You rarely notice just how essential lights are until you find yourself with the wrong lighting. The lights may be too bright in your media room, creating a glare on your screen. How about landscape lighting that's too dim and results in an unsafe environment around your Dallas, TX home? Even the colors of your walls and your furnishings look entirely different under certain lighting.

Finding the perfect lighting can be difficult and recreating it even more so. Our home lighting control systems make it easy to design the ideal settings for any room, activity, or purpose. As you read this blog, we'll showcase some ways intuitive control helps you accomplish the three most important goals of your lighting design: safety, style, and comfort.

Half the enjoyment of watching a movie or show in your Dallas, TX home theater is being able to feel that complete immersion that your media’s audio can create. But with many home theater installations, the wrong speakers, layouts or room acoustics can ruin the viewing experience.

In this blog, we go into how you can best optimize your home theater’s sound setup, and what you can do to create the perfect auditory environment.

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Watching your favorite films and shows in a top-notch entertainment space can take any form of media to the next level.  It why customizing a home cinema to fit your needs is key in elevating your viewing experiences.

But what if you want your Frisco, TX home theater to be ready for more than just movie nights and Netflix binges?  Imagine a theater that can be a multi-purpose space, designed for much more than just sitting to watch media.

We’ll go through all the smart features and solutions you can bring to your theater, and how they can transform the room to be set for any occasion or event.

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The first home automation system was born in 1966. A little over a decade before personal computers started revolutionizing homes and businesses, the Echo IV was a device ahead of its time.

Though never available commercially, and cobbled together from surplus Westinghouse circuit modules, the Echo IV could control appliances and the thermostat. It also featured a very early version of a word processor and was used to format an entire 516-page book at one point. 

Despite its incredible power, though, it failed to generate interest from most. It was used as the butt of plenty of jokes. And it was almost 30 years before connected technology systems began to take off in a significant way.

In 1994, Universal Remote Control (URC) -- a company whose name is synonymous with easy-to-use, single-interface technology -- changed the way we interact with our home theater devices, thanks to their Complete Control System.

Today, URC offers the more advanced Total Control 2.0 system, which makes using your smart devices easy thanks to customizable user interfaces, graphics control, and compatibility with the most popular smart home devices on the market.

How can your Dallas, TX home benefit from URC control? Find out more below.