I’m going to place the TV and other devices on the west wall in the living room, between the doorway to the bathroom and the doorway to the kitchen. This gives me 75″ width and 70″ height to work with. This project is not a short term goal and will probably be within 3 or 4 years. Parts of the project will be completed before other parts, but does require the TV and shelving to be completed.
Goals
The primary goal is to buy the TV, shelves, and sound system. This will be near $3500, so the next stage with buying the gaming systems will be another $1000 or so, not including games.
- TV that is over 50″, but under $2000. This also has to have at least 3 HDMI connections, but isn’t all that important, because I plan on buying a sound system to plug the HDMI into and then just plug the sound system into the TV for video.
- Sound System is going to have HDMI connections for sound and video. Doing it this way, I can plug most of the devices that are HDMI into the sound system, have the sound go straight to the sound system and then have the video directly sent to the TV. This will reduce the amount of wires required to complete the devices.
One of the longer term projects will be to send the speaker wire through the walls to hide them. This can be achieved easily by placing the module with the wire ran underneath the flooring and then back up to where the sound system is located. This will reduce the amount of wiring needed and will look a great deal tidy. The problem is that once this is done, it will be very time consuming to correct, so setting it up without first and then running through the walls is a better choice.
The sound system is probably going to have either a DVD player or a Blu-Ray player as part of it.
- Shelves
The shelving will be glass and I want to have close to about 6 shelves. The bottom shelves are going to be 30″ wide and long enough to hold most devices. I will proably need to place it a foot off of the ground in order to fit the other shelves with the TV. I can only do two shelves on top of each other or I’ll be limited on the screen size. The good news is that I’ll be able to place a shelf mounts on each side of the TV that is 12″ wide for speakers or I could use speaker mounts.
I might not use glass for the shelves. I think it is fine if it is wood, since it is unlikely to cut and slice the person if they happen to fall through it. The point is to not fall through it, but I’ll rather have the odds that if someone were to fall through it, then they wouldn’t require hospital attention. The reason to have glass is that it will match the rest of the house. Given that I may have kids, I’ll rather be safe than sorry and it will probably be cheaper for wood shelves.
- Game Systems
I’m going to buy a Playstation, Nintendo, and whatever system Microsoft has out in 3 years. These will be 3 of the five or six shelves, although, the Nintendo could probably fit on one of the shelf with another game system.
- TiVo or Internet Connection Device
In three years, I doubt seriously that I’ll have cable. I’m doing exceptionally fine without cable TV with Netflix, Hulu, etc. The need for cable TV is diminishing, so thus is also the need for TiVo. If I need to, then simply, I could get away with using my computer to record TV and then stream to the Xbox or Playstation devices. I’ll have to wait and see. Most likely after the sound system and game systems, I’ll at least want to have a few shelves open for future devices.
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