my setup: panasonic 42" plasma panasonic dvd-hdd recorder sky digital tivo 5.1ch sony stereo xbox360 pc in office connected via cables through the wall into the tv+stereo
Luckily for me Freeview arrived with the new TV, otherwise I wouldn't know what the fuss was about. Now I just need to win the recorder!! It really is great esp for the sport (shame the Commonwealth Games wasn't HD)
My home entertainment setup? Well, I'm a bit of a DIY-er with a strict wife related budget... so I have:
- an Acer Aspire Revo nettop strapped to the back of my teeny-tiny 19" Samsung LCD TV. - the nettop runs XBMC Live, and Squeezebox Server, for my video and audio outputs. - I have a Squeezebox in the living room, piping tunes to a smallish compact hi-fi system. - We also have an old Panasonic HDD PVR. - We have a second Squeezebox (a Touch) in the bedroom, which doubles up as my alarm clock. - My main PC sometimes doubles up as a "media box," playing DVDs etc.
- xbox in the bedroom - xbox in the lounge - PC in the Office - Tivo in the lounge
All of the above can view each others media, makes life great... only issue I have is with no antenna in the bedroom, I cant watch Letterman in bed ...
We've got a Panasonic Viera hooked up to Saturn Digital from Telstraclear. It does the job well enough, but the picture could be better for sport. Can't convince the wife about the merits of HD yet though...
Ok have a tosiba 42" TV, HD compat but need the HD device! have a panasconic DVR and a Daewoo (yes the car makers!!!) stereo that parents came back from HK with 7 years ago!
The most important question must be "Is it child friendly" ? If so it should go nicely with our other child affected home theatre items:
1. The 32" Panasonic LX700 TV with faint marks where my son drew on it with a permanent marker 2. Dodgy DVD player, I am sure our unit has played several food items and is now not the most reliable 3. Rattly subwoofer - every now an then I need to open it up to retrieve things that have been posted 4. Cheapo freeview box - which is fairly new and so far unscathed !
We have never owned a video recorder, DVD recorder etc so the HT9200DTR would be great so we can record Wipeout for the kids to watch and get them to bed earlier on Sunday night !
In our setup we have a DVB-T/DVB-S combo USB PVR with which the video locks up/pauses regularly when using timeshift feature. Skipping forward and back, unfreezes it, but it was so really annoying last night trying to watch a movie, that I'd love a PVR that just works. :-/
I've an analog tube tellie with a vcr for recording. the bunny ears aerial gives a snowy but watchable image. the uhf reception is rubbish. the crisp clear images from a freeview would be a pleasant change on the eyes.
I would love to win this...but....on the West Coast Terrestrial HD Freeview is a thing that can only be dreamt about.
The only options available here are Satellite Freeview, Sky, SkyHD, or the normal boring TV channels.
Ah well.....gotta be in to win anyway
Current living room setup:
Panasonic 42" Plasma TV Hyundai HSS - 760A Satellite top box Panasonic Blu-Ray Player (DMP-BD65) Yamaha 5.1 Home Theatre (HTR-6030) Yamaha DVD-S661 DVD player Sony PS2 Slimline
1 x PC's (Desk top) 1 x Laptops
Elsewhere in house:
Samsung 32" LCD TV Phillips DVD Player Panasonic NiCam Stereo Video recorder/player - yes - it still works & gets used Sony PS2
Family room: JVC DLA-HD1 projector, PS3, Sony STR-DA5300 amp, A-200 popcorn hour, MySky HD box, Xbox 360, B&W 5.1 speaker setup.
Lounge: Apple TV2, Sony 46" x-series LCD TV, mysky SD, zinwell HD tuner, Onkyo sr-606 receiver, PS2, Panasonic DVD player, B&W front 3 speakers, ceiling mount rear speakers, yamaha sub.
Current setup A htpc - Mediaportal, 1.5tb tv storage 2xdvbt tuners + 1 dvbt/dvbs,dvbs2 hybrid tuner. Sony W4000 TV Pioneer receiver (hdmi switching only sadly) Plus, laptops with a wired connection if we want to watch anything from the htpc, we just connect as a client and watch it (unless it's sbs etc that we can stream over wireless).
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