Anybody see the DIY Network home theater shows Thursday nite?

[muncybob]

I thought they were well done..3 1/2 hour shows from installation to calibration. At the end of one show they showed MLB pitcher Danny Graves set up...SWEET!!...of course they said he sunk $6 figures into it!

 

[bigpapa]

Yeah, I say it a few months ago. Well done.

Lots of good info... something I'd show to my techs as training.

 

[ragged]

Yeah I taped it. i twas pretty good, especially how to do your own floatign floor. The info about tv's at the beginning seemed a bit dated, especially knocking the lcd tv's, but good overall.

Was it just me, or couldn't the home owner have spent a little more and got a decent storage system? All that money on the room and equipment and end up with homemade plywood shelves? That swivel equipment rack was awesome!

 

[tomd51]

I DVR'ed these a couple of weeks ago to see if I could pick up any ideas. Danny Graves' setup was pretty sweet. Leskanic's was pretty impressive as well, though for the kind of dough he plunked down, he could've gotten some more comfortable seating. Alex Trebeck's was very nice also. Not my style, but it was well done.

There is some good information on those shows for folks starting from scratch as well as those just getting into home theater. I do think it's a little ridiculous that on the DIY channel the one home owner they follow throughout the shows is a fairly expensive setup (e.g., sound dampening insulation & flooring, RBH 5. 2 or 7.2, can't recall which, etc.). Granted, they did give some suggestions on cheaper solutions than what they were doing, but they were few and far between. Maybe it's just me, but I thought it might be more geared to those with more realistic budgets than two MLB pitchers, a famous game show host and a regular Joe with about a 50,000.00 budget...

Good shows, though. I may see if I can burn these to VCD/DVD for later reference when others need some ideas... -TD

 

[majorloser]

Some of the stuff they show is way beyond DIY and some of the stuff is just stupid cheap. They spend all that time isolating the walls, floors and ceiling than build some cheap speaker stand or trap

I watch the show for ideas for my next build. It's good to see some of the professional installations, though.

 

[MDS]

I caught a show like that just the another night. The episode I saw was a room built for ex football player Fuad Reveiz (spelling?). He went with a large CRT HDTV and two 27" TVs above the large screen and his total was about $8K. The expert recommended the CRT over the plasma because his kids play a lot of video games and he felt the plasma would be susceptible to burn-in. I thought that was interesting because I would think a rear projection CRT would be just as susceptible to burn-in as a plasma.

In that same episode, they built a room with the floating floor and walls ('room within a room') like was mentioned above, but the homeowner was a regular guy named Peter, not a celebrity. I thought it was pretty well done considering you can't cram a whole lot of technical information into a 30 minute episode.

 

[tomd51]

That's one of the four or five episodes that make up the DIY Home Theater series. They do give some good ideas and even if they don't show you a cheaper alternative, it's not terribly difficult to think of a similar solution.

What's funny about them having Fuad do that show is that he's done other specials for DIY, I watched a couple of them a year or two ago, so he's not necessarily your "average Joe" doing some home improvement, he's very skilled, could probably have done that for a living if he didn't kick so well... -TD

 

[Hi Ho]

I would have loved to see those shows but I don't get the DIY network.