Folks who visited the Crestron booth at the 2025 CEDIA® Expo trade show saw the physical embodiment of two core philosophies we’ve been focusing on over the last year. The first is a guiding principle that has informed our work for over 50 years: True Blue.

The True Blue concept was summed up by our EVP of Global Marketing, Brad Hintze, in the introduction to our most recent edition of Smarter Spaces magazine:

It’s a commitment to shared success, fueled by a commitment to excellence and a passion for the transformative power of technology to create incredible experiences driven by a holistic approach to a smart home ecosystem. We’re driven by innovation, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We embrace new ideas, explore emerging technologies, and collaborate with you to create solutions that redefine what technology can do. That collaborative spirit also extends to our integrators, our partners in the industry, and the culture we’re nurturing inside Crestron.

Hintze hinted at the other core concept of what Crestron does in that paragraph. We’re focused on the three elements of our business that truly express what we make — and the experiences we deliver — in the realms of content, collaboration, and control.

Examples of all three could be found in the Crestron booth — and each one was an expression of True Blue.

Since Crestron has been inventing, developing, and refining control solutions since its inception, we’ll start with a few major releases that fit into that “bucket.”

Content = Entertainment Everywhere

Of course, the evolution of the entertainment options that the Crestron Home OS can control and deliver is always news at CEDIA Expo. Improving the music experience was a big part of the latest update to the software, as we explained back in July:

The first thing you'll notice is the new "Music" tile on the home screen. This isn't just a button; it's a window into a home's audio. See album art for what's playing, or a clear visual cue when things are quiet. With multi-source playback, the artwork gracefully transitions between sources, keeping you visually connected to the music flowing throughout a home.

There are a lot more features in that update (and many more to come in Crestron Home OS 4.7), notes Michael Short, VP of marketing operations and residential. “As far as music in the home, we’ve had a massive focus on our new Apple Music integration, which makes accessing all that audio extremely intuitive,” he adds. “We’ve also introduced HouseCurve, a powerful tool that enables a dealer to tune a home’s speakers using an iPhone and audio settings directly through the DM NAX Audio-over-IP system.”  The amps, outdoor speakers, and DM NAX® Audio-over-IP Edge Devices that have been rolled out in the last several months were on display, too.

On the video side, Crestron’s DM NVX® 384 encoder/decoder with Multiview was ready for a look, which will be, among other applications, a huge help in integrating media rooms for sports junkies. From the blog:

Multiview allows the configuration of up to six sources in fixed layouts and the flexibility and scalability of 18 compositions. The DM NVX 384 decoder dynamically composes these sources into the preset layouts, which can be instantly recalled to suit the application’s needs. Having every content feed packaged in a single device simplifies the system while reducing failure points without adding any latency. The solution allows for easy, intuitive audio control and routing and offers custom text overlays and borders for content identification. While Multiview is a feature specific to the DM NVX 384, the primary stream can be decoded by any DM NVX 4K AV-over-IP receiver.