The house that Tractor built....a diary of sorts

[kinboshi]

50" at that distance should be pretty decent. I'd love to get a projector/screen, but will have to try and plan that when I move (imminent, with any luck).

And in my sig, respectively,
plasma, amp, HD-DVD player, DVD player, Sky+, Front speakers/rears/center, subwoofer, Wii, PS2, PS3, Behringer Feedback Destroyer (parametric equaliser for subwoofer), programmable remote, Home Theatre PC, chairs

I got a HD-DVD player after they threw in the towel in the format wars. £60 for the player and got about 40 HD films for between £3 and £5 each. Nice.

The system looks very good. What's that costing, if you don't mind me asking? There seems to be a few multi-room systems around these days with a vast range of prices.

Total cost is about £3.5k for the system.

That includes:

6 input / 8 output (4 zones + 4 sub zones) audio distributor
Video distributor (6 input, 8 output)
Dual speakers for 3 rooms
Single stereo speakers for the 2 bathrooms
Outdoor speakers for the garden
8 things that you point your remote at to make it work (whatever they're called)
Power supplies

Cabling is all on top of that.

4 x cat 5e to each TV
1 x cat 5e to each remote thingy
speaker cables come from the remote thingy which has it's own amp built in.
2 x cat 5e to anywhere else you might want to add in future
Coax to each TV just in case you want to watch normal TV through the aerial.

Don't know the cost of that lot to be honest. At a guess I'd say £1k + installation cost but I got that for free.

Hopefully it'll all be up and running in about a month so I'll be able to let you guys know if it actually works.

Shoudl keep everything nice and neat. Basically all of the sources are in a cupboard under the stairs and everything shares the sources. No DVD players or amps or anything on display, just plasmas on the walls.

Where will you keep the hoover?

[EvilPie]

50" at that distance should be pretty decent. I'd love to get a projector/screen, but will have to try and plan that when I move (imminent, with any luck).

And in my sig, respectively,
plasma, amp, HD-DVD player, DVD player, Sky+, Front speakers/rears/center, subwoofer, Wii, PS2, PS3, Behringer Feedback Destroyer (parametric equaliser for subwoofer), programmable remote, Home Theatre PC, chairs

I got a HD-DVD player after they threw in the towel in the format wars. £60 for the player and got about 40 HD films for between £3 and £5 each. Nice.

The system looks very good. What's that costing, if you don't mind me asking? There seems to be a few multi-room systems around these days with a vast range of prices.

Total cost is about £3.5k for the system.

That includes:

6 input / 8 output (4 zones + 4 sub zones) audio distributor
Video distributor (6 input, 8 output)
Dual speakers for 3 rooms
Single stereo speakers for the 2 bathrooms
Outdoor speakers for the garden
8 things that you point your remote at to make it work (whatever they're called)
Power supplies

Cabling is all on top of that.

4 x cat 5e to each TV
1 x cat 5e to each remote thingy
speaker cables come from the remote thingy which has it's own amp built in.
2 x cat 5e to anywhere else you might want to add in future
Coax to each TV just in case you want to watch normal TV through the aerial.

Don't know the cost of that lot to be honest. At a guess I'd say £1k + installation cost but I got that for free.

Hopefully it'll all be up and running in about a month so I'll be able to let you guys know if it actually works.

Shoudl keep everything nice and neat. Basically all of the sources are in a cupboard under the stairs and everything shares the sources. No DVD players or amps or anything on display, just plasmas on the walls.

Where will you keep the hoover?

Under the TV

[GreekStein]

50" at that distance should be pretty decent. I'd love to get a projector/screen, but will have to try and plan that when I move (imminent, with any luck).

And in my sig, respectively,
plasma, amp, HD-DVD player, DVD player, Sky+, Front speakers/rears/center, subwoofer, Wii, PS2, PS3, Behringer Feedback Destroyer (parametric equaliser for subwoofer), programmable remote, Home Theatre PC, chairs

I got a HD-DVD player after they threw in the towel in the format wars. £60 for the player and got about 40 HD films for between £3 and £5 each. Nice.

The system looks very good. What's that costing, if you don't mind me asking? There seems to be a few multi-room systems around these days with a vast range of prices.

Total cost is about £3.5k for the system.

That includes:

6 input / 8 output (4 zones + 4 sub zones) audio distributor
Video distributor (6 input, 8 output)
Dual speakers for 3 rooms
Single stereo speakers for the 2 bathrooms
Outdoor speakers for the garden
8 things that you point your remote at to make it work (whatever they're called)
Power supplies

Cabling is all on top of that.

4 x cat 5e to each TV
1 x cat 5e to each remote thingy
speaker cables come from the remote thingy which has it's own amp built in.
2 x cat 5e to anywhere else you might want to add in future
Coax to each TV just in case you want to watch normal TV through the aerial.

Don't know the cost of that lot to be honest. At a guess I'd say £1k + installation cost but I got that for free.

Hopefully it'll all be up and running in about a month so I'll be able to let you guys know if it actually works.

Shoudl keep everything nice and neat. Basically all of the sources are in a cupboard under the stairs and everything shares the sources. No DVD players or amps or anything on display, just plasmas on the walls.

Where will you keep the hoover?

Under the TV

You so don't look like that guy Matt