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So many new products, so many tough decisions to make. Fortunately, it's really not up to us, the editors, to select the CE Pro High Impact Products (CHIPs) of the year.
While we do, of course, make the final decisions (in a decidedly unscientific way), we rely on our readers, home systems integrators, to let us know what worked for them -- what saved them time, won them customers, and basically made them money in 2006.
This year, dealers nominated products in fresh categories that have never appeared on the list, like automation software for Media Center Edition, a rack-mount fan, an uninterruptible power supply and an audio calibration tool.
Unlike other "Best of" contests, we don't bench-test products, and we don't select devices based on cool feature sets. Instead, we pick the ones that dealers have sold, installed and generally thrived on throughout the year.
The CHIPs winners are products that shipped on or about September 2005 through August or September of this year -- products that have been around long enough to convince dealers that they're winners.
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