Home Theater Ideas & Advice

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What about the projector and Tivo?

Go with a LED TV. They have some sweet 72" ones now for under 2K.

Slight hijack.

Are there a particular brand of speakers that the OT recommends that I can use outside under a covered outdoor kitchen?

Looking for in-ceiling speakers.

I think as long as it's protected from the rain you can use any in ceiling speaker...only issue might be the grill rusting. At least that's what I was told when I called definitive technology yesterday. I have there outdoor aw6500s I was going to use on my back porch/kitchen but think I'd rather the look of in ceiling so I'm going to run the DI8Rs like I'll have through the house. The advantage of the AWs is they have a passive radiator on the back side that greatly improves the bass response. I'll probably add some in celing subs to compensate for that. The kind that mount between the rafters and just port through the ceiling so it looks like another round speaker.

Problem with the JL boat ones is the look of them and they will probably be 4ohms. Just have to make sure what you run them off of is 4ohm stable if not you will have to run 4 speakers and wire them to be 8ohms for 2 speakers.

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Are there a particular brand of speakers that the OT recommends that I can use outside under a covered outdoor kitchen?

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Polk makes an all weather speaker. My uncle has them and they sound pretty damn good.

I have 4 of these under a covered porch at my house. My whole house has HTD's lync system. Love the system so far.

As far as clarity goes, me and my neighbor two doors down can hear Hawthorne clearly from his backyard during broadcasts.

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Niles Audio

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Here's the LINK to the ones I purchased.

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I've heard very good things about Niles Audio and Polk Audio (another poster recommended them in earlier post).

Will certainly compare the two. I have Paradigm inside my house, will give these a look too for their outdoor model.

If you're interested in Polk then take a look at their ebay page. Factory direct re manufactured with warranty for a lot less money than brand new.

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I'm not sure if I want to get a DVR from the cable company or not. The only option out here is Charter, which is shite IMO. I've seen commercials for the new Tivo Roamio. Apparently you can watch whatever you have on your DVR, on your iPad; even in flight. Anyone have one?

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If you want to seriously do this, HTPC + network projector + your choice: HDHomerun Prime or Ceton InfiniTV 6 ETH (though HDHomerun is the better choice).
Put Plex on the HTPC and buy the Plex App for your iPad ($5 I think). If the computer is Windows, use Windows Media Center. If it's a Mac, buy Elgato Eye TV (more expensive, probably not quite as good, but it works). You'll be able to DVR as much as you want (provided you buy the necessary storage, which is relatively cheap) for no recurring fees). Then use MCEBuddy in Windows to set up, on a schedule, converting your DVR'd files to a more organized, smaller format (still in HD and good for streaming!). In Mac OSX, you can do this with Handbrake, though it's less user-friendly (I don't know of other options here). In short, if you can stand to do a little trouble-shooting, you can have a good/better solution than your cable company's DVR.


You didn't mention speakers/receiver/amp/etc at all. Is this not a need?