Dealing With DIY Homeowners
By Jeremy J . Glowacki, May 02, 2013
My former college roommate built a basement
home theater with a spray-on projection screen
surface, an impressive value-priced projector,
and a media server that he’d never want the
FBI to know about.
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App Experiences with AV Automation and Control Systems
By Jeremy J. Glowacki, April 04, 2013
Who doesn’t love a great smartphone app?
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Chinese 4K and OLED Video Display Manufacturers Gained Respect at CES 2013
By Michael Heiss, March 14, 2013
You literally couldn’t miss the 110-inch 4K LED- illuminated LCD screens. And everywhere you turned at the International Consumer Electronics Show this past January there were proclamations about the largest this or the highest that. But when all the hype in the popular press died down, it was clear that neither screen size nor resolution was the real story.
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Projection Screen Materials Adapt to Shifts in Home AV
By Derek Dellinger, March 14, 2013
At their core, the ideas propelling new innovations in projection screen technology speak to an underlying principle of the custom integration industry: the picture can always get better. Refinements in resolution spur improvements in screen materials, shifting family habits force screens to deal with ambient light concerns, while acoustic transparency remains an important engineering priority.
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Remote Management Products Save Time, Money, Offer Potential New Revenue Streams
By Lindsey Adler, March 13, 2013
Remote management products are one of the best examples of the proverbial “win-win” for both custom integrators and their customers. They’re designed to give a homeowner extra peace of mind that if something goes wrong with their home automation system, a professional can immediately address it from anywhere in the world.
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Updating Indiana's Lucas Estate Lighting Technology
By Jeremy J. Glowacki, March 13, 2013
It was 2007, and my wife and I had just moved our family from New York City to the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel, IN, where we often marveled at the disproportionate number of luxury estates near our new home. The only one with its asking price posted outside the front gate, however, was a place known as the Hilbert Mansion.
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Improving My Home with Professionally Programmed Remote Controls
By Jeremy J. Glowacki, February 08, 2013
The difference between you and me is that I dread adding new audio-video electronics to my home just about as much as going to the dentist.
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How Custom Integrators Can Improve in 2013
By Jeremy J. Glowacki, January 10, 2013
I quit making New Year’s resolutions a long time
ago.
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Future Focused
By Jeremy J. Glowacki, December 06, 2012
Like scientists, most writers form a hypothesis,
or educated guess, about what their interview
subjects will say in response to their questions.
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CI Industry Veterans Commit to Future Tech Innovations
By Jeremy J. Glowacki, November 05, 2012
The home technology business is tough to
shake.
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