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It’s that time again. We’ve posted a new living room in the SnapStream Digital Living Room Showcase.

This one features a home theater room with a 100″ projection screen. It was submitted to us by StanP via Flickr. He has a dual-tuner PVR that uses Beyond TV, a Hauppauge PVR 500MCE TV Tuner card and a Firefly PC Remote.

Want to submit your living room? Submit your digital living room now.

Digital Living Room Three (7/8/05)
Submitted via Flickr by: StanP

This SnapStream living room setup features a 100″ projection screen,
with the touch screen on the left doubling as a remote.

Components

• Shuttle PC – P4 3.00Ghz
• HT
  Proxima DP 9295 Projector – 4100 Lumens
• Elo Touch Screen Monitor
• DaLite 100â€? Cinema Contour Frame – Pro-Trim Finish – High Contrast Screen
• nVidia GeForce 6800

• SnapStream Beyond TV 3.5.3
• Hauppauge 500-MCE
• Firefly PC Remote

Just a quick note that a new featured living room has been posted in our Digital Living Room Showcase.

Thanks to all those who have submitted photos so far. The response to this project has been great! I wasn’t so sure about incoporating Flickr at first, but looks like people have really taken on to it.

With the response so far, it seems like that the Digital Living Room Showcase may end up being an ongoing project for us, so keep those photos coming!

Digital Living Room Two (6/23/05)
Submitted via Flickr by: Torpdude

“My living room is so cool because: I have access to whatever media I want whenever I want it and my wife is still happy too.”

Components

Equipment:

• Dell 42″ EDTV plasma
• Sony DTS Receiver
• Polk Audio RM6005 satellites
• Quest Subwoofer
• Bell Expressvu
• Hauppauge MediaMVP

Snapstream Components:

• Server: DFI K8M800-MLV, A64 2800+
• BFG 6600GT OC
• M-Audio Revo 7.1
• (2x) Seagate 80Gb (Raid 0)
• 120Gb Maxtor PATA
• 160Gb Seagate PATA external
• PVR-250
• Sapphire Theatrix
• LG GSA-4163B
• Coolermaster ATC-620
• 27″ Sony Flat Trinitron
• USBUIRT
• BEV

Client:

• Biostar M7VIZ
• Sempron 2400+
• AIW 9600XT
• Chaintech AV710
• 30Gb Maxtor PATA
• LG GSA-4040
• Really crappy case and monitor
• Link

Client:

• Hauppauge MediaMVP w/ BTV plugin
• Dell W4200ED Plasma
• Sony DTS Receiver
• Polk Audio RM6005 Speakers
• BEV

See the first of a series of SnapStream living rooms in our Digital Living Room Showcase. As mentioned in a previous post, the showcase will feature a series of living rooms using SnapStream Media products. A new living room will be highlighted about once every two weeks.

It’s not too late. Submit your living room today.

Featured Living Room One (6/9/05)
Submitted by: Percy Bell

Here is my current HTPC running Beyond TV and Beyond Media. It is a 4 tuner monster with over 1 TB of drive space. I have another 480 GB of drive space accessible over GigaBit from my BTV Link Box in the Bedroom. I use that box to store all my DVD’s while I record my TV on this one. I need alot of space to record the shows that I record on this box hence the large drives!

COMPONENTS:

• Beyond Media on my Panasonic PT-50LC13 50″ HDTV via RGB
• AMD XP2600+, 1GB, 1040GB HD, Running Dual PVR250 recording DirecTV and Dual "other" tuners
  recording "other" content.
• DSL Router, Wireless G Router, and GigaBit Switch
• Kenwood Surround Sound Receiver connected to my PC via SPDIF
• HD DirecTV Receiver
• Samsung HD DirecTV Receiver
• Direct TiVo used for Comparisons
• Kenwood Mini Disc Player/Recorder
• Sony 5 Disc DVD Changer
• Kenwood 200 Disc CD Changer
• Legacy Sony VCR (for old tapes)
• Xbox

We’re working on a project that shows off living room systems powered by SnapStream Media products. We will launch a new page in the community section of our website in the near future that will feature a series of exceptional SnapStream living room systems.

If you’re a SnapStream Media user and you fancy showing off your SnapStream living room, then you can either email the items listed below to MyLivingRoom@snapstream.com or upload them to the SnapStream Living Room PCs group on Flickr.

Please include the following items with your submission…

- Photos of your living room setup with a minimum resolution of 800×600
- A short description of why your living room is just that cool
- A list of your hardware components
- A list of your SnapStream components

To Submit Via Flickr…

1. Login to or create a free Flickr account
2. Join the SnapStream Living Room PCs group
   (once you log in, click on “Your Groups” and search for SnapStream)
3. Upload your photos
4. Associate the photographs with the SnapStream group
   (click on “Organize”, then drag & drop your photos into the SnapStream group)

Here’s a sample of a Digital Living Room Entry…

(Submitted by: PBMax via Flickr)

To be considered as a feature living room in the first round of our digital living room showcase. Please submit your photos by Monday, June 6th.