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 , 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. To tie a bow on TechRadar’s coverage, I’ve compiled a list of 5 demos that left a strong impression on me at CEDIA Expo 2024.

Since these demos took place in fully darkened rooms, my accompanying images only hint at the high-tech happenings going on inside, but a look at the equipment listed for each should give you an idea of the hardware horsepower behind the scenes. Wish you were there! Barco / madVR / Seymour-Screen Excellence / Kaleidescape / Trinnov / Perlisten / Officina Acustica This was the first home theater demo I cau.