Control4 has teamed with Electronic House to present the “What Do You Want to Control?” sweepstakes with a home control prize package for the winning entry.

EH.  You have a chance to win a control bundle from control4, click on the link below to read the rest of this story.

via Home Control: Win a $5,000 Prize Package from Control4, by Arlen Schweiger – Electronic House Product News.

Very cool article by Steven Castle of Electronic House, explaining the features and their importance when choosing a universal remote control.  Enjoy.

One of the most important decisions you can make when buying a whole-house music system, home control system, or home theater system is choosing the remote control. It’s the thing you use to communicate with all that equipment. And it better work…

via Home Theater: Anatomy of 6 Remote Controls, by Steven Castle – Electronic House Info and Answers.

At CEDIA, Optoma showed their new 3-chip DLP 1080p home theater projector, the HD8600. Designed specifically for custom installation, the HD8600 has ISFccc Day and Night modes, three options for lenses, accented lens placement and full lens-shift.

It also has an Auto235 mode that automatically positions Optoma’s optional anamorphic lens/sled kit to move the lens into place without user intervention for enhanced 2.35:1 content viewing. The projector features a 50,000:1 contrast ratio, and a brightness of 1600 ANSI lumens and the list price for it is $7499.99.For more information, please go to http://www.optomausa.com/

via rAVe HomeAV Edition — Volume 6, Issue 19 — October 6, 2009.

Until September 30th you can get flat panel TV of any size installed for just $165! That is an additional $30 saving over an already low installation price. To take an advantage of this deal call now (630) 830 8777.

Sony PlayStation 3 to be released September 1st at an attractive  price point ($299.99).

New PS3 is just around a corner, with its release date scheduled for September 1st. New model retains all features of of the older PS3. Per Sony, it is 36 percent lighter, 33 percent smaller and it comes with a 120 gigabyte hard drive.

Great news to those who want the PS3 but don’t care about its new look: the older PS3 model now retails for a mere $100.

In addition, PS3 has become a most price-efficient Bluray player out there. At a $100 price range there no question this gaming system has become a solid competition to all stand-alone Bluray disk players, which start at roughly $199 and up.

Via www.electronichouse.com

More than a year after dropping video podcast support into TiVo Desktop 2.6, the company will let users download them directly to their Series3, TiVo HD and HD XL set-top boxes.

This allows expansion beyond its own directory of web videos, allowing users to stream instantly, download a single episode, or setup a Season Pass (subscription) and download them automatically. As Dave Zatz points out the press release mentions supporting h.264, but offers no specifics on resolution or bitrate. Check out TiVo’s site for more info on setting it up either through the box or creating a compatible feed, and let us know if your preferred web series are working yet.

via www.engadgethd.com.