After seeing how stylish, tiny, and yet unstackable the Boxee box’s design is, the staff had a lively debate about the growing number of boxes sitting underneath our TVs. How many do you have, and how many is too many?
I’ve only got an Xbox 360, PS2 (sometimes you just need a little Sly Cooper, nah mean?), and a Roku, but others on staff have all three current-gen consoles, Blu-ray players, HTPCs and all kinds of other things—so where does it stop? How many is too many?
Peter McHardy
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 4:42 PM42 … Everyone knows that … don’t they?
James McClimont
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 5:01 PMDesktop PC, NAS, WDTV Live, Wii, Receiver, Xbox 360, UPS oh and a 10/100 switch.
Jazzy
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 5:03 PM- Xbxo360
- Tivo
- Wii
- DVD Player
- Denon AMP
*Soon to be PS3….
Just a couple ;)
Tristan
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 5:20 PM7… Wish I could have just 4 (just to look neat)… Tivo, PS3, 360, Sling Box, AppleTV, Amp and HTPC
Lucas F
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 5:48 PMUnder my TV I have a power amplifier, 32 channel stereo equaliser, a mixing desk – all audio gear…and a set top box. All the other boxes aren’t neccessary because of VGA cable from my desktop to the TV. Don’t own any consoles. I guess it just comes down to two things…what you like to use…and the way you like to use it.
Sam Testa
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 6:00 PMThe theater room has 3 (PC, surround sound amp and PS2).
Main room has 2 (Apple TV and DVD/surround sound)
Bedroom has 1 (Wii)
Although this makes me want to pull out the old NES and plug it in somewhere.
Jubbin Grewal
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 6:26 PMIts not really a problem of boxes… but wires. Each Box has MANY wires and it just starts being a mess. When will they perfect wireless boxes… then you can stop worrying about that.
Adam
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 6:45 PMAny is too many. I’ve found it’s more and more worth it just to run a computer as a streaming television/games console, media centre and work-horse.
Or split the tasks among multiple computers.
Matt
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 6:48 PM1 is too many, it should all be in the tv, net connected
Adam
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 8:59 PMI have a Austar Wii 360 and a PS3
Adrian Rundle
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 9:46 PMdepends on the size of your entertainment unit.
or units, as the case maybe.
only have a HTPC, 360, amp, 50inch plasma, and center.
BUT i do have a 42RU rack under my stairs. so Nah!
markoos
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 10:06 PMxbox 360, wii in the loungeroom, WDTV in the bedroom.
matt
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 11:32 PMPersonally, too many is when you have to get one of those damn input switcher boxes cause you’ve run out of inputs. otherwise, how can you have too many??
Joe
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 11:37 AMAll my stuff is in the garage and is wired into the lounge through cabling in the walls.
In the garage there is:
- Control 4 Controller
- Control 4 Amp
- Denon Amp
- Denon DVD player
- 2x Austar Boxes
- Digital Tuner
- PVR
- 10/100/1000 Ethernet switch
- 500 GB HD
- Blu-Ray player