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I read the news today, oh boy.

Agg! pass the eye bleach! naw, really, thanks for that!

But of course I have! Picked up a Samsung UN65MU8000 as a Black Friday special. Today I sat straight through BR2049. Fantastic! (every time I see that, I think of the old HeeHaw phone number BR549....ugh!)

Oh, frabjous day! My UDP-203 arrived last night. Updated the firmware, connected to TV, watched a bit of BR2049. NICE! Audio was the nasty sort passed through the TV and out the optical port...Main reason for getting this particular player is the analog audio out, which I need for my HTR...

Undoubtedly someone, somewhere, can tell you what "name brand" set is most like hte "no name" set. This would let you pick the right TV in the universal remote. You could try some settings at random, but why not toss us whatever name and model info you can find on the tv?

This board won't get you a decent answer, because we are all phreaks who spend too much on our home theaters! I would bet that the actual majority of HT buyers opt for the all-in-one system, costing less than $1000, and a high fraction of those are in the sub-$500 range.

I was forced to build my own entertainment center, since every one I looked at was either ugly, expensive, or did not have room for the equipment. I must say my solution is cooler than what I could have purchased, too.

The rear speakers could be placed high enough to keep away from the little ones. i think you've got an excellent chance at having good surround here - the front speakers can go on both sides of the TV, the center under it, and the surrounds ( think "side" ) ought to fit nicely on the walls, up...

You can't glue drywall to other drywall and then remove it later - whatever you do will be permanent. Solid doors do a much better job of sound deadening than hollw, but you will need to weatherstrip to seal the cracks. You might be able to put zig-zag bends in some ductwork, or use some...

Antenna quality is directly related to it looking like an antenna. In other words, if it looks like an old "bunch of sticks" antenna, it will work better than one of those gadgets that looks like wings or a UFO. Don't waste money on cutesy stuff, go straight to a TV shop and get a real...

Is the quality really that poor, or are my expectations too high for streaming? yes, and yes.

Perhaps if the OP had researched the TV/monitor first there would have been no need for this thread. I typically spend _months_ reading, ogling, and asking questions about, things before making up my mind. I guess I'm kinda slow and impulsive. ha! And, now I'm 50 so I'm old, too.

Wow, it's a good thing they don't make MTM speakers, then, because they'd have horrendous comb filtering problems.

Scratches could confuse your player, making it repeat a frame or two until it gets back on track. That's not a certain thing, just a possibility.

My biggest advice would be: good god, man, don't do it!!!! Okay, silly remarks aside. Number One: give yourself an upgrade path. If you get a system that is unable to grow, you will end up wasting money replacing perfectly good equipment. Number Two: pick a budget and stick to it. It...

The lossless output from the PS3 is not disabled, but is not available during 3D movies. So, you can get lossless with 2D, or lossy with 3D.

Hey! Looks great. This is my first look at this thread, and it looks like you did more-or-less what I had in mind from the original drawings. Great work!

Depends what speakers you mean - the surround speakers belong more to the side. The suuround back (or just back, or rear) speakers of a 7.1 system go behind, spaced about as far apart as your fronts. Blueprints and buildings seldom match. I work in a place with whole ROOMS not on the...

pretty much anything will work. Pick an amp that has a name you've heard of before, and is in your price range.

Excellent work on a tight (nonexistent?) budget! I bet that room gets plenty of use.

Don't forget a major cause of hard-to-hear dialog: That's the way the movie was made. In the last several years, every movie theater I have been to has played the movie at excruciatingly loud levels. At those levels, you can certainly hear the dialog. At home, when you adjust the volume so...

Sure. Run an extension cord under the door. While that is sloppy, and probably violates someone's sense of safety, it does work. You could also put "blank" wall plates on both sides of the wall near the tv/closet area, and run a cord through the wall.

Yup, what Robert says. The 2225h is a woofer, but not a subwoofer. You could, just for fun, install the whole batch of them as an IB and see how it sounds...might be pretty entertaining. Fs = 40 Hz, Xmax= 2/10 inch. anemic.

I love old stuff! Very cool that you are updating it...hope it turns out way cool! Here's a shot of the record saver in action - don't know about the lights.

What Jason said. The lens shift technique was introduced to eliminate distortion. Know those old, bellows-type cameras? The lenses could shift all sorts of ways to get better focus and decrease distortion. Probably every movie projector in every cinema uses at least a little lens shift.

Addendum: sub placement is a matter of trying a few spots till you get it right. in a corner is a reasonable place to start.

All you need do is print out the graphic showing the "correct" locations for speakers, and lay it on your room drawing. Rotate the speaker location diagram so that the center speaker is center on your screen. Put the speakers as near to the "correct" placement as possible, subjuect to where...

Oh please let me be the first to say "don't buy Bose" ! If you do a bit of reading on this forum, you will find no lack of folks who can explain that Bose quality is highly over-rated. In fact, a $400 Home Theater-in-a-Box will do as well. For well under three grand you can get a system...

I hate to say this without supplying a link, but.... I have seen mounts that fit on the TV, then simply hang onto the part that attaches to the wall. It was just something that I noticed at one of those BBig BBox stores. I think a quick web search, and a look at pictures of the mounts, would...

Here's a shot at an angle. The three glass shelves are from a Z-frame computer/office desk. I didn't want the desk anymore, and it didn't sell at a garage sale. Lucky for me I never toss stuff, eh? The top glass is 30"x60" and rests only on the 3/4" birch-face plywood box. The center shelf...