Industry Trade News

Its important for every one from the audiophile consumer to the AV store owner to a Wall Street stock analyst to stay on top of the news that surrounds the world of consumer electronics. With billions of dollars of sales worldwide, public companies and cutting edge technologies designed to converge computers and entertainment - the CE business is an every changing marketplace. This HomeTheaterReview.com news archive will keep you with your finger on the pulse of what's going on in the world of all things consumer electronics.

  • AXPONA Delayed Due to COVID-19 Concerns

    The popular regional audio show has been rescheduled from April 17-19 to August 7-9, 2020, due to concerns about the novel coronavirus.

  • Sound United Will Not Be Acquiring Onkyo's Home Audio Division

    Looks like Onkyo, Pioneer, Pioneer Elite, and Integra aren't coming under the Sound United umbrella after all.

  • Control4 and SnapAV Complete Merger

    SnapAV and Control4 announced this week that their merger, which was announced earlier this year, is now complete. This follows pretty hot on the heels of SnapAV's announcement as...

  • Klipsch Audio and SnapAV Announce Exclusive National Distribution Partnership

    SnapAV, it seems, is intent upon conquering the AV world. Barely six weeks after announcing its merger with Control4, SnapAV dropped news this week that is now the exclusive...

  • RBH Sound Announces New Owner and President

    This week, RBH announced that Roger B. Hassing, the company's founder and CEO, has retired. For full details on the sale of the company and its new owner/president/CEO, read...

  • How A.I. Is Reshaping the Home Theater

    By now, you probably know that artificial intelligence (AI) is being employed to one degree or another in digital voice assistants like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and others. You...

  • Some Random Thoughts from AXPONA 2019

    CES is officially dead for audiophiles, leaving AXPONA (Audio Expo North America), a regional audio show in Chicago, to pick up some of the pre-Munich excitement for dealers and...

  • Thoughts on My First Commercial Movie Theater Experience in 15 Years

    When it comes to home theater, I guess I walk the walk and talk the talk, because it's been about 15 years since I set foot inside a commercial...

  • MicroLED and Why Front Projection and OLED Should be Scared

    Once upon a time, I was a front projection enthusiast. Over the past 15 years, I've assembled more than a dozen front projection home theaters in various rooms about...

  • Would You Rather Have Big 4K or Smaller 8K?

    During my workday I talk with all sorts of people from every corner of the specialty audio/video industry. Public relations experts, AV manufacturer executives, dealers, distributors, consumers/readers... the list...

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