Ok anyway BACK TO TOPIC.

My layout of my theater will look like this.
The center speaker will be on a wall shelf slightly above my HDTV.

The front left and right BR 5 floor stander speakers will be at the sides of the HDTV table.

The surround speakers will be on the wall slightly above our head level when we are sitting. I heard bipolar/dipole speaker setup doesn't require the speaker to be directly facing you to get the surround effect so i hope that is true Can surround speakers be at the back of you ? Or must they be beside you ??? 

S750 Sub Woofer undecided yet where to put since running out of space 

indeed, my cheap draper already showing the V-wave. wrapping is common with retractable screen. but i have no choice...no spare room to use and i still need the TV in the same room. its warranted against wrapping....so i am bringing it back one of these days....after the warranty expire...i am not sure what's the next course of action.

hi hi, cones, ok ok... the sub woofer dun have stand la... that's the reason....
ha ha, dun need to show 3800 la... I'm setting this up in a rush just to test 3800 before the personal warranty given by the seller expired...

My simple HT setup that I built 2 years ago, and needing to be upgraded to 1080p:

1. Yamaha RX-V1600 receiver powering 7.1 Energy speakers.
2. Sony VPL-HS60 projector (want to upgrade to HD 1080p projector when cashflow improves) - screen size is about 100"
3. Pioneer- DV-300 DVD player (to be upgraded to Blu-Ray player in the future, unless I build a HTPC with BD capability)
4. Astro decoder (mostly use it for news, sports and documentaries)
5. HTPC (under construction) - to be used as a DVR, playback of content streamed from my NAS boxes, maybe light gaming?

I'm actually still building and installing software on my HTPC so the area is still messy right now with cables, manuals and stuff.
I only took pictures of the left side of my 7.1 speaker setup, but the right side is basically the same anyway. The Linksys device sitting on top of my subwoofer is actually my Skype/POTS dual-line cordless phone base station. I took the photos when I stopped work on my HTPC to watch the Australian GP

Hwoarang45: Been using it for 2 years now (sometimes up to 4-6 hours a day, but average 2-3 hours per day), no bulb change yet. Only need to change air filter (warning message just popped up), but Sony tech advised me to just wash the filter, and reuse.
What do you mean? Is it a black blind to make the top part of the screen (unused portion) black?

Why people want to run presence? Is it better than surround. I have enuf speakers to try but no cable
So currently I just run 6.1 (single back channel). Nothing impressive la but the surround now sounded fuller compared to 5.1 setup but need to run movies with DDex or DTSes to make use the back channel. If movies with only 5.1 sound, no sound coming from back channel

Anyway, nice setup bro

Not working for me la bro. All my foam using double sided fall off oredi. Now I just roll them to become bass trap. My place got no echo like urs but just need to tame the bass a bit.

my simple DIY

movie's letter box size different at different movie, the velvet mask can be mask according to each movie?means adjustable?

Interesting. It seems they are quite rigid/hard... would that be a good characteristic for a bass trap?