10 Smart Consumer Electronic Tips for the Home

10 Smart Consumer Electronic Tips for the Home

Here is the list:


1. Wire for everything now...even wireless – If you are building or remodeling a home, start with a plan for future wiring needs. Wire is necessary to support wireless applications. While no one can guarantee what the future will look like, professionals make it their business to stay current to offer expert advice about technologies on the horizon.

2. Insist on integrated systems – Make sure the electronic equipment you are buying can be hooked up together and operated with one, easy to use control system. Systems that communicate simplify your life and offer peace of mind by "watching" over your home.

3. Integrate lighting and heating control – Going green meets convenience. Get the most out of your system with the least amount of energy consumption. System integration provides automatic energy-efficient adjustments saving you time and money.

4. Think with your wallet, but lead with your head – Quality and long-term dependability are the most cost effective attributes that you can build into a home.

5. Buy an experience, not a box – Find an electronic systems contractor that allows you to test drive the entire system or at least experience the thrill of a high performance system. Few people have the time to research and evaluate all the hardware choices. It's smarter to focus on the end result and make your choices based upon overall performance and value.

6. Simplify your controls – Easy to use, all-in-one remote controls are available for any system. You can even have them custom programmed so they make perfect sense to you. New technologies offer control from other devices and even through Internet browsers anywhere in the world.

7. Increase your expectations – Your home electronics system is a big investment and you deserve to be satisfied with it. CEDIA professionals will provide you with extensive options, comprehensive designs, complete installation and especially, in-home service for your systems.

8. Think "green" – By utilizing green practices, you can save money by having a more energy efficient system and help save the planet. Ask a professional about how you can "go green" in your home.

9. Ensure the experts work together for you – Maximize your home's electronic systems capabilities by having your architect, builder or remodeler, and interior designer collaborate and partner with an electronic systems contractor from the beginning of the planning process.

10. Consult a professional – Today's integrated electronic systems grow, evolve and change over time, constantly adding entertainment, comfort and security features. Select an electronic systems contractor you can trust and who will support your electronic integration needs for years. Having a long-term relationship with one professional will maximize the reliability and enjoyment of your home's electronic systems.

Cartronix Home
(219)548-2571
3000 N. Calumet Ave
Valparaiso, IN 46383
www.cartronix.com


Our Services:

* Custom Home Theaters
* Residential Surveillance
* Universal Remote Systems
* HDTV Systems
* Whole House Audio & Video
* Smart Home Design
* Networking & Media
* Digital Media Integration
* New construction wiring systems
* DirecTV


* Commercial Audio & Video
* Business Telephone Systems
* Conference Room Design
* Commercial Surveillance
* Prewiring of buildings & boardrooms
* Commercial Installation & Maintenance
* Commercial Video Systems
* System Upgrades & Cleanup


Contact Scott or Craig at 219-548-2571 to set up a appointment.

Custom Home Entertainment Made Easy

These packages are designed to you and your family the latest and greatest technology without taking over your home. Your home deserves a high tech upgrade and with our amazing technicians everything will blend into your home.


Who We Are:

• We have a passion for music, we tinker with electronics, we love to show off our skills we put the magic behind the wires & put the movies in front of you.
• Cartronix Home works closely with architects, interior designers, builders, and directly with owners. We take responsibility for all aspects of our projects, from initial design through installation, maintenance, service and training.
• Our team is involved from the initial sale, installation and final training of your system

SUNBURST 1000 Package:

Affordable Performance for only $4,975
Includes the following:

High Definition 50" Plasma TV
Complete surround sound package with subwoofer
TV mount
Universal remote control programmed
All required parts & full custom installation


PANORAMA Package:
Great Value for only $7,995
Includes the following:

1080P LCD TV with HDMI
Upgraded Speaker package with subwoofer
Blu-Ray DVD player with internet streaming
TV mount
Upgraded remote control programmed
All requried parts & full custom installation

STARDUST Package:
Enjoy movies with the big picture only $11,500
Includes the following:

1080P DLP home theater projector with HDMI
Wall-mounted 92" projection screen
Complete surround sound packaged upgraded with subwoofer
All in-wall wiring
RF universal remote control programmed
Blu-Ray player with internet streaming
Remote control dimming of your lights
All required parts and full custom installation
Up to 2 free service/programming visits for the first year
Sound, Picture that will amaze your family & friends.

