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Everything You Need for the Ultimate Home Media Room

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From your TV and speakers to décor, we can help you create the ideal entertainment space in your Pacific Palisades home

Whether you’re watching UCLA or USC football in the fall, enjoying a family movie night or hosting a party, your media room is one of the focal points of your home. As such, you want a media room designed for the highest-quality audio and video performance as well as comfort and style. Our team at DSI Luxury Technology has extensive experience building these spaces for homeowners in Pacific Palisades. Today’s blog offers some tips on how creating the best possible media room installation.

 

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TV AND SPEAKERS

The centerpiece of any media room is your TV and speakers. Here are a couple points to keep in mind when deciding on the equipment you want for your home.

As far as TVs go, it’s important to balance screen size with image quality. You’ll want to buy a 4K TV, ideally one that also includes high-dynamic range (HDR) imaging to give you a wider, brighter array of colors on the screen. If you want to go all out, consider buying an OLED TV. Unlike older TVs where the screen is lit from behind or to the side, each pixel on an OLED screen is lit individually, giving you higher color contrast and a sharper picture.

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5 Easy Steps to Boost Your Home Automation Systems

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Customize devices to suit your lifestyle with this list of simple tips

Do you feel like your home automation system isn’t doing enough to improve your lifestyle? Wish your devices were more attuned to your personal needs? Experiencing network glitches?

These problems can be a real detriment to enjoying smart home automation as it was intended. Luckily, at DSI Luxury Technology we have many years of experience with these systems, and that experience has given us some insight into how you can improve your devices. Here are five tips that California residents can use to improve smart home automation technology in their Bel Air homes.

 

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STUDY YOUR SYSTEM

There many ways smart home control can make your life easier, but figuring them all out takes time. One action you can take to make that process faster is to look at our online resources. We’ve written articles on many aspects of using your A/V system, lights, security system and more. Who knows what you might dig up after a little bit of research?

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How Can DSI Help You with Your LiteTouch Replacement?

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If your home features the now-extinct LiteTouch lighting automation, DSI can help! 

LiteTouch lighting system owners are finding out the hard way that the company is out of business. They discover that they’re dealing with a defunct system only after they have problems with LiteTouch and find out that professionals can’t service any of the company’s previous offerings. We’re here to give you the information that you need so that you’re not left feeling unprepared, as well as a viable solution to this common issue.

If you’re looking for the bad news first, here it is: LiteTouch is not repairable and completely lacks customer support. However, DSI Luxury Technology has found an invaluable alternative that customers love in our Vantage lighting solutions. Keep reading to see what happened to LiteTouch and what our HTA-certified team can do for you to help below.

 

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So Long to LiteTouch

As one of the first lighting automation providers, LiteTouch paved the way for more complex integration. LiteTouch started customizing lighting control solutions since the late 1970s, when they engineered the very first solid-state lighting control system.

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How to Keep Clients and Employees Engaged with Boardroom A/V!

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Could Your Conference Room Performance Be the Secret to Higher Revenue?

Most of the time, when you’re planning how to reach or exceed your business goals, you look right past an opportunity that you might see every single day -- your boardroom. Are you still trying to do twenty-first-century business in an antiquated conference room that can’t keep up?

Whether you can’t connect to contacts because of a sluggish video conferencing system, or you can’t hear remote employees calling in, we’ll give you the tools you need to revolutionize your business and bolster revenue.

We have a knack for walking into lackluster boardrooms and finding improvement areas; then, we get to work implementing new systems. Keep reading to see what we do to maximize engagement from both employees and clients in your Santa Monica, CA, office!

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Impactful Visuals


Think about where clients and employees direct their attention when you’re giving a presentation -- your display. You’ll find that 4K is not just for your theater spaces at home; meeting invitees will delight at the high-definition screens, stunning color depth and crisp imagery of your TV or projector. A high-tech backdrop also helps modernize your office, an asset to prospects seeking forward-thinking companies like yours.

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