Post your setup pictures

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wRr...directlink

Have since moved sunfire 11" next to the speaker in the pic, and ditched the Dish network box for a zotac ion w/1gb ram running xbmc off a 2gb usb flash drive. Haven't fixed resolution issues yet, but plays 720p fine so far.

1 cpu/gpu fan in the htpc, but fishtank near the setup is way louder than the fan so whatevs.

edit: htpc is on gigabit network, with content on a ubuntu 9.10 system with 3 2tb drives.

At my place


An ASRock ION 330 with xbmclive 9.11beta2 configured with sabnzbd+ to handle all my downloading needs feeding my Samsung UE46B7070 over hdmi.
Audio goes via optical to the HK AVR155.
The Playstation only goes on when its time for guitar hero nowadays.

To store my files currently i have a Popcorn Hour A-110 in the bedroom with internal 500gig + external 1TB and another external 500gig, everything is on those disks streamed over the cat3 network, via an old Netgear Rangemax WPN824v2 router.

And of course now when we finally got linux drivers for the internal ASRock IR.. A Logitech Harmony 1100 makes my place in the sofa feel extra comfortable.

For those times i need to type I have a wireless logitech dinovo keyboard attached.

And ofc Xperience is _THE_ skin, absolutely beautiful.

keeganl Wrote:-all
don't be shy. I know some of you have some nice setups. Show these things off.

The PC is temp right now. A new quad core in a silverstone gd04b should fit in right over the VCR... (if only it wasn't so much work to convert all those video's grr)

^^Forgive me but We can't have this kind of thing being spread across the internet. Next thing you know Everyone will be forking out double per cd for black ones.

designgears Wrote:All wrong... try this...

Take one of your cd's, get a black permanent marker and blacken the center clear ring. Even better, go get some black CD-R's and copy a cd to it. You will notice a pretty substantial change in the sound quality when played back on a cd player.

Simple logic behind this, black absorbs light, so less laser reflection.

You are talking about a digital media format. It's not analog. There's no grey fuzzy area. Either the bit has been set, or the bit has not been set. That's like saying if you flip your light switch too slow it's going to be 1/2 light in your place. It's not analog, it's digital. It's either there, or it's not.


After looking at this picture I realize it is time to get new furnature, and make my girlfriend not take my camera when she goes on vacations.

Hi,

first off: sorry for the bad picture quality i had only an iPhone available as camera....

First of the setup:


Here you see the 42" TV with an approx. 100" Projection behind it (both fullhd and running 24p fine).
The Speakers are Nubert paired with a cheap Sony AV-Receiver right beside the tv.

Now for the HTPC running XBMC:


The silver thing in the middle is a cheap Smart MX04 DVB-S receiver which used to decode paytv before they changed encryption. The Black Case on the right is the XBMC:

Case: JCP MI 105
Mainboard/CPU: IONITX-A-E Mainboard

The cool thing about this Mainboard is that it comes with an external Notebook Power Supply so there is not as much Power going into heat as it has a higher efficiency with its 80Watts than normal PC PSUs.

As for Connectivity:


From the left: PSU, WLAN, LAN, HDMI->DVI (TV), TOS Link, HDMI (Projector), USB Stick

The USB Stick is the only Drive i have in this box. I wrote the newest XBMC 9.11 Live CD on the USB Stick and run XBMC from that.

For Audio Quality I can only say that if you have a FLAC CD RIP transmitted via optical TOS Link to a AV Receiver there should be no loss in Audio Quality.
As for the people that do not transmit their sound digital but use analog 5.1 connection instead i would recommend a really good soundcard. Not those cheap onboard realtek chips. There are major differences in soundquality there!

idlehands Wrote:http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wRr...directlink

Have since moved sunfire 11" next to the speaker in the pic, and ditched the Dish network box for a zotac ion w/1gb ram running xbmc off a 2gb usb flash drive. Haven't fixed resolution issues yet, but plays 720p fine so far.

1 cpu/gpu fan in the htpc, but fishtank near the setup is way louder than the fan so whatevs.

edit: htpc is on gigabit network, with content on a ubuntu 9.10 system with 3 2tb drives.

If you still have resolutin issues i could pass you my X11.conf
I put the Zotac FAN to 3V (change yellow and red cable on the plug) and its really quite now.

warrior Wrote:Hi,
For Audio Quality I can only say that if you have a FLAC CD RIP transmitted via optical TOS Link to a AV Receiver there should be no loss in Audio Quality.
!

Any hints on doing this w/xbmc-live/linux? I'm currently using hdmi pass-through, but I miss using TOS link. Something about using light just always wins!

idlehands Wrote:Any hints on doing this w/xbmc-live/linux? I'm currently using hdmi pass-through, but I miss using TOS link. Something about using light just always wins!

Where exactly is the problem? Just connect the TOS Link cable and set iec958 as passthrough audio output device.

Here's my setup, old crappy picture though.

The xbox1 has been replaced with an asrock 330 ion in the meantime.
Optically linked to my XTZ class A amp, which in turned are linked to a set of canton rc-l. CD collection is ripped to flac and streamed from my server upstairs.
Video is displayed on my pioneer plasma lx5090 via hdmi from the asrock. The ps3 is used for gaming and for watching blurays. Everything controlled by a harmony one remote.


The dogs were bought as sound diffusers..



Just as a note, I actually got a green pen bought at the local hi-fi store for use on cds, back in the late 80's

gekados Wrote:Here's my setup, old crappy picture though.

Is that a wide screen version of Friends?