Items Tagged With video

Back in the summer I wrote about replacing our aging AV Amp at the heart of our Home Cinema system.  We knew the builders were coming to fit a wood burning stove and so the room needed to be gutted - the perfect excuse to move our home theater into the HiDef world.  The work was completed last December, all except for one vital componant - the new Mac mini.

At last we now have the fantastic user experience of the XBMC days, along with the horse power to play 1080P content.  Here's our quick video on setting the mini up as an HD media player ("basic" 2.0Ghz / 1Gb RAM moodel)...

Here's a bit of weekend fun.  This clip from "The Big Bang" on the exciting world of X10 answers the question very honestly on why we do a lot of this stuff :)

Home Camp 08 was held last Saturday at the Imperial College London.  The "unconference" discussed technology to monitor and automate the home for greener resource use and to save costs. Here's Andy Piper's video of Andy Stanford-Clark's talk on home automation and energy efficient computing at the event...

Cytech Europe have just sent us news on their new smart home video presentation featuring their Comfort Intelligent Home System.  

"The video, filmed in a family home, entertains, informs and demonstrates all aspects of smart home technology including security,  networked sound and vision, remote control of heating, air conditioning, lighting, curtains and gates and an intercom which calls a mobile phone when no one is home...."