Take all of your movies, music and digital photos to the next level! Play your favourite MP3s, CDs, DVDs on any stereo or TV in your home with the help of wireless or wired Internet connection. Veetrag Bafna, CEO of HomesDigital, a Mumbai based home automation firm says, " All home automation solutions are customized to suit individual requirements of clients." Total Home Automation Solutions designed by HomesDigital can cost you Rs 450000 onwards while their multi room AV server is available for Rs 85000 which holds 350 DVD Movies, 3000 songs, personal photographs and lot more on it's 800GB hard disk. Multi room Audio-Video networking has become all the easier with the help of the media centre PC. Windows Media Centre is your complete home-entertainment hub. It is included in Windows XP Media Centre Edition and higher-end editions of Windows Vista. It is designed to be viewed from a distance up to 3 meters (10 feet approximately) and is controlled by specially designed universal remote controls. It visualizes the user's pictures, videos, and music from local hard drives, optical drives, and network locations, which is then categorized by name, date, tags, and other file attributes. Media managed through Media Centre can also be relayed via a home network to standard TV sets via specially designed Windows Media Centre Extender or the Xbox 360 (Price - Rs 23990). A media centre extender PC with wireless LAN will cost you Rs 25000.

Operating out of a remote at home is definitely appealing after a long hard day at work and the new age smart home lets you do just that.