I just added a Marantz SR6003 receiver to my HT setup this weekend after battling UPS over their shady practices (claimed they tried to deliver it but I had actually arrived home early that day and was home waiting; no one actually ever came here). The Marantz receiver is quite nice, especially for the $400 I paid for it. I'm going to test bitstreaming with my younger brother's PS3.
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Chû Totoro
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FJ0372 said:
Yay for one of the best racing game ever !
Mr.Squirrel
Tom
Toy Soldier you are probably the greatest man who ever walked this fucking planet!!!
Pretty much the same AV gear, but I redecorated my apt but haven't taken any pictures. Still have some shit to finish up, probably do it sometime next month.
Mits HD1500 720p projector @ 120"
Onkyo 605 receiver
5.0 (live in an apt so no sub ;___
polk audio speakers
Ps3/Wii/360
HTPC
Might be a house sometime this year, and if I do (and it has a finished basement) I'll upgrade projector and receiver, and get a sub. Maybe a screen too, idk.
Pretty much the same AV gear, but I redecorated my apt but haven't taken any pictures. Still have some shit to finish up, probably do it sometime next month.
Mits HD1500 720p projector @ 120"
Onkyo 605 receiver
5.0 (live in an apt so no sub ;___
polk audio speakersPs3/Wii/360
HTPC
Might be a house sometime this year, and if I do (and it has a finished basement) I'll upgrade projector and receiver, and get a sub. Maybe a screen too, idk.
bdizzle said:Toy Soldier you are probably the greatest man who ever walked this fucking planet!!!
Pretty much the same AV gear, but I redecorated my apt but haven't taken any pictures. Still have some shit to finish up, probably do it sometime next month.
Mits HD1500 720p projector @ 120"
Onkyo 605 receiver
5.0 (live in an apt so no sub ;___
Ps3/Wii/360
HTPC
Might be a house sometime this year, and if I do (and it has a finished basement) I'll upgrade projector and receiver, and get a sub. Maybe a screen too, idk.
This is the kind of setup I want to have. If not a projector, then just a big ass TV.
Mr.Squirrel
Tom
-PXG- said:
I say get a projector man. You can't beat the size and you'll save a TON of money. It's been 3 years I think and still on my first lamp. Even after buying 3-4 more lamps (which could probably last me 10 years easy) it would still come out cheaper than buying a 50" set at the time. I'll never go back to gaming on a sub 100" display ever again.
Mattlikewhoa
Member
-PXG- said:
I've got a HT projector and a 55" XBR8 and I STILL prefer to watch stuff on my projector setup! Once you have it, it's REALLY hard to go back to anything else. It depends on what you are looking for in a projector setup as it can get pricey rather quickly.
I'm looking for home theater setup advice/opinions. I'm moving in April and in the process of redoing the basement of the new place.
Here's a very basic model showing the concept I'm planning. There are still some ideas I'm trying to work out. The models used within this drawing are not accurate (just random objects available in the program I used). Also, there will be dry wall along the stairs at an angle, which is missing from this model.
Here's what's going in for certain...
I've just purchased a black leather theater love seat (two seats with a center console with electric reclining). There will be a black metal + dark marble coffee table in front of this. The shelving on the left side will be for all current media. I'm using carpet for the HT area and laminate wood for the dining area.
I'll have my front speakers standing on the floor while my Pioneer Kuro will be mounted on the wall, as you see there. I forgot to put the sub in, but it will also be in the front area. There is an i-beam that will be hidden with dry wall that I'm planning to use for hanging the rear channels (it's not too high, so it should still sound very decent).
Here's where the opinions could be helpful. At the moment, I use a nice two level glass/metal TV stand. It holds my receiver and four game consoles with plenty of left over space. The center channel will be sitting on top of this stand. I'm also using LED lights beneath the devices to give them highlights (yeah, I know).
Anyways, I'm debating on whether I should keep this stand front and center below the TV -OR- use a different stand placed off to the left or right side stacked vertically. All of the wiring will be in wall and hidden, but I'm trying to decide where I'd like it placed. What do you all think would look better?
Any other suggestions while I'm still in design phase? I'm planning on using a pattern of can lights on the ceiling, but I'm interested in hearing other opinions on lighting for this area.
Also, my wiring ideas are as follows...
