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Well, I set this up mostly as a proof of concept - and I like it. I still need to add some sort of furniture -- all suggestions welcome. The equipment itself has been, piece-by-piece, put together over the years. But here's a fun and unbelievable story. A couple years ago I was driving around in a relatively wealthy area of my hometown when I noticed a projector lying on the ground by the trash/recycling. It appears that the owners attempted to recycle the projector, but I guess the recycling company couldn't accept it or something (lead?). Intrigued and under the assumption that this was clearly 'trash', I took it. Turned it on, no picture. On a risk - I ordered a new bulb for it. Yup, that was 'the problem'. The owners must have thought it was broken and junked it.  I suppose I'll start it off with the ugly stuff: The NAS. A 9 TB FreeNAS box in a Raid-z configuration. I've probably had 60 days of up-time with this ultra-stable box and I'm very pleased with its performance. It is noisy, however, and is in a different room than the theater itself.  The HTPC is fairly unspectacular. It is an ugly beast - because it wasn't initially meant to be an HTPC - but it serves its purpose well. Eventually, it will be hidden.  Since the receiver and projector are probably circa 2004-2005, we're not looking at HDMI yet. This complicates things. The HTPC is sending the video via DVI to the projector and SPDIF to the receiver. An Integra DTR 8.2. I just vacuumed - so I kicked up a bunch of dust.  B&W CM4 speakers and a Boston Acoustics PV500 subwoofer. The subwoofer is purely for show (although it works) as I live in an apartment and like my neighbors.  B&W CMC center speaker. I don't know if this warrants its own picture, but I like the yellow...  I have vaulted 20 foot ceilings, so mounting the projector feasibly is a no-go. I don't know if I'd mount it even if I could - it isn't a spectacular projector.  The HTPC is running, well, Windows...but XBMC. A wireless keyboard and mouse compliment it -- but the Android remote control for XBMC is pretty solid.  Overall, I'm pretty happy that it at least works.  My other toy. Also bitten by vacuum dust. 
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I know! So hard to mount a projector my brother from another...
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Legdiian posted:I was going to suggest mounting it to the wall behind his couch also, but then I thought he might have an issue with the throw distance and not being able to get the picture small enough. I haven't done the math, but based on observation, I believe this is the issue -- not so much actually mounting the projector. Even still, the projector isn't great - so I'm not going to make a full-fledged effort to get it up.
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