*** THE OFFICIAL HOME THEATER & AUDIO THREAD**

[Chiney]

^^ reason i said sony is because i usually hate their quality... TV's that is.. but the last bravia i saw..did pretty good.. for it's known reputation.

[shaneelal]

Looking for quality home entertainment furniture, please post your recommendations. I'm considering one with a wood backing (behind the tv), nothing extravagant. Most likely it'll one of those American brands such as Ashley.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

check earlier in this thread
www.bdiusa.com

why do you want the wood backing behind the TV?

[shaneelal]

check earlier in this thread
http://www.bdiusa.com

why do you want the wood backing behind the TV?

Thanks, but looking to purchase locally. My living room has a light cream colour, the dark wood backing would hopefully accentuate the blacks and colours on the tv. Similiar to how you have a dark background to your tv, in my case my living room, kitchen and dining room are in one open area.
Looking for something similiar to this-


If I can't source one locally at a good price I'll go with one similar to this -

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

^ thats why I sent you to BDI and told you to check earlier in the thread

I got the design from BDI (the Avion unit) and I got someone to make it for me locally.
Works out cheaper too and you get it at exactly the size you need.

[shaneelal]

^ thats why I sent you to BDI and told you to check earlier in the thread

I got the design from BDI (the Avion unit) and I got someone to make it for me locally.
Works out cheaper too and you get it at exactly the size you need.

A lot of pages to go through, didn't read where you built it locally, sounds good, will look into this.

[RapToR]

Samsung HT-C5500 Blu-ray Home Theater System


$3500.00 - Retail

[Chiney]

^^ saw those on sale for black friday when i was there by the hundreds,
seems to be not to bad at all !!

[RapToR]

^^ saw those on sale for black friday when i was there by the hundreds,
seems to be not to bad at all !!

$3000 - wholesale

[Chiney]

^^ good stuff


my klipsch speakers cost jus 1600 less of wat u have as ur total, but i kno for a fact those dayton speakers sound awesome!

[sharkman121]

well done...

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

good stuff Pios!!!

[ru$$ell]

nice stuff pios,talk about uppin your game

So my system finally complete. The goal was to get a fairly decent sound quality without breaking the bank and to certainly sound better than ANY logitech system.

mission successful

[Swisha]

XBMC Updates to 10.0 Dharma, Rocks Awesome Add-on Support and Improved Graphic Acceleration

[drop ho]

Nice Pios. Looking for a receiver like that.
Mind telling me where you got?
Also anyone use the digital out on the PS3?
Any difference to using HDMI?

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

^ it wont be better than HDMI

SPDIF/Optical/Digital audio cannot support the bandwidth that HDMI can and so it cannot support HD audio such as Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio - you need HDMI for that.

@mitch, sweeeet!!! I really want to build a linux based XBMC machine with a small SSD as a HTPC.

[drop ho]

k thx.

[Swisha]

heard about XBMC b4 but never really looked into it.

having installed it now, cant believe i never did b4! it's freakin awesome!

[drop ho]

Who have that model receiver locally? neone know.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

^ check Circuit Zone - they have a few Pioneer models including the Elite VSX-23TXH that I have

I think Pioneer brought in that model through Raptor

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

^ good choice

if you don't ever plan on going 3D then you can settle for a receiver with HDMI 1.3 and you will get all the bandwidth needed for full HD audio and video. If however you plan to go 3D, 4K res support or you need an audio return channel or ethernet then you will need HDMI 1.4

you can compare them here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Version_comparison

99% of us dont use 3D, 4K, audio return or ethernet via HDMI right now but that percentage will decrease over time and it's always good to be forwards compatible, though I think by the time 4K comes around, even HDMI 1.4 will be the old format.

[drop ho]

Looking at the Yamaha HTR 6230 but the HDMI does not support sound.

SS at Valapark has the HTR 6140 looking at specs... any views?

[ruffneck_12]

I bought a DVI to Component video adaptor the other day to watch movies from the PC on the TV but all i am seeing are pink and some times blue lines,,,,,,What can cause this? Fault in adaptor? When I use the component video outs from the DVD player it shows normal, but the DVD player has an option to output progressive video signals which when selected shows the same coloured lines thing,,,,,,,really dont want to resort to using a s-video to composite adaptor(yellow jack)



its one like this but without the switches, I was supposed to get one like this but I guess Amazon ripped me off,,, oh well US$2.67 goes down the drain



Video card is a GeForce 8600GT and the tv is one of these

[Pablo660]

Hi guys i have a question
I have two speaker box i would like to preserve, they are both chip board i dont know how old
I was thinking to re-box it with mdf over existing box cause the base is flaking
but i want a real classy look, cause the wife dont like to see "junk"
Its two KEF Reference series model 104aB.
I would vouch they play cleaner than my klipch 62 as i played some Indian instrumental for test and they are superb. i just wanted to preserve them
thats how i got to keep them lol
here is a pic
it looks bad but it is sealed as i push the passive radiator the driver responds
remarkably in the same direction when done slowly
Any ideas

[nareshseep]

Nice find Pioneer, has anyone built a diy speaker kit? Looking at some off the speaker kits from Partsexpress, Madisound, the plan is to build a normal 3.0 system and add sub and rear later on. System will be used for 75% music and 25% movies. Any recomendations?

[Pablo660]

so i can just buy cabinet and fit existing box inside boxes shown on parts express

Cool, Thanks guys

[drop ho]

Looking at the Yamaha HTR 6230 but the HDMI does not support sound.

SS at Valapark has the HTR 6140 looking at specs... any views?

I was lookin at those too, but i decided on the pioneer cuz the specs beat the others in it's class.

Agreed.
In fact i going with your exact setup eh. Sub and surround as well.
Nice improvement from my HTIAB Panasonic SC-PT753
Any takers?

[Chiney]

the pioneers are nice
but check out the yamaha rx line
loving my yamaha rx-v467
plan to upgrade it to a higher end yamaha later on in 2011 with at least 145w/channel

[Chiney]

ok i got u there

[drop ho]

is the 820K 3D ready is the big question. checking it now.