HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Streaming SERVICES
Getting everything under one remote control
>> FOR FAR too long, home entertainment has been plagued by a persistent problem – too many remotes. Somewhere along the way, coffee tables became home to an embarrassment of clickers. This remote controls the TV. That one is for the DVD player. This one controls the cable box. That one is for the stereo. This really dusty one — well, we’re not really sure what it does anymore. But according to home-automation experts, new technologies coupled with the rise of streaming services are letting us take back control of our cluttered coffee tables. “Ten years ago, you’d buy a surround-sound receiver, you’d buy a Blu-ray player, you’d have a cable box, some people had a compact disc changer. You’d have at least five or six components,” says David Estabrook, co-owner of Inspire Audio Visual. “It just became so complicated to set stuff up, whereas now it’s one or two devices with HDMI and you have a soundbar, which just plugs into your TV.” Estabrook says multi-component sound systems are starting to go the way of the Betamax.
By Jared Story
NEW TECHNOLOGIES COUPLED WITH THE RISE OF STREAMING SERVICES ARE LETTING US TAKE BACK CONTROL OF OUR CLUTTERED COFFEE TABLES.
122 Parade of Homes Spring 2020
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