The annual CEDIA Expo kicks off this year on Thursday, September 4, and to properly celebrate both the show and the spirit of high-end home theater, TechRadar will be running a series of features throughout the week on a range of home theater-related topics.
We’ll be reporting news from the show, and also from IFA 2025 in Berlin, Germany, where we will have boots on the ground to gather news in-person on the launches of new projectors, TVs and more.
If you’re unfamiliar with CEDIA Expo, it’s a trade-only event that takes place in Denver, Colorado, each September, and brings tech professionals in the custom audio/video and smart home installation fields together to check out new products and attend educational seminars. And if you’ve never heard of IFA, it’s an annual consumer event that usually takes place around the same time as CEDIA, and features new products from a wide range of electronics manufacturers.
What products can you expect to hear about in our Home Theater Week coverage? Most new TVs get introduced earlier at the CES trade show in January, but manufacturers sometimes introduce new, ultra-large versions of the best TVs at CEDIA. We’ll be on the lookout for those, and also for any news of new projectors, Dolby Atmos speaker systems, soundbars, and exotic, high-ticket unobtanium such as micro-LED video walls.
What to expect from Home Theater Week
We like to kick off Home Theater Week with a review of an exciting new product, and for this round, we’ll be checking out the new Kaleidescape Strato E movie player.
We’ve previously raved about the company’s Strato C and Strato V movie players, along with the Kaleidescape Store, which lets you purchase and rent better than 4K Blu-ray quality movies with uncompressed soundtracks for playback on the company’s hardware. The Strato E is Kaleidescape’s least expensive 4K player yet, and it gives movie fans the highest-quality alternative to the best 4K Blu-ray players.
As usual, we’ll be dropping lists of great movies to show off your home theater system’s picture and sound capabilities. And we’ll dig into Dirac Live, a sophisticated room EQ tech that’s now available in under-$1,000 AV receivers and will soon be coming to Dolby Atmos soundbars.
We’ll also be discussing subwoofer placement and RGB mini-LED TVs, as well as other exciting new home theater developments such as Dolby FlexConnect.
Home Theater Week, as usual, will go out with a bang with a look at some of the world’s most awesome home theater setups, and we’ll be listing the coolest products and tech on display at CEDIA Expo and IFA 2025.
This page will be updated regularly with new stories and news coming out of the shows, so check back regularly to keep up with developments.