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Home remodeling? Might be a good time to run some cables

mrHTN — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:51:46 +0000

I’m in the middle of a big home remodeling project where we’re changing the floors for most of the house. We also decided to paint the whole house and remove the baseboards. The missing baseboards worked out perfectly because it gave me a chance to hide some speaker wires. I just shoved them underneath the drywall, and when we were done painting and tiling, we installed the previous baseboards back with the speaker cables behind them. So for those of you planning on redoing your floors, you might want to think about removing the baseboards. It’s a perfect time to run some hidden Ethernet, speaker, or any other type of cable.

Mitsubishi L65A90 65 Inch LaserVue Rear Projection TV

mrHTN — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:17:54 +0000

1080p
Video Connections: HDMI 1.3 (x4), Component (x2), VGA, Composite (x2)
World’s First Laser-powered Television
15,000:1 contrast ratio
4D Video Noise Reduction Color
Enhanced deep color
Built-in ATSC / QAM / NTSC Tuner
24p playback and smooth 120Hz
3D ready
Uses half the normal power of a LCD and a quarter the power of a typical plasma

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mrHTN — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:57:59 +0000

Samsung HL56A650 56″ DLP Projection TV
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Mitsubishi WD60735 60″ DLP Projection TV
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Samsung HL61A750A 61″ DLP Projection TV
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Mitsubishi WD-73736 73″ DLP Projection TV
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HDMI Wall Plate

worldcupgogogo — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:29:57 +0000

I am planning to have a 2 gang HDMI wall plate mount at my living room, one for my projector @ living room. The other one is connected to my bedroom for my PC (with BluRay Rom). Will the HDMI connector (of wall plate) to cable affect the quality of the signal?