How Many Is Too Many Boxes In Your Entertainment Center?
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?
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42 … Everyone knows that … don’t they?
Desktop PC, NAS, WDTV Live, Wii, Receiver, Xbox 360, UPS oh and a 10/100 switch.
- Xbxo360
- Tivo
- Wii
- DVD Player
- Denon AMP
*Soon to be PS3….
Just a couple ;)
7… Wish I could have just 4 (just to look neat)… Tivo, PS3, 360, Sling Box, AppleTV, Amp and HTPC
Under 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.
The 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.
Its 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.
Any 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.
1 is too many, it should all be in the tv, net connected
I have a Austar Wii 360 and a PS3
depends 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!
xbox 360, wii in the loungeroom, WDTV in the bedroom.
Personally, 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??
All 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