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Great Black Friday Deal? Let a Pro Audio Visual Integrator Design Your Home Theater System

From a 32-inch LCD under $150 to a Panasonic 3D HDTV for under a grand, savvy shoppers scooped up amazing deals on Black Friday. In recent years, HDTV screens have become one of the hottest selling, and most deeply discounted, items in Black Friday sales. And at JD Systems, we love a good sale. Saving [...]

Universal Remotes: It’s the Little Things that Count

Are you tired of playing “find the remote” every night — and worse, you finally find one only to discover it’s the wrong one? If you’re pretty tech savvy, you probably gave up the whole “one remote for each device” with your Nintendo 64 game system. But maybe not. And as you upgrade home theatre [...]

Universal Remote Control Enters the Commercial Market

Universal Remote Control, known for dominating the residential market for home theater remote controls with user-friendly, intuitive products, has introduced commercial series IP-based serial remote controllers, perfect for commercial installations such as sports bars, local restaurants, boardrooms, and professional offices. Products in the line include the KP-4000C, two-way, in-wall color RS-232 network keypad and the [...]

Crestron’s New Showroom, Open for Designers, NY Architects and AV Pros

As native New York audio video integrators, we were as excited as anyone to hear about Crestron opening their new showroom on Third Avenue in New York City, the heart of the fashion and design district. The Crestron Design Showroom is located in the Decoration & Design Building, and is a place to check out [...]

What Happens When You Lose the Manual for Your Home Theater Gear?

Gadget shopping website Retrevo often releases interesting surveys related to consumer buying habits and technology. In conjunction with their free manual download service, they released some interesting facts about HDTVs, Blu-Ray players, DVDs and other consumer technology and the manuals that go with them. We couldn’t resist adding our observations (in parentheses). The first work [...]