HD Living

SAVANT SELECT™ Never before has a hand-held smart remote been so innovative and versatile— so compact and easy-to-use. From simple source control in any single room to complete two-way whole-home automation, the Savant Select seamlessly merges the familiar functionality of Apple’s® latest iPod touch® (featuring the new Retina Display) with easy-to-use push buttons, creating a …

Here’s a novel thought: Setting up your home theater can be fun! With a component such as the DTR-80.2 9.2-channel THX Ultra2 Plus A/V receiver from Integra, you can spend a day tweaking your system’s sound and still not discover all of this beast’s capabilities. It may take a day just to sift through the 120-page …

by Steven Castle I am so proud of my town. We recently erected a 386-foot-high wind turbine in Templeton, Mass., a small, rural community in central Massachusetts (the turbine’s even on the town’s website home page). The 1.65-megawatt turbine will provide about 5 percent of our town’s electrical needs, as well as help power our …

The custom builder was concerned. His client, a professional baseball player, was requesting increasingly sophisticated entertainment and control systems for his three-story, 16,000 sq. ft. Tuscan villa under construction in a gated Scottsdale community. The builder didn’t think the electronic systems contractor his client selected could handle project, especially on the tight timeline the client …

by Julie Jacobson We often lament that hardwood floors, pretty bathrooms and fancy countertops provide quantifiable returns on investment, but future-proofing technologies such as structured wiring do not. And now comes the green movement and appraisers aren’t buying that either. During the recent NAHB National Green Building Conference, sponsored by the National Association of Home …