I want to keep everything hidden, so I will be using a lot of wall plates. I want the TVs inputs mapped to a panel placed behind the TV and sent to another panel behind the receiver. I'll have protected power plugs in the appropriate spots as well. Furthermore, the PC setup will be rather interesting. I'm running wiring from the first floor of the house to the basement and will have an HDMI port, multichannel audio outputs, and USB ports (connected by Cat 5e). These will be placed in the appropriate spots. I'm trying to create as clean a setup as possible. I'm not sure how I will hide the wires necessary for console usage, however.
Here's a very basic model showing the concept I'm planning. There are still some ideas I'm trying to work out. The models used within this drawing are not accurate (just random objects available in the program I used). Also, there will be dry wall along the stairs at an angle, which is missing from this model.
Here's what's going in for certain...
I've just purchased a black leather theater love seat (two seats with a center console with electric reclining). There will be a black metal + dark marble coffee table in front of this. The shelving on the left side will be for all current media. I'm using carpet for the HT area and laminate wood for the dining area.
I'll have my front speakers standing on the floor while my Pioneer Kuro will be mounted on the wall, as you see there. I forgot to put the sub in, but it will also be in the front area. There is an i-beam that will be hidden with dry wall that I'm planning to use for hanging the rear channels (it's not too high, so it should still sound very decent).
Here's where the opinions could be helpful. At the moment, I use a nice two level glass/metal TV stand. It holds my receiver and four game consoles with plenty of left over space. The center channel will be sitting on top of this stand. I'm also using LED lights beneath the devices to give them highlights (yeah, I know).
Anyways, I'm debating on whether I should keep this stand front and center below the TV -OR- use a different stand placed off to the left or right side stacked vertically. All of the wiring will be in wall and hidden, but I'm trying to decide where I'd like it placed. What do you all think would look better?
Any other suggestions while I'm still in design phase? I'm planning on using a pattern of can lights on the ceiling, but I'm interested in hearing other opinions on lighting for this area.
Also, my wiring ideas are as follows...
I want to keep everything hidden, so I will be using a lot of wall plates. I want the TVs inputs mapped to a panel placed behind the TV and sent to another panel behind the receiver. I'll have protected power plugs in the appropriate spots as well. Furthermore, the PC setup will be rather interesting. I'm running wiring from the first floor of the house to the basement and will have an HDMI port, multichannel audio outputs, and USB ports (connected by Cat 5e). These will be placed in the appropriate spots. I'm trying to create as clean a setup as possible. I'm not sure how I will hide the wires necessary for console usage, however.
In my experience, while there's a certain novelty to having just the TV on the one wall, there are always issues with the remote. Maybe it won't be a problem with the size of your room but there's nothing more annoying that having my Harmony remote miss one component when running through a macro.
Also, :lol at the diagram. It reminds me of my high school years and how I used to cut out little to-scale paper representations of my various components prior to a room rearrangement. It was my version of notebook paper margin doodling.
Also, :lol at the diagram. It reminds me of my high school years and how I used to cut out little to-scale paper representations of my various components prior to a room rearrangement. It was my version of notebook paper margin doodling.
Bii said:Here's my setup around 2003 or 2004. I was still in high school so I didn't have too many options to purchase the things I want with the part-time job that I had. I shared the room with my younger brother and got the bottom bunk.
I'm really sorry to say this but there wasn't a xbox360 in 2003-04 ....
// btw. will soon update my setup here
We Are Ninja said:
Hey, I'm not asking for a lot here and the solution someone else presented of ignoring Toy Soldier works but maybe I wanted to read his posts/opinions in other threads but now I can't because I had to ignore him in this thread (along with the person who quoted him) to be able to browse at work or school. Also relatively tame pics? I don't know where you work but I don't know any regular corporate job where those pictures would fly at unless you have your own office where no one but you can see your screen.
FoxMcCloudDS
Member
Leondexter said:Yeah, it's quite a clusterfuck, at least in appearance. One of these years, I'll get all the extention cables and ties to make it look nice. Meanwhile, functionally, I can be playing a game on any system within seconds. Which is the point, of course!
well, clusterfuck or not, if that setup is functional, than that is like... amazing. haha. I like it!
ResidentDante
Member
You brought nostalgic tears to my eyesFJ0372 said:
Confusatron
Member
I'm feeling the need to go pick up a Saturn now. Sega Rally was so much fun!ResidentDante said:You brought nostalgic tears to my eyes
2010 Setup, bought a PS3 and got a Wii for Christmas, moved my N64 upstairs...
My gaming chair, main controllers, the basket holding all my other gaming goodies.
