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Home Automation Inc. (HAI)’s week-long event next month to train dealers and installers in HAI’s newest products will be held in 11 U.S. cities on Wednesday, with webinars to be held throughout the week.

CustomRetailer magazine has extended the deadline for nominations for its annual EXC!TE Awards, which celebrate which products have generated the most excitement over the past year. Products with shipping dates between Jan. 1 and Oct. 15 are eligible for awards.

Hitachi Home Electronics on Tuesday announced expanded U.S. distribution for its televisions, including the Director’s Series, to custom installers.

Sooloos LLC announced Monday that it has named Peter Wellikoff as its new chief operating officer. An industry veteran of nearly four decades, Wellikoff was most recently president and CEO of the B&W Group for a 12-year stretch that ended when he retired in December.

Video Mount Products announced Monday that it has released a new product called the AP-1 VESA Adaptor Plate, and that the new product will be showcased at next month’s CEDIA Expo in Denver.

“We have to be frank: the economic conditions are having an impact on business out there. But there’s always an excitement about what CEDIA Expo brings in new products and new ideas,” said Dave Hanchette, Russound’s vice president of marketing, as a prelude to the showcasing of some of his company’s newest products there.

ADI on Tuesday revealed what to expect at its booth at next month’s CEDIA Expo in Denver, which will feature the theme “Go Full Throttle,” racing simulators from HotSeat Inc., and the chance to win a brand new Ford Shelby GT500.

The new fall edition of CEDIA’s Electronic Lifestyles magazine debuts in September featuring 14 “Interiors” along with relevent columns, departments and features direct mailed to each and every CEDIA member plus 30,000 architechts, interior designers and builders and is designed to communicate the excitement of technology in the home. There is bonus distribution of this new magazine at EXPO and it will be on sale at the CEDIA Bookstore at EXPO. Order your copy here.

Warrantech Consumer Product Services, Inc., announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with Second Rotation to provide one year of extended coverage on “gently used” products, including computers, gadgets and other products. The coverage will be done through Second Rotation’s online reselling site, www.gazelle.com

Polk Audio will soon commence shipment of its SurroundBar 360 DVD Theater, a two-piece surround system it demonstrated in prototype form at the January CES.