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While I have many years experience with PCs, I am only just tapping into their usefulness as HTPCs. I'm finding it an exciting experience. The one box replaces all my A/V gear and does more. While I haven't thought a lot about playing games on it, I'm looking forward to pulling out my flight...

I have 12 ga speaker cabling. For the front speakers I use gold plated banana plugs + terminals with interconnects. But for my surround speakers which are mounted directly to the wall, there was not enough space to even have the wall plate by itself without even adding the banana plugs and...

Jay, that's a GREAT idea - using the "wire grommet". I ended up using a wall mounting plate and cut the sides out to avoid making huge unsightly holes for plugs. It does the job and I thought was quite ingenious - as it caters for any sized plug and is future proof, but your idea is less obvious...

You may be right. My A/V Receiver supports it as does my front speakers. For the sake of an extra run of speaker cabling, I went ahead and bi-wired mine. Is there a sound difference? Possibly not, but also possibly (I haven't bothered doing a comparison test). But the upshot is I have the...

A monitor should not be distorting the image at the borders. I see no other good reason NOT to use the available space for your screen image. It's like when people have a large monitor (or even a small one) and run their programs un-maximized. Why work in a small area of the screen when you...

My main suggestion would be to run as much as you can as far as wiring goes so you only have to do it once. When I built my home, I ran speaker wiring out to the patio roof and also wired the family room for 5.1 surround. I may never end up using that wiring but I know it's there if I do...

My home theatre room is 16' x 20'. I have 2 x 2.5 seater recliners at the back of the room (facing the screen) and a 2 seater on the side. I also have 4 matching bean bags. So it accomodates up to 10 adults and I have fit in 28 people at one point in time. The missus insisted it had to double...

Hi everyone. This is my first post here so be gentle :) I just wanted share my experiences in the hope it will give others some ideas and help. I've just finished doing a complete documentary guide to the planning, construction and implementation of my home theatre room. It shows the room...