Call Cartronix home today for your consultation (219) 548-2571

Cartronix Home
3000 N. Calumet Ave
Valparaiso, IN 46383
www.cartronix.com

Our Services

• Custom Home Theaters
• Residential Surveillance
• Universal Remote Systems
• HDTV Systems
• Whole House Audio & Video
• Smart Home Design
• Networking
• Digital Music Integration
• New construction wiring systems

• New construction wiring systems
• Commercial Audio & Video
• Business Telephone Systems
• Conference Room Design
• Commercial Surveillance
• Prewiring of buildings & boardrooms
• Home Installation & Maintenance
• Commercial Video Systems
• System Upgrades & Cleanup

Warning! This Blog is about Christmas. It has nothing to do with Tiger Woods.

Twas the week before Christmas and all through the house all the creatures were stirring except for one mouse. All were fretting about presents, gifts, and holidayness. The Children all wanted new toys and hoped beyond hope that there pleas got through. The parents all fretted about what to get who and if it can't be bought, what will we do?

All of these things are worrisome worries, and it's easy to get caught up in a holiday hurry. With all of the madness the whole season gets blurry. A tragic event when you realize you've missed all the sentiment. No Christmas time fun, just "I'm glad that's done." No thankful hearts for the Savior who died.

Thankfully there is a local shop that can remedy your holiday quandry. Cartronix AT&T is your one stop shop for all the things you need to get your Christmas season back on the right track. They have phones for free, phones for me, and phones for any busy bee. Now when I say free, I do mean free. The LG CF360 and Samsung A777 are the exact cost of $0.00 (after tax)! We also have several models free after mail in rebate including the Samsung Flight*, Samsung Solstice*, and LG Xenon*! All three are full touchscreen devices with 2.0MP cameras, media player capability, and bluetooth.

If that weren't enough Cartronix has also dropped the price on all of there Blackberry smart phones by 50%. Email everywhere you go has never been so afordable. The Blackberry Bold 9700 which is Blackberry's flagship model is now $99.99 after rebate*! With a 3.2MP auto focus camera with flash, 1GB of internam storage space, optical track pad, high resolution display, and 3G/wifi capabilities it is sure to keep even the most tech savvy member of your clan busy for sometime.

Alright, so you don't need a phone this Christmas. Cartronix still has you covered. Perhaps you were thinking about a few upgrades for the vehicle this Christmas? Well our Car Audio department can fix you up. With a product line that includes popular items such as Viper alarms and remote starts, Pioneer Mobile Electronics, Pioneer Premiere, Alpine, Infiniy, and radar detectors we are sure to have exactly what your vehicle needs, or maybe Grandma's vehicle.

I know, you're saying thats all well and good but I'd really like a home theater system or soley devoted media room this year. You still don't need to leave the shop because our team of highly skilled professionals will meet with you to figure out all your needs and desires. With top brands like LG, Samsung, Denon, Sonos, Klipsch, and Sanus they can put together the system that will make you the Jones's to be kept up with.

Now, finally after all of the fanfare about the aforementioned company I bid you all a Very Merry Christmas. May God bless you and your families through the coming year and may a heart of thankfulness resound from within you, and in the famous words of Bing Crosby "May all your Christmases be White."


-Tony Mendizabal

These phones have brains!

First of all I would like to extend a big thanks to the Blackberry Bold and its spell checker. I was going to spell my title "Theise fones have branes!" but thanks to the spell check feature that Blackberry offers I was able to save myself from a very serious error in general spelling. Of course I'm kidding, well at least about my gramatical tom foolery. Blackberry devices really do employ a handy spell check system that on several occasions has enabled me to hold my own in a text or e-mail conversations with a party that is smarter than myself.

So besides a supperior vocabulary and spelling prowess what makes a smart phone smart? To answer that question all right and proper we must travel back in time because we all know the best way to know about the present is to understand that past. I believe Taylor Swift said that but I could be wrong because I didn't check it on my smart phone. Anyway, a smart phone from its first use served as a replacement for palm pilots and other personal digital assistants. The smart phones of the present day trump those bulky machines with ease. Aside from seamless integration of calenders, e-mail, multi media, internet, and gaming these devices incorporate voice calling into products that are becoming more compact and sophisticated all the time.

