Choosing an installer for your home theater or audio project. Part 2.

Your home theater project may require multiple phases, many weeks or months, or coordination with more than a couple of associated trades.  If this is the case, you’ll want to ask your home theater company if they use Project Management.  True project management uses a methodology that will ensure that your project is done on [...]

Choosing an installer for your home theater or audio project. Part 1.

As a consumer, you may wonder what separates a good consumer electronics integrator from an extraordinary one.  In my opinion it comes down to system design and professional project management.  In part one of this this entry, I’m going to talk about system design.
If you are in the market for a home theater, whole house [...]

One Touch Control with a REAL Universal Remote

You have a great flat panel TV hanging on your wall.  You have a surround sound receiver, a DVD player, a HDTV cable box.  You may even have some of the new gadgets on the block such as Apple TV or a Roku Netflix player.  How are you controlling all of this gear?  Are you [...]