Shame to see the HD gaming and AV forum so quiet so I thought I'd have a go at boosting traffic a bit. I know from the last few months having gotten into home theatre and av stuff that there always seems to be more equipment to buy just to make your set up "perfect"...until yet another bit comes along.

For me its either selling my parents my 32" TV and replacing it with a 37-42" LCD (if I were rich it'd be a 42" Pioneer plasma). Though that depends on when my parents decide they want to buy it off me which could be some time. So instead I might look into getting a set of floorstanders to use as my front speakers and move my existing ones around to give me 7.1 sound. Oh, and I may be getting a Wii for my birthday but I'm not totally sure about that yet.

Well I'll be getting a VGA cable pretty soon. Whoopie!

Might be getting a 360 for my birthday too, not thought about it properly yet though.

Haha, exciting stuff. I remember having to order all my cables, its one of those boring necessities. All in all the cables I've bought have probably come to around £40 and I'll be replacing my speaker cable soon too when I redecorate my room so I'm not sure how much it'll cost. Needless to say it's hard to get excited about cables - it's money I'd much rather spend on games or movies, or down the pub.

I'll probably be getting and HDMI cable box next. And of course another expensive HDMI cable. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to get the component cables for the video to switch over through the reciever. So right now I have the video going direct to the TV and the audio going through an optical cable to the reciever. So I have to switch the TV and the reciever, rather inconvient.

TV size is sadly restricted by the TV stand right now. So I can't really do anything about that. But 32" isn't a bad setup anyway. Other than the Cable box I guess maybe a 360 or a Wii will come next. Just not sure which one and when.

I'm not sure where I stand on the issue of expensive HDMI cables. A lot of av enthusiasts swear by them, but the rest reject them outright as a total con. I can understand the point of getting decent speaker cables and things like that, but there seems to be a big dispute about whether the premium HDMI cables are worth the money.

I have three cables, one 1.2m which cost me about £10, and two 2.5m cables which worked out to around £5 each. And whilst they are all relatively cheap, both look fantastic and I can't say I notice the difference between the more expensive one, even with the two 2.5m cables running through the amp.

I remember somebody telling me a while back that they got a HDMI cable for £5 somewhere. Whether or not that's cheap idk I haven't looked into them, but I assume it is otherwise they wouldn't have brought it up. D:

Oh that's cheap, you can pay upwards of £70 for HDMI cables.

Yea, the expensive cables are really just that. Expensive. I have a $90 cable running from the PS3 to the amp and a $60 cable running from the amp to the TV. To be honest though from a consumer perspective the cheaper cables aren't all that bad. The more expensive cables are supposed to have better wiring and insulation. So you have less line noise and ultimately a cleaner picture and sound. But really I don't know if I would notice the difference.

Though to be fair when I bought the $90 cable over a year ago there really weren't to many cheaper alternatives. As for the $60 one well hell I had just spent $550 on the amp and speakers why bother trying to skimp on the cables. I ended up spending another $150 on cables. The optical cable was the only cheap one at about $30.

quote Sphinx

Oh that's cheap, you can pay upwards of £70 for HDMI cables.

New kit on the list, though nothing particularly exciting unfortunately. I'm redecorating my room in a couple of weeks and will be getting a wall bracket to mount my TV, it'll work much better on the wall as it will give a wider viewing angle and will mean that I can have the cables all in one place making it less of a mess.

A new tv, the second HDTV in the house, and its mine all to myself, I'm not sure how big because im getting it for my birthday tomorrow, but my parents have never dissapointed me when it comes to birthday and christmas presents

quote Guugley

Well I'll be getting a VGA cable pretty soon. Whoopie!

Might be getting a 360 for my birthday too, not thought about it properly yet though.

Wow, I had my mind on that since May and still haven't got round to it.
Never did get that 360 for my birthday either. Haha, I seriously need to sort out more stuff.

Yeah I know the feeling. I've not managed to get a wallmount for my tv yet, I'm still in the process of redecorating my room which means I'm sleeping in one of the spare rooms, and all my AV stuff (besides tv and consoles) is packed away until my room is done =(. Though I have just got a Wii to add to the collection, and also just ordered some speaker stands.

When I next get paid the "to buy" list is a wallmount, a wii component cable, new speaker cable, and some LED lighting strips to put behind the telly.

Well I still need a VGA cable, a new computer (This one shuts down by itself which is annoying as *bleep*), a next-gen console and I suppose decent speakers is another possibility. And completely off the topic of the forum, I need a fan - my room is hot as hell.