While the cost of larger home systems with the highest-quality components can cost tens of thousands of dollars, the rock-solid performance and convenience of Control4 make it a worthy investment in your home. There is simply no way to compare Control4 and other professionally-installed home automation systems to DIY products – they are in a different league entirely.
The Control4 EA-5 Flagship Automation Controller – Meet the Future Platform of Smart Home Technology
The most powerful of the new Control4 controllers, the EA-5 Entertainment and Automation Controller is designed to deliver the ultimate smart home experience.
Introducing the Control4 EA-3 Entertainment and Automation Controller – High-Resolution Multi-Room Audio at Your Fingertips.
For the Audio Den client who is looking to automate a small to mid-sized home, with a particular interest in high-resolution multi-room audio, the Control4 EA-3 controller is the ideal solution.
Control4 Puts the Home Automation World on Notice – The New Control4 EA-1 Controller is a Game Changer
With the release of their new EA series of controllers, Control4 has put the rest of the automation world on notice. No longer does installing a smart home system come with a huge price tag. In fact, just the opposite is true…
How the Mighty Have Fallen – A Case Study – Via International’s Recipe for Success Missed the Key Ingredient
The recent announcement that the giant A/V integrator Via International is shuddering it operations got us to thinking. How is it that a company boasting $73M in annual sales ($200M in sales projected within five years) can fail? The creation of Via International was touted as the portent for the future of audio video integration – the benchmark for how all custom A/V firms were going have to do business, if they want to survive.
Not so fast…
It’s easy to understand why all of the industry experts were falling all over themselves to pump up the Via International narrative. The story was quite compelling. Combine six of the CE Pro Top 100 Technology Integrators from all over the United States – with their capital, manpower, extensive customer databases, product knowledge and sharpened business practices. Centralize all operations under one gigantic tent, unify financials, operating systems and vendor relationships.
With a full-time staff of nearly 400 people, 20 locations nationwide and a customer roster comprised of the ultra-wealthy, Via International was poised for greatness. The only thing missing was the glass slipper.
Sadly for the Via International staff, whose employment was unceremoniously terminated, there was no fairy tale ending. All that remained was a case study in the scalability of successful A/V integration firms.
In theory, wildly ambitious plans to take over the world are all well and good – In theory. Just ask the Romans, the Mongols or the British Empire…
By contrast, for the past 40 years Audio Den has embraced a slow and steady, organic growth business model. Where it lacks in sex appeal and excitement, this methodology has helped Audio Den weather three major economic recessions. What started as a modest two-channel tweak shop in a strip mall, has evolved into a full-service technology integration firm – housed in its own 7,000 square foot facility and retail showroom.
Growth is good – but not when it comes at the cost of your founding principles – the very essence of what made your firm great in the first place. At its core, Audio Den is a customer service company – the electronics, speakers, accessories and programming just come along with that relationship.
There are countless places to buy A/V hardware these days, on-line and in-person. However, there is a rapidly shrinking number of companies who care about you after you’ve clicked “Buy Now” or walked out of their store with your hardware. Audio Den cares – walk into our showroom, call us on the phone or invite us into your home and let us prove it.
Audio Den is prepared to take over the world – one installation, one household, one relationship at a time. Steady as she goes…
Audio Den & Control4 Presents “Single Room Automation Made Simple” Event – Join us on November 13, 2015 from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
You are invited to attend:
Single Room Automation Made Simple Brought to you by Audio Den
Single Room Automation Made Simple Brought to you by Audio Den
Join us at Audio Den Friday, November 13th as we feature the power and simplicity of single room automation solutions from Control4.
We will show you how easy and affordable home automation can be. Control your TV, cable box and Blu-ray player – dim your lights and lower the temperature all from one remote.
There will be fabulous door prizes, special offers, food and drinks! Please mark your calendar. We look forward to seeing you at Audio Den on Friday November 13th at 5PM.
Control4’s New HEOS Driver – Smart Home Control of Heos Multi-Room Audio Solution
If music be the food of love, play on– all over the house. Thanks to a recent partnership between Denon and Control4, consumers should have no problem playing their favorite songs in every room.
Tivo Roamio: The Intuitive Multi-room Smart Home DVR – Stream HD Video, Store 1000 of Hours of DVR Content, and Download for Offline Viewing
The Roamio is the latest in a long line of consumer level digital video recorders from Tivo. It takes all of the features that home users everywhere have come to love and elevates them to the next level, allowing you one simple solution for all of your over the air TV recording needs.
Tivo Roamio Features
The Tivo Roamio includes four separate tuners, allowing you to record up to four different shows at the same time. All four tuners are fully HD compatible, meaning that you can enjoy the benefit of full high definition, 1080p or 720p playback whenever you’d like.
To make things even better, the device comes with a 500 gigabyte hard drive – larger than what you would be able to get from renting a DVR on a monthly basis from most cable television service providers. This will allow you to store hundreds of hours of full HD video without needing to worry about what you’re going to be forced to delete to make room for the latest episode of your favorite show.
Perhaps the best feature of the Roamio (and the biggest difference from previous iterations of the company’s DVR systems) has to do with the built-in Wi-Fi connection and the large number of streaming apps that are available. When you’re not using your DVR to record over the air shows, you can use it to connect to the Internet and watch streaming content from Netflix, Hulu Plus, Vudu and more.
Using the Roamio
Since its inception, Tivo is a company that has always prided itself on simplicity. The Tivo Roamio continues this fine tradition by offering software that is not only easy to use, but an interface that is even easier to navigate. The graphical user interface of the Roamio has been redesigned and streamlined compared to older models, allowing you to begin recording much faster and change any necessary settings with minimal hassles.
Smart Home Connectivity
Because the Tivo Roamio is connected to your home Wi-Fi network, you can also control it in a number of ways that have nothing to do with the recorded remote. You can use iOS and Android apps to use your tablet or smartphone to delete shows, add new recordings and more whenever you’d like. You can even access the DVR while you’re away from home to set a recording that you forgot to do before you left the house.
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