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monkeybounce
Feb 9, 2007

Thessaly posted:

This was a birthday present to me, mainly because it was such a giant PITA to cable everything together. It's Metro shelving with pegboard backing concealing the 100+ zip ties used to keep everything in place (more photos here).

Can we get a whole room view of that, because right now, I'm sorry man but that just looks really ugly to me and I'm curious as to how it fits with the rest of the environment.

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monkeybounce
Feb 9, 2007

Thessaly posted:

The bucket hides chargers, and the white thing you're seeing on top of it is a Sony Mylo, while the giant metal bowl stores controllers and poo poo. This photo on Flickr has most of the stuff tagged if you're curious. The receiver is decent for what it is, but we did have to get an HDMI switcher since we quickly ran out of inputs.


I'll give you two points.

1. The homemade rack really does work in that environment.
2. To each their own, indeed. :)

monkeybounce
Feb 9, 2007

the letter b posted:

Got a centre and some rears sorted out finally - just need to decorate the rear wall and the living area is pretty much done!

Any reason why you went with conduit instead of just running everything through the wall?

Edit:

vvv Yup, that would do it for me too.

monkeybounce fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Nov 11, 2008

monkeybounce
Feb 9, 2007

Ingram posted:

Samsung R8 40 Inch HDMI @ 48Hz 1360x768

780G Based HTPC, full hardware decoding for HD-DVD/BR/MKV, plays the lot. Using Media Portal 1.0 with Streamed MP, TV Series, My Movies plugin.

Old Yamaha HTIAB setup, does the job for a small room.

All controlled with MCE remote and a wireless mouse.

Full view from the couch.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/Lord-Ingram/pano.jpg

Running Dark Knight BR.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/Lord-Ingram/playingmovie.jpg

Browsing Movies.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/Lord-Ingram/movies.jpg

Main Menu.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/Lord-Ingram/viewtvshows.jpg

Tv episode menu.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/Lord-Ingram/friends.jpg

It looks good man, but can I suggest one addition?



Also, do you have a set-top box or anything for your cable? I really want to go with MediaPortal, but I have no idea in hell how to get it setup with a set-top box.

monkeybounce
Feb 9, 2007
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kuffs posted:

What, they're like $5 for a can of 500 or so. If you need to move things around then just chop off the old ones and put new ones on.

I'll second the velcro. Chopping off zip ties is a huge pain in the rear end unless you want to keep a pair of side cutters behind your AV gear. A roll of velcro is like 7 bucks on Monoprice and makes life a helluva lot easier.

monkeybounce fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Feb 17, 2010

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monkeybounce
Feb 9, 2007

dissss posted:

Now its all properly set up:



I agree, nice view.

Why does it look like your doorknob is at face level?

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