In its more than 100 year history, TV has always prioritized function over design. When Philo Farnsworth first demonstrated the electronic television in 1929, he stunned the world with a device that could reproduce live moving images. The technology was incredible -- but the device looked like something out of a science fiction movie.

Rather than the sleek, thin, 4K monitors that adorn walls as part of modern media room installations today, the Farnsworth unit consisted of a big, boxy receiver and a four-inch display.

In fact, for the next few decades, TV sets would become popular fixtures in homes around the nation, but they stubbornly refused to blend in with the surrounding decor. While the units became smaller, screens became bigger, and images continued to improve thanks to sophisticated processing and LED backlighting, they still stood out.

In recent years, TV giant Samsung has devoted a significant amount of attention to combining the needs of interior designers with that of consumers who want the best picture quality possible. In 2019, their latest Frame TV may just transform the way you incorporate electronics into your Bellevue, WA media room designs.

In this blog, we’ll take a look at what Samsung has in store for CES 2019, and how your clients can benefit from a TV that looks great when in use and not.

Conventional wisdom has been killing movie theaters for most of their existence.

In the earliest years of the 20th century, outdoor projections gave way to nickelodeons set up in the local shop’s backrooms. Those eventually succumbed to the opulent movie palaces of the 1920s. After that, something like the modern movie theater started popping up in towns and cities across the country.

But it didn’t take long for that to change. As men returned home after World War Two and started the baby boom of the 40s and 50s, families started looking for ways to get their entertainment cheaper and more immediately. Television -- a technology that had been around since the late 20s -- began to emerge as the first big threat to movie theater dominance.

Flash forward to today, and you’ll see numerous articles and blog posts about streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon continuing to make movie theaters obsolete. However, a recent study from Ernst and Young’s (EY) Quantitative Economics and Statistics group has produced a surprising find: streaming services aren’t killing theaters. In fact, they’re working side by side to create a golden age of entertainment.

With so many options available, you’re going to need a home audio video system in your Seattle, WA property that can keep up with it all. It’s possible to achieve comparable theater quality in the comfort of your own home, and this blog will show you how.

Ready to get started? Keep reading.

You want your Bellevue, WA smart home full of technologies that make your life easier. But sometimes you don’t get the home automation system you’ve anticipated, usually because you’ve made some of the mistakes we mention below.

We know that these smart technologies are an investment, and we want every aspect of your system to be successful for you.

Fortunately, you can prevent many malfunctions just by hiring an experienced home technology installer. You’re not alone in your home automation journey -- keep reading to see which mistakes Distinctive Audio and Video can circumvent for you.

What can you do to make the next batch of homes you build stand out to potential customers?

Depending on building codes, zoning rules, and other factors, there may be only so much you can do in terms of interior or exterior design features. This limits how distinctive you can make your homes, and that gives potential buyers little incentive to choose you over the competition. So, what do you do?

One way to make your next building project stand out is to install home lighting control systems. Home lighting control is a great way to add pizazz to a home while boosting curb appeal and creating extra value in the eyes of buyers. We have a lot of experience with home lighting control at Distinctive Audio Video; read on to learn all the different ways it can boost your Seattle business.