My Home Theatre

My plan to have the perfect (in my eyes anyway) home theatre system

Today I have decided I will reveal my plan to move from a 32" regular TV to an HD digital projector with quality surround sound and an entire room dedicated to movies and video games. I have a vision of sitting in a small re-creation of an actual movie theatre. Right now my current vision is of a converted garage or full basement with three rows of four seats from an actual theatre with drink holders in the arm rests and each row of seats about six inches higher than the row in front of them so as to be recreate real stadium seating. The walls are painted a dark color and are soundproofed so we can have the surround sound turned WAY up. Enough of my fantasies for now though, lets look at some real life hardware that i'm seriously considering:

THE PROJECTOR: Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1080

THE HD-DVD PLAYER: Xbox 360 Elite with accompanying HD-DVD Drive

THE SOUND SYSTEM: Still as of yet undecided, but I think i'm gonna go with something from Panasonic or JVC

     Well, that is the basic foundation of my home theatre system. I think it's a pretty solid foundation. But, this foundation is gonna run about $5000.00 or so to put together so it's also gonna take some time. The projector is the 1st priority followed by the Xbox and HD-DVD Drive as I already have a Sony 5.1 surround sound system.

     As for why I chose those specific components, I have what I think are pretty good reasons:

• The projector has the best ratings in it's class/price range
• The Xbox allows video games AND HD-DVD playback so it's dual purpose
• The sound system will rival that of GOD

     Now, let's get back to a very important aspect of this whole deal. How the hell is a schlubb who makes $13.75/hr going to afford all of this? Well, let's use bullets again, that was cool:

• My wife just graduated from nursing school
• MyCokeRewards - i've been submitting points for a Xbox360
• TransformYourSummer - i've been submitting points for a sound system
• $1,500.00 Dell Credit limit (That will hopefully be raised when I ask!)
• A possible $5,000 bank loan (This is just an idea I haven't ran past the wife yet)

     Two of those are pipe dreams (The soda contests), the first one is just a joke, the loan is most likely also a pipe dream. So the credit limit from Dell is the only thing that is a realistic possibility for me right now. I got that initially so I could buy a nicer widescreen LCD monitor for my computer. Now that I have paid that off though I am going to ask for a credit increase. I don't think they will double it, but i'll take as much as they can give me. Realistically speaking I honestly think i'll have to take a lot of time and build good credit with Dell. The Xbox is more within reach than the projector OR the surround sound system to someone who works a day job and currently supports a family and pays all the bills. That burden will be lightened significantly though as soon as my wife takes up regular work at the local hospital's ER as an RN though.

So that's the plan for now. Once I begin getting regular feedback from all of you who read this changes and revisions will likely be made. I certainly look forward to getting things going on all of this. I feel like it gives me a meaningful (well, meaningful to me anyway) purpose to work towards.

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