your home entertainment center

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:24 am

Panisonic 42 in flat panel lcd -tc-L42U22
panisonic Blue Ray player DMP-BD65
Sony receiver STR DR710
Sony cd changer CDP-C325
Roku LT 2400
2 Klipsch F-2 floor speakers
2 Klipsch B-2 bookshelf speakers

2 extra water proof speakers ported into the spa room

spent the morning and early afternoon with a audio engineer resetting up my home audio sound system. glad he is my nephew

the price was right - free

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:50 am

previous: full klipsch reference system (RF7/RC7,etc), denon A/V receiver, SVS sub

current: almost non-existent.

32" generic led lcd
10 year old panasonic micro system (2.0 sound)...no hdmi, only component input
roku for streaming w/ analog out to above panasonic

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:57 am

2012 46" Samsung LED 3D Smart TV (very cool), best picture we saw when we bought it 2 months ago
http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/UN46ES7100FXZA

Samsung 3D blue ray player

Bose CineMate GS series II (awesome sound and bass with simple wiring compared to my old 5/1 surround system with sub).
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Bose%26%231 ... Id=9480411

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 12:29 pm

Samsung UN60ES8000 60-Inch 1080p 240Hz 3D Slim LED HDTV (streams 1080p via wifi using Plex)

Denon AVR-1612 Receiver

JBL Subwoofer

Klipsch Center Channel

Polk Audio Front Floor Speakers

Samsung Blue Ray Player (Soon to be moved to the bedroom setup)

2TB Netgear ReadyNAS

AMD Phenom Server with 6.5TB serving via Plex Media Server

CaterpillarAssassin · Post by **CaterpillarAssassin** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 8:27 am

Sharp 80" LCD TV
http://www.sharpusa.com/ForHome/HomeEnt ... E632U.aspx

Onkyo TX-SR608 Receiver
http://www.us.onkyo.com/model.cfm?m=TX- ... s=Receiver

(2) Aperion Audio Intimus 5T Tower Speakers
http://www.aperionaudio.com/speakers/in ... er-speaker

Aperion Audio Bravus 12D Subwoofer
http://www.aperionaudio.com/bravus-ii-1 ... -subwoofer

Definitive Technology ProCenter 1000 (center channel)
http://www.definitivetech.com/products/procenter-1000

(4) Definitive Technology ProMonitor 800 (Rear Surround and Surround)
http://www.definitivetech.com/products/promonitor-800

All receiving media/cable TV from from a Windows Media center PC.
The sound is incredible!

Key Keeper · Post by **Key Keeper** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:18 pm

46" sony bravia
Sony surround DTS HD
PS3
DVR....

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:54 pm

A couple of Visio 42" HDTVs. Media Center PC on each setup to control Comcast HD tuner. 4Tb NAS for a media server, and both my Media Center PCs can see each other's DVR recordings.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:02 am

My setup is a little dated.. But not looking at upgrading anything until we move early next year.

42" Phillips Plasma - This beast is heavy and puts off a lot of heat. But it still works.

Bose Lifestyle Lifestyle 12 System - Still one of the best sounding systems I've heard. This one is 15 years old, bought it off of my brother for $200 about a year ago when he upgraded to a new Bose system. One of these days I'll take it apart and resolder the power jack and fix the LCD display issues. But it works as long as I don't touch it.. haha

PS3 - For Blu-Ray & Streaming

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:28 pm

Rather simple actually. A 42" plasma surrounded by a pair of Klipsch towers, center, & surrounds. I've got an Infinity sub, but it barely gets used these days with a kid in the house. They're all powered off of a Technics receiver from the '90s (but it has optical & analog 5.1 input). The only source is a home brew HTPC that I stuffed into the corpse of a Sony receiver. My 8TB file server serves everything. I like Media center, but it seems fails me so often that I usually just browse to the file I want and watch stuff with VLC. I also have a 42" with a mild HTPC setup in my bedroom.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:12 pm

I've had good luck with Media Center, although I feel that Media Center XP was more stable than the Win7 version. I never had to reboot my XP MCE PCs but the Win7 PCs seem to develop some sort of problem over time that starts slowing them down. You can tell because the drive light is lit all the time when they're idling. Then you have to reboot them.

I actually have 3 media center PCs running in the house now. The two mentioned above and one in the bedroom on a 32" Samsung HDTV. I use them in 720p resolution (I don't record or play anything at 1080p). They are all connected to Comcast HDTV cable boxes and they can control the cable boxes with a IR bug.

I really like Media Center as opposed to Comcast's DVRs. Not only are they more responsive, you also have a 60 second skip (30 second reverse skip) feature in media center which makes skipping through commercials a breeze. It's hard for me to use the fast forward on a Comcast DVR.

I also love that I can access the recordings from any Media Center PC from any other Media Center PC. Media Center also does Netflix streaming WAY better than any other alternative I've used.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 1:41 am

I guess I need to be educated on this stuff. I don't have anything like what is mentioned in these threads except for a 52" plasma and a sound bar.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:00 pm

I believe that most of my issues are attempting to play files from torrents that are of oddball encoding. Also, it gets kind of cranky trying to play certain ISO files.