CEDIA Expo provides a unique opportunity for custom installation industry professionals to experience cutting-edge technology via ongoing home theater demonstrations. Attendees line up outside the pre-fabricated booths where these demos take place, eager to sink into the plush home theater seating – another popular product category at the show – and take in carefully curated movie and music clips.
For me, these demos are CEDIA Expo’s highlight, because, unless you’ve got the cash to pay for a truly awesome home theater installation, you’ll never get to see and hear movies sounding this good outside of an IMAX or Dolby Vision theater. In a word, it’s showtime, and manufacturers painstakingly fuss over the presentation quality in their booths. I was amazed to hear that one demo at CEDIA, booth, gear, and all, had been initially set up and fully calibrated in Italy, and then shipped overseas and re-assembled with its audio and video calibration almost perfectly intact for the show.
