Allwired Home Technology Blog http://www.allwired.com/blog/ en-US Copyright 2008 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:55:41 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Blu-Ray Wins the HD Format War? January 06, 2008 (IDG News Service) -- The decision by Warner Bros. to drop HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray Disc for high-definition movies has set the electronics industry abuzz. Announced on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the move put a single question in the minds of thousands of industry insiders heading to the event in Las Vegas: Could the high-definition format war be over?

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2008/01/bluray_wins_the_hd_format_war.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2008/01/bluray_wins_the_hd_format_war.htm Home Theater & Hi Fi Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:55:41 -0500 Bowers & Wilkins Announces Return To CES Floor CES 2008 will see the Bowers & Wilkins name prominently positioned in the Las Vegas Convention Center, at South Hall 20544, with a stunning new booth designed to highlight today’s B&W, and the far more varied activities, products, and expertise that the firm has developed over the decade-and-a-half interval.

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2008/01/bowers_wilkins_announces_retur.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2008/01/bowers_wilkins_announces_retur.htm Home Theater & Hi Fi Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:56:11 -0500 Anthony Gallo Acoustics To Demo All-New Reference 5Ls Loudspeaker LAS VEGAS, January 7, 2008—Anthony Gallo Acoustics (AGA), an award-winning manufacturer of high-end stereo and home theater speakers, will display and demo its all-new Reference 5LS line source loudspeaker at CES 2008 in the Venetian Hotel in room #29-334. Scheduled to be shipping by the second quarter of 2008, the towering speaker stands 78” tall, boasts an incredible 12 custom aluminum 4” sub-woofers and features seven of AGA’s proprietary CDT II tweeters, which possess power-handling, off-axis response and efficiency that approach the textbook definition of ideal. In addition, the Reference 5LS has eight 4' carbon fiber midrange drivers, each housed it its own 5' spherical enclosure. All enclosure parts utilize brushed stainless steel and cast aluminum throughout.

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2008/01/anthony_gallo_acoustics_to_dem.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2008/01/anthony_gallo_acoustics_to_dem.htm Home Theater & Hi Fi Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:52:30 -0500 Stewart Filmscreen Introduces Starlift For Starglas Screen CES Las Vegas, NV and Torrance, CA – January 6, 2008 - Stewart Filmscreen Corporation®, the industry leader in precision projection screen technologies for the home cinema and commercial markets, announces the availability of the StarLift, a motorized mechanism designed to raise and lower the innovative StarGlas rear projection screen.

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2008/01/stewart_filmscreen_introduces.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2008/01/stewart_filmscreen_introduces.htm Home Theater & Hi Fi Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:48:34 -0500 Allwired Posts Custom Home Theater Photos to Flickr Today, Allwired Technologies began posting photos of custom home theater and system integration photos to Flickr (www.flickr.com), the number one online photo management system. This is to help customers and potential customers to become familiar with the work of Allwired Technologies in the residential realm of installations.

This project will be on going and will be updated regularly with new photos of current installation.

To view Allwired photos on Flickr, please go to this Web address:
http://flickr.com/photos/21993731@N08/

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/12/allwired_posts_custom_home_the.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/12/allwired_posts_custom_home_the.htm Home Theater & Hi Fi Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:00:42 -0500 Allwired Technologies Converges on CEDIA Back in September seven members of the Allwired sales and installation staff visited the CEDIA organization in Denver Colorado. CEDIA (Custom Electronics Design and Installation Association) is an organization that put a lot of emphasis on professional sales and installation by setting fourth guidelines for salespeople and installers.

Our goals for this years CEDIA visit were to certify our install team, as well as look at new product from our vendors. We crushed our goal and have two level one installers, as well as a recent Level 2 installer. As for new products we looked at several control systems as well as lines that would make Allwired more competitive in our market. RTI remotes was an addition that we have already seen success with. This line of remotes and control pieces gives our customers the ability to control their systems and theaters as never before. We have also added and will soon be seeing the McIntosh and B&W lines. These two lines will give us something super to make home theater come alive.

As you can see we are always on the move adding to our staffs education as well as the lines we carry to better our customers.

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/12/allwired_technologies_converge.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/12/allwired_technologies_converge.htm Miscellanious Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:05:33 -0500 Life|Ware Unveils Life|Media Media Center With Quad Cablecard Tuners Columbus, OH – September 20, 2007 – Life|ware™, the industry pioneer in Windows® Media Center-based digital entertainment and home automation, proudly announces a variety of compelling new hardware, led by the launch of the Life|media™ Servers with Quad CableCARD™ tuners. In addition, Life|ware also launched their Life|point™ touch panels with the new Life|slide function, Life|controller™ Web Services-enabled controllers, Life|point thermostats, Life|storage server and an entry level Life|media Server.

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/09/lifeware_unveils_lifemedia_med.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/09/lifeware_unveils_lifemedia_med.htm Home Automation Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:39:02 -0500 Bower & Wilkins Intros High-End Ceiling Speaker North Reading, MA—September 2007—The British maker, whose designs for home audio and home theater systems are an accepted reference standard worldwide, adds the new CCM818 to its impressive lineup of installed speaker options. With technologies derived from B&W’s world-famous Nautilus family, the new model offers an exceptionally high standard of performance from an in-ceiling location.

