Is your home theater organized?

[yoda313]

So do you have your home entertainment center neatly arranged? Are the cables all tucked away but not bent? Are your movies and music accessible but discretely hidden? Do you dust frequently? Does your equipment get adequately cooled with an abundant source of air?

Mine might be considered middle ground tidy. I have gotten better over time. But things are still not as nice as they could be. The main battle of course is organization and tidiness over ease of access. Not to mention returning them to the right spot.....

[Xylob the Destroyer]

Neat and clean.
No cables visible.
No movies, games, or controllers visible.
One remote runs everything, and is usually sitting dead-center in the middle of the couch awaiting my commands!
I dust weekly.
Good cooling with plenty of air flow (still gets quite warm in the room by the end of a movie though!).

[redwudz]

Half way between grunge and I can't find my TV. It's always a work in progress. I need to wrestle the 80 pound TV out so I can access and rearrange the cables from the DVD changers to the switch boxes, the amplifier and the projector hookups. If I had more room, I would have left about four feet behind the cabinet for access.

I did get a big package of zip ties with label tabs on them so I might be able to tell the cables apart next time.

[JohnnyMalaria]

I don't have one.

[yoda313]

If I had more room, I would have left about four feet behind the cabinet for access.

Boy ain't that the truth!! You never have enough access room do you??? Unless you put the whole thing on a giant spin top

[kiki]

Mine is an absolute disaster.
Its amazing it works as well as it does.

kiki

[lacywest]

I've got a fine sounding system ... all Acoustic Research speakers ... Pioneer Receiver VSX-1015TX

Carver Amplifiers for all the channels except the Center Channel ... I even have Rear Back channels

Sony 51" HD TV [no HD tuner] ... Directv HD

........... but at this moment ... ....... one of my 8 cats got behind my TV and stepped on the switch controling one of the breaker outlet boxes and the Back Rear amplifiers are turned off ...

[Noahtuck]

yoda313
Am i sensing a little Deja Vu 8)

[NiteLite]

My pride and joy is my HT setup.
I got it neat, wires hid and arranged in a specially built cabinet I designed and had built along with matching rear speaker stands and center stand even though I have towers all around. (except center - even though it is a 3-way with full sound.) All is in my designed HT room I had built for me and only me.
B&W towers - full range speakers (5) (if "full range" is such a thing ) with a Velodyne sub and about 10 separates run through a Denon command center.
I spend lots of time with it due to some circumstances life has dealt and enjoy both audio and video sources.
I do keep each remote as I can learn them all and run them in the dark by feel of the remote.
I dont like the all in one's as you have to switch functions too often. With separates each unit being used I can feel my way easily through each setting needed without the need for lights or looking at the remote.
It's fun isn't it. Yes, it cost a lot but I dont have other hobbies that demand lots of money and updates. So I splurged on this.
Enjoy and long live SACD & DVD-A
btw recently got the new "David Gilmour" DVD 'Remember The Night - Live At The Royal Albert Hall'. Really worth the price and is amazing. Check it out.
NL

[SatStorm]

Moderately here! I have my home cinema on my living room, a 4x4.5m room. 5-1 speakers (with the subwoofer), LCD 40", 4 DVB recievers (dreambox/dbox/Sky Digibox/homecast HD),DVD player, a HTPC and an old DJ set (turntables, etc). All wired and the cables well hidden. I studied a lot the space and I design and build myself the needed furniture, so to fit all my equipment in the room without became too technology heavy. Actually, I managed to have all those things and not show!
The light FX I want to add to the space, are a little bit more tricky and I have to sit down and think how to set them up. I already have a small disco ball and some flashing lights, and I want to add a strobo light, a laser light and probably a second disco ball, not those with the mirrors, the other ones with the lights. There are also some thoughts to add a few mirrors here and there and some hidden colour lights to "paint" with colours the walls (that's easy, I know about those things).
I'm not satisfied with my HTPC position, which also acts as a virtual DJ console (with a hercules controler). I use virtual DJ to mix the music videos I have collected over the years and project them to my LCD TV.
The DVDs I bought became a problem the last year: I don't have a place to store them. I'm thinking some alternatives right now, like rip them on HDs and watch them from there (and store the originals to closets,etc). I shall see.

My second home cinema set up, is on the bedroom. Actually is my older set up: Only 4 small (and well hidden) speakers, my older 29" TV and an older PC (that I shall replace it with a laptop soon). There are also a DVD, a VCR, a DVB/s and a DVB/T receiver. All are very good placed and don't disturb.

What I don't have set up correct yet, is my main PC. I need something there, to make my home workstation better.

[ssj2_goha]

how bad is it if you have had a "small" fire behind your entertainment center.....

[dcsos]

Have a Sharp projector but live in a one room 'studio' apartment.
I'd have to disassemble my primary computer system and make it into a home theatre, why?

[gadgetguy]

From an equipment standpoint it's pretty clean, but there's always DVD boxes and Video Tapes and mail and magazines and car keys and various other items on top of, around, and between the entertainment stand. So it's clean, but cluttered.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

This thread sounds like a call for a new & improved 'post up some pics of your home theatre' thread.
Most of the pics don't work anymore in the older threads...

[DVO]

Would be fun to see your different solutions, how your HT looks like with pictures

Edit: You read my mind Xylob the Destroyer

[Marvingj]

Moderately, I have too much stuff & not enough room.

[jkleslie]

Mine are well kept.

[dadrab]

I guess I'll fall into the "moderate" catagory. All my components are neatly stacked in an entertainment center along with the TV. All speaker cables are pulled under the house and routed through the walls to their respective destinations, including the sub cable.

All DVDs and VHS tapes are stored in a 125-year-old pine wood cabinet that belonged to my grandfather. It stands about 6' tall and 4' wide. I modded it with some shelving. All CDs (over 800) reside on custom built shelves designed and built by me.

I say "moderate" because the wiring behind all the components is a rats nest. I can usually find what I'm looking for, but that entertainment center was designed to look nice and function about half-assed. What I really need to do is cut some access panels for wiring pre-amps, amps, tuner, turntable (yeah, I said turntable), CD changer, DVD player, etc. outside the confines of the cabinet - you know, just let the wires drape down on the outside rear of the unit. I'm basicallly lazy, though, so rather than move the 400 lb. cabinet, I let it sit and hope nothing overheats.

Too many house projects...

[Epicurus8a]

Moderately so - some rif-raf here and there but overall its clean

[raffie]

My home cinema consists of vintage Pre - and Power Amps with a DVD connected to them. And you can bet that it is placed to allow for good ventilation. 500 Watts RMS power needs that.

(just a pic i found on the net, but to show you what i'm talking about)