Best Buy's $15,000 ConnectedLife.Home in a box
Sure, a fully connected house with the ability to control things like the TV, lights and thermostat remotely sounds great, but at the end of the day someone's got to hook all of that stuff up, and it's not going to be us. Best Buy recently announced its plans to step in with a $15,000 one-size-fits-all solution, including Media PC, Xbox 360, wireless cameras, light switches and other equipment. Dubbed ConnectedLife.Home, the package doesn't require new wiring, thanks to Corinex's AnyWire Powerline Ethernet technology. Best Buy doesn't install the lighting equipment and wiring, but once the high voltage bits are in, an installer comes to connect and configure your existing A/V setup, and then train you on how to use it. Whole home integration is a buzzword we can expect to see gain more steam at CES and beyond, but it remains to be seen if Best Buy can convince the mass market that this is a better option than paying the kid down the street $15 to flip the HD switch on their new Xbox 360.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
GhostDoggy @ Dec 27th 2006 5:05AM
Best Buy is looking at things from the perspective of Monster and Bose, which is that sufficient and effective marketing can lead to good revenues of questrionable products and services. They figure they'll get enough ignorants with money into their stores to justify the offering, and in the Age of Credit they'll get a lot of ignorants.
Sounds like the perfect time for people to shop their sales floor offering DIY how-to services to compete. While its nice seeing the Dummies Guide to Home Theater in the bookstore, how often do you find joe six-pack there?
GhostDoggy @ Dec 27th 2006 5:19AM
Best Buy is looking at things from the perspective of Monster and Bose, which is that sufficient and effective marketing can lead to good revenues of questrionable products and services. They figure they'll get enough ignorants with money into their stores to justify the offering, and in the Age of Credit they'll get a lot of ignorants.
Sounds like the perfect time for people to shop their sales floor offering DIY how-to services to compete. While its nice seeing the Dummies Guide to Home Theater in the bookstore, how often do you find joe six-pack there?
Jon @ Dec 27th 2006 10:02AM
Best Buy went to My GF Parents house and hooked up there brand new Sony Bravia 46" lcd with S-Video cables and told them it was high defention tv lol .. they spent hundreds of $ on s-video cables and analog audio and were told they had the top of the line cable set up .. good thing they have me a future son in law or they would have been stuck with that crap
Vincent @ Dec 30th 2006 11:52PM
@jon
yeah well not everyone is knows how high definition looks like. We're the ones who have the hd-dvd and blu-ray at an early age. We have seen more high definition videos, than they do. They probalby notice the improvement of color and sharpness and think its HD but infact its only the TV.
O.C. @ Jan 21st 2007 2:43PM
I was at Best Buy yesterday to buy a 40 " Sony 1080P tv. The sales rep stated that Tv net works only broadcast in 720 resoulation and would not broadcast in 1080P resoulation for sometime. He stated that unless I was using a Play Station type game or had a Blue Ray DVD player, there was no need to get buy the 1080P. I ask him why 1080Ps were for sell if the technology was not avialable. He stated that it was over sell to make more money.