Home Entertainment & Automation Services in Matthews, NC.
Home Entertainment & Automation Services in Matthews, NC.
Home audio and Video Services in Matthews, NC.  TV installation, Surround Sound, Home Entertainment Systems
Boxee Opens Wolfgang’s Vault to Music Fans
Call Custom Installation Services For all Your Charlotte Home Integration Needs!

Call C.I.S. For all Your Home Integration Needs! We are Charlotte, NC's #1 Home Integration Company!

The lauded live music vault is available to your TV through streaming via popular aggregator Boxee. 

 The website Wolfgang’s Vault has always been a beacon for live music fans—and now you can incorporate all of it’s live music goodies on your main entertainment system if you use Boxee.

We’ve been big fans of both for a while now. Wolfgang’s Vault has an incredible amount of music—thousands of concerts—from classic artists like the Allman Brothers, Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Springsteen to newer bands like Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes that you can stream. Boxee has always made it easier for you to stream web videos and music to your computer, Apple TV and flat-panels 

Getting the mobile version of the Vault for your iPhone/iPod was one big step, but being able to tap into it simply from Boxee is even better for many folks. 

Boxee users of the app will be able to tap into the concerts, make customized playlists and listen to Vault radio. If there’s a catch, it’s that listening to music on the app is free for up to 10 hours a month, and $4 a month thereafter. Still not a bad price to pay for such a wealth of tunes, which if you’ve ever streamed some of the site’s music you know to be much better quality than whatever impression you may have of bootleg concert recordings (not that these are true bootlegs, but they certainly haven’t been released officially elsewhere). 

If you’re a fan of Pandora or Rhapsody, chances are you’d dig Wolfgang’s Vault, and this is just another reason to give Boxee a try, too. 

Call C.I.S. For all Your Home Integration Needs!

by Arlen Schweiger

http://www.electronichouse.com/article/boxee_opens_wolfgangs_vault_to_music_fans/

Custom Installation Services, LLC – Charlotte and Boone NC’s Source For Home Integration Of All Your Networked Devices!

Posted in Audio Systems, Automation, Multi Room A/V, Music and Movies, News, technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment


DirecTV Whole-Home DVR Goes Live Nationwide

Custom Installation Services - Call Us To Integrate Your Time Warner, Dish, Or DirecTV DVR!

C.I.S. - Call Us To Integrate Your Time Warner, Dish, Or DirecTV DVR!

DirecTV’s Whole-Home DVR has been in beta testing for a few months, but is now live nation wide for just $3/month.

The DVR wars have been pretty fierce lately. Comcast has been targeting AT&T, DISH has been going after DirecTV on price, and DirecTV’s ads have been taking shots at just about everyone. 

As of today, DirecTV has one more feather to place in their hat with the full release of Whole Home DVR. 

The Whole-Home DVR feature allows programs from an HD DVR to be streamed to other non-DVR HD Receivers throughout your home. Up to 15 TVs, including the display the HD DVR is connected to, can take place in the streaming fun. 

The best part is no new hardware is required. The slightly worse news is the service will tack $3/month onto your monthly bill, but I don’t foresee any natural disasters or magnetic poles shifting over that minor fee. 

Not to miss a chance to get a few jabs in, the DirecTV Whole-Home DVR site takes shots at DISH Network’s Sling-enabled DVRs and cable company DVRs’ capacity and connectivity. I just wish someone would start throwing some punches TiVo’s way. Maybe then they would bring some more appealing features to their TiVo Premiere.

Other features DirecTV makes note of include: manage your DVR playlist from any room; record two shows while watching two others; and set separate parental controls for each TV.

Check out the YouTube video below for more on Whole-Home DVR:

 
by Stephen Hopkins

http://www.electronichouse.com/article/directv_whole_home_dvr_goes_live_nationwide/

Custom Installation Services, LLC – Charlotte and Boone NC’s Source For Samsung, Panasonic & Sharp 3D HDTV Sales, Support & Installation!

Posted in Automation, Flat Panel TV's, Home Theater, Media Rooms, Multi Room A/V, News, technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment


Mitsubishi 3D Converter Incompatible With Other TVs

C.I.S. - Charlotte A/V Retailer & Audio Video in Charlotte NC

Custom Installation Services - For All Your Audio/Video Needs In Charlotte, NC!

Mitsubishi changes HDMI EDID information for its 3DC-1000 converter box.

When Mitsubishi showed its 3DC-1000 3D converter box at CES, it was compatible with Samsung’s 3D-ready televisions. Both companies use the same checkerboard 3D format.

However, HD Guru Gary Merson reports Mitsubishi modified the box to restrict compatibility to its own 3D-ready rear-projection DLPs.

Thanks to new EDID messages sent with the converter’s HDMI signals, Samsung will no longer be able to receive 3D in HD via the Mitsubishi box.

by Julie Jacobson

http://www.electronichouse.com/article/mitsubishi_3d_converter_incompatible_with_other_tvs/

Custom Installation Services, LLC – Charlotte and Boone NC’s Source For Samsung, Panasonic & Sharp 3D HDTV Sales, Support & Installation!

Posted in 3d movies, 3D TV, Flat Panel TV's, News, technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment


Custom Installation Services, LLC | P.O. Box 132 Matthews, NC 28106 | 704-400-8701 | dmiller@cis-nc.com
Visit Our Partners: DV Wise Custom Homes | CleanX Corp

 


 

 

 

 

Website Hosting and Website Design by McBryde Web Site Design
For technical issues e-mail webmaster@mcbryde.com