Home Theatre Archives - Page 17 of 35

Four Reasons to Up Your Game with Shades

by Amy Madden | Feb 28, 2017 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Pro AV Integration, Solar Control & Window Shades

Are you wondering if shades should be part of your product offerings? Since we re-introduced Draper window shades to AV dealers last fall, many dealers who had been doing the occasional shade job have made shades a bigger part of their business. Others who had never...

Death of Projection Screens?

by Terry Coffey | Feb 24, 2017 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Rental & Staging, Screen Technology

This past week a prominent AV industry blogger wrote on the demise of the projection screen market. Gary Kayye of rAVe Publications said, essentially, that the projection screen market is dying, and it’s going to be a quick death. You can read his post by clicking...

Future-Proof or Future-Ready?

by Terry Coffey | Feb 21, 2017 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Screen Technology

Future-proof is a term marketers love to use. Although we see it used in the AV market, it’s a term that crops up in almost every market and product category. When used to describe a product, the manufacturer is saying that product is unlikely to become obsolete....

Acoustically Transparent Screens

by Amy Madden | Feb 10, 2017 | Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Rental & Staging, Screen Technology

Here’s a quick pop quiz question for you: Where’s the best place for the speakers—at least the center channel—in an AV installation? If you answered, “behind the projection screen,” then you get an A+. Rather than solving an audio problem, however, putting a speaker...

Three Times TecVision Delivered Wins

by Terry Coffey | Jan 17, 2017 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Screen Technology

One of the reasons our TecVision line of premium projection viewing surfaces has been so successful is its flexibility. Any projection problem that comes along has a TecVision solution. And when there’s no current formulation to address a need, a new one can be...

Why Use a Draper Lift

by Jentry Wittkamper | Jan 13, 2017 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration

Mounting projectors, flat panels, and other AV equipment is often an afterthought. Often the quickest and easiest solution is seen as the best: just attach a mount and hang the projector from the ceiling. But when you might be investing several thousand dollars in a...