Outdoor products are advancing to match the ever-growing trend of creating indoor-outdoor spaces that accommodate longer days and evenings outside. According to a study from the National Kitchen & Bath Association, homeowners are focusing on the experience outdoors and how to improve it through new and upgraded products.
Along with couches being dragged onto porches, past decades saw indoor TVs carried out or, worse, installed on outside walls. The early generations of outdoor-rated TVs weren’t much better, mused Ian Bryant, operations manager for Jackson, Wyoming-based Premiere SAV technology integration firm, in an email. The new models have greatly improved their ability to handle glare for quality daytime viewing, he observed.
“What were once very thick, heavy and unattractive outdoor TVs that cost thousands and didn’t perform well are now nearly as thin as your indoor TVs and just as bright,” commented Bryant. Today’s big game can be watched on a big screen on the deck as easily as it can on a living room wall. In fact, many a party shows it on both TVs, so going inside to catch up with friends there won’t make you miss a touchdown or home run.
Some clients take it to the next level and install an outdoor screen, hidden projector and landscape speakers for what the technology pro characterized as “an immersive movie watching experience under the stars.” (Think of it as a drive-in movie without the drive – or the static and buzz from those tiny speakers that hooked onto your car window.)
