I’m currently writing several posts a week for the Digital Home blog on TechRadar. It’s a subject that I’ve always been passionate about, even before I became Editor of Digital Home magazine back in 2005.
The only trouble is, nobody can really agree on what the ‘digital home’ actually means. On the one hand, it’s about moving from analogue devices to their digital equivalents – upgrading CRTs to LCDs, FM to DAB, dial-up Internet to super-fast broadband. Easy.
Or should that be ‘Connected Home’?
On the other hand, the digital home is also dubbed the ‘connected home’. Broadband is the foundation; Ethernet, Wi-Fi and Powerline are the strings that tie your digital devices together. It might also include some form of automation, but then that would make it a ’smart home’.
It sounds like there should be a system or a standard for the digital home. And yes, there should be. The reality is that, if you’re not prepared to pay big money for a custom install, the DIY options are many, varied and mostly incompatible with each other.
Still, at least it’s never dull.
September’s Digital Home blogs
Secure your digital home on the cheap
What’s the best way (or should I say cheapest) way to monitor your house whilst you’re out? USB web cams required.
Powerline – the digital home’s secret weapon
Underestimated and often unappreciated, the latest 200Mbps Powerline modules provide the perfect complement to a wired or wireless network.
How Nintendo got me officially Wii Fit
Innovative and ‘active’ controllers like Wii Fit are Nintendo’s greatest strength in the console war. Bye, bye couch-potato gaming…
Opinion: Want a Nintendo Wii for Christmas? Buy it now
According to GameDaily, US games retailer GameStop predicts another Wii shortage in the run-up to the holiday season.
Opinion: Can TomTom save the sat-nav?
Why TomTom’s IQ Routes feature is a work of genius.
