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[sunfire7]

I also want to show but it's not ready yet!

 

[bawheid]

Perhaps a little "college-y" as someone stated earlier in the thread, but it serves me well. It doesn't look *that* bad when the speaker grilles are on.

EDIT: Oops, almost forgot the all important inside shots:

Specs:

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.80 GHz

Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H

RAM: 8.00 GB Corsair Vengeance

HDD: 128GB Crucial M4, plus another 25 TB in media storage

GFX-Card: AMD Radeon HD 6450

HTPC Case: OrigenAE S16V

Remote: Logitech Harmony 1100

Display: Samsung UE55ES8000

 

[Dadeo]

Been looking around and one thing I noticed we don't have here is a thread for people to show off their setups so I decided to create one.

The reason you didn't find a thread is because we have a Showroom section in the wiki.
Those showroom pages average about 20K hits per page (as opposed to the 2K views for this whole thread).
So if you really wanna show off.... @robbo100 and @lisag can help you add your showroom to the Wiki.
We have some more plans, but not telling yet you'll find out in the New Year.

 

[powermarcel10]

The reason you didn't find a thread is because we have a Showroom section in the wiki.
Those showroom pages average about 20K hits per page (as opposed to the 2K views for this whole thread).
So if you really wanna show off.... @robbo100 and @lisag can help you add your showroom to the Wiki.
We have some more plans, but not telling yet you'll find out in the New Year.

But like I said in post #2, we have also our completed htpc projects forum.. So isnt that the rjght place to post this kind of things?

 

[Dadeo]

Sorry I'm not sure what you mean by 'right place' powermarcel10 - ofc you have options. My point was that if you want to 'show off' and reach the most users the best is:

• a blog on our HP like XBMC posts weekly
• wiki show room page
• forum thread

Forum is great for discussion but Forum software is not designed for good presentation. Imo the above posts don't really do justice to the term 'show off'.

 

[SpudR]

@bawheid - are you nocturnal or a vampire?
I guess you are single then - you really need to get some light in that place!
(I realise of course, that most of us geeks burn in the daylight anyway )

And permission from the significant other? - Just pass her the nearest fluffy object (ferret) to cuddle and TELL her you are going to buy some stuff - that way, when she hits you, she already has something in her hand that wont cause too much bruising!

 

[kiwijunglist]

I'll look at setting up some kinda of gallery on facebook to encourage people to upload a photo of their setup + tag themselves sometime next year. I think this is a good way to get friends of friends exposed to mediaportal on facebook.[DOUBLEPOST=1356124248][/DOUBLEPOST]

• a blog on our HP like XBMC posts weekly

blog is a good idea if someone has some crazy themed all out htpc room, have seen a couple of these picked up by engadget or similar etc...
remember that htpc stargate pyramid from a couple of years ago, I bet that generated a lot of web traffic

 

[bawheid]

@bawheid - are you nocturnal or a vampire?
I guess you are single then - you really need to get some light in that place!
(I realise of course, that most of us geeks burn in the daylight anyway )

Nah, got a girlfriend and planning to move in early in the new year! It's actually not as dark as it looks, especially with the amount of light thrown out by the TV. They were taken with a phone camera and lowlight ain't exactly their speciality.

She's actually pretty decent about it. It's surprisingly easy to convince her how we "need" a 55" in place of the current 40" and how we "need" a good sound system because that's half of high definition, don't you know?

 

[SpudR]

Marry her!
lol

 

[bawheid]

Marry her!
lol

Shh - don't give her any more ideas!