Text Box: installed affordably if the wiring is already installed.  (excepts take from EH,11/2004)         Text Box: Although Electronic systems fulfill basic need—security, comfort and convenience– they are still priced that way. THT suggests that you think of your  whole house music system, home theatres, lighting systems, and structured wiring as upgrades, just like the marble countertops, stainless steel appliances, and stone fireplaces you might choose for your home. Home control systems can start at $3000 and work their way up.  Add home theatre, heating control, and the number is sure to climb. Since most of the electronic system is a permanent fixture, it can usually be integrated into your Text Box: mortgage costs. If you decide to add a system later, it may cost twice as much due to the labor involved with running of wires, etc. Prices for electronic systems vary greatly, with the size of the home also affecting how much you will have to pay.  The sophistication of the system will also impact the price as well. If you can not install everything you want right away, at the very least, install the wiring for your future systems and components before construction of your home is completed. Security cameras, speakers, and other components you might want to add down the line can be Text Box: Save Money:  Explore Electronic Systems when Building Text Box: In the video world, every color and shade is produced by different combinations of red, green and blue light at different levels of intensity.  Full black is a complete absence of light, and peak white is produced by an equal mix of colors at maximum intensity.   The grayscale is the range of steps between full black and peak white.  Ideally, the only thing that changes from one shade of gray to the next is the intensity of the light, not the color Text Box: mix.   Most video displays find it hard to reproduce full black.  Peak white also varies from the ideal, the variations being measured in terms of color temperature, which for a TV can range from 4,00 to 5,000 K (or Kelvins) to well over 10,000K, a bluish white produced by some high intensity lamps.  In 1953, The National Television System Committee decided that the correct shade of white for U.S. TVs is about 6500K, or the color Text Box: of sunlight at noon on a clear day.  Since the largest part of a video signal consists of black and white information, any deviation from the white level reference of 6500K whether toward the red end of the spectrum or the blue end, will bias images in the same way.  More specifically, since the studio monitors used for color correcting TH shows and DVD masters are calibrated to 6500K, your TV must be set to the same color temperature if you want it to accurately recreate the images. Text Box: Total Home Technology, Inc.

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