Your Personal HT Secrets?

[stockstar1138]

Lest hear everybody's personal Home Theater secrets, that they don't want people to know, until now.

I'll start. I don't have The Matrix on DVD. I only have the VHS version and I've been watching it for the past decade. I was going to upgrade, but I've been holding out for the Blu version for over a year now. Its the only movie I still watch on VHS.

[juanleche]

My surround speakers are made by Koss

but they sound pretty good so I've yet to replace them


shhhh

[Smackos]

I've got a HD projector in my back bedroom that is showing a perfectly wonderful picture onto.. pure white wallpaper..

[Brian Cash]

I still use a black and white tv

[sAvAgE69]

My Component Video Cables for my DVD Player are more expensive than the DVD player.

my Two Optical Cables that I have are more expensive that the DVD Player

there the secret is out

[JimPullan]

I bought the Paradigm Studio Reference CC-690 Center Channel Speaker which is 39" wide and sets on a double pedestal stand in fron of my 60" Sony XBR SXRD. The problem with that is the top of the speaker was about 3" into the bottom of my screen viewing. I though awhile about cutting down the speaker stand, but it was metal and looks very nice, so I made a trip to KMart and went into the garden section and bought 6 patio step cement blocks, placed them underneath the TV stand, raising the screen up 4" - perfect!. Well, it looked terrible, so I went back to KMart into the fabric dept. and bought Black matte stretch material, placed it under and over the blocks, now no one who has come bye to see my set-up has any clue i raised the TV and stand up to accomidate the center channel speaker.

You can imagine how labor intensive this solution was - remove the TV off the stand, move the stand aside, place the blocks down, put the TV stand on the blocks, and restore the TV. That was before I realized I need the Black cloth, so I had to do that whole routine again. I'm quite pleased now though! [Jim]

[Smackos]

Originally Posted by Brian Cash

I still use a black and white tv

oh.... I know just the thing to complete your Black and White Tv setup..link

[haushausman]

My Samsung is HDMI 1.1 and I'm fuming pissed about it.

Tell anyone and I will hunt you down.

[cpgator]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

I don't have The Matrix on DVD.

And the Matrix was the first DVD I bought...

[pbparham]

I set my system up on a temporary basis, placing the equipment in a hidden and very difficult location above and behind my big screen in a converted closet. Only after had rolled everything back into place did I realize that my wiring is reversed on my rear-speakers. I've been to lazy to pull out the equipment to fix it, but I am the only one who notices, and work has been busy....

[Galley]

I cancelled my DirecTV HD service, so all I have now is BDs on my PS3 and HD podcasts on my Apple TV.