Building a Home Theatre: Part I - Equipments

Home Theatre October 6th, 2008

On one of my previous posts i mentioned i was building a HTPC. Plans have changed and instead of a HTPC i’ve built up a pure HT gadget network. In this series of article i’ll guide how to setup the Home Theatre.

First let’s look the equipments i gathered & connected while building the HT system.

Equipments:

TV-Set: Sony Bravia KDL-40D3550
HI-FI & DVD Player: Philips HTS6510
Networked Media Tank: Popcorn Hour A-110
Universal Remote Controller: Not yed decided - Will update soon
Surge Protection: Belkin PureAV
WIFI & ADSL: Airties RT-211
Harddisk: Seagate 500GB Sata Harddisk (Plugged-in Popcorn Hour)

Now let’s look at the equipments technical specifications;

TV-Set: Sony Bravia KDL-40D3550

6.2 Mega Pixel resolution
HD 1080p compatibe
2 x HDMI inputs

Product’s website

HI-FI & DVD Player: Philips HTS6510

HD (720p,1080i) Progressive Scan
Ambisound
Output power (RMS) 2×200W + 1×100W
DivX,DivX Ultra,Mpeg1,Mpeg2,DVD

Product’s Website

Media Player: Popcorn Hour A-110

Connectivity; Samba,NFS,FTP,HTTP streaming
Webservices: Youtube, Podcasts, Flickr, RSS Feeds..
Video Containers Supported: MKV, MPEG, AVI,WMV,MOV..
Video Codecs: XVID,MPEG,WMV9,H.264..
Audio containers: AAC, MPEG Audio, WAV,WMA,OGG..
Chip: Sigma Designs SMP8635
Memory: 256MB DDR SDRAM, 32MB Flash
Outputs: HDMI 1.3a (1080p), Componet Video, S-Video, Composite Video, Stereo Analog Audio, S/PDIF Optical Digital Audio
2x USB 2.0 host (placed at front and back panel each)
SATA
Ethernet 10/100