STUCOS

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Just bought a slim line 47" led,going to mount it on the wall,but need idea'a to where to hide/mount sky box dvd player etc


cheeRS stu

KSA-Cossie

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Told you last night !!!!!

J98 FYA

i've got mine on the chiminy breast an my sky box an other stuff on shelves next to it

Cragrat

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Extended allthe leads in wall and uner floor then sat em on a unit next to sofa

Not sure about it now so will all go in unit to side of chimney

J98 FYA

sod it cant figure out how to use photo bucket but there is a pic lol i figured it out wooohooo

danneth

one i worked on

KSA-Cossie

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]Thats the ticket m8.

RichieST

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I was going to show you pics of mine, but my mrs has lost the lead to my camera yet again, quite why she can't leave my stuff alone I do not know, gets on my tits!!!

cjwood555

What sort of construction is your house?

It's really quite straight forward - chase/pull cables through the walls/behind skirtings, get a rack or brackets for boxes and connect up as normal.

HDMI leads can happily run for 10-15m at 1080p, any further and quality of cable becomes a significant factor due to capacitance. All other formats will be fine.

As far as remotes go, there are numerous products out there to transmit and repeat the signal if you want boxes out of site. Some are wired some are not. Sky wise, you can use a triax link on the RF2 output (1 extra co-ax), or get a multi-output repeater and use it for DVD and Sky.

HTH
Chris

cozzy jeff

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heres mine,it been up a couple of years now,47" toshiba,before we moved in i chased the wall on the left and sunk in the hdmi and scart leads and also a vga lead to connect up the laptop to watch blueray movies.made alot of mess but worth it in the end.

newstuart

here is mine



And one with the screen down for movies,

RichieST

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Do you not get a stiff neck looking at that? Looks impressive mind!

dojj

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what projector is that mr? and how come the quality has dissapeared?

was thinking of doing the same thing now i've got the space but the quality of projectors is soemthing that i'm not sure i culd justofy spending the money on

FasterFords

why are they all mounted so high ? do you all stand up and watch TV ?

Fil

my guess is he has too, goung by all the baby toys around

Tho i get where others are coming from, you really dont want the centre of the screen much higher than 1M imo

J98 FYA

mines on an angle so u dont get a stiff neck but its alot better its up high so the kiddies cant get at it lol

steves24V's

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some of them look really high

i'll try and get a pic of ours later.

dojj

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i tried that, then they figured out they could simply use a chair/table/random peice of furnitre/some cushions laid ontop of each other, etc

the lttle bastards

newstuart

Hi

The PJ is a Optima HD65, pic was not a very good one, here is another to try and show the quality, I can assure you it is very good (unlike my camera skills!)


As for the height, I have kids hence need the screen high, the screen is tilted and the sofa is a big "lay back" type, see pic. Had it like this for 2 years now and nobody ever notices the height when watching




In a bid to child proof the house and have nothing showing I also have the whole system based in the attic running Windows Media Centre and extenders to all the rooms, this gives me access to 250 odd DVDs, I-Tunes collection, Familly pics and videos etc all stored on the Hardrives and accessed by a nice simple interface on any tv in the house (Boys and there toys!)

Thrush

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I really hate high TV's. I always have my TV's so the centre of the screen is more or less at eye height in a normal sitting position, which as Fil says, is about 1m from the floor....

Anyway, back to the OP, mount your screen on the wall at your desired height, cahse out the wall for cables (remember to include one for each input your TV has for future proofing). As for where to put the source gear, don't put it in a rack near the sofa if you have any noisy gear (such as a PS3 with fan noise etc) I'd put it in a small rack in the corner of the room personally

foreigneRS

mine, wish i'd done it years ago. it's not as high as it looks, as the top of the picture is a picture rail about 18" from the ceiling.

i put the satellite box in the space that used to be a fireplace.

cozzy jeff

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no mate i dont,doesnt really bother me at all i like it up there,heres the one in my bedroom

and heres the one in the oldest laddies room.

danneth

ticket?

J98 FYA

lmao i think ill chuck some barb wire round it then



(disclaimer i do NOT want to harm my children lol)

dojj

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lots of nice kit floating about
if only there was some way to just get rid of all the caling needed it would perfect

unless there is and i don't know about it?

Twellsie

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this is mine

steves24V's

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Very tidy

ronf42

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here is mine. Going to re-decorate later this month and I shall move the centre speaker down under the tv.
The bottom of my tv is around 1m off the floor.