We’re pretty proud of our new home page with a TV-like slide show that will give new visitors a quick overview of the home theater, A/V and commercial services that we offer. It looks pretty cool and even has a couple movies embedded for your entertainment and hopefully education. If you haven’t seen it, head over to the home page for a quick look.

We upgraded this site for our commercial clients. We added a section just for them. We have offered commercial services from the very beginning, but we thought it was a good time to present some of those services here on our site. We are excited to bring entry access, surveillance, audio visual solutions, and of course automation and control to our commercial clients. Have a look at our commercial services page. Hopefully we add a few more things and fluff it a little more for you in the future.

If you are visiting this site with your Android, iPhone or iPad, you have already noticed that we have added an interface just for you, so that can find the information on our site quicker without a lot of zooming. Of course, you will get a better experience with a standard PC or Mac, but its important to us to provide a great interface for the mobile users.

We have added other content and made additional changes, too. Have a look around to see what you can see. As always, if you have questions or comments, drop us a line.

Dynamic Audio Video of New Orleans did their first installation of g! in a 6000 sq. ft. home shortly after the product came to market. The system installer had this to say: ““I installed the system on a Monday and came back that Wednesday to ask the customer if he was ready for a demo,” Gannon said. “And he said, ‘No, I already figured it out.’ In a day he already knew what he was doing — I literally had nothing to show him. The fact that he was able to figure everything out for himself speaks a thousand words.”

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TV Personality Installs Elan g!

Cake maker and TV personality, Buddy Valastro, installed a complete Elan g! system to control every aspect of his home. Valastro’s house is fully integrated, so he now has total mobile control over the home’s 68 light switches, four-zone HVAC system, security and surveillance system with 24 cameras, and whole-house audio system with 42 ELAN Elios speakers in 17 discrete zones including the master bathroom and three-car garage.

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Pharmacy Owners Improve Security with Elan g!

Pharmacy owner with five pharmacies in Arkansas where looking for a better way to control their security system for their growing business. Waking up at 2 AM and driving 50 miles to reset a tripped alarm was not the ideal solution for security woes. With the Elan g! system the pharmacy owner has remote control over surveillance cameras, security system, heating, air conditioning and lighting.

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Elan g! is a major step forward in automation and control for both residential and commercial users. Industry watchers hail g! as a major break through and a system that “just works”. For information on how g! can be go to work for you, contact AV Simplified Solutions.

3D World

Sony brings high definition 3D to the world end to end with digital solutions. Sony is at the for-front of content creation technologies such as optics, cameras and other professional production equipment. Sony is a leader in the distribution of 3D content from media to broadcast. Coming full circle, Sony is bringing 3D to world with Sony equipped cinemas, televisions, gaming devices, and players. We’ve highlighted Sony’s 3D World in our product spotlight.

We are most excited by the Bravia line of high definition 3D TVs. Sony Bravia is designed to deliver the ultimate viewing experience, these televisions are packed with cutting-edge technologies including 3D in Full HD 1080p, Motionflow technology for sharp, smooth images and advanced LED technologies for a stunning picture in a slim design.  You can learn more about these incredible TVs at Sony’s Bravia page.

Of course, Sony allows us to offer exceptional Blu-Ray players… Experience the best picture and sound quality available with Blu-ray Disc technology. Revel in the breathtaking resolution of Full HD 1080p combined with HD surround sound for the ultimate home theater experience. With Blu-Ray in conjunction with a Bravia HD LED TV, movie night will never be the same.

Multi-Room Wireless Audio Systems

Multi-room audio is an important solution for our clients. We are excited to offer Sony’s line of affordable wireless systems that allows us to install a simple solution that we may not have been able to before. These wireless solutions fit your lifestyle with rich sound, iPod docking, multi-source selection, and integration. You’ll be amazed with this line of products. Learn more at Sony’s demonstration site.

Equipment is the most obvious element of your home theater that will affect your experience. The basic home theater equipment list might look something like this, amplifier or receiver, source such as Blu-Ray player, monitor and speakers. Each of these components affects the overall experience of your home theater. You should take care in choosing each making sure that it is suitable for your performance expectation and your budget.

As a general rule of thumb, its often a good idea to buy a bit more than you can afford. A note of caution, don’t overspend on your monitor (flat panel TV or projection system) and undermine your speakers and power source. It is widely believed by home theater professionals that sound is 80% of the experience. Buy the best speakers you can and make sure you power them properly.

Speaker placement and calibration is the next element of your home theater that you should understand. When the sound track of the latest blockbuster was mixed, the sound engineerer mixed the audio in a specific way to empress upon that audience a specific ambiance and impact. Fortunately, the sound engineerer mixed to a specific standard that you can recreate in your room. In a 5.1 surround sound system, the speakers are expected to be in a particular place to serve a particular function. Modern receivers have come a long way with built in tools to help you calibrate your speakers. Optimally, you would have a professional technician who understands speaker placement configure your room and calibrate each speaker.

