The show floor of the CEDIA Expo opens tomorrow, but today the press got a look at some of the latest products and technology previews from several manufacturers. Here are some of the highlights:

Lutron's Next Gen Tech
Lutron revealed a number of new products, including a second generation of its RadioRA line, RadioRA 2. The is new line geared towards mid-level installations—the company speculates homes around $750,000 to $1.5 million—and offers a number advancements over the previous line, as well as lower price points on products in the system. Features in the RadioRA 2 system include, a PC set-up tool, IP-control capabilities and a number of new componenents, including Main repeater with astronomic time clock, Lutron’s  "seeTouch" hybrid keypad-dimmer for retrofit applications, wireless Pico Control, Radio Powr Savr, occupancy/vacancy sensors and native system support of GRAFIK Eye QS lighting control and Sivoia QS shading solutions.  

Runco releases LED-based projectors
Runco released the QuantumColor Q-750i and Q-750d projectors, both of which use the company' s new InfiniLight lampless LED technology. The new projectors offer color precision technologies that comply with DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative) standards, as well as Adobe RGB, sRGB, REC 709 and REC 601. Additionally, the projector uses Runco's "Personal Color Equalizer" (PCE), a six-axis (R, G, B, C, Y, M) color adjustment that the company says works like an audio equalizer and allows colors to be individually dialed up and down. The Q-750i features integrated video processing, and the Q-750d is paired with Runco’s latest DHD controller/processor. The Q-750i will ship in November 2009 with an MSRP of $14,995 and the Q-750d will ship a month later with an MSRP of $17,995.

Sony's IP-capable receiver
Sony introduced a new ES receiver that offers the ability to be controlled over an IP network. The STR-DA5500ES can integrate into Control4-based systems and support special Control4 developed and certified IP network applications, such as diagnostic tools and text alerts. Other features include "Automatic Phase Matching" for correcting phase differentiation between surround sound speakers, and access (over the IP connection) to Shoutcast Internet Radio and Rhapsody's music service.

Atlantic previews novel bass technology
At a hotel room in Atlanta, Atlantic Technology and Solus/Clements previewed H-PAS a bass technology, which is hopes to begin licensing to other manufacturers in the near future. According to the company, H-PAS "allows speaker designers to achieve targeted bass performance with 50 percent smaller cabinets, smaller drivers and lower costs." The technology "cascasdes" bass reflex, inverse horn and transmission line elements of speaker design to pressurize and accelrate low frequencies. The demonstration was impressive and able to produce bass from smaller drivers than one would think be capable of producing the resulting low frequency response. No announcments of actual products that use H-PAS are real yet, but the companies hope to sign licensees up between now and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Pictured: Philip Clements of Solus/Clements Louspeakers demonstrates H-PAS.

More Slim TVs from LG
Flat panel TVs are getting flatter and flatter, as evidenced by LG's latest line of LCD TVs. At the top of the line is the SL90. Unlike some other LCD TVs, the LCD panel itself isn't recessed within a frame, but rather a single pane that has a much cleaner look. The 47-inch set offers 240 Hz refresh, 3,000,000:1 contrast ratio and an ambient light sensor for dynamic brightness adjustment.