Surround Sound

If you love watching movies from the comfort of your home and you don’t have an integrated surround sound system. You are missing half the excitement from your movie experience.

With a well designed surround sound system, you’re TV and movie viewing experience will jump to life, adding a new dimension of true entertainment excitement. Simply installing a well equipped 5.1 surround sound with an independent sub-woofer; will create a sound system that makes ordinary systems seem obsolete. Once you've had this experience, it will be difficult to ever accept a conventional sound system ever again. The end result will be a stylish, powerful and unobtrusive system that will give new meaning to watching movies at home.

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Good lighting can be as important to your overall interior design as any other feature or accessory. Lighting helps you create the feeling of warmth and style that can help set your home apart. It can also add dramatic and distinctive touches to patios, pools and gardens.

Lighting systems offer security features as well. Pre-programmed "away" modes and time pre-settings can regulate both your interior and exterior lights. And the entire system can be controlled through a series of touch pads conveniently located throughout your home.

Like any other design feature, lighting can be a matter of personal style. The keys are creativity and functionality.

Whole-House Audio?

Whole-House Audio is an amazing technology that allows audio to be present in any room that you desire without the cluttering of wire and stereo components.

Why have Whole-House Audio?

Imagine your favorite music instantly available at your fingertips from any room in your home. Advances in distributed audio/video systems now make it possible to have a single home entertainment system that can be enjoyed anywhere in your home. With our multi-zone and multi-source systems, you can listen to a CD in the den while someone else listens to the radio in the kitchen. Do you have a massive collection of CD's? It's a complete hassle to stop what your doing, search for the CD, swap it out of the device, then finally start enjoying the music again. What a waste of time that was. We have better way of storing all your music in a consolidated location, this is called a media server. Transform your 2,400 CD collection into music instantly available anywhere in your home. Integrate the media server with your Whole-House Audio system and now you truly have the power to quickly enjoy your entire music collection.

How do I control my Whole-House Audio System?

Many of the Whole-House systems incorporate keypads that can duplicate the functions of your stereo receiver and other components. Try the NetStreams keypad to see how easy controlling your system is. This keypad is just a demo that illustrates the ease of functionality, don't expect to hear any music. Keypads can be located in any room where you wish to have complete control of your entertainment system. Also, each keypad can contain an infrared receiver so it can be operated with a remote control. Try the Niles Audio Remote to see how easy it is to control your Whole-House Audio System. Now you can enjoy music and entertainment effortlessly in any room of the house.

Single Remote Consolidation

How many remotes do you currently have? The majority of households have at least three remotes in the main living area. As you already know, with every electronic device you own you'll have an additional remote. The TV, DVD, Stereo, Media Server, Satellite Receiver, Cable Box and your children, well maybe not the children.

It's a hassle to find the remote, operate the device, and in additional you'll spend more money on extra batteries for all those remotes. With a true universal remote you can consolidate all your electronic devices control into a single point solution.

Digital Lifestyle Integration understands the need for single remote operations and offers three levels of remote control. Good and better options are accomplished with Universal Remote Control (URC) products and the best option is accomplished with Remote Technologies Inc. (RTI) products.

What's the difference?

Majority of URC products are sold in public stores and can be programmed by individuals that have some technical understanding with PC based software. The remotes are capable of performing the majority of functions needed for single remote control, but they do have limitations when customized programming is absolutely needed.

RTI products are sold only through authorized dealers and can only be programmed by authorized dealers, such as Digital Lifesytle Integration. RTI remotes offer a true "One Touch Solution" for single room applications or whole house control solutions.

What is a "One Touch Solution"?

A "One Touch Solution" is just as it sounds. Imagine your Home Theater with following amenities, a recessed retractable screen in the ceiling, an overhead projector, your surround sound system (audio processor and amps), a high definition DVD player, such as Blu-Ray, lighting control and climate control. You sit down with your family and friends, to enjoy a featured presentation. With a single button press all your home theater devices harmoniously come to life. The video projection screen will begins to lower, the outside light will becomes muted as the widow shades begin to automatically cover the windows, the climate automatically sets to your desired comfort level, all electronic devices energize (power on), the in room lighting begins to dim and the movie starts playing. All from a single button press, impressive! Experiencing a home theater is nothing like a public theater.