Acoustics or sound absorption is the most misunderstood aspect of a home theater, but can be achieved easily with some effort. It is a well-known fact that sound waves bounce around any given room. You can control a lot of this refracting sound and improve the overall experience with strategically placed sound absorbing materials.

One of the easiest control methods is to install thick and/or dense carpet or carpet tile products on the floor. Additionally, you can use large and well cushioned furniture, hang thick drapes over windows, hang tapestries or acoustic panels on the walls or even install a bookshelf with a lot of books.

These points are very basic and should serve as an introduction for getting the most out of your home theater or media room. To learn more about these basic principles and how they might affect your room, please contact the experienced technicians at AV Simplified Solutions.

I have been reading all the reviews (see links to those below) that I can find on this brand to see what all the expert’s are saying about it. I can not find one credible source that has given a bad review. I stress the credible part! I only read the reviews from qualified sources because they cut through all the opinions and strictly give the facts. These guys give results from calibration equipment that cost thousands of dollars. They are serious about what they do, to say the least.

Anyway, if you are in the market for a new TV, NuVision is by far the highest rated review by the experts in the field of TV’s. If you want the best, look no further. And if you need one, we got them. We install, calibrate, and service NuVision. It is our goal to only install products that we can rely on and if we can rely on those products, we know that our customers can as well.

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This year the show marked the rise of the e-readers and Android. Intel brought on their new “super” processors and we even saw an amazing interactive remote control for Windows 7 which is sure to bring some cool new things that we can do with a Windows Media Center PC. Of course there are all the new TVs and more gadgets than you can shake a stick at – some laughable and some amazing—but what interests us the most is home theater.

As I see it, here are the home theater trends for 2010:

More Internet Delivered Content

One of the darlings of this year’s CES was the Boxee, a cube like device that pumps Internet content and digital files to your TV with a social networking kick. This product builds on technology developed for the original Microsoft Xbox (hint: a media player not by provided by Microsoft). Internet delivered content has been trending up for a quite a while. Hulu, Netflix, Pandora, among many others have been setting us up for this. Look for viable content from the Internet to be delivered to your HD flat panel TV this year. Yes, I know, it will be grainy and substandard quality, but there is a ton of it at your finger tips for your ondemand thrills.

3-D on Blu-Ray

It was just 2 years ago that Warner Brothers hammered the nail in the coffin for HD-DVD and now we are preparing the arrival of 3-D. It’s going to happen. The biggest blockbuster in theaters now is the 3-D extravaganza, “Avatar”. There were a slew of 3-D ready Blu-Ray players launched this year at CES. Expect more movies to appear in theaters in 3-D and expect more capable players to be sitting in home theater racks.

HDMI 1.4 Arrives

Bla, bla, bla. Another HDMI revision? Yep, but this one is more refined. Among the advertised improvements: built-in support for network sharing, bidirectional audio (inputs and outputs on a single cable), 3D and expanded resolution (up to 4K ultra high-def), and support for smaller jack sizes. Thankfully, new HDMI 1.4 devices should be backwards-compatible with existing HDMI-enabled ones. Let’s face it, HDMI removes a lot of headaches now that it has stabilized and these updates have much more potential than you might think.

More Integration with your Smart/Super Phones

Maybe the best known advancement is our western lifestyle over the last few years has been the smart phones. We have our navigation system, our network tools, and even our media in our pockets. With the introduction of Google’s Nexus One “super phone” and other Android based smart phones expect there to be a broader appeal and more integration with your home based entertainment. If you misplace the remote control for the media center, have no fear, your phone will come to the rescue. Expect smart integration companies to offer your more solutions than you could ever imagine in the New Year.

Big Movies

By far, what will really push home theater this year will be the content. What is an awesome home theater without awesome content? Have no fear. If you have been avoiding upgrading or adding your home theater, now is the time. The films coming at you this year will require better speakers, better displays, and better transports. Here are just a few of the movies that you don’t want to miss in all their glory sitting in the comfort of your home: “The Wolfman”, Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”, “Clash of the Titans”, a new Harry Potter fantasy, and let’s not forget about our favorite monster, “Shrek”. And there will be a Blu-Ray release of “Avatar” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy is just around the corner.

It looks like this will be an amazing year for Home Theater in terms of technology and content. Go ahead and stock-up on pop corn.

Our new showroom will include a complete home theater with platform seating, 7.1 surround sound, an integrated control system, and big sound experience provided by substantial subwoofers and in-wall speakers. For everyday living, the showroom features a fully automated media room in a living room setting with a large HD television mounted over the fireplace. As the showroom is a representation of how an integrated electronic home works, there is an outdoor patio area with door bell camera, lighting, and audio features. You will love the fact that they can touch, examine and experience functioning home technology that will bring comfort to your lifestyle and raise your quality of life substantially.

We encourage you to check back to news of the Grand Opening and don’t hesitate to give us a call to see what we have put together so far.