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Product Overview
Home Automation

Is the centralised control of lighting, appliances, irrigation, air-conditioning, water-features, distributed audio and home theatre. It typically consists of a management system that controls different "modules" that ultimately control all your electrical and electronic devices. It has a level of green efficiency managing your lighting, air-con, under floor heating, water-features and audio visual whilst you are away or not in the room. The most powerful function is the scene control which, for example, one touch of the "watch TV" button can dim the lights based on time of day, set the air-con, close the curtains, switch the TV, DVD and Receiver on and set them to the correct channel.                                                                                                                 learn more
Distributed Audio

Otherwise known as piped music, allows each room in the house to listen to their own music or view their own video. Your son could be listening to heavy metal in his room, whilst you enjoy classical music in the kitchen. When entertaining, all rooms could output the same music, essentially giving the piped music effect throughout the home. This is the ultimate in home entertainment.

Generally, distributed audio systems have a source/volume keypad in each room and depending on the system has between 4 and 6 source inputs. Those inputs can be accessed from each "zone" of audio distribution. Zones can amount to between 1 and 16 depending on the size of your home. Typically sources are 1. DStv1 2. DStv2 3. Media Center 4. DVD 5. CD and 6. Tuner. So in a distributed audio home you could walk into a room choose which source of music/video you would like to access and the music will be generated from the in-ceiling speakers and video will change on your TV. This is a one touch solution.

True benefits of distributed audio comes when home automation is included in your home which could manage your distributed audio/video system. A light switch could be programmed to play your favourite music play list, or activate a prayer calling. We are only limited by your imagination.                                                  learn more

Home Theatre

This is separate to your distributed audio system and is typically installed in a TV room or dedicated home theatre. It consists of a plasma/LCD or projector and screen, DVD player, Receiver and a surround sound speaker set. There are cheap systems on the market from the usual commercial retailers but we strongly suggest a professional system here. A great idea would be to visit our showroom and listen to how movies should be watched, after all a movie is where we escape reality and involve ourselves in a story-line. To really participate in the movie you need to see and feel what the director intended you to feel and lose yourself completely. This can only be achieved with a quality surround sound setup.

Important to remember when buying a receiver or amplifier, is that high-definition will be launching in South Africa in 2009. Make sure your receiver is HDMI friendly or you will be wasting your money. All home theatre setups from Hometek are high-definition capable and will up-scale analogue signals from your current DVD and DStv to a digital format.                                                                                                                        learn more

 

 
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