Danger Alert: Don’t Let the TV Fall on Your Kid!

Good reading. Especially if your set is sitting on a shakey or narrow depth table - consider a free evaluation visit from your local TV & AV guy!

http://www.technologytell.com/hometech/102612/danger-alert-dont-let-the-tv-fall-on-your-kid/

Airport Signage Death Tragedy

As I catch bits and pieces about the airport tragedy in Louisiana in which a display containing flat panel TVs fell forward on a family; killing their young son and injuring others - this is a reminder that safety is so important.  We do commercial as well as residential and from our first commercial work in 1990 installing TVs and music systems in malls across New England there is no substitute for common sense as well as experience.

Anchoring systems should be solid and far under stressed to their rated capacity. Surfaces should be considered; drywall was meant to help fireproof and hold paint - never to support speakers or TVs. And newer construction products like steel studs and plastic anchors should not be relied upon to prevent injury.

Experience - care in installation - knowledge of the products and demands of the installation are so important; whether its Logan Airport or Johnny Smith's bedroom plasma TV.

Need expert installation?  Questioning an existing or future installation? Give me a call; most job surveys are free as are our quotes.

Thx / Peter McLaughlin / PM Systems

Plasma TV is Alive and Well

A  lot of people think that plasma TV technology just isn’t as sexy as what LED LCD television has to offer, mostly because of plasma’s rocky beginnings, or simply the fact that it’s older. While most plasmas don’t achieve that radioactive brightness that LEDs do, most won’t dispute that they tend to produce much better contrast and motion than their liquid crystal counterparts, especially when you get down into the midrange models.
http://www.technologytell.com/hometech/93824/plasma-still-alive-and-well/

Kingston Bog Rink #2

Welcome The Bog skating rink II, built alongside the original.

Just installed this week is a new sound system, featuring a SoundSphere omnidirectional speaker, paging amp with handheld wireless mic and a new Teac CD-P650 CD player with USB input jack that is really neat - it plays your smartphone (iPhone & Android) right thru the front jack with full music ID in the display panel

here's the link to the Teac CD-P650

Think PM Systems for home A/V - but we also do businesses - restaurant -halls - churches ... etc

Streaming music from your PC with SoundWire

This is an easy setup. Download the app from the Play Store into your android phone or tablet; then install the server side on the PC.  Cut the PC vol. Anything played will come thru.  MP3s, YouTube, music streaming from Rhapsody, Slacker, Spotify, etc and your iTunes collection

Gets any PC sound streamed thru the local network to headphones or amp of your choice.Here's their blurb:

SoundWire lets you send any music or audio ("what you hear now") from your PC to your Android mobile devices or other PCs. Use it as:
- A wireless extension of your PC-based music system for parties
- A remote headphone amp
- A way to listen to music and movies from your computer anywhere in your house or out on your deck.

This is not just another file streaming app... you can use any music player on your PC or laptop like Grooveshark, Spotify, YouTube, or iTunes and feed the live sound directly to your Android device. SoundWire lets you listen to the free versions of Grooveshark and Spotify on your phone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.georgie.SoundWireFree

So need help ?  call me