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Blazer Freak said:
I feel dumb for asking, but what does this receiver actually do? Is it something that you would recommend as one of the first things you would upgrade?
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a receiver is necessary for surround sound. It takes in the information from the tv/blu-ray/dvd/vcr.
 
Bob Dobalina said:
Sweet! Keep us updated on your quest! Let me reiterate how amazing a screen is that's 90, 100, 120 inches or more. The wow factor seems to last forever. Months later and we still go "Wow" when we cut this thing on. Wish I'd done it long ago, but happy to have it now. I can't make it more clear. IF YOU HAVE THE MEANS, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT TILL YOU'RE SATISFIED! :biglaugh:
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LOL!! It might be a while before I do.. but I'll be doing research in the mean time. And yes.. I dont think the wow factor would go away.. how big is the screen again in your pic? like the size of the picture on the screen I mean, like with Roy there?
 
BrianWheeler said:
LOL!! It might be a while before I do.. but I'll be doing research in the mean time. And yes.. I dont think the wow factor would go away.. how big is the screen again in your pic? like the size of the picture on the screen I mean, like with Roy there?
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My screen is 106" from corner to corner.

BTW. Research as much as possible. One thing I found out quickly about front projection is that you have to take in to account the potential mount location of the projector versus where the screen will be. For instance I went with a ceiling mount. This required the projector I purchased to have more vertical lens shift (the ability to raise or lower the picture because the projector itself is not directly centered on the screen vertically). If you have a back wall to mount the projector, then vertical shift is not as important because you can mount it lower or higher on the wall. Hope that makes sense.
 
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Blazer Freak said:
I feel dumb for asking, but what does this receiver actually do? Is it something that you would recommend as one of the first things you would upgrade?
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A receiver and speakers work in tandem. You can't have one without the other basically.
 
Bob Dobalina said:
My screen is 106" from corner to corner.

BTW. Research as much as possible. One thing I found out quickly about front projection is that you have to take in to account the potential mount location of the projector versus where the screen will be. For instance I went with a ceiling mount. This required the projector I purchased to have more vertical lens shift (the ability to raise or lower the picture because the projector itself is not directly centered on the screen vertically). If you have a back wall to mount the projector, then vertical shift is not as important because you can mount it lower or higher on the wall. Hope that makes sense.
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you are my hero with all this info.. can we do another Mod poll and let this guy win? lol
 
My 3 month old 42"Vizio LCD...only $600 at Wal-Mart :ghoti: (2nd TV for 2nd football game on Sundays)
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Onkyo reciever, Boston and Cambridge speakers. Computer hooked up with Blueray player and bluetooth keyboard and mouse
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6.1 baby
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(evidently my roommate owes me some money)
 
nice VIZIO FTW! thats what I have now too lol.
 
DaRizzle said:
My 3 month old 42"Vizio LCD...only $600 at Wal-Mart :ghoti: (2nd TV for 2nd football game on Sundays)
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DaRizzle, you know that smell you were discussing earlier? I don't think it's the cat feces in the dumpster, it's the piece of shit on top of your flat screen.
 
Changes to the home theater

I’ve been busy the past couple of weeks. We decided to move all of the components into a closet and save some space in the family room. Man, what a chore. This meant running a LOT of LONG cables under the house. My wife was gracious enough to crawl in the tiny crawlspace. This allowed us to wall mount the plasma, which in-turn gave us the chance to move the projector screen almost two feet further from the couch. Soooo, I HAD to go bigger. Went from a 106” to 120”. It’s huge. Almost floor to ceiling. I also have a new receiver/processor coming Fedex (tracking shows out for delivery!), but y’all don’t care about that stuff. Anyway, here are some pics:

Before photo (the stand is going away)
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Another before shot
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Bye Bye BDI stand
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Wall mount and start of cabling
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More holes in the wall, plus power
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Crap everywhere and wiring for my future second sub (some day)
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The closet with electrical being put in
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Stuff being put out of the way temporarily
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TV mounted, new screen on floor
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New 120” screen. Huge.
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TV peeking out
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TV
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Projector Shot
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Screen closeup
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That looks like you stole a screen from my kids elementary school!
 
I am in the middle of setting mine up right now. There is nothing worse than running speaker wire because the maker of your house didn't think to pre-wire the living room for home theatre. Right now my plan is to use some channeling to hide it and run it around the edge of the room.
 
