The Audiophile’s Playground: McIntosh Group Is Reimagining How We Experience Audio

Following in the footsteps of its first iteration, the World of McIntosh townhouse, the House of Sound serves as an experiential showroom featuring the latest designs in cutting-edge audio technology across the McIntosh Group portfolio, which includes McIntosh, Sonus faber, Rotel, Pro-Ject Audio Systems, and Sumiko Phono. For avid audiophiles and lovers of high-fidelity sound, … Read more

The Ultimate Home Theater Experience Leverages AI and Machine Learning

Today’s discerning homeowners expect an increasingly high level of technological sophistication, and this new residential display delivers with stellar visuals and an air of exclusivity that can’t be replicated in retail stores. LG Electronics USA has unveiled the LG MAGNIT 4K 136-inch Micro LED residential display (LSAD Series), offering integrators and end users an extraordinary … Read more

Outdoor Smart TV Built-In Experience: Meet the first outdoor 4K QLED TV and accompanying soundbar

 

 

 

Samsung’s Outdoor Smart TV Built-In Experience; @Samsung Electronics

Rugged durability: The QLED 4K viewing is taken outside. The Terrace takes Samsung’s QLED 4K viewing outside with a robust smart TV experience and rugged durability.

Samsung’s Outdoor Smart TV Built-In Experience; @Samsung Electronics

Samsung expands its award-winning lifestyle Home Entertainment portfolio with the addition of The Terrace, the first outdoor 4K QLED TV and accompanying soundbar. The Terrace is a Samsung Smart TV that is specifically designed to bring the full indoor entertainment experience outside. A consumer model of The Terrace is launching in the U.S. and Canada today, followed by rollouts to Germany, Australia, New Zealand and other regions later this year. And for businesses, a professional model will be launching this summer.

Available in 55-, 65- and 75-inch models, The Terrace fits perfectly with any outdoor living space and delivers Samsung’s industry-leading QLED 4K display technology and Smart TV features. Designed with weather in mind – with an IP55 rating, The Terrace’s display boasts weather-resistant durability against water and dust, and comes fitted for easy installation outdoors across a variety of settings.

The Terrace offers a crystal-clear display to increase visibility in all sorts of outdoor conditions. It provides a brightness level of 2,000 nits, ensuring that users will be able to enjoy content in vivid picture quality, even in broad daylight. Its QLED 4K display is perfect for sports fans: with a high motion rate, it provides clear, lifelike picture quality, ideal for motion-intensive content. Also, the display is coated with anti-reflection and adaptive picture technology which optimizes content by analyzing its surroundings to minimize unwanted glare.

Samsung’s Outdoor Smart TV Built-In Experience; @Samsung Electronics

Outdoor Smart TV Built-In Experience

Moreover, The Terrace also has acquired high standards in water and dust resistance (IP55) so it performs well in various environments. The product boasts durability, while offering a slim and sleek design at a mere 59.8mm. The Terrace comes equipped with Tizen, Samsung’s Smart TV platform, which powers features such as Samsung TV Plus, a free linear TV video service with over 120 channels, Samsung Health, a comprehensive fitness and wellness platform as well as the leading subscription streaming services.

In addition to supporting mobile viewing capabilities like Multi View and Tap View, The Terrace also supports multiple voice services including Bixby, Amazon Alexa and the soon-to-launch Google Assistant, helping it fit naturally into the smart home
ecosystem.

Featuring IP55 level durability, The Terrace Soundbar can be mounted to a wall, or directly to The Terrace TV. It packs powerful  and crisp audio for a truly immersive outdoor home theater experience.

Samsung’s Outdoor Smart TV Built-In Experience; @Samsung Electronics
Samsung’s Outdoor Smart TV Built-In Experience; @Samsung Electronics

A new concept of Entertainment: Exclusive VIP Home Theater and high-end Game Room for luxury lovers

What really makes a house well-furnished and fully liveable? Take a look at these game rooms by Vismara Design seen at 2017 Salone del Mobile Milano.

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Italian experts from Vismara Design impressed the visitors at 2017 Salone del Mobile Milano with luxury eccentric products and cutting-edge ideas.

Vismara presented a game room that is fitted with everything needed to make one’s own house a luxury entertainment hub. The concept draws inspiration from the American casinos, reinvented by Vismara following the Italian traditional style.

The home theater completes the environment, providing the space with a touch of cosiness and therefore gifting a full immersion in the concept of private entertainment.

The home theater keeps representing a trend undergoing continuous development and expansion; this year, Vismara Design gambles on chaise longue, comfortable small beds that make the entertainment experience unique. The new models are presented in combination with the already famous reclining armchairs, equipped with refrigerating cup holders and exclusive motorised bar armrests.

“It is now three years since we started to focus on private entertainment” explains Pino, Vismara CEO and designer; “the idea underlying the Luxury Entertainment collection stems from a simple question: what really makes a house well-furnished and fully liveable? The entertainment area, where to spend one’s own free time with friends in the privacy of the house, brings the advantage to be entirely customisable according to the customers’ needs and tastes. This is how the idea of creating a game room and a private home theater has originated, naturally and simply.”

Vismara Home Theater

 

Vismara Design Italy - luxury game rooms and home theatres-Salone del Mobile 2017 Milano

Vismara Design Italy - luxury game rooms and home theatres-Salone del Mobile 2017

2017 new products complete Vismara’s game room with the already famous game tables, such as the billiard and poker tables. A brand new product exclusively presented in Milan was the Ping Pong table, a unique design item with a hard-edged look and a double function: thanks to the net positioning and a set of professional accessories arranged into a specific inner drawer, an elegant meeting table can be turned into a Ping Pong one.

Crystal chandeliers, designed by London company Ventique, enhance the environment together with the precious sculptures carved by artist Anna Santinello.

Blackjack table is the new collection crown jewel: with its modern design and prestigious finishes, it dominates the environment with a bold but at the same time refined spirit. The professional cloth reinvents the traditional layout with accessories, such as sabot and the chips box, that make the product an essential element for the private game room.

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Another long-awaited product, which has been really appreciated at the Design Shanghai exhibition and 2017 Design Week in Milan is the Mahjong table. Mahjong is a fascinating Asiatic strategy game, played not only in the East but also worldwide, that the company has decided to honour with a special table where oriental suggestions create a perfect liaison with modern western design. Its peculiarity consists in a complex mechanism, hidden inside the table, that automatically sorts the Mahjong tiles.Vismara Design Italy - luxury game rooms and home theatres-Salone del Mobile Milano2017 room Vismara Design Italy - luxury Mahjong table Vismara Design Italy - luxury game rooms and home theatres- Vismara Design Italy - luxury game rooms and home theatres Vismara Design - luxury furniture for home entertainment Vismara Design - luxury furniture for home entertainment at Salone del Mobile2017 Vismara Design - luxury furniture for home entertainment at Salone del Mobile 2017 luxury furniture for home entertainment

 

For those who prefer life with charming water views: Ocean view estate in Laguna Beach, California

7,200 square feet of interiors, with seven bedrooms and 5 baths. With unobstructed views of the Pacific Ocean from its elevated, hilltop location, this property in Laguna Beach, California is an excellent choice for those who prefer life with a water view. The estate’s outdoor living spaces boast two levels of ocean view terraces and … Read more

Wealthy younger buyers are driving the luxury real estate market: Coldwell

More young money enters the real estate market.  A new survey by Coldwell Banker Previews International and the Luxury Institute finds that Wealthy younger buyers are driving the luxury real estate market, and they are willing to pay more than similar wealthy buyers age 55 and older. According to the survey of Americans age 21 … Read more