Equipment:

• Monitor
  • JVC HD-70FH97 LCoS rear projection television with the matching stand (RK-CEXL7)
• Speakers
  • Linn AV 5140 speakers for the corners, AV 5120 center speaker
  • Sunfire True Subwoofer Mk II
• Components
  • Denon AVR-5600 - We've had this A/V receiver since 1999 and it's been a great unit, but with the dawn of hidef and digital video, it's time to upgrade.
  • Toshiba HD-A20 HD-DVD Player (v2.2 firmware)
  • DishPVR DISH Network Receiver (Model # DISHPVR508)
  • XBOX 360 Elite
  • Home Theater PC
    • Zalman HD160XT Rev 2.0 Home Theatre PC Enclosure
      • Ver 2.0.2.2 (2007.07.10) drivers
    • Corsair HX520W Modular Power Supply
    • AMD 4800+Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor
    • Zalman CNPS9500 AM2 Ultra Quiet CPU Cooler
    • ASUS M2N32 SLI Deluxe motherboard
    • ASUS EN8600GT Silent video card
      • nVidia ForceWare Release 162 (162.22 WHQL) driver
    • 2GB Corsair XMS2DHX PC2-6400 800MHz RAM
    • Seagate ST3750640AS 750GB SATA/300 Barracuda 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
    • Pioneer DVR-1810 Internal DVD/CD Writer
    • Windows Vista Ultimate
    • Beyond TV v4.61 from SnapStream Media for TV (OTA antenna)
    • Vista Media Center (VMC) for everything else
    • HDHomeRun ATSC/QAM tuner from Silicon Dust

Considering:

• Receivers (need to replace the aging AVR-5600 to improve video switching - it's too hard right now)
  • Integra DTR-8.8 (top contender due to the Silicon Optix ReonHQV video processor)
  • Denon 4308ci
  • Denon 3808ci
• Game Consoles
  • Sony Playstation 3 (good Blu-Ray player plus games to boot)
  • Nintendo Wii (lots of fun for the whole family
• HD TV Receivers
  • Comments:
    • I'd prefer a card for my HTPC so I could have a single DVR, but it doesn't look like that is an option (grr).
    • A downside to the current configuration (and most of the options offered by providers) is that recorded content can't be served to other locations.  If I could consolidate everything onto my HTPC, I could build/buy more HTPCs for other locations and install Beyond TV Link to stream video from the unit in the home theater.
  • DISH Network HD DVR
    • Easiest move since I've been with DISH for a very long time.
    • They also seem to have one of the largest selections of HD content.
    • I'd probably have to swap out my other receivers (3 of them) and upgrade to DISH 1000 (I'm currently got a DISH 500)
    • I also need a 5th receiver.
    • Upgrading to HD likely means I'll go from ~$55 to close to $75 or more.
  • Comcast HD DVR
    • This would mean dropping the dish.
    • Lots of HD choices and I've heard good things about them from colleagues.
    • Likely a more expensive proposition than DISH, but maybe not.
  • Verizon FiOS TV
    • FiOS is being run in my neighborhood at the moment, but TV is not yet available.

 Maybe I'll get some pictures up at some point.

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