My systems and games, my friend is borrowing Halo Wars... also note the awesome halo action figures under my TV
The blank xbox games are Halo 2 and Halo: CE... foolishly destroyed the case covers in middle school when doing a project where we had to put all of our favorite things on it! :lol 
Moved my Nintendo 64 up here, also showing DS games, DS Lite, PSP Go and my Droid...
"Gaming" Mac Mini running Windows 7... aka pretty much my Team Fortress 2 machine, also been playing some Torchlight, Civ IV and Red Alert 3 lately. Halo Novels, SAT calendar (junior in high school), and some game discs that I bought before I new about steam... Red Alert 2/Yuri's Revenge and Medival Total War are missing because I was playing them on my lap top when I went skiing last weekend.
Azure Phoenix
Member
KoolKolo said:
Logitech, can't find the exact model though as they look like a cross between the Logitech Cordless Precision and the Logitech Cordless Attack.
We Are Ninja
Member
They are indeed Logitech. What may be throwing you off is that model controller came in two sizes. The original, all-black versions were huge. Logitech released a revised model that was substantially smaller, featured a slightly altered button layout and came in transluscent green alongside the regular, all-black versions.
jetsetfluken
Member
LyR said:
Just what I was going to say. Caught!
Here is my setup. If you look closely you will see one key item missing from these pictures.
insert standard blurry camera phone apology.
panasonic plasma
Controllers & Remotes
Popcorn Hour & Sony audio reciever
PS3 (refurbished ebay deal) & Cable box
360 (3rd one thank you costco and your wonderful return policy!) ps2 & wii (homebrewed with hard drive)
Off in the corner my 2 player mame cabinet
What's missing?
I own no physical media! About 6 months ago my family and I started moving to an all digital lifestyle. If I can't rent it or get it through any of the various digital download methods (steam, psn, xbox live or netflix), I don't play it. This includes music, movies and games. I live in the future It took a while to get use to not getting games on day 1 but with gamerang and netflix I still play all the games I want, watch the movies I want and have saved money along the way. This was made somewhat more feasible getting a fiber connection to the house to help with the streaming and large downloads. The last game I had a physical copy of was crackdown. Once it went up on xbox live I sold it and now have no media in the house. (The only exceptions are home videos.)
insert standard blurry camera phone apology.
panasonic plasma
Controllers & Remotes
Popcorn Hour & Sony audio reciever
PS3 (refurbished ebay deal) & Cable box
360 (3rd one thank you costco and your wonderful return policy!) ps2 & wii (homebrewed with hard drive)
Off in the corner my 2 player mame cabinet
What's missing?
I own no physical media! About 6 months ago my family and I started moving to an all digital lifestyle. If I can't rent it or get it through any of the various digital download methods (steam, psn, xbox live or netflix), I don't play it. This includes music, movies and games. I live in the future
It took a while to get use to not getting games on day 1 but with gamerang and netflix I still play all the games I want, watch the movies I want and have saved money along the way. This was made somewhat more feasible getting a fiber connection to the house to help with the streaming and large downloads. The last game I had a physical copy of was crackdown. Once it went up on xbox live I sold it and now have no media in the house. (The only exceptions are home videos.)
BuddhaRockstar
Member
hokey1 said:
So... you have a Wii, but you don't have Super Mario Galaxy?
I don't have a PS3, but you can't get Uncharted 2 digitally, can you?
What do you even do with the PS2? Watch DVDs?
The one thing I see missing is a PC with Steam, which is the only platform I could logically see someone being DD exclusive on.
Unless there's something you're not telling us (massive piracy) this whole setup seems incredibly
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In the picture with all the controllers on the end table, isn't that a game box on the right side?
hokey1 said:I own no physical media! About 6 months ago my family and I started moving to an all digital lifestyle. If I can't rent it or get it through any of the various digital download methods (steam, psn, xbox live or netflix), I don't play it. This includes music, movies and games. I live in the future
But.... then, how are you playing Metal Gear Solid 4 there?
KAOz said:
Allow me to quote myself....
GAMERANG!!!!!!!! GAMERANG!!!! GAMERANG!!!!!.
Also to the previous poster asking about SMG... I owned it when it came out. Beat it. about 6 months after that was when the move was made to all digital.
Join me in the no physical copy future....be not afraid. Your do not own your games....they own you
BuddhaRockstar
Member
But.. you aren't all digital. You just rent games instead of buying them. That's not the same thing at all.
BuddhaRockstar said:So... you have a Wii, but you don't have Super Mario Galaxy?
