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CEDIA Smart Home Trends Include 'End of the Copper Wire'

The CEDIA Technology Council on Tuesday released the first 10 of 100 smart home predictions for 2020, including a residential social robot and “the end of the copper wire.” Mixed reality rooms -- comprising augmented and virtual reality experiences --…

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will begin to replace home theater, said Dave Pedigo, CEDIA senior director-emerging technologies. As the need for data bandwidth expands, fiber will replace copper wire in the home, he said: Video will be decoded and rendered in the same device.