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What to look for when purchasing a new TV – TV Contrast Ratio, Part 2

Specifications to look for; When looking at specifications, you’ll see numbers like 800:1 or 4,000:1 or 10,000:1, what this means is for example with the first ratio, the white section of the screen is 800 time brighter than the darkest black, so for projector you’ll see figure from 10,000:1 to 600,000:1 or even more, the bigger the number the larger…

What to look for when purchasing a new TV – TV Contrast Ratio, Part 1

Contrast ratio – what is it? Wikipedia defines it as “The contrast ratio is a property of a display system, defined as the ratio of the luminance of the brightest colour (white) to that of the darkest colour (black) that the system is capable of producing. A high contrast ratio is a desired aspect of any display. It has similarities…

Security System – what they can do and who should you trust with installation part 2

For a shop premises we can connect a panic button that can either send a silent alarm (no sirens) to the security company or an audible alarm. There are many different movement detectors that can be connected. Back in the old days we used “reed switches” (a magnetic switch on the doors and windows to send the alarm off), also…

Flush Mount Verses Free Standing Speakers

Speaker Aesthetics Aesthetics in a lounge room or home theatre room is a big deal, but so is sound quality, so choosing the correct speaker type and configuration for your home theatre or lounge room is a big deal. As a sales and installation company, we understand the needs of both and we always let our customers know before making…

Choosing the correct speaker size for your theatre room

When you’re thinking of purchasing your first home theatre system or consider upgrading, where do you start? Usually the speakers, but what size speakers do you need? Selecting the correct speaker size is important for many reasons, usually you go in the retail store, look around and if you’re lucky somebody will come up to you and ask if you…

Heos by Denon – Multi-Room Audio (Part 2)

Controlling and using the Heos System The Heos app could not be any easier to control, the Heos system can be controlled from any apple and android device, so this means you can stream music off your phone or tablet straight into the speaker through your home Wi-Fi, it’s all done directly from the Heos app, also on the app…

Heos by Denon – Multi-Room Audio (Part 1)

By Simon – Custom Audio Visual Solutions Multi room audio systems are becoming more popular as time goes be with many advantages. It is at a point where many manufactures are trying their hand at it, for example, Samsung, LG, Bose, Bowers & Wilkins are a few, and now Denon. Ever since 2002, Sonos has dominated the multi-room audio market and since…

Wi-Fi, why it may not be the best solution (Part 2)

Is There a Solution to Unblocking a Blocked Doorway? Yes, there is a solution, every router not only has Wi-Fi, but can also be hard wired (plugged in) in as well. So this basically means that device can have a direct link to the router. So now for example a computer can directly access a networked hard drive with less…

Wi-Fi, why it may not be the best solution (Part 1)

By Simon – Custom Audio Visual Solutions In recent years Wi-Fi technology with-in the home has been getting better, implementation for home theatre systems and TVs are getting much better by opening up many more opportunities with-in the home network to access the internet. But improvements happen that quickly that it feel like as soon as we buy a piece…

Finding internal TV problems before the warranty period expiries

TV issues can arise at any time but what about the problems inside the TV you can’t see. Recently we calibrated a TV for a customer after completing a full home theatre installation, and such a problem presented itself. The installation entailed two home theatre installations in the same home, we wall mounted all the speakers, along with wall mounting two TV’s and repairing…