| Today's Top Product Story - 07.25.16 |
VIZIO, Dolby Host Inaugural Filmmaker Challenge Award
AFI Conservatory Class of 2015 Cinematographer Todd Sheridan and his film Frontman has been selected as the winner in the VIZIO + Dolby Vision Filmmaker Challenge, a contest for the AFI Conservatory Film School. Frontman was scored highest out of five finalists by a panel of judges. Clinching the top prize, Sheridan will be honored with the VIZIO + Dolby Vision Cinematography Award and receive $5,000.
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| Blog of the Day |
Hiring Right and Avoiding $100k Mistakes
By Henry Clifford
Someone asked the CEO of Southwest Airlines how they get their employees to smile all the time. His reply was succinct. “We just hire people who smile all the time!” What if we never hired any bad employees? Hiring right is hard, but it pays dividends over the long haul.
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| Product Feature of the Day |
Alexa, My Weatherbot
By Jeremy J. Glowacki
My relationship with Alexa is complicated. On the one hand, she’s great at telling me the weather or setting a kitchen timer when I ask her for help, and she’s really responsive when I suggest that she raise or lower the lights in my family room. But at other times, she’s just an inanimate black cylinder taking up space next to the electric pencil sharpener on my kitchen counter. And sometimes during the school year, she helps my second-grader “just a little too much” on her math homework.
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| Quote of the Day |
"With the UHD-CAT-4/4ED and HDVS-150-RX, we add the features our customers need to make their projects better and lives easier, like extended AV and control signal distances, power over ethernet, and an additional array of convenience benefits."Joshua Castro, product manager, Atlona
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| Today's Other Product News |
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Resi's CEDIA Best of Show Awards Opens
NewBay Media is now accepting submissions for its annual Best of Show Awards, honoring outstanding products exhibited at CEDIA. Awards will be given by NewBay Media publications TWICE and Residential Systems magazines.
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