Submission by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it - I have had a Philips Pronto for quite a long time now but it has not been the most popular control device in my house. It works well in integrating multiple IR remotes but it has not been very helpful in integrating with the rest of my HA system...

After what was perceived to be a relatively slow start for the industry - things are finally making progress. The Connected Home Conference - September 2003 - focused on partnerships to really push the industry forward. The technologies are in place and the service aggregators are ready - the challenge is communicating this to the marketplace. Building PARTNERSHIPS are the key to maximising this markets potential was one of the key messages...

Submission by: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it - This project is to address a major problem faced by many Home Automators, who are looking for a more intelligent way to monitor the status of their equipment throughout the home. In the past, I have struggled with monitoring Audio Visual Equipment status in various zones of the home. I used Smartlink probes hardwired into HomeVision, but when I added multi zone IR distribution via FirM, the system could not work within a multi zone environment...

Submitted By Ken Watt - First Impressions - First of all I must apologise for the tardiness of this review as I was supposed to do it weeks ago and got caught up in other things I'm afraid, however on the plus side it did give me longer to evaluate the remote, or more accurately, for my better half to do so...

Submission by Rob Mouser - Just down at our workshops spraying the grills to my latest speaker addition. So while the first coat dries I thought I would post my findings.

These units are the Sonance Virtuoso 831DR's. I've already got a barn full of Sonance units and have to say that I am really impressed by the quality. These units were destined for my office but when I saw the size of them 'in the flesh' I decided to move my Sonance Symphony 622TR's from the lounge to my office and put these new ones in their place...

Much has been written about Sky+ and TiVo with it degenerating into a "mine's bigger/better than yours" type affair a lot of the time so, in the interests of science I set out to find out which one was the best with some surprisingly unsurprising results, to me at least...

Submission by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it - So you've been thinking about a wireless networking for a while, but 11Mbps was just too slow to be worth considering, you can't wait any longer so is now the time to jump the gun and buy into 54g and worry about compatibility later...