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Wall-Mounted Flat Screens: Hiding the Cable Box

B.Greenway — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:06:24 +0000

What I want to tackle today was one of the most asked questions after the original article, simply put: Where does the cable box go? Innocuous enough question but the answer could spiral into a lengthy conversation and I wanted to give the topic its own space, apart from the original post.

Wall-Mounted Flat Screens: Hiding the Cable Box

How to: Wall mounting a LCD or Plasma

B.Greenway — Mon, 29 May 2006 12:17:12 +0000

Over the weekend I helped a friend wall mount a Panasonic LCD and thought to myself, hey why not take a few pictures and post an illustrated how-to guide on this. I think it turned out quite nicely here are some before and after shots.

How to: Wall mounting a LCD or Plasma

Retrofit wiring solutions: Wiretracks

B.Greenway — Thu, 25 May 2006 16:05:31 +0000

At the risk of opening the proverbial Pandora’s Box; I want to point out a few rather ingenious ideas for hiding wiring, in post-construction home theater applications. Wiretracks offers several different product lines to this end but the one that caught my eye was Wiretracks New Construction, which allow for pre-construction built-in wire and cable [...]

Retrofit wiring solutions: Wiretracks

Component, DVI and HDMI over CAT-5

B.Greenway — Mon, 22 May 2006 16:58:19 +0000

Now this post might not be of much interest to those of you with easily accessible, free standing home theater systems but for those of you with multi-room video needs or those wanting to add DVI/HDMI cabling to projector after the fact, take note. You might have resigned yourself to the fact that if component, [...]

Component, DVI and HDMI over CAT-5

Mile high screens, what’s wrong with this picture

B.Greenway — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:34:59 +0000

Ok pet peeve time again. I see this all the time whether it’s in print ad’s or in pre-existing installs that we’ve inherited and it’s annoying as hell. What I’m talking about is projection screens, LCD’s, or Plasmas that are mounted way too high on the wall. I’d like to show you a few examples [...]

Mile high screens, what’s wrong with this picture

Inputs outputs and headaches

B.Greenway — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 12:16:35 +0000

Undoubtedly many of the gifts our readers gave and received yesterday were home theater related, as consumer electronics topped the handy little app for determining what goes where on the back of that new surround sound receiver. Speaking of hooking up new surround receivers, you’d be surprised how useful some white vinyl tape and a [...]

Inputs outputs and headaches

Lakewood HV-4, 4” cooling fan

B.Greenway — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:28:24 +0000

Yeah I know, what does a small fan have to with home theater? Well if you’ve ever tried to install a rack full of gear in an enclosed space, you already know that heat dispersion is priority one once you get 5 or 6 pieces of A/V gear bunched up together without direct ventilation. I [...]

Lakewood HV-4, 4” cooling fan

Lights, Camera display, action!

B.Greenway — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:32:55 +0000

Lights, ~~Camera~~ display, action!

The invisible theater, no seriously

B.Greenway — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:00:59 +0000

The invisible theater, no seriously

How to Install an IR repeater system

B.Greenway — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:11:40 +0000

How to Install an IR repeater system

Installing in-wall/ceiling speakers

B.Greenway — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:07:16 +0000

Installing in-wall/ceiling speakers

Home theater projector installation

B.Greenway — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:32:58 +0000

Of all the things a do it yourselfer is likely to have problems with, surely somewhere near the top of the list would be installing and aligning a video projector. In the immortal words of AC/DC, “For those about to rock, we salute you.” For the purposes of this article we’ll assume your projector will [...]

Home theater projector installation

Choosing the right Home Theater installer

B.Greenway — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:23:49 +0000

Choosing the right Home Theater installer

Home Theater Subwoofer Setup

B.Greenway — Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:10:44 +0000

More often than not, the number one piece of home theater gear I see setup incorrectly is the subwoofer. I’m not sure if it’s the fact that by and large subwoofers are new to the majority of first time home theater owners or that there is so much misconception about how their supposed to work in general.

Home Theater Subwoofer Setup

Home Theater design and schematic software, it’s easier than it sounds

B.Greenway — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:53:28 +0000

Home Theater design and schematic software, it’s easier than it sounds