I thought of this thread while reading this article the other day about the nature of happiness, and how to spend money to achieve it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/business/08consume.html?_r=1
One major finding is that spending money for an experience — concert tickets, French lessons, sushi-rolling classes, a hotel room in Monaco — produces longer-lasting satisfaction than spending money on plain old stuff.
“‘It’s better to go on a vacation than buy a new couch’ is basically the idea,” says Professor Dunn, summing up research by two fellow psychologists, Leaf Van Boven and Thomas Gilovich. Her own take on the subject is in a paper she wrote with colleagues at Harvard and the University of Virginia: “If Money Doesn’t Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren’t Spending It Right.” (The Journal of Consumer Psychology plans to publish it in a coming issue.)
Thomas DeLeire, an associate professor of public affairs, population, health and economics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, recently published research examining nine major categories of consumption. He discovered that the only category to be positively related to happiness was leisure: vacations, entertainment, sports and equipment like golf clubs and fishing poles.
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I've been envying the really nice sets here, but when you get down to it, my overall happiness isn't likely to improve that much if I upgrade the 42" plasma I have now.

I think I'm taking the family to Cancun instead.
 
hasoos said:
I am in the middle of setting mine up right now. There is nothing worse than running speaker wire because the maker of your house didn't think to pre-wire the living room for home theatre. Right now my plan is to use some channeling to hide it and run it around the edge of the room.
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Yeah running wire, more specifically, hiding wire is a pain in the butt. I got a quote from a company before I decided to embark on this myself, $1800. I thought that was insane.
 
mook said:
I thought of this thread while reading this article the other day about the nature of happiness, and how to spend money to achieve it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/business/08consume.html?_r=1
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I've been envying the really nice sets here, but when you get down to it, my overall happiness isn't likely to improve that much if I upgrade the 42" plasma I have now.

I think I'm taking the family to Cancun instead.
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That is interesting. I’m not sure I buy it though. Sure, would taking the family to Cancun be fun, yep. Would it produce “longer-lasting satisfaction” I doubt it. On top of that it would cost atleast 5X as much as I just spent! Thing is, there will always be something “better” one can do with money. The trick is doing the “right” thing most of the time, while every once in a while just blowing it. Fact is though, in my home at least, we get a lot of satisfaction from this stuff and I get to enjoy them enjoying it.
 
Bob Dobalina said:
That is interesting. I’m not sure I buy it though. Sure, would taking the family to Cancun be fun, yep. Would it produce “longer-lasting satisfaction” I doubt it. On top of that it would cost atleast 5X as much as I just spent! Thing is, there will always be something “better” one can do with money. The trick is doing the “right” thing most of the time, while every once in a while just blowing it. Fact is though, in my home at least, we get a lot of satisfaction from this stuff and I get to enjoy them enjoying it.
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And if you're smart, and not an impulse buyer, you can get them off of craiglist for not an insane amount of money. My cousin got a projector screen for 5 bucks off of craigslist (in the 'sota). It's "only" 8 feet diagonally. It was barely used, mounts to the wall, and for him works fine. He also bought an older (as in, 2 years old) HD projector (with the 720 native screen doohicky shit I know nothing about) for 200 bucks, with something like 50 hours on the lamp.

Plus he told me how you can buy sheets of white paper (that photographers use) that would be 100" diagonally, for 30 bucks.

For me, a 15 year old TV that turns on works fine.
 
Bob Dobalina said:
The trick is doing the “right” thing most of the time, while every once in a while just blowing it. Fact is though, in my home at least, we get a lot of satisfaction from this stuff and I get to enjoy them enjoying it.
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+++1 :clap:
 
Does that projector work well when it runs Justin.tv and adhtde feeds?
 
I've found all my HDMI cables at Big Lots for under $10.
 
Great read! Thanks. I cringe every time I see some poor sucker being led to the checkout at Best Buy holding a way overpriced Monster cable. Monoprice is awesome for cables and a LOT more.
 
I'm finally finished with my little home theater project. All I have left to purchase is a BluRay player and a Harmony remote. MANY thanks to Bob Dobalina for answering 1,000 questions and helping me choose a receiver and speakers.

Sony Bravia 60'' LCD TV
Onkyo TX-NR609 Receiver
7 Monoprice In Wall Speakers (Center, 2 Fronts, 2 Surround, and 2 Rears)
BIC 10'' Sub
Impact Accoustics IR Repeater

Probably going to get the Panasonic DMP-BDT210's BluRay player and the Harmony One remote.

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