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Everything you wanted to know about HDTV but were afraid to ask!
Good lighting can do so many things for the average home. This month’s newsletter focuses on the three major benefits of good lighting: security, appeal, and convenience.
Lighting is one of the most important elements of every home and certainly one of the most overlooked. That is, unless you are looking for the easiest home to break in to. Burglary statistics are scary even in the best years and—other than locks—the easiest way to protect your home from intrusion is to adequately light the exterior. When criminals see an externally lit home they see a target not worth the risk. So long as there is the chance neighbors will see them or passing police officers will spot a suspicious person at a window, logic dictates that criminals will avoid the home and seek something easier. Lighting is the supreme difference maker when defending family and property. [Read More]
Home video lovers can remember a time when movies were on tape, wound up in plastic cartridges and vulnerable to all kinds of damaging elements like humidity and age. Many were relieved when DVDs (or digital video discs) replaced VHS tapes, but again the format was not flawless, and even though the image was an upgrade, it was not perfect. [Read More]
There was a time when the radio was the primary source for news and entertainment in the home. Limitations were obvious, as radios only produced sound and could not convey anything beyond expressive words, music, or live news reporting. Americans first moved beyond this limited medium in significant numbers only in the 1950s, as television broadcasting grew more sophisticated and images, paired with sound, became the home standard. [Read More]
Along with the meteoric rise of high-definition format film and television in the past decade (as well as the continuous expansion of cable networks and hi-def programming), home entertainment fans have seen similarly spectacular achievements in sound presentation. [Read More]