jlim 78, quite well done esp cabling. Mine is still laying under the carpet. Lazy way

Thanks. I suppost to hack those wall & buried them and ..runs it over plaster ceiling....but then ..when thinkin of future upgrades...its easier to just hide'em in the casing..but the casing (2")hard to close sometimes..cos' i'm running components & 2 16gauge wires in it..

nicey...love it bru.

another good debate

Difference between 1080i or 720p, best be seen using test pattterns. If use movie images, very subjective.

You will get never ending answer..hehe
But i only based on my own perception ..using movie test...nvr seen any pattern test yet.

i prefer 720p..more real like...if use 1080i starin to my eyes...this is on my sony 32 inch lcd...

just tumpang tanya...I am thinking if can set up a HT room with the automation system, whereby when i want to watch movie, i just press 1 button on the switch(let say movie time button) it will help me to dim down the light, roll down my screen, and then roll down my roller blind curtain, on my projector, on my AV equipment, on the air con....everything done auto just with 1 button press.

then after finish the show want to leave the HT room, i press another button, it will roll up the screen, on the light, off the projector and tv and also the other AV equipment. then after i leave the room for 5 minutes, it will turn the light off as well.

wondering if anyone have this kind of set up for their HT room?sound very high tech ho?is it possible to be done?

if u have the mullah anything is possible dude...

Go and for look for AV Design. If not mistaken, they could help you on this. There are some forummers in avsforum that have similar remote. However, prepare to fork out at least a few K for a simple one.

actually i am working on this kind of system right now. because there is one installed at my office. not sure how is the malaysia market demand on such system, bcoz i plan to bring in this kind of system

fuyooo u wan to do biz ar??

target those richie ELITE

sure can do one

My Home Theater setup ( No Pics included .... YET. May have pics next week )


HDTV: Sharp Aquos 42'' A63M 1080p LCD monitor with a 1920x1600 Native resolution.

AV Receiver/Amplifier: Yamaha RX-V663

Networking Device: Aztech 200mbps HL109E Homeplug. This is a ethernet over power line to connect my media streamer to my pc upstairs without having to use a long ugly ethernet cable all the way to the stairs.






Source Device 1: Popcorn Hour Media Extender ( It supports many formats such as MKV, H264, AVI, XVID, Mpeg2, Mpeg 4. I can pass through DTS to my receiver to decode to get DTS support And FLAC seems to work after letting my receiver handle audio processes )

Source Device 2: PS3 ( For Blue Ray games, or to watch Blue Ray movies. However i most likely will not be buying blueray movies as i can download for free online and stream over my popcorn. This is why i will not be using a DVD player for my home theater as all my media are digital format )

Source Device 3: Astro ( Just to watch CNN only until they hop on the 720p bandwagon )







Front Left/Right speakers = MA BR5

Center speakers: BR-LCR

Surround speakers: UNDECIDED whether it will be BR-FX OR BR1

Sub woofer: Using my old Creative Gigaworks S750 instead of the BRW-10 because not enough money to buy it





This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 14 2008, 09:59 AM

Nice.... very nice.....

It would be pretty decent with music too.

What's your source player?

em...now still checking on the price and so on. and also testing on it. dunwan to bring in any product that is not reliable or not stable lo...later my client will curse on me. haha...

but based on my rough calculation, for a AV room set up, automate the lighting, curtain, air con and so on...will cost less than 10k for the product, but not sure for the installation.

btw over in malaysia, is there any AV shop that familiar with doing this kind of system huh?like setting up the HT room

My source will be my Popcorn Hour that will stream media such as videos and music from my computer upstairs using the Aztech 200 MBPS HL109E homeplug.

Flac music files work

*I update the above post to include my other devices.



SKY - When i bought my system, the guy from CJ Audio is coming over to setup my speakers to the receiver for free When i bought my Receiver from Legend i had to pay for them to come over to setup my speakers I should have gotten the people from Yamaha to come as they would know how to setup better.



This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 14 2008, 10:01 AM

Moogle, I'm not that familiar with Popcorn Hour but I have to say it's a bit of a waste based on the AV receiver and speakers that you now have, if you're not using a better source like a proper DVD/Blu-ray player.

I LOL'ed

u need BLU RAY boss

for lossless audio

else u just using 50% of ur equipment

such a waste

*tsk tsk*

I agree that using the PS3 to play an original Blue Ray movie disc to get MA DTS, HD DTS would be the very best solution.

It is possible to download such things online however i think such things would be 10 gig + or something

I am currently downloading 4 gig 720 p or 8 gig 1080p blueray rips I will check online and see if i can find any HD DTS or MA DTS videos to download.



But for Music i think popcorn can stream via HDMI to the Receiver so the quality should be fine right ? The FLAC are lossless encoded with EAC

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 14 2008, 10:04 AM