While the Hamptons may be Long Island’s most beautiful coastal area to enjoy a dark, starry sky, it doesn’t mean your property needs to go totally dark at night. You’ve invested extensively in your landscape, gardens, pools, and water features, and you want to enjoy their beauty after dark as well.

What makes a smart home? Let's face it; your home isn't a robot that's smarter than you. But a smart home can do things for you in intelligent ways, with minimum intervention from you, making you more comfortable, relaxed, safer, and even healthier.

When you walk into a room, do you notice the light? If it doesn’t call attention to itself, you might not. But if it’s too bright or too dark, you’ll tend to notice. Chances are you can fix darkness and brightness, but you may not be able to adjust for too much glare from overhead lights or light temperature that’s too cold or warm for what you may be doing.

We love motorized shades; we think they’re a must-have smart home accouterment. But, as with most things, some people have certain opinions – we prefer to say misconceptions – about them.

It's that time of year again when everyone fearlessly prognosticates what will happen in the new year. As a high-end audio-video company, Home Technology Experts will make its predictions on what will happen in video and audio here.

We live in the real world, but you might say that the virtual one is coming up fast. While the past year’s pandemic had most of us spending far too much time looking at screens, the reality is that those screens connected us to the rest of the world.

How important is your home network? Short of losing power, it's the first thing your kids will notice. Of course, they may not notice the power outage as long as their smartphone batteries keep going!

Most everyone wants a superior home entertainment experience. But not everyone wants their audio and video equipment to take over the room. Modern large screens and multi-speaker audio systems might be overwhelming in some spaces.

Do you enjoy music in your Hamptons home? Do you like to relax and listen intently to your favorite genres and artists? Is music much more than a background soundtrack for you?

Media room or home theater? Should you care, and why does it matter? As an experienced home theater design company serving Long Island, NY, Home Technology Experts isn’t much concerned with what you call your media space; it’s all about how you like to enjoy your audio and video entertainment.

Are smart homes just a convenience or luxury? Undeniably, smart technology adds a hearty dose of both to your Hamptons property. But those are not the sole reasons smart technology is a smart investment for New York homeowners.

Most homes in the New York Hamptons are well beyond average. Hamptons residents like their homes to be as fashionable as their summer parties.

Your Southampton home may be your refuge from the bustle of New York City or where you spend most of the year. Being the Hamptons, it’s likely not the average home.

Chances are you've put much time, money, and thought into the style of your Hamptons home. If you're that passionate – in all the right ways, of course – about design, it's likely that you're equally enthusiastic about the quality of your sound system.

As people integrate more smart technology, one product has skyrocketed in popularity. It may not be as flashy as 4K TVs or refrigerators that generate your shopping list, but its convenience and versatility have made it a family favorite.

This past year, everyone gained a new appreciation of how important their network connectivity is. It was the essential lifeline to the world, connecting us to work, school, shopping, family, distantly socializing, and entertainment.

Internet video streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, and many others have revolutionized TV as we know it. Practically everything and anything is on-demand when you want to watch it – not on a schedule. Why can't cable TV be that way?

Most everyone has some kind of smart device these days, even if they're not technically into home automation. For example, devices like Nest thermostats are hugely popular, and some people love them in their homes purely for their design! Similarly, smart speakers from Sonos, Amazon, and Google are also popular for various entertainment and automation functions.

If your home is still making do with a security system from the previous decade, you are missing out. Today’s smart, comprehensive security solutions can do much more than sound an alarm when there’s an occurrence at your home.

In last month’s blog post, we introduced the concept of home wellness as a holistic approach to improving home indoor environments. Water and air purification systems, natural lighting solutions, whole-home audio, and other systems can contribute to enhanced home environments that are more comfortable and less stressful, alleviate allergies, and provide additional healthful benefits.