A Decade of CEDIA Expo Trends
By Tom LeBlanc
A look at CEDIA Expo trends from the last 10 years.

Reflecting on past CEDIA Expos is like opening a custom electronics time capsule.

Think back to CEDIA Expo 2000. There was no such thing as Facebook, Al Gore was destined for the White House and the electronics community buzzed about TiVo, a device that allowed people to pause live broadcasts on their $20,000 50-inch plasma TVs.

How times have changed.

Let’s take a look back at the past decade of CEDIA Expos - not from our perception now, but how we viewed it at the time.



What did we write about Microsoft making its CEDIA Expo debut in 2000?

What did we make of the multiroom invasion?

2000: Microsoft Arrives
Microsoft Corp. fully revealed the extent of its interest in the residential systems space by sponsoring the CEDIA keynote breakfast. Clark Stork of Microsoft Corporation’s Consumer Group provided the keynote address on the ‘The Connected Home.’ He used his bully pulpit to outline Microsoft’s vision for a host of home automation applications that can be controlled through wireless palm-top PCs — running a variety of Windows CE, naturally.”

2001: Watershed Moment for World and Industry
Held prior to the terrorist attacks, this year’s CEDIA Expo broke all records, with an announced attendance of 17,000 … But the huge attendance was not the whole story. Of course, there were numerous product debuts, especially in ‘hot’ areas such as distributed audio and digital music management system.

Click here to continue.