There’s nothing fancy about this idea for a home theatre, but it’s a very clever way to save space in a small house, using the dead space under the stairs to store a ton of tech gear.
The setup was built by Jason Swell, who thought that this was the best way to place his 50-inch Samsung HLR5078W DLP projection television, along with a Dual-Core Mac Mini, Series 2 Tivo and Comcast HD STB. And rightly so, because it not only saves space, but places the screen at a good distance to watch from the sofas.
The stair hides even more high tech stuff behind that screen: A 1TB hard-drive array, an audio amplifier, the 30Mb/s FIOS connection, an EyeTV 500 HD tuner and a UPS unit. In fact, he uses five tuners and he is able to record three shows concurrently while watching a fourth. [Flickr via Unplggd]
Joshua Beniston
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 9:25 AMthis may be a silly question or statement but i do not see a door to get to any of the gear. Do you have to remove the lot to get to the back of it?
What about heat issues, how are they solved?
AnthonyP
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 9:33 AMSorry, but the screen is too far away to watch HD TV correctly. And the TV in not centred for the viewer.
matt
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 10:28 AMGood idea for what it is.
that exact setup wouldn’t be ideal for a proper 5.1 setup, and probably isn’t the best acoustic environment, but its clear they don’t care about this.
the simple fact of the matter is they WALL MOUNTED A REAR PRO TV!
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Darius
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 10:54 AMIs there REALLY that much good stuff on that you have to record 3 shows while watching a fourth?
Really? srsly u guys. srsly