{"id":2042,"date":"2010-12-17T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/electrical\/home-automation\/now-you-see-it-now-you-dont"},"modified":"2010-12-17T07:01:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T07:01:39","slug":"now-you-see-it-now-you-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/electrical\/home-automation\/now-you-see-it-now-you-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Now You See It &#8211; Now You Don&#8217;t!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/images\/marmitek\/invisible-control.jpg\" class=\"right\" alt=\"Now You See It - Now You Don\" \/>The time when we used to have to cross the room to change TV channels, or put on the surround-sound system is luckily long gone.<\/p>\n<p>Infrared (the signal that is emitted by your remote control) is the solution for operating your TV and A\/V devices from the comfort of your armchair. And it works pretty effectively!<\/p>\n<p>There are, however, two limitations:<br \/>\n1. The signal only has a range of 8 metres and<br \/>\n2. It needs to be able to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsee&#8217; the device if it is to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Responding to this situation, Marmitek,<\/strong> who has been developing infrared extenders for over 15 years, has introduced two new products, which are set to turn the world of operational ease on its head:<\/p>\n<p>How to Operate A\/V devices that are situated in a closed cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Locating A\/V devices under a cabinet, in an open cabinet, or one with glass doors, or always having the doors open.<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few examples, of how people try to get around the limitations of the infrared signal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Invisible Control4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marmitek\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new Invisible Control4 is an elegant, small box that you locate under, or to the side of your A\/V furniture, in sight of your remote control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You simply stick the IR LEDs supplied onto the IR window of your A\/V devices, (maximum of four); then direct your remote control towards the Invisible Control4 to operate your A\/V devices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Operate A\/V devices that are situated in another room&#8230;&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is your satellite receiver in the electric meter cupboard, or even on the other side of the house?<\/p>\n<p>Why not operate it while you are watching TV with the GigaControl450?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The new GigaControl450<\/strong> comprises an IR receiver and an IR transmitter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Place the IR receiver in the room where you use the remote control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Place the IR transmitter in sight of the equipment that you wish to operate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Point the remote control at the IR receiver in order to operate equipment through your walls (wirelessly) via the IR transmitter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Now with Marmitek infrared extenders, you can really use your remote control to operate your devices at a distance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plug and Play and a world of operational simplicity are about to open up for you and no more ugly A\/V devices on view.<\/p>\n<p>Both products have a recommended retail price of \u00c2\u00a339.95 Inc.VAT.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marmitek.com\/\" title=\"Marmitek\">new Marmitek infrared extenders<\/a> and stockists, please visit the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time when we used to have to cross the room to change TV channels, or put on the surround-sound system is luckily long gone. Infrared (the signal that is emitted by your remote control) is the solution for operating your TV and A\/V devices from the comfort of your armchair. And it works pretty effectively! There are, however, two limitations: 1. The signal only has a range of 8 metres and 2. It needs to be able to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsee&#8217; the device if it is to work. Responding to this situation, Marmitek, who has been developing infrared extenders for over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/electrical\/home-automation\/now-you-see-it-now-you-dont\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,332],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}