I don't have a PS3, but you can't get Uncharted 2 digitally, can you?
What do you even do with the PS2? Watch DVDs?
The one thing I see missing is a PC with Steam, which is the only platform I could logically see someone being DD exclusive on.
Unless there's something you're not telling us (massive piracy) this whole setup seems incredibly
EDIT-
In the picture with all the controllers on the end table, isn't that a game box on the right side?
Look closer at my post. I have a gamerang account. They rent games. Uncharted 2 and mgs4 are some of the games they have.
the ps2 collects dust except whey my niece comes over and brings her games. Although I have rented God of war recently to get ready for my rental of God of War 3.
You found the easter egg!!! I have 1 physical game...Hot shots golf 4 out of bounds. It is one of the reasons I went all digital. It can no longer be read in the ps3.... That is the only disc based game in the house that I own and it doesn't work...
Ninja Scooter
Member
out of curiosity, what would you do if you say, rented Uncharted 2 and fell in love with the multiplayer and wanted to keep playing it? Would you just rent it over and over until you got sick of it? Refuse to buy it out of principle?
I NEED SCISSORS
Banned
Pretty modest setup, but I still live at home and it is a small room. 1080p monitor, 2.1 sound system with great bass. All wireless. Behind the monitor are games on both levels. Under that desk I have a PS3 slim with 320GB HDD, a Wii in another room, an Xbox 360 with 60GB, plus a silent PC with these specs:
4GB Corsair DDR2 RAM
550w Corsair PSU
Asus M4A78-AM motherboard
XFX Radeon 4890 1GB with Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo
500GB Western Digital HDD
AMD Phenom ii X2 550 BE with Scythe Shuriken Rev. B
Windows 7 RC 64-bit
I like my PC a lot as its pretty future proof - space for another HDD, space for a future BR drive, and my coolers will carry over to other AM3 CPUs and graphics cards.
bigmit3737
Member
I NEED SCISSORS said:
Pretty modest setup, but I still live at home and it is a small room. 1080p monitor, 2.1 sound system with great bass. All wireless. Behind the monitor are games on both levels. Under that desk I have a PS3 slim with 320GB HDD, a Wii in another room, an Xbox 360 with 60GB, plus a silent PC with these specs:
4GB Corsair DDR2 RAM
550w Corsair PSU
Asus M4A78-AM motherboard
XFX Radeon 4890 1GB with Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo
500GB Western Digital HDD
AMD Phenom ii X2 550 BE with Scythe Shuriken Rev. B
Windows 7 RC 64-bit
I like my PC a lot as its pretty future proof - space for another HDD, space for a future BR drive, and my coolers will carry over to other AM3 CPUs and graphics cards.
specs on that monitor.
I am actually looking to get a monitor/tv for my ps3 and PC due to limited space.
Guy LeDouche
Banned
its 2010 people, time to move the 100s of games and anime junk into cabinets with doors that close...
unless, of course, you don't want women to touch your penis.
unless, of course, you don't want women to touch your penis.
I NEED SCISSORS
Banned
bigmit3737 said:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172984
Mine is a BenQ E2200HD, but it's now obsolete. This E2220HD is a slightly updated version I think.
Picture quality on mine is amazing, I assume it's the exact same panel on this. HDMI x 2, USB x 4, 5ms response, HDCP compliant, 1920x1080 res, 22 inches. All good, and the best value around. It won awards I think, beating out the Samsungs and Acers. My only complaint is the speakers are a bit assy, but that's the same with all of these - and the reason why I have a 2.1 setup in addition.
We Are Ninja
Member
I ROFL at thee. It's gonna take a lot more than games and anime junk to keep the ladeez away from the chocolate thunder stick.Guy LeDouche said:
Version 3.0
Member
Guy LeDouche said:
I think you mean 1990. In 2010, videogames are cool*, and the Wii is the perfect way to get the ladies in your house. I have girls asking for advice about videogames. Hell, my girlfriend gets mad if we don't play Rock Band regularly.
* does not include WoW or any other game whose acronym is pronounced as a word. Other exceptions may apply.
Ninja Scooter said:
Well I am not a big fan of online console gaming. I can honestly say that for me online gaming reached it's peak with quake. In the past I had some fun with the halo's but i enjoy single player games quite a bit. When I rented uncharted 2 I never even tried the multiplayer.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
We Are Ninja said:
You're missing a fight stick
We Are Ninja
Member
^Greatest Asuka pic evAr
I've got several, just not in that pic...Procarbine said:You're missing a fight stick