Your Home Theater

Panda Tar · Unread postby **Panda Tar** » 15 Jan 2007, 13:39

Hopefully. Not really nice having a 150 kg TV on your living room to move around.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 15 Jan 2007, 15:11

Why would you move it around?!

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 15 Jan 2007, 15:21

When you move to a new place. Size can be a problem when the TV needs to go up some stairs or through a small door.

Panda Tar · Unread postby **Panda Tar** » 15 Jan 2007, 15:43

Exactly. Even to move it to clean the place it's blocking as well, or if your wallet has ended up behind the furniture where the TV in settled on... That's too much for our own good.

Jolly Joker · Unread postby **Jolly Joker** » 15 Jan 2007, 15:56

There's another thing for size.
You cannot place a regular TV anything else than at a wall. There it sits and gets dusty and blocks a lot of space.
An LCD, however, you can place wherever you want, even smack into the middle of the room. With a normal TV in a normal living room you somehow have to position the available seats that so that they offer a view on the TV once you have found the best place for it.
With an LCD you can make the room the way you want it to be and then put the tv anywhere you want, changing places and so on.
Not to mention the fact that you won't have a problem to throw it outta the window if you are so inclined and maybe want to make some example.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 15 Jan 2007, 16:34

Jolly Joker wrote:even smack into the middle of the room.

And then you can tease the ppl on the other side of the room about their lack of a TV... that's brilliant. I'm sold.

Anyway... more pics pls, so i can decide who i'm gonna kill and steal all their stuff.

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 15 Jan 2007, 16:36

Angelspit wrote:When you move to a new place. Size can be a problem when the TV needs to go up some stairs or through a small door.

Very true. My set weighs in at 54 kg, and I carried it on my own down a set of narrow stairs and into the room. Phew...

Corribus · Unread postby **Corribus** » 15 Jan 2007, 17:11

ThunderTitan wrote: Anyway... more pics pls, so i can decide who i'm gonna kill and steal all their stuff.

Well, if it's worth it for you to come all the way over here and kill me to get my TV, then so be it:

sorry for the blurriness - I didn't have the flash on.

I don't really have it set up for surround sound right now, because I have attached neighbors. The stereo I use mostly just for music at the moment.

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 15 Jan 2007, 17:18

Nice!

Corribus · Unread postby **Corribus** » 15 Jan 2007, 17:21

What you'll notice is missing is one of the new video game consoles that have HD support. Unfortunately, it took me quite some time to convince the wife that the TV was a good idea. By the time I convincer her that the XBOX 360 is a good idea, the XBOX 52050 will be out.

Corribus · Unread postby **Corribus** » 15 Jan 2007, 17:24

Actually, one thing I haven't tried yet but intended to, is that my TV can double as a computer screen. I've been dying to try HoMM on a 50 inch screen.

Panda Tar · Unread postby **Panda Tar** » 15 Jan 2007, 17:49

That'd simple upgrade all units to Titans.

Caradoc · Unread postby **Caradoc** » 15 Jan 2007, 19:49

ThunderTitan wrote:Well it's not the resolution, but the sharpness or something. That's why i don't consider plasma's worth it, you pay almost twice the price to get the sme quality as a normal TV. But i'm sure they'll eventualy get there.

I have heard that the picture on a Plasma set degrades over time, making the useful life of the set about 5 years.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 15 Jan 2007, 19:55

Corribus wrote:Actually, one thing I haven't tried yet but intended to, is that my TV can double as a computer screen.

With the appropiate hardware all TV's can do that.

Corribus · Unread postby **Corribus** » 15 Jan 2007, 21:42

ThunderTitan wrote:With the appropiate hardware all TV's can do that.

Sure but not with the resolution approaching that of a computer screen. AND you need all the hardware.

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 15 Jan 2007, 21:44

And a wireless mouse and keyboard I guess, unless you want to sit right in front of the TV.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 15 Jan 2007, 23:06

Angelspit wrote:And a wireless mouse and keyboard I guess, unless you want to sit right in front of the TV.

No, just a longer Pc to screen cable.

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 15 Jan 2007, 23:17

well my home theatre includes the following: tv is a boring Sony 80cm Flatscreen CRT, Kenwood Amp, normal DVD player, PS2, original nintendo

, 2x 120W front speakers, 2x100W rear speakers, 1x100W centre speaker and 1x150W subwoofer

is nice when turned up loud!

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 20 Jan 2007, 00:06

and this is it:

Caradoc · Unread postby **Caradoc** » 20 Jan 2007, 03:43

Corribus wrote:
ThunderTitan wrote:With the appropiate hardware all TV's can do that.
Sure but not with the resolution approaching that of a computer screen. AND you need all the hardware.

The key here is getting everything digital. Digital-to-analog conversion is where you lose resolution.

(Stefan, that's a great looking set up you've got there! Are those speakers over on the left side?)

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