Post your HT Setup AND your insane way hooking it up.
05-09-03 | 10:25 PM
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Post your HT Setup AND your insane way of hooking it up.
Inspired by this Penny Arcade comic, post your HT setup and how only you can actually use it.
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05-09-03 | 10:27 PM
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Sony 27" TV
Sony Reciever, 50 CD Carousel
Dish Direct PVR, Sony Casette, DVD, VCR
GameCube, Xbox, Dreamcast
Infinity SL-20 speakers
And behind the Xbox is hooked up to a D-Link AirPlus DWL-810+ Ethernet-to-Wireles Bridge so I can get my Xbox Live groove on without draping cables down the hall.
Back of TV:
Back of everything else:
Remotes (5 left == Commander):
I actually have a "Y" splitter on Video-2 (RCA) of the TV AND piggy-back RCA cables on Video-1's Audio input so I could hook two devices' audio there as well. I was doing my damnedest to NOT have to buy a component switcher.
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| Device | TV Video | Reciever | Audio |
| Satellite | Video-1 (S-Video) | TV/Sat (S-Video In/Out) | Optical |
| DVD | Video-1 (S-Video) | DVD (S-Video In/Out) | Optical |
| VCR | Video-1 (RCA) | TV/Sat | Analog |
| CD | --- | CD (Analog) or MD/DAT (Optical) | |
| Xbox | Video-2 | DVD (RCA) | Analog |
| GameCube | Video-2 | Video-1 | Analog |
| Dreamcast | Video-2 | Video-2 | Analog |
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05-10-03 | 01:54 AM
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From: In my secret underground lair, plotting to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! Bwuaaahahahaha!!
Try this on for size...
TV: a 27" console that is about 15 years old, the sides of the picture sometimes go convex )_( instead of (_)
The DVD player is hooked through my VCR, since the TV doesn't have A/V inputs.
I have the DVD player hooked to two (2!) different 8-track players, using the two sets of audio jacks on the DVD player. I *THINK* I am actually getting a bit of surround sound, but it is hard to tell.
The cable goes through VCR 1, to VCR 2, to the TV.
I have a LD player on top of the TV, but I have to disconnect the DVD to use it.
I have an auto-switching TV/Game box hooked up to the TV, and I have multiple systems that all need connected and disconnected to use (including an Atari 2600 that has to use its own TV/Game switch.
TV: a 27" console that is about 15 years old, the sides of the picture sometimes go convex )_( instead of (_)
The DVD player is hooked through my VCR, since the TV doesn't have A/V inputs.
I have the DVD player hooked to two (2!) different 8-track players, using the two sets of audio jacks on the DVD player. I *THINK* I am actually getting a bit of surround sound, but it is hard to tell.
The cable goes through VCR 1, to VCR 2, to the TV.
I have a LD player on top of the TV, but I have to disconnect the DVD to use it.
I have an auto-switching TV/Game box hooked up to the TV, and I have multiple systems that all need connected and disconnected to use (including an Atari 2600 that has to use its own TV/Game switch.
05-10-03 | 06:21 AM
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This is my setup, and yes I am the only one who can figure out how to turn it on
I have 6 things hooked up via component cables, which means I have to switch them through my reciever (XBOX and PS2) AND a component A/V switcher (2 DVD players and Gamecube) and I just run my HD cable box directly into the TV. Thank god I have 3 component inputs on my tv. Then I have 5 things that have optical connectors which means I need a switcher for them also.
Thankfully remote macros make it easier to switch between sources but there are still buttons to push in the A/V rack itself so it is pretty difficult for someone else to figure out.
But I don't really want anyone else screwing with my stuff when I'm not around anyway
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