The devices at the forefront of this electronic revolution are phones like the Blackberry Bold($199.99*), 8900 ($149.99*), HTC Tilt 2 ($299.99*), HTC Pure ($149.99*), Garmin Nuvi Phone ($299.99*), and Nokia E71x ($49.99*). These little guys are really smart. Every single one of the aforementioned devices has WiFi built into it. The advantage to this besides being faster than standard data is that it does not use any of your at&t data. This generally isn't an issue however, if you go overseas standard data rates do not apply and it can get downright expensive to use the internet. With WiFi however this quandary is eliminated because WiFi does not use at&t data.

I know what you're thinking, that would be splendid if I ever left the good ol U.S.A. Well the features don't end with the data. The phones now are coming with things like application stores which essentially allow you unlimited functions on your phones. I myself have a fantasy football application which allows me to track my team, make roster changes, and even get updates on the status of players like Roy Williams who is unlikely to play this Sunday do to a rib injury sustained last week against Denver. Other applications give you the option to read e-books from your phone, create personalized radio stations based on YOUR favorite artists, or even see how far away from the hole you are on the Par 5 6th at your favorite golf course.

All of these phones and many more are available at Cartronix at&t which has four convienent locations to serve you. We have a store in Merrillville in the mall on the lower level by JC Penny. We also have a Lake County location in Schererrville at U.S. 30 & 41 by the Wal-Mart. Our Valparaiso location is on the north side of town across from Cumberland Crossing on Calumet, and Our Portage Store where I'm to be found is now in front of Kohls on Route 6. The handsets mentioned above are in stock at these locations and our trained sales and support team would be happy to assist you with any of your smart phone needs!

*price is shown after mail in rebate and qualified data package





Tony Mendizabal,
Cartronix at&t
6441 US Hwy. 6
Portage, IN 46368
219-762-2571

The Netbook Network!

Ladies and gentlemen,

Cartronix AT&T is now offering netbooks with built in AT&T wireless internet cards! Those wireless internet cards give you access to the AT&T data network anywhere you get cell phone service.

Now first things first, let me explain what exactly a netbook is. A netbook in short is kind of like a laptop light or a value meal. You get all the essential components like a processor, hard drive, and ram just in smaller quantities than you would on a laptop. Your normal netbook is going to have a hard drive in the range of 10-50gb and ram is usually at about 512mb. These devices are used primarily as word pads and mobile internet devices, so those relatively unimpressive figures don't usually matter.

With my innitial inspection of the device I was impressed not only by the unusually large hard drive which clocks in at 160gb, but also by the 1gb of ram that this extremely compact netbook stores. The processor on the netbooks is comparable with most other netbooks in that it uses an intel atom processor, but these particular netbooks are leaps and bounds above the compitition because of the ram and hard drive.

So by all means, stop by your local Cartronix AT&T store and get a netbook for $200.00 after a $100.00 mail in rebate.

Weekend Sale !

We have some great weekend deals on at&t wireless phones starting Saturday morning!
Stop by one of our 4 retail locations and check us out!

At&t U-Verse Advanced TV
High Speed DSL Internet
DirecTV
Big Sale on Blackberry smart phones!

www.cartronix.com

Grand Opening!

I'd like to thank you all for taking the time to come to our press conference. I'd like to start off the morning by fielding a few questions so, yes the gentleman in the cardigan.

What are we grandly opening you ask, well I'll tell you. We are opening (with grandeur) our new Portage location. That's right we are no longer in between Portage Tire and Carquest Auto. We are now located in front of Kohls by Edward Anthony Spa. Our new address is 6441 US Hwy. 6.

Our new location supports the ability to provide sales and support for DirecTV, Uverse, high speed internet, and home phone (where available). It is still going to be Myself and Doug here on a regular basis however you will also see some new faces in here including Steve, Frank, Carrie, Nickki, Liz, and a consortium of other Cartronix AT&T representatives.

Ok so now that we've cleared that up, I believe that I heard the question from the back as to what the incentive is to come in today. First off I'd like to say excellent question and thank you for asking.

If you come in today June 11th we can offer you $20.00 off any PDA purchase with a 2yr contract and unltd. data package or you can get a FREE bluetooth with any new line activation on a 2yr contract. And last but certianly not least when you come in you need to sign up for are raffle! The grand prize is a Blackberry Bold smart phone valued at $469.99. 1st prize is 4 tickets to a New Kids on the Block concert at the Charter One Pavilion. 2nd prize is an LG CP150 prepaid phone and 3rd Prize is a Motorola Bluetooth.

Alright thats enough for today. I'd like to thank you all for joining me today and I hope to see you all at our new store. No, no further questions. Thank you.