Digital Living Room SIX
August 29th, 2005 at 2:49 pm by Christina
Since the beginning of June, we have, including this one, featured six different SnapStream powered digital living rooms. It’s been such a pleasure to see the different HTPC home entertainments centers that our users have put together. We think that it’s great that so many of you have turned our vision of a PC-centric entertainment hub into a reality by setting it up in your own homes and fitting it into your lifestyles.
I’ve enjoyed seeing how all of you have managed to fit your HTPCs so nicely into each of your living rooms, completely taking away the ‘techie’ look away from these systems. It’s hard to even tell which one of the set-top boxes in the current feature, submitted to us by Peter Mier, is actually the HTPC.
I really like the clean lines of Peter’s system. Peter – you’re going to be thrilled when we launch Beyond TV 4 later this year. You’ll get to record and playback HD shows with Beyond TV on that nice Samsung HDTV you’ve got. What bothers me most with entertainment centers are the wires and cords involved. Looks like you’ve somehow managed to get that taken care of in this setup.
Hey folks – keep sending these photos, because WE LOVE ‘EM!
Digital Living Room SIX (8/29/05)
Submitted by Peter Mier
A list of your hardware components
- Samsung HLP5085W 50� DLP HDTV
- Compaq Evo D510 SFF – 2.4GHz/400GB Hard Drive/PVR-500 Dual Tuner/DVD-RW/Creative Audigy USB/Belkin Pre-N Wireless
- Sony DVP-S7700 DVD Player
- Sony STR-DE685 5.1 Surround AV Receiver
- B&W DM602 Series 3 Front Monitors
- Sony Playstation 2
- Motorola DCT-6200 w/ IEEE 1394 Out
- Microsoft Remote Keyboard for Windows XP Media Center Edition
- Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote
A list of your SnapStream components
- Snapstream Beyond TV 3.7
- Snapstream Beyond TV Link (in bedroom and study – not pictured… yet)
- Snapstream Beyond Media Extender (I WISH!!!)
August 29th, 2005 at 3:54 pm
Nice system Peter!
I didn’t even think about all the wires that are required to setup a system like yours! You did a good job of cable management!
Nice BTV skin too!
September 24th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
Hi, im wondering if you could help regarding my Compaq Evo D510 SFF. From your post I have read on the site link below:-
http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/showthread.php?t=14121
You seem to have manage to get your Evo to work very well. Very nice… Im actually very jealous! I tried to upgrade the graphics set-up on mine and installed a 128mbDDR AGP GFORCE FX 5200 8X Card on mine but I seemed to develop many problems with it. For instance the size of the card ment i had to take the metal fixing plate off the card so it would fit my case. Second… I play a lot of DoD (day of defeat) a form of Half Life game, the graphics seemed to be very jumpy and it didnt seem to work at all. My question… how do you manage to use all the add-ons on your machine on a 175W PSU, how well did your Radeon fit in the case, and does it give you good reliabilty in terms of graphics and power. Please could you give me any tips and guidance. I love my Evo but just wish I could expand it and upgrade. I have tried several drivers for the GFORCE card and resulted in selling it to a friend who is having no problems whatsoever with it. Im am still using the on-board card and Compaq tried to help me but it never got sorted.
Thankyou for your patience, and I appologise if this is very long winded. I understand you must be a very busy man but any help will be greatly appreciated.
Marc Bailey.
October 13th, 2005 at 9:32 am
I was begining to wonder if anyone was actually using any of my skins. Your setup looks great
January 17th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Another question for you about the power supply in your Evo D510 SFF.
I’m trying to run a similar setup but having problems with my psu overheating. Any suggestions? Thank You.
April 27th, 2006 at 2:55 am
Heh, yet another question about the power supply
How did you manage to get all of those components working with the standard PSU. Would love any information you have on upgrading the PSU to something more substancial since I cant find anything on the Internet.
PLEASE PLEASE
June 21st, 2006 at 12:03 am
Yea i was thinking of purchasing a pedestal tv but i never know what component rack to get without making the layout look really messy with all the visible wires i cant find a rack that is specific for the samsung maybe im not looking in the right places stantheeman6969@hotmail.com
stan
November 19th, 2006 at 12:45 am
Can you provide some guidlines/details on setup of the Harmony 880 with BTV. I currently control BTV via the firefly remote, but now have the 880 and want to control with that.
Thanks,