Digital Home Theater Storms CES

Increasingly, solution providers are entering the home theater arena, providing installation, advice and equipment. Many of these projects are in home settings, others are in offices. Users are shopping for products operating at ever-higher levels of performance. Products from screens to components to cables are increasing in demand. Following is a sampling of channel-friendly products featured at CES that solution providers might want to consider offering customers interested in this technology.

Networked Audio Systems
Denon Electronics will debut its two new S-Series Networked Audio Systems, Models S-52 (SRP: $699) and S-32 (SRP: $499). Featuring advanced Wi-Fi connectivity (802.11 b/g), both systems offer consumers an easy way to wirelessly receive and enjoy music from other connected devices in the home and directly from the Rhapsody digital music service.

Denon's new S-52 and S-32 systems feature a built-in iPod dock for drop-in functionality. Both new Denon Networked Audio Systems feature the ability to stream music wirelessly from Internet Radio sources and other network attached storage devices and PC or Mac computers on the network.

The units also have the ability to decode popular MP3 and WMA formats and also AAC, WAV and those encoded in FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec).

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