Entertainment
Green can be fun too. Just because the home is "eco-friendly" doesn't mean it's not going to rock! The entire house will be structurally wired for a state-of-the-art whole house audio/video, music distribution, lighting, security and Internet, and it will ensure future compatibility.

Today's music is digital - soon kids won't even know what a compact disc is. Storing digital music in a centralized location gives you more ways to enjoy that music whether on the go or at home. Green Life Smart Life will be a showcase in how to move music in the home from room to room, indoors to outdoors and on the go. Centralized locations in the home will have one touch access to the stored music collection via multiple user interfaces such as touch screens, PCs, keypads or remote control. Anyone, no matter their level of technological expertise, will be able to easily and quickly browse music lists and album art work, as well as create playlists, so that any occasion can be set to music. Looking through stacks of CDs and hunching over your computer browsing your iTunes library is a thing of the past.

Ditto that for movies, forget getting in the car to go rent a DVD (now we're talking green!), browse your stored movie library or download the latest Hollywood releases. Downloaded movie content has improved by leaps and bounds in the past few years and it is now possible to click a button on your remote and watch the same movie you could get at the video store; except better quality AND you didn't have to leave the house. We all love TV. No matter how many CDs or DVDs you have, TV is still the dominant entertainment medium in any household. So why not make it better? Green Life Smart Life will feature the hottest entertainment technology not only in high definition playback, but also recorded TV and remote access.

Remember the commercial where the kids are stuck in the digital camera because mom has yet to print out the photos? This brilliant advertising campaign helped illustrate the problem of what to do with all of those digital photos. Release those photos! Imagine sitting in the living room during the holidays listening to some festive music with your family while a slide show of your child's dance recital plays on your TV. Isn't that better than everyone hovering over the family computer while you click through each picture one at a time? Or worse; printing out all of those digital photos one by one on all of that non-recyclable paper and using all of that printer ink?

As green as you want your home to be, you don't want to forgo your lifestyle. Green Life Smart Life is going to show homeowners' how to make their technology work for them. With today's ENERGY STAR® rated flat panels, energy output has been rated in the "on" mode as well as "off", allowing for the first time, flat panels to move toward energy efficiencies. Green Life Smart Life will showcase how the latest advancements in consumer electronics will allow you to embrace your inner green geek through smart technology, energy conservation, transition from hard discs to digital content, and find the power management capabilities in all of your electronic devices.