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Thanks to all of you who came by our suites at CES. We had the most successful CES to date. Attendees, press, analysts, WiSA members and potential members packed our two rooms to hear the latest demonstrations, see new products and learn about WiSA audio technology and member benefits. Not only were there demos in our suite, but Bang & Olufsen had an entire room of demos in the on the main floor of the Venetian. There were also demos of products on the LVCC floor from Klipsch and Sharp Analyst presentations from Futuresource. Others also highlighted WiSA as the high quality wireless technology for home theater applications.

We also had a nice reaction to news that we recently added 6 new members -- Aurender, Digital TV Labs, Gold Peak Electronics, LG Innotek, Vifa and WASP, bringing our total number of members to 36. More companies have made commitments to join as a result of discussions at CES so we hope you’ll stay tuned here through our website, blog and social channels for the latest!                                   

At the show we demonstrated new WiSA certified products from Enclave Audio and Klipsch and shared excellent sounding demo systems from Sharp and B&O. Check out these pictures we snapped from the show for you:

Klipsch's WiSA -enabled Reference Premiere Wireless Home Theater Speakers.

R: Sharp's Wireless Universal Player. L: Bang & Olufsen's tower speakers.

Enclave Audio's 5.1 system

We also demonstrated the latest home theater + multiroom technology with members Summit Semiconductor, Fostex and XTZ Cinema and our new member LG Innotek lent us working samples of their new transmit and receive modules.

We briefed over 24 reporters and industry analysts and have seen coverage in more than 25 publications, blogs, and broadcast outlets including CNET, Secrets of Home Theater & High Fidelity, Sound+Vision, CEPro and Digital Trends to name a few. You can always read the latest here on our website. The articles are segmented with tabs called “WiSA Association News” and “WiSA Member News.”

Tom and Linda chatting with Scott Wilkinson, reporter for the AVS Forum & Home Theater Geeks.

Download our WiSA Association technical whitepaper to learn more and contact our President, Tom Lee, if you’d like to work together to boost the impact of WiSA based products across the wireless audio market. He can be reached at +1 512 659 2085 or at [email protected].

The Wireless Speaker & Audio (WiSA™) Association is gearing up for another great year at InfoComm and we’re looking forward to seeing you in Las Vegas the week of June 16th!

We know our way around the home theater space and we’ve felt the strong pull by the ProAV community for high resolution wireless speakers for quite some time. We think ProAV wants the same things as the home theater market: convenience, cost savings, simple set up and teardown, reliability, and, more importantly, interference-free wireless interoperability.

This will be the third year in a row that industry luminary, Pete Putman, contributing editor, Sound and Communications, editor of HDTV Experts.com invites WiSA Association president Jim Venable, to demonstrate WiSA-compliant products as part of his AV wireless presentation. Jim will be demonstrating the brand new WiSA-compliant Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 20 speakers and engaging with attendees to hear how WiSA-compliant gear could overcome challenges facing the ProAV market.

Join us for “Future Technologies, Smart Display Interfaces: The Next Generation and Wireless AV” on Tuesday, June 17th at 10am. Pete will speak about the progress wireless high-bandwidth display and audio connectivity have made in coming to market and the battle between proprietary standards and conventional 802.xx-based systems. He will be giving you the full scoop on:

How well they actually work

Where can you use them

Interference and spectrum challenges the systems face

WiSA’s roadmap for addressing key needs for the Pro market - what we’ve done, what the requirements are and what WiSA technology will support.

They’ll also answer all your burning questions and, of course, you’ll want to be there for their live demos!

We’ll be sharing some exciting plans for our summer, including information on a product the high-end custom install market is going to love from one of our very own WiSA members.