What are you spoiling yourself with this Holiday season?

[plained]

eeyy i got a bluray and watched 1/2 of my first blu ray movie

the new jack bl;ack one

year one

really funny so far!

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

so it was black and blu?

[shaft]

a smaller hdtv to hang on the wall in the office next to my desk

http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/tv-v ... prd_detail

and this... http://www.sanus.com/us/en/products/vis ... mount/ML11

[R00k]

shaft, I remember you had a pretty nice wall-mount for your bigger television, and a nice setup for the cable management and wall plates.

Where did you do your research to find out what companies/components to go with?

[Don Carlos]

New TV today probably...Samsung LED one...maybe...

Got this:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/tvs/revie ... -LCD-TV/p1

Not bad for my xbox set up

[shaft]

@rook

I found most of what I need I crutchfield.com and then compare prices to bestbuy or other online retailers. crutchfield has a pretty good info page. I also read avsforum, but that shit can be dangerous. I found myself nitpicking everything about a new tv over little things i wouldn't even have noticed. As far as the tv mount is my 3rd Sanus mount and I've been pleased with the other two I have, really solid. My last one was articulating, this one will just be mounted flat at desk level so no cable management needed.

Monoprice.com (best site ever) and Home Depot (Leviton) for wall plate stuff I went with open plate behind tv and decora/keystone behind receiver. If you're just running cables a short distance straight down to a/v stand below tv its simple and you can even use an open recessed plate to avoid extra cost of keystone jacks. My a/v stand is way on other side of room so i actually put power right behind tv with THIS and then ran video cables up through attic. I ran an ass load of cables the first time...ive since rewired and just used 2xhdmi and 1 optical back to a video switching a/v receiver. Sorry, I'm rambling..hope that helped.

[YourGrandpa]

I just went to Best Buy and picked up a few things. Got a new hp wireless printer, a set of Razer gaming headphones, a Sony 12.1 mp camera and 8gb SD card.

[YourGrandpa]

thanks matt, the reason being when we move next year i want to redesign my whole entertainment system and get it all plumed in

If you're going in-wall look at Sonance. I've got them for my front stage and they are awesome.

[Silicone_Milk]

wacom tablet, a handful of older PS1 games (Metal Gear, Silent Hill, Parasite Eve, FF7) to play on the PS3.

[tnf]

Still waiting for the 1d mark iv. It's starting to trickle out in a few places around the globe, but not in the states yet. Should be any day now, but who knows how long it will be before I am able to get one even with a pre-order (I was 120th or thereabouts on the list at Adorama - going to try and pick it up somewhere else the day it comes out as well.) Been getting great reviews thus far - just read one from a professional sports photographer who used it at a football game and loved the new AF system. Now I need a 400mm f2.8 to go with it.

[Captain]

Digital camera, USB stick, SDHC card, and a couple games.

[R00k]

@rook

I found most of what I need I crutchfield.com and then compare prices to bestbuy or other online retailers. crutchfield has a pretty good info page. I also read avsforum, but that shit can be dangerous. I found myself nitpicking everything about a new tv over little things i wouldn't even have noticed. As far as the tv mount is my 3rd Sanus mount and I've been pleased with the other two I have, really solid. My last one was articulating, this one will just be mounted flat at desk level so no cable management needed.

Monoprice.com (best site ever) and Home Depot (Leviton) for wall plate stuff I went with open plate behind tv and decora/keystone behind receiver. If you're just running cables a short distance straight down to a/v stand below tv its simple and you can even use an open recessed plate to avoid extra cost of keystone jacks. My a/v stand is way on other side of room so i actually put power right behind tv with THIS and then ran video cables up through attic. I ran an ass load of cables the first time...ive since rewired and just used 2xhdmi and 1 optical back to a video switching a/v receiver. Sorry, I'm rambling..hope that helped.

Perfect, thanks for the info.

I know what you mean about the avsforum. I read some threads there before I bought my tv too, and spending too much time sifting through those just gives way more info than most consumers need. At one point I was certain that I was going to have to hire somebody to come and calibrate my set if I wanted to be satisfied with it -- and this was before I had even settled on a model.

[Geebs]

Heh, I've been shopping around for a couple of studio monitors and the crap that gets posted on the "pro" audio websites about that is ludicrous.

The presbyacusis paradox: by the time you have enough money to afford a really nice set of speakers, you will probably have lost enough of your hearing that you won't really be able to tell the difference....

[plained]

yamaha ns 10's

nang +

theyre like special tho ey thy are like a magnifyer of mids

so you'll need other full rangers too !

[Giraffe }{unter]

Picked this up the other day for my garage. I'm going to eventually nail the side drawers and the top chest.

[Nightshade]

Got myself a JVC HD pocket camcorder with an 8Gb SDHC card.

[axbaby]

i am spoiling my lungs .. smoke free for 8 days.
it's hell

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

right

[plained]

got myself a huge massive natural peanut butter from costco!

ho man but i'm so thin!

[obsidian]

I haven't bought anything really big this year. Biggest purchase was on a new router. Sale at $230 - $80 = $150 (wooo... big spender!)

http://www.linksysbycisco.com/CA/en/products/WRT610N

[axbaby]

it's the woman who begged me to stop .. either quit smoking or quit her.
she's 22 so i don't want to fuck up this good time.

[Fender]

I haven't bought anything really big this year. Biggest purchase was on a new router. Sale at $230 - $80 = $150 (wooo... big spender!)

http://www.linksysbycisco.com/CA/en/products/WRT610N

dual band... interesting. still $150 is kinda steep for a home router

[shaft]

a smaller hdtv to hang on the wall in the office next to my desk

http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/tv-v ... prd_detail

and this... http://www.sanus.com/us/en/products/vis ... mount/ML11

time to calibrate
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[axbaby]

shaft i knew there was something nasty about you .. Lefty

use the bigger monitor in the middle .. no?

[shaft]

i dont plan on using the tv as a monitor unless i get rid of one of the 24's. the tv was more for 360/ps3.