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Poolside Reflections: Portuguese Smart Villa Blog

When Welshman Chris Davies arrived in Portugal from the UK as a 17 year old in 1992, it was supposed to be for a week’s vacation. More than 25 years later, he’s still here. “I spent my first year partying and going to the beach, but then I ran out of money so I came to the coast to see what I could do,” he says. As an electrical engineer, Chris soon spotted a niche installing satellite TV systems. He built up a healthy customer base, and as in-home technology advanced, the focus of his business CPD Sound & Vision shifted—first to flat screens, then on to integrated audio systems.

Control4 Wins Prestigious CES Best of Innovations Award Press release

Salt Lake City, UT – November 11, 2004 - Control4, a leading home automation company, today announced that the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) had bestowed its ‘Best of Innovation Award’ to the Company for its Composer Software in the ‘Best Integrated Home Syste?´´´´´’ category. The CES Best of Innovations award is given to the top product in design and engineering in 27 categories. In addition, Control4’s Wireless Dimmer, Media Controller and Mini-Touch Screen received CES honoree awards for innovative design and product advancements. “With more than 8

acoustics+automation = an artistic vision Blog

AUTHOR: Eric Gross SMART HOME PROFESSIONAL: AONYX PROJECT LOCATION: London, England PHOTOGRAPHY: courtesy of AONYX ltd   The Dumont, a new luxury apartment building that resides on the River Thames in downtown London overlooking the Houses of Parliament, features a prime location and custom interior finishes and extravagant amenities to create an ultra-high-end experience for affluent individuals. It’s no surprise that the developers also chose to outfit the building with the latest technology: a Control4-powered entertainment area complete with an exquisite 18-seat movie theater, a bowling alley, and a billiards room.

TuneIn Data Sheet Document

TuneIn Included with all new HC-250 and HC-800 controllers*, TuneIn gives you free access to 70,000 radio stations and millions of podcasts and programs—all through the intuitive Control4 User Interface. The Control4 system makes it easy to enjoy your favorite artists, songs or radio personalities from either a local station or from anywhere around the globe! Get the music you want, where you want it Hearing the music you love is simple with Control4 and TuneIn. From any Control4 Navigator interface you can search or browse more. TuneIn works with every Control4 audio zone within your home, so each family member can enjoy their own personalized favorites or listen to the same audio content in all zones at the same time.

Triad Mini LCR SE Soundbars Triad Data Sheet Document

MINI LCR SOUNBAR (SE) ON-WALL SPECIAL EDITION 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 Triad's Special Edition Mini LCR Soundbar features the same discreet style as the Mini LCR with upgraded drivers for higher output and acoustic quality. These sleek speakers integrate seamlessly with shallow televisions, delivering intricate, low-distortion audio to complement today’s high- resolution video content. Combine exceptional audio and aesthetics with custom designs, oering lengths to match your television and custom nishes to match walls, millwork, and other décor. With 4" drivers and high-performance one-, two-, and three- channel versions, the Mini LCR (SE) produces authentic front- channel audio and is voice matched for consistent sound.

Triad Mini LCR Soundbars Triad Data Sheet Document

MINI LCR SOUNDBAR ON-WALL 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 Triad’s Mini LCR Soundbar integrates seamlessly with shallow televisions, delivering unobtrusive style and high-denition audio to complement today’s high-resolution video content. With 4" drivers and impressive frequency range, these sleek, compact speakers deliver dynamic output with low distortion. Custom designs combine exceptional audio and custom nishes to match walls, millwork, and other décor. With high-performance one-, two-, and three-channel versions, the Mini LCR produces authentic front-channel audio with low distortion and is voice matched for consistent sound.

Triad OnWall Mini Sat 3 Triad Data Sheet Document

MINI SAT SOUNDBAR ON-WALL 3.0 Triad's Mini Sat Soundbar integrates seamlessly with shallow televisions requiring more audio power and precision. With three discrete 4" drivers, these sleek, compact speakers deliver high-resolution sound to complement today’s high- resolution video content. Combine exceptional audio and your television and custom nishes to match walls, millwork, and other décor. With high-performance one-, two-, and three-channel versions, the Mini Sat Soundbar produces authentic front- channel audio with low distortion and is voice matched for consistent sound.

Ready, Check, Go! What you need to enjoy 4K UHDTV! Blog

Do you live on the cutting edge and you want to experience the most and the absolute best that technology has to offer? Do you want to be able to count every dimple on Jordan Spieth’s Titleist, see every wool fiber in James Bond’s Saville Row tailored suit, and revel in every, um, detail of Christian Grey’s red room? Then what you want is 4K!   With more than 8 million pixels on screen, 4K, or Ultra High Definition TV, is the latest technology to come home, and here is a checklist of what you need to make sure you’re ready to enjoy it in all of its 3840 x 2160-pixel glory.

IS BAD WIFI DUMBING DOWN YOUR HOME? Blog

Is your wireless connection, or lack thereof, driving you mad? Do you find yourself excited to add smart gadgets to your home only to be frustrated by sluggish service and the constant loss of connectivity? While it often has to do with the quality of service from your Internet Service Provider, how well your home network processes and connects to the available service has a lot to do with the quality of your networking equipment. Let’s help demystify why your devices are struggling to stay connected. THE TYPES OF APPLICATIONS WE USE TODAY Everyone knows that the types of applications and devices we use today are overwhelmingly audio and video centric—video doorbells, in-home cameras, video surveillance systems, FaceTime, Amazon Echo, Netflix, Spotify, wireless speakers and smart TVs—the list goes on and on.

The Coolest Things I Saw at ISE (Integrated Systems Europe) Blog

This guest post comes from our Product Marketing Manager, David Acton. As I stepped into the RAI Exposition Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands for the Integrated Systems Europe show, I immediately realized that this would be a systems integration event like I’d never experienced before. I had attended CEDIA (Residential Systems) for almost every year for the last 10 years and Infocomm (Commercial Systems) the last 5 years, but this was my first visit to ISE. Both CEDIA and Infocomm are considered International shows – however, this was the first show I had ever attended that really had an international feel to it.