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Dude Proposes To Lady Friend Over Home Entertainment Center

John Biggs — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:49:22 +0000

A Crestron home entertainment equipment installer named Ilya had an idea: why not use his impressive home theatre “demo room” and a bunch of cool gear to propose to his lady friend? At a Breakfast At Tiffany’s-themed birthday party, Ilya prepared a little short that he showed on his main theatre screen and could control remotely. In the video – seen above – he asked for her hand and when she pressed the button for “Yes,” their wee, sassy dog appeared with the ring.

Hearts were melted that night, friends.

While it’s a little gauche to force your lady to press a button to agree to marriage, I suppose if you have the means and inspiration, it’s best to use the tools around you to your advantage. I only hope he doesn’t celebrate every major milestone in his life this way (“Do we buy a mini-van? YES” “Want to have kids? NO” “Are you leaving me? NOT YET, BUT THIS IS A TRIAL SEPARATION”).

Regardless, congrats to Ilya and his lady.

via Crestron Blog

The Crestron iPanel iPad Sleeve Attempts To Squeeze $500 From The Affluent Home Automation Crowd

Matt Burns — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:31:52 +0000

The iPad is making a big dent in the home automation field just like I thought it would mainly because it offers so many more advantages over the traditional remotes found in the space for a fraction of the price. $500 home automation remotes tend look like your Comcast DVR remote and so the iPad is quickly crashing that market. So much so that instead of work against it, most home automation companies developed apps, docks, and entire ecosystems around the iPad. Crestron’s latest accessory, however, address what’s unfortunately viewed as one of the iPad’s key disadvantages when used as a home automation controller: the lack of hard buttons.

100% touchscreen remotes tend to be a nightmare mostly because the UIs tend to look like something out of a bad sci-fi movie. (that’s a bad thing) They’re so bad that dedicated hard buttons are often built-in to make up for their shortcomings. Remember watching The Osbornes. Yeah, Ozzy isn’t that big of a dope head — the controllers just suck that bad. I guess it could be both, really.

Crestron’s iPanel was then developed for the iPad to help compensate for their software, which is not actually horrible for a change. The iPad slips into it and then takes over the duty of volume control, navigation, and a few other functions with buttons found on either side of the screen. Cop-out for developing a killer user interface? Sure, it is. But according to CEPro, the target price is $500 so clearly the goal here is revenue and not providing the best user experience anyway.

CrunchGear: 16-Zone Creston system found on Craigslist

Matt Burns — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:35:34 +0000

A 16-zone Creston system will run you a lot of coin – or you can pick up this chump’s system on Craigslist. I wonder if he used to work for Lehmans Brothers and needs to his McMansion’s mortgage payment.

I have a Crestron system currently installed in my house that I would like to sell. All components are in excellent working condition, one Amplifier has two small cosmetic scratches as seen in the first image.

Craiglist via CEPro