Structured Cabling Systems

All our custom engineered structured cabling systems centralize and consolidate the three primary sub-systems (Data, Voice, Video) into a single location, such as a communications closet, a garage, a utility room, or any place you’ll find to be suiting. Each custom system is fully documented and labeled for ease of maintenance, saving you time and money. We engineer a complex system to be simplistic and reliable for your all your present and future communication and entertainment needs with the ease of future expandability.

Our structured wiring systems provide convenient access to internet, telephone, and video systems throughout your home. Systems are designed to provide built in wiring protocols providing a simplified central hub for your electronics delivering an all-in-one residential gateway.

Structured pre-wired houses allow for future expansion of home management systems when future needs arise. Our state-of-the-art data transmission structure allows multiple phones, data streams, satellite signals, antenna feeds, internet access, video cameras and more, to occur simultaneously, while being routed within a single comprehensive structured cable system.

Our structured wiring systems are often called a homes hidden asset as all wiring is neatly installed inside the walls and structure of the finished living area. Structured wiring also includes the installation of all necessary multi-port wall plates which are placed in the most logical and convenient locations providing functionality while keeping the interior design integrity in tact.

What is a Home Theater?

Simply stated, a Home Theater is a high quality audio and video entertainment center that brings movie theater value to your home viewing. It can be as elaborate or as simple as you wish - from a specially designed separate room to updating your family room, great room or den.

What makes up a Home Theater?

A basic system will consist of a large screen TV, a multi-channel surround sound system, a receiver and a DVD player. Some people will suggest going with at least a 32-inch TV set, but you might consider starting at the 42-inch or larger. After all, the whole purpose is to match big picture with big sound. And while you're at it, consider a high definition TV. The surround sound system (five channels) should have right, center, and left speakers in the front of the viewing area with right and left surround speakers in the rear. You should also think about a sub woofer to pick up those deep bass audio. The sound quality will amaze you. To get the quality video picture, a high definition DVD player is the recommended route, such as a Blu-Ray. Tie it all together with a multi-channel, Dolby Pro-Logic receiver as the all-in-one power source and you've got yourself a home theater. Be sure that your home theater room allows you to be seated at least five to ten feet from your screen.Once you begin to move beyond these basics, the options are many: size and type of TV; in-wall/ceiling, wall mounted or stand alone speakers; additional a/v components, and lighting controls just to name a few. Get expert advice before you venture too far in this territory, but here are a few thoughts as you get started.

Keep in Mind

Wiring will make or break a good home theater system. Buy Quality. If you're building or renovating and can't commit to a home theater now, at least do the pre-wiring. It will make it much easier to install a theater in the future. Use one brand of speakers throughout the system. This is not the place to mix and match. If you're building or remodeling, put the speakers in the walls. This is especially practical if you're short on space, but regardless, in-wall speakers give the room a clean and uncluttered touch that leaves you more decorating options. Make sure that the room has sufficient data and cable jacks and don't forget a good universal remote control.

Data Network

As technology contines to mature in residential communities, data networks will become a prevalent standard in new residential construction much like windows and doors. In it's simplest form a data network is the physical layer in a standardized method of communication, more particularly with the Internet. As you may already know the Internet holds a tremendous amount of power, right at your fingertips. As household devices become more intelligent by IP awareness the data network will become a very concentric part of everyday living.

Why have a data network installed?

Having a centralized data network installed will enable your home to be IP ready for today and tomorrow. Having a centralized network hub will enable you to save time and money if a failure occurs with all the core components inside one box typically located in the garage or a communications closet. With a residential data network you'll have the ability to share a single high speed internet connection; this physical infrastructure will enrich your communications internally and externally of the home without the unsightly clutter of wires. Share files, information, music, pictures, and printers within the home with workforce professionals home offices, with students having the ability to perform educational research, access distance learning programs, online gaming environments with others around the world, telephony communications (voice over IP) talk long distance to family and friends without incurring additional expenses, control your lights, your climate from a distance, view security cameras of your primary or vacation home from a safe distance or watch future TV programming over your data network. Everyday the benefits increase with cutting edge network technology, that only you can experience with a reliable data network.