This is the early Xmas gift from my wife to me. We have been in this house for 3 years. When we first bought it, I had suggested mounting the TV over the fireplace mantel. She was resistant. Suddenly, out of the blue, she thought 'Lets mount the TV over the mantel.' With the help of Tony Curtis and 'Current Home Technologies' of Vancouver, WA (Shameless plug!), the system was installed in less then 8 hours and looks/sounds great! Throw in the new sound bar, new AV receiver and mounting the rear speakers where they belong, and the system looks/sounds great! It compliments the masonry of the fireplace perfectly. The only problem we have at the moment is how to camouflage the wiring (this house was built in 1976, well before the era of built-in AV systems). If anyone has ideas on how to hide the wiring, please drop a note (the geek in me thinks it is cool, but I have to abide by the home design maven inside my wife).
The next items to add/replace are the DVD player and a DVD/VCR combo (I have a number of HS tapes that I would like to transfer to DVD before they age/break/lost forever).
