recently include:

Wireless Home Networking for Dummies

Inside the Smart Home

Smart Homes for Dummies

Home Automation and Wiring

Audio and Hi-fi Handbook

The Complete Guide to High-end Audio

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HiddenWires-supported events

e/home update
2 September 2003
Berlin Messe, Germany
Email dd@complan-medien.de

CEDIA Expo
3-7 September 2003
Indianapolis, USA

Digital Home Value Chain
23 September 2003
Sherlock Holmes Hotel, London

The Connected Home Convention -
Linking Services to Products for Tomorrow's Lifestyle
24-25 September 2003
CBI Convention Centre, Centre Point, London
£200 Early Bird discount expires 8th August

Stuff LIVE 2003
26-28 September 2003
Olympia, London

Net-atHome
27-31 October 2003
Sofitel Royal Casino Hotel, Cannes Mandelieu, France

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