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Old 03-08-2009, 11:12 AM   #61
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Location: Virginia, USA
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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety View Post
Well .... let's do a little inventory while I am lying here in bed ...

1 in the master bedroom,
1 in the master bath,
1 in the kitchen
1 in the great room
2 in the office (at the moment ... I'm going to give one away soon)
1 in the media room (big screen ... 50 inch)
2 in the guest suite
1 in the garage and
1 in the second garage.

So .... that makes 11 TVs. Yes, I like watching TV and movies. Only 4 of the TVs are actually networked together. I have TIVOs attached to those sets.

It's not as odd as it might seem. When I'm cleaning house, I like to have all the sets on and tuned to the same channel so I can move from room to room and still follow what's going on. It works pretty well, unless I accidentally have one or more of the TIVO'd sets running through the TIVO because that sets up a slight delay and I get a weird echo from those sets.
Reads like a good plan. We have Verizon FiOS so we can record and play back from multiple locations. There are two head-end units and a number of flat screens around. I have also interconnected the computer monitors so they can be used for viewing. Also with the amount of old shows available through Hulu and the like I can now run the system backwards and view on a TV material downloaded through a computer.

I have hooked up a video media server to complement the existing audio server (with my library of music and old time radio shows) but other than instructional videos (like my wife's sewing/quilting/needlepoint/etc) this will be mostly a dump-watch-erase as we are not big on watching the same thing over-and-over again. (Two exceptions: the film Blazing Saddles and the original Monty Python television series.)

I recently got a few of these small (~3"x5") color LCD screens that will make great drop-in viewers in underserved areas of the house.
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