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/09/bower_wilkins_intros_highend_c.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/09/bower_wilkins_intros_highend_c.htm Home Theater & Hi Fi Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:35:32 -0500 B&W Unveils Compact Custom Theater Lineup North Reading, MA—September 2007— Bowers & Wilkins’ Custom Theater lineup, which brought the world-standard performance of B&W’s 800-series Nautilus™ designs to high-end custom-installed home theaters, created quite a stir upon its introduction two years ago. Now the British maker will unveil a new, more widely accessible Custom Theater lineup at the 2007 CEDIA Expo in Denver, Colorado. B&W’s CT700 Custom Theater lineup is more modest in enclosure size, and considerably more modest in price than the frankly cost-no-object Custom Theater 800 range—yet it delivers precisely the same kind of jaw-dropping sonic impact, timbral and dialog integrity, and sonic transparency as its larger siblings.

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/09/bw_unveils_compact_custom_thea.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/09/bw_unveils_compact_custom_thea.htm Home Theater & Hi Fi Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:33:12 -0500 Bowers & Wilkens (B&W) Zeppelin Ipod Speakers Bowers & Wilkins [B&W Speakers] takes its quest for true sound to a new level. Zeppelin is the first integrated iPod® speaker system designed by Bowers & Wilkins and will provide a level of sound quality usually available only through dedicated hi-fi separates.

Zeppelin is the product of Bowers & Wilkins 40-plus years of experience and know-how in speaker design in a single package; technologies developed for dedicated high-end speakers applied as iPod speakers for the first time. Zeppelin is an entirely new creation, designed according to principles pioneered on high-performance B&W models, from the extraordinary shape of its shell to the specially tailored studio-standard technologies within.

To learn more about the B&W Zeppelin click here.

Allwired Technologies is an authorized B&W Speakers Dealer.

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/09/bowers_wilkens_bw_zeppelin_ipo.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/09/bowers_wilkens_bw_zeppelin_ipo.htm Home Theater & Hi Fi Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:56:03 -0500 McIntosh Now Shipping VP1000 Dual-Zone Video Processor Binghamton, NY September 5, 2007—McIntosh Laboratory, a world leader in high-quality home entertainment systems for over 56 years, today announced it has begun shipping the VP1000 Video Processor, a no-compromise luxury component that gives discriminating home entertainment enthusiasts a new way to experience true cinema-like video performance, including the ultimate in image quality and resolution, as well as total flexibility and convenience. Most notably, the VP100 allows users to perform essential video processing tasks in two separate home entertainment zones simultaneously, allowing video from any connected source in either zone to be scaled up to and including 1080p resolution.

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/09/mcintosh_now_shipping_vp1000_d.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/09/mcintosh_now_shipping_vp1000_d.htm Home Theater & Hi Fi Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:41:42 -0500 Anthony Gallo Acoustics To Unveil Tr-3 Subwoofer DENVER, September 5, 2007—Anthony Gallo Acoustics (AGA), an award-winning manufacturer of high-end stereo and home theater speakers, will unveil its newest and most powerful subwoofer, the TR-3, at CEDIA 2007 in booth #418. Based on its high-output, high-performance TR-2 predecessor, the TR-3 expands upon an already powerful and dynamic subwoofer by recalibrating the amplifier and adding an aluminum cone woofer, which will improve linearity.

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/09/anthony_gallo_acoustics_to_unv.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/09/anthony_gallo_acoustics_to_unv.htm Home Theater & Hi Fi Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:25:44 -0500 Audyssey Announces Expansion of Installer Program Los Angeles, CA, August 21, 2007— Audyssey Laboratories, the leading provider of sound equalization solutions, is announcing the expansion of its successful Installer Program at the 2007 CEDIA Expo. This program now enables custom installers to provide room equalization as a value added service to their clients who have Audyssey Installer-ready A/V receivers.

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/08/audyssey_announces_expansion_o.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/08/audyssey_announces_expansion_o.htm Home Theater & Hi Fi Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:29:43 -0500 B&W Anounces Society of Sound Bowers & Wilkins is delighted to announce the launch of the Society of Sound, an online forum for musicians, critics, sound technicians, music fans and others who share a passion for and an interest in sound. Over the 40 years of our history, Bowers & Wilkins has collaborated with many people – musicians, artists, designers and technicians – who share that commitment. We thought it was time to bring them together

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/06/bw_anounces_society_of_sound.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/06/bw_anounces_society_of_sound.htm Home Theater & Hi Fi Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:04:25 -0500 Abbey Road Studios Upgrades to B&W 800 Series Speakers Abbey Road Studios has upgraded all of its reference systems with both the new 800 Series and Classé CA-M400 amplifiers.

]]> http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/05/abbey_road_studios_upgrades_to.htm http://www.allwired.com/blog/2007/05/abbey_road_studios_upgrades_to.htm Home Theater & Hi Fi Mon, 14 May 2007 15:11:03 -0500