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Home Cinema and Multi Room Systems Solutions

by Jen And
(Kendal, Cumbria, UK)


Audio Visual Solutions for the Home:

Home automation is becoming increasing popular thanks to a wide availability of audio visual solutions and it is no longer very expensive to purchase and install. Consumers are slowly being seduced by high-technology living, thanks in part to television shows dedicated to celebrity lifestyles.
 



There are now so many affordable audio visual solutions available for the home, such as home cinema, audio and video multi room systems, lighting control systems and even intelligent home automation systems that allow you to control all the technology in your home from a wireless touch-screen display.

Here is a quick overview of audio visual solutions for the home:

  • Home cinema installation

  • Home cinema audio

  • Multi room systems

  • Home automation

  • Intelligent house

  • Lighting control systems

  • Home theatre speakers

  • Audio ceiling speakers

  • Bathroom speakers

Multi-room allows you to create a flexible and discrete system designed around your home so that different rooms can independently or simultaneously access sources such as sky television, cd players, dvd players, mp3s stored on an ipod or a computer, radio tuners and even CCTV.

The beauty of this integration means that you could pause a film in one room and continue to watch it in another, you could distribute the same music to all rooms during a party, you can access the pictures from your CCTV system from any TV in the house, or you can listen to a favourite album in the kitchen whilst different music plays in the bathroom. There are so many possibilities and all this without juggling remote controls as you can control your system either via a wall mounted keypad, a handheld remote, or both.

The home cinema projector market is definitely heating up with growing interest in high definition and larger displays. These days, especially with the onset of luxury city apartment living, the big challenge for manufacturers lies in combining cinematic performance with aesthetic looks.

Where home cinema projectors are being installed in living rooms you should consider having a screen that can be hidden away in the ceiling or you could look to get a nicely designed screen that can be wall mounted. Design is rapidly becoming the most important decision factor when it comes to the screen.

With an internet connection or mobile telephone you can monitor and access your home controls when you are abroad. For example you can adjust your central heating and air conditioning from the comfort of your armchair, or set the perfect temperate before your arrival home.

You will also be able to monitor your CCTV, fire and burglar alarm systems or operate lighting, blinds and curtains whilst at home or abroad. Good home automation systems will even allow you to control your plasma screens, projectors, and multi room systems and AV equipment.

When installing a home theatre system lighting is extremely important for the complete finish. Light is one of the most powerful yet often neglected elements of interior design. An average modern home has dozens of lighting sources all with their own controls.

That's an awful lot of switches to remember to turn on and off, and an even larger combination of potential home lighting effects that can be produced even before adding in subtler effects produced by dimmer switches. A well-designed automated lighting system brings together all these sources you can operate every light in your house from one discrete keypad.

But remote lighting control is about more than just turning the lights on and off. A home lighting control system groups together sets of lights so you can change the mood of a room at the touch of a button.

Article date: December 14, 2009


Article submitted by Jen And from CSC Ltd. of Cumbria, UK.  For more information on the subject of home automation and home cinema, please visit their website at http://www.charlesstock.co.uk.


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