Home Theatre

[xr6turbs]

The PS3 will also allow you to use a wireless network to access your media files on your computer HDD.

Its what I do, and with the latest updats on the PS3, it allows pretty much all video files I think.

PS Love the set up, those chairs are MINT

[jimmy1234]

  Flukey said:

The cable running out the door in bottom left is my Foxtel feed to the 42" in the next room. I want to get rid of this and be able to watch Foxtel in both rooms from one STB.

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Mate your set up look awesome, I have spent a fair bit of my time lately trying to set up my house with multi room A/V all run from a single hub.

In short I used a matrix switcher in the movie room then ran A/V and remote pass through all via cat 5. You can now get component wall plates that are also the balan you need to convert the signal for the cat 5.

Foxtel is good in both rooms but you will need to be able to put jerry springer on in the plasma room (to keep any female quiet) then play the PS3 in the movie room. That is where the matrix switch come in.

If you need any help with the parts you need shoot me a PM I talked my way into a couple of trade accounts while doing my set up. I might be able to save you a dollar or 2.

[Flukey]

  smicky said:

Flukey,

Mate - there is a lot of different ways to stream video from your desktop...

The cheapest 'may be' get urself a basic pc for a few hundred dollars, (I think you mentioned you have networked the rooms)?

If not and you have a wireless device (such as a notebook or something), get urself a wireless router (if you dont already), and setup a home network for about 150$...

Use the notebook as the remote (local in the theater room), and share a directory on the desktop where you have the movies/video located and run it over your wireless network...

If there is nothing else running on the network at the time you will find it 'should' run without lag...

Obviously connect your notebook to the projector, or your amp (which looks to be a Yamaha), therefore you will prob find a SVGA input on the rear, and be able to stream from there...

Hope this helps...

BTW - as your seats are against the rear wall, you might want to tilt your rears down on a slight angel turned inwards sightly... this will give a more ambient rear 'effect' it looks like that are running against the corner forward facing... therefore the sound wave might be missed and running into the middle of the room... You will most likely be getting a lot of wall deflection from your rears also...

Or are you running a bi or di-pole rear speaker?

Can't really tell from the pic...

All in all a nice looking setup mate!

I have cat6 between the study and theatre and nothing else on it so lag shouldnt be an issue.

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Or are you running a bi or di-pole rear speaker?

Correct and they sound awesome.

Thanks for the tips.

[XR06T]

perhaps an AppleTV is what you are after?

http://store.apple.com/au/browse/home/shop..._tv?mco=MTE3MjA

I dont have one and havent seen one used, but if you were so inclined I believe they can be hacked to play any file type from a media share.

no 1080p though..

[Flukey]

  jimmy1234 said:

Mate your set up look awesome, I have spent a fair bit of my time lately trying to set up my house with multi room A/V all run from a single hub.

In short I used a matrix switcher in the movie room then ran A/V and remote pass through all via cat 5. You can now get component wall plates that are also the balan you need to convert the signal for the cat 5.

Foxtel is good in both rooms but you will need to be able to put jerry springer on in the plasma room (to keep any female quiet) then play the PS3 in the movie room. That is where the matrix switch come in.

If you need any help with the parts you need shoot me a PM I talked my way into a couple of trade accounts while doing my set up. I might be able to save you a dollar or 2.

Matrix switcher? They have been used extesively for CCTV applications but I havent seen them for this sort of thing.

I only cabled coax from the theatre to where the plasma is so could "loop-through" from a Foxtel box or other if needed. My cat 6 doesnt go near the plasma unfortunately.

Link to Matrix??

[Flukey]

  XR06T said:

perhaps an AppleTV is what you are after?

http://store.apple.com/au/browse/home/shop..._tv?mco=MTE3MjA

I dont have one and havent seen one used, but if you were so inclined I believe they can be hacked to play any file type from a media share.

no 1080p though..

That looks pretty cool too and it does 1080i which would be OK for video files.

Thanks for the link.

[XR06T]

no problems, the home theatre looks great by the way! nice projector. how far back do you sit and is it in any way arkward looking slightly upwards at the screen?

also re the foxtel I believe to add another box to you current instalation is very cheap, like $30/month, and that gives you another full working box.

[smicky]

mate,

if you want to run foxtel into another room without buying another box, you can run it through coax...

means you will need to switch the plugs around when you want to via it in another room...

Or you can always run a splitter box out... So one coax out of the foxtel box, into the splitter, then one into your tv/plasma or whatever the foxtel box is currently plugged into... and the other into the wall - run another coax through to the theater room and plug the coax into the wall in that room then into your device...

you could also run it back through the current coax that your antenna runs from but again you will need to pull the cable out each time...

The only issue you will have is now needing to change channels... try getting an additional remote and a RF/IR - repeater/extender... it will let you change channels from other rooms...

This is the way I set my parents house up when they removed the 3 additional Foxtel boxes a few years back... To many TV's and foxtel boxes (one in each room) only two people living there now they have access to foxtel in every room, however only one box, and channel at a time... they all run off the same one box so all see the same channel at once... that's the only down side...

You may need a booster depending on the distance the signal need to run...

[Flukey]

Cheers. That sounds like what I need to do. The downside I guess will be same program plays on both TV's but I dont want to pay for a second Foxtel unit.

[Flukey]

  XR06T said:

how far back do you sit and is it in any way arkward looking slightly upwards at the screen?

Seating position is perfect for the room and screen size. I wanted to make sure the screen wasnt too big and there are charts that help with screen size, projector placment, seating position etc, all based on the size of the room. Seated we are about 4.2m from the screen.

Screen starts 1m afl which is also what is recommended. Either sitting upright or reclined its about right. From the bean bags you are fully reclined and is again about right.