What features make the most difference? So you’ve decided that a surround sound receiver and 5.1 or 7.1 speakers spread around your media room is not how you want to experience home theater. Maybe you rent your home or apartment and can’t install wires. Maybe you just don’t like the look of multiple speakers or …
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Automation, as We Know it, is Changing [by Heather L. Sidorowicz.] Smart Home…Automated Home…Tech Home… Up until recently these terms have been held for the rich and famous…the upper echelon. Combining audio, video, lights, HVAC, and shades had been difficult, and that equated to expensive. Having a truly custom system always has been a challenging feat …
Overcome Common Challenges for the Best Home Automation System By Electronic House Preparation is the best defense against challenges that can occur when having a home automation system installed. When selecting and installing a smart home automation system you’re bound to run into a few obstacles. Often, you can avoid problems, or at least be …
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The holidays are a wonderful time for people of all backgrounds, as they bring together families, friends, and more to a joyous few months of celebration. With the season comes a great deal of issues, and they aren’t always in regards to family gatherings. Homeowners and businesses alike have to deal with several elements when …
Written by Heather L. Sidorowicz – President of Southtown Audio Video in Hamburg, NY “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” — Plato More than 316 million people live in the United States, and they can all use music throughout their homes and in …
Written by Freddie at 24-7 Home Theater Acoustics are an area that gets a lot of attention in the world of home theater and with good reason. A poorly designed room can make an incredible audio system sound terrible. But is it worth using insulation to dampen the sound coming from your home theater? There …
Consumers are often times confused as to what is going to work best for their home’s automation components. For many, a quick search online states to go with DIY methodologies. That’s not always a good thing, and it is shown to be true when looking at it through the lens of custom home automation solutions. …
The CEDIA Expo 2014 has come and gone, and the winners list has come through with some great names in the industry. Among the winners was Convergence Technologies. It was at the Denver, Co expo that Convergence Technologies was given the silver award for Awesome Audio. As more and more companies participate in the ceremony …
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What should a true custom home automation system do? As you probably know, smart home gadgets and home automation are getting a lot of attention these day by large companies like Samsung, Apple and Google. But there can be a wide gap between the ability to link DIY gadgets together across a wireless network and …
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If you’re still wondering where all of the Ultra HD 4K content is, your may want to check out UltraFlix. UltraFlix is a new 4K Ultra HD IPTV/OTT network, which is exclusive to NanoTech’s Nuvola NP-1 player. The player was first announced late last year, but the service didn’t launch until spring 2014. Well, it looks …
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