Live Shot from NFL Playoff Game |
Home Theater Room: Dalite Cinema Contour 60"x"80" HCCV with ProTrim; 1 pair Magnepan MGMC1 hung on wall, 2 feet out from back wall; 1 Magnepan CC3 Center Channel Speaker; 1 HSU VTF-2 Subwoofer (along left wall); 1 Velodyne Subwoofer (barely visible along right wall); Mounted to 1 futon, Clark Synthesis TST229 Transducer; Mounted to second futon Aura Bass Shaker Pro; Not seen Audio Source AMP-5.1A 100 Watt Monoblock Power Amp to drive tactile bass units; Sony SDM-N50 15.0" Flat Panel LCD Monitor under glass table; Not seen, NEC HT1000 Projector suspended by Peerless ceiling mount. |
Home Theater Room: Surround speakers are 1 pair Magnepan MGMC1 hung on wall. 1 Velodyne Subwoofer (barely visible along left wall). Logitech RF wireless keyboard and mouse; 1 Lutron IR control light dimmer. |
AV Rack is a custom built cabinet made with MFB and painted flat black; Linksys Wireless B router; USB-UIRT IR-Transceiver; Dell Powerserver 400SC with 2.4ghz P4, 512Meg, 2-60 gig hard drives, Sapphire Radeon 9600Pro video card, M-Audio 2496 Soundcard, Hauppauge PVR250 TV Tuner & Capture Card, 1 TDK DVD Recorder, 1 Pioneer 105s Slot DVD Drive (set for Region 2), PowerDVD 4.0, SageTV; Aurora Xtune Hi-Def Scaler with PIP; JVC Progressive Scan DVD Player; Pioneer LaserDisc Player; JVC VCR; RCA DTC100 DirectTV HD Receiver; Onkyo TX-989 Receiver upgraded to Ultra-2 THX; Music Hall MMF-2.1 Turntable. |
Close-up of Sony SDM-N50 running Windows 2000 Pro, SP-4; Custom designed NetRemote screens controlling AV Devices with Girder plug-in and USB-UIRT. |
Schematic of Home Theater Room Prior to Build (pretty close to final version. Color Lines and Dots mark optimal locations for sound. |
Pioneer PDP433CMX Plasma with JVC Speakers displaying live Discovery HD |
Custom built cabinet which houses HD OTA antenna's |
AV Rack in the Basement directly below Living Room. From top to bottom: Zenith HD-SAT520 DirecTV Receiver; JVC VCR; JVC AV Receiver; Dell Dimension 2350 with Hauppauge PVR250 TV Card, SageTV software; JVC Progressive Scan DVD Player; Media Server is a Pentium 2, 266mHz PC with 400 gig of hard drive; Belkin UPS Power Backup. |
Toshiba e740 PocketPC running Netremote, controlling devices in basement with USB UIRT Transceiver and Girder through WiFi connection. |