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Guys need their own space, too—whether that getaway spot is used for woodworking, macramé, late night fantasy football trades on the waiver wire, or having friends over to watch “Tommy Boy” for the 23rd time in surround sound.
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A builder in Bellvue, Wash., offers home automation as a part of a luxury condo project.
With its warm woods and decadent finishes, this upscale residence offers proof that a high-tech home needn't be sterile to get its groove on. The ideal home-automation system is so seamless that it's nearly invisible, and can happily coexist with any style of interior design, including one that hark...
In the spring of 2005, Taylor Woodrow's Irvine, Calif.–based Western region found itself “in a tighter box,” where it was being squeezed by competitors that are “smart and great at what they do,” and where buyers were having trouble telling the difference between Taylor Woodrow's product and everyon...
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GREG NUTT, PRESIDENT OF SOUTHAMPTON Homes, is very clear about the demographic he's targeting with the AMX system that will come standard at Regency Estates, his new, 61-unit townhome project in the Chicago suburb of St. Charles, Ill., which is also where the builder is based.
BUILDERS COPING WITH A MUCH slower housing market are beginning to see how home technology can give them a competitive edge.
AT A PRESS CONFERENCE THE CONSUMER Electronics Association (CEA) held last summer to release home buyer research, one of the reporters asked a CEA researcher about workable business models or marketing strategies for selling digital homes to new-home buyers, and he couldn't immediately point to any.
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SOMETIMES, YOU JUST HAVE TO DECIDE THAT your company is different; one condo developer in Philadelphia offers a full home-technology package as standard.
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SOMETIMES, YOU JUST HAVE TO DECIDE THAT your company is different; one condo developer in Philadelphia offers a full home-technology package as standard.
MOVE-UP BUILDERS LOOKING TO ADD profits to their projects may find that the new IntelliControl Integrated Control Solutions (ICS) system from Niles Audio is the differentiator they've been waiting for.
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TECH PIONEERS AND VISIONARIES sometimes talk like the digital home will happen overnight. The reality is that the home-technology industry is making only gradual progress in winning over home builders, home buyers, and other consumers.
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A NEW JOINT STUDY ON HOME TECHNOLOGY by Parks Associates and Builder finds that 56 percent of home builders look for new products to set them apart from the competition. Leading devices include home controls, security systems, central vacuums, and entertainment systems.
NETSTREAMS OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, IS among the few home-tech providers that can offer builders a distinct path to creating home systems that run over Internet protocol (IP).
Colorado Vnet has developed a new audio system that lets builders install distributed audio in four rooms for a builder cost of about $3,000 to $4,000.
A big builder and an electronics retailer form an agreement to market audio/video systems.
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If you aren't actively selling digital technology, you're leaving some serious money on the table.
Musicians know that Musicians know that adagio means to play music at a slow, leisurely pace. Well, that's the concept behind Crestron Electronics' Adagio program, which looks to start home buyers off with an affordable distributed audio system and then add networked Crestron products as the home bu...
The debate over whether wireless will one day eliminate the need for structured wiring has for years ended with some major sticking points—first and foremost that there are no wireless systems that can reliably run high-definition (HD) video.
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DATA RELEASED EARLIER THIS YEAR BY Parks Associates—a research firm that focuses on technology for the digital home—provides evidence that home builders may finally become a much more important channel for selling home-technology products.
AS 2005 RECEDES, EXCITEMENT IS brewing among consumer electronics companies that 2006 could be the year vendors finally start making some headway with production home builders.