Wired 1 Consulting

Well we are finally off to Grand Manan in the very early morning to install the wiring for what is going to be a very “SMART” home. Grand Manan is a 30 some odd mile long island in the Bay of Fundy, an almost 2 hour ferry ride from the mainland. It’s a picturesque vacation spot in the summer but it’s mighty cold in the winter!
This is going to be a distributed 8 zone audio/video, security, surveillance, and heating system all controlled via 2 control panels remote controls and IPhone or IPad, It’s a lot of wiring and a ton of programming but it’s going to be a heck of a palace when it’s done! Pics to follow.

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This system is going to replace a BOSE 321 system in a clients media room. This new system will be anchored by a DENON AVR-1913 A/V receiver and the client’s existing 60 Sony LCD panel. They will finally have TRUE Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound thanks to the slim and elegant Definitive Technologies Mythos Solo Sound Array 42 all in one 5 channel speaker system and the Definitive Technologies Pro Sub 800 will deliver “rock solid” real bass response for the system. A Panasonic DMP-BDT320 Blu-ray player with built in Wi-Fi will give them killer video and things like Netflix access. The player is 3-D capable, so if they ever decide to change to a 3-D TV they will be all set. Control of the system will be with the Harmony 900 RF remote control.
We will keep you updated on the change over and the end results in a couple of days.

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When this client’s 60″ projection TV started to act up he wasted no time in giving us a call. We replaced his projo with a 70″ Sharp Aquos LED panel. Even I was impressed with the picture quality of this set. We used the old stand from the Sony, there was only so much he could get away with and still remain married! His wife, however loved the new set! Now he’s got to talk her into a new DENON receiver to replace the old silver Yamaha. He’s pretty insistent!

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You may be thinking to yourself that because our television broadcast systems are “digital” that the signal quality shouldn’t need any filtering to remove noise from the picture however…
The TV channels transmitted by satellite, cable and over the air are digitally encoded and compressed in order to get as many channels as they can out to their subscribers. This is called MPEG encoding. The original signal is compressed for transmission and then expanded when it is delivered to your TV. This is not a loss less system. In the compression process a small amount of information is lost, never to be seen on your TV! When your digital TV plays these signals it attempts to fill in the missing pieces of the picture puzzle. How well this is done depends a lot on the quality of the television, but even the best need a little help. Check out the picture controls on your TV and you will probably find a control or two dealing with things like mpeg noise reduction, mosquito noise reduction, block noise reduction etc. Experiment with these controls, they are there because the television manufacturers realize that the mpeg television broadcast system usually needs a little help!
If you are watching a Blu-ray disc on your TV you can usually turn off these filters as the information on the disc is uncompressed.
Enjoy!

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All of us have a relative that complains about the sound from these flat panel TV’s. I couldn’t stand listening to television without my surround sound audio system turned on!

There just isn’t enough room in a flat panel TV to put good sounding speakers in them.

If you have one of these relatives, or maybe you have a TV that doesn’t have a surround sound audio system connected to it. SpeakerCraft has the ideal solution!

This powered speaker system will knock your socks off with it’s clarity and power. It’s designed to slide right under your TV and fill your room with awesome sound. This blows a Bose Wave system clear into yesterday! It even has Bluetooth connectivity! And it’s Ultra Easy to use.

Get your orders in now! We are the exclusive dealer for SpeakerCraft in NB. Mention that you saw it on our web page or Facebook link and get 10% off till Dec. 10/10.

Here’s a review: http://www.technologyblogged.com/shopping/best-buys/speakercraft-cs3-tv-speaker-review

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Windows 8 is a great new operating sytem and with it Microsoft finally seems to be on the fast track again. With the introduction of Windows Phone 8, the new Surface RT and a plethora of new and exciting Windows 8 computer offerings from almost every manufacturer there is finally something solid for the PC user, both personal and professional.

Beware! If you purchase the online Windows 8 Pro upgrade from Microsoft pay VERY close attention to the the recommendations section of the analyzer. There is a radio link to SHOW these recommendations. Make sure that you read these recommendations, as they may make it impossible to use Windows 8 with your current computer hardware. Time marches on, and even if your computer has been running Windows 7 it does not nessesarily mean that it can run Windows 8! This is a problem in that it is very easy for the novice user to skip over these recommendations (you have to click on a radio link to view them) and if you do skip them there is no further warning. The site simply takes you to the purchase screen to buy your copy of Windows 8 Pro, which, if you had read the recommendations, you would know that Windows 8 is NOT going to work on your machine and it may not tell you this until you have gone through an attempted full installation only to find that Windows 8 will not work and your Windows will be returned to it’s pre-update condition. Now this is a waste of time both in the install process and the time that you will have to spend on-line or on the phone trying to get your money back from Microsoft!

These warnings should be BOLD and unavoidable in a properly designed diagnostic tool from someone as advanced as Microsoft, but they aren’t. Pay close attention to the diagnostic program that runs BEFORE you drop $40 on the upgrade!

That being said, Windows 8 is a tremendous operating system (on a computer that has the right hardware) and even if you don’t have touch screen using a mouse and keyboard are just great! It’s exciting stuff from Redmond! I just wish they had taken a bit more time with the diagnostic analyzer.

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