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The thx man at the thx booth! Alot scarier in real life but all around a  great guy!

And spiders!

Leaving Denver.
-Fin

Kaledescape has modules for virtually every crestron touchpanel, even keypads. More to come…

After watching a demo of Axonix Media Deck system, I was not impressed. Slow movie load times, GUI is not that great. Does not look that great after seeing Kaleidescape. Axonix had lots of features but does none of them well. The only thing they had going for them is that they do Blu-ray and you can use any network attached storage device for extra hard drive space.
Its like putting “duct tape”  all over it. Axonix is great if you want to still spend a lot of money but in the end hate your self for doing it. So why don’t you just give me $10,000 and I will give you my axonix shirt and you will hate your self less.

Awesome new things from Lutron! Sivoia QS is an AC motorized shading solution to be paired up with the recently released graphic eye qs for single room solution, though not able to communicate with a homeworks system. A few new types of fabrics out. QED now has a skylight shading solution with min of 2′x3′ and maximums of 12′x6-1/2 or 8′x10′. Great new additions!

Neil

Just arrived at Sam’s #3 about 2 blocks from the convention center. Recommended by some traffic cops, this place reminds me of a Mel’s diner back home. People here seem nice but can’t drive worth a damn.

Neil

We just stopped to get some breakfast at a diner called Sam’s #3. Sam’s #1 and #2 where a failure let’s see if this one is any good. It doesn’t look as bad as cracker barrel….

(Edit) After further review the food wasn’t that good.
-Steven

Upon our journey through the Hordes of people we came across this TV that I would like to have for my computer monitor. Play a little team fortress 2 in 103″. This monster of LCD TV could crush a man and towers over us. I am sure the only thing that could hold this beast up is Atlas him self. Since I cant afford the TV I would settle for the Box it came in and live in it.

-Steven-

Crestron booth was nice. I talked to a guy out of the Cypress office that informed me that someone makes a 3rd party device that does intercom over ip… so I can get intercom working on the TPMC-8X’s!!!

-David

First class of the day was with Escient on their Vision Series. Not a bad, lower end movie/music server. Up to 4 VS devices van be setup in a residence. No Blu-Ray unfortunately. It does have multiple HDMI inputs for Sony DVD changers. Hard drive is monitored remotely by Escient, so if there are any HDD disk errors, or the drive is failing, you will be notified. There are drives run with Raid 1. Pics will be added later

-David