Recent content by Bighitter

I would use the extra time to start looking for my next upgrade because its never good enough.

Just be careful about creating a ground loop condition from doing this, unless all grounds in your house are terminated to a single point you are introducing the chance for a difference in ground.

Also you can get transient voltage from Cat5 or Coax cables going straight into your PC, cable or satellite set top boxes. If you surge protect everything but not those inputs its just another place for the voltage to seek ground.

Very nice job! Reminds me of my old theater that I left to the ex.

Yeah I would have to agree with Unknown Souljer, considering vhs is realistically 240i or 480i it does not look pretty upscaled.

Yeah technically it would be considered a media room as it is multi-function. Looks like it was a good install with logical compromises. Nice job!

I'd love to give it a spin, should go well with my new beast I just got to put together.

I got my Shimian 2 days after ordering from ta_planet for $328 and couldn't be happier, only problem with my unit is 1 dust particle in the lower left quadrant but its hardly noticeable, for the price I am ecstatic!

Why not run HDMI straight to the projector and a separate audio feed? There are devices out there that will strip analog audio from HDMI and then pass the HDMI on to the display.

Well I hopped on the band wagon with the QH270-Lite at $328.40 I will definitely take the risk! Can't wait to get it.

Do you have a cable card to decrypt the channels? HDCP wouldn't be the problem most likely, can you play bluray?

There are quite a few options these days, the monoprice units are actually very decent. I tend to use a few different brands but have had luck with most of them as long as good termination is applied to the wire.

SirMaster makes an excellent point, speakers have not changed much in form or function over the years and are a sound investment that can last a long time. I actually have 2 pairs of speakers that are older than a lot of users on this forum including myself and they were more than $150 each...

There are good sound bar units out there, but they don't cost anywhere near as low as the $300 limit. Leon speakers make some great sound bars as well as other speakers but they are not cheap as the tweaters and midrange drivers they use cost more than $300 wholesale in some of the units.

Set the mains to small so that anything below the crossover point gets set to the sub, and it sounds like your screen is a high gain screen which.