Allow me some self indulgence, I'm proud of this

s--k

s--k

Goodbye to Romance College Football
We moved last year, so I redid the TV layout! This is year 2 of it.

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It is too much for some people. Other people try and talk during games, which there isn't much time for talking because you are always reacting to something on the TV. You also forget alot, because you just go from one play to the next while not necessarily remembering what you just saw. But it is pretty awesome! Looks a little silly though when it is not football season.

The prior set up was on big 55" rear projection TV and 4 25-27" tube TVs around plus some random 19" TV.
 
Love it s-k, very well designed ... impressive
:badass:


Showed it my wife (Sippi on CTG) and she said "damn he's beatin us" (she tends to be competitive lol)
We have outdoor deck half covered where a 50" and two 32" flat screens are and love it
Deck faces west, the sunset views are pretty awesome
 
CHSGTMD said:
Love it s-k, very well designed ... impressive
:badass:


Showed it my wife (Sippi on CTG) and she said "damn he's beatin us" (she tends to be competitive lol)
We have outdoor deck half covered where a 50" and two 32" flat screens are and love it
Deck faces west, the sunset views are pretty awesome
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You should post a pic. Bet that is a nice place to hang out!
 
Get funny reactions from people who see it for the first time.

Once a friend of my wife came down right before 12:00 kickoffs and she said "wow you can watch porn down here!" Any other time I'd be like 'hey now you should come over more often', but it was right before the day kicked off. I was like "no way football is better than porn"...atleast on Saturdays...what are doing later baby...LOL I didn't say that though, wife wouldn't take kindly to that!
 
That is a great set up. I go to a local book which basically allows me to do what you are doing. Once you do have that many games on at once, it is very difficult to spend a Saturday watching a single game on a big screen or something lame like that.

Very jealous of what you have going on there.
 
clowncar said:
And tell me the wife did that nice vacuuming job.
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LOL I do most of the cleaning. Although right now she is outside doing leafs and mowing while I get ready for NFL and NASCAR!

She bets with me, not like it matters if she wins or loses. I figure the more I can get her into football the better for me. She is the best.
 
s--k said:
LOL I do most of the cleaning. Although right now she is outside doing leafs and mowing while I get ready for NFL and NASCAR!

She bets with me, not like it matters if she wins or loses. I figure the more I can get her into football the better for me. She is the best.
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She sounds like a gem. Jealous of that too.
 
So awesome. :cheers3:


Nominated for Capping Command Center of the year for the 2016 CTG awards.
 
Year 2? Let me guess -- this is the first time you ever had all eight TVs without a commercial on any, and that's why you finally snapped the photo for us!
 
Yesterday I was watching a game on my computer and phone plus the 8 TVs. Saturday is pretty crazy keeping up with everything. Sunday they all don't get used as I only have 3 Directv receivers and then we add a basic cable service just Sept - January for 4 of the other TVs. One TV is dedicated antenna, although antenna is input to 3 TVs, so if there is a game on local TV we can push the Directv receiver to a different TV for a BTN or some other regional sports channel that we only get on Directv. Directv charges $6 a receiver per month so I really don't want 8 of those. Nice thing with the cable TV is that we can cancel it after a the fall. Directv doesn't let you turnoff certain receivers any more, you'd have to "suspend or vacation" the whole service. Having the antenna is nice, alot of cfb is on network type channels.


I posted the old layout setup a few years ago. I remember everyone loved the little TV, I think that was a different little TV than the one shown in this one setup. I didn't want to post it just to say 'look what I have', but I wanted you guys to see it. I'm sure others have multi-TV setups I'd like to see those as well.
 
And am looking into a 96"-102" screen using a projector and theater seating. Maybe I should rethink this.....
 
ProV1Colt said:
And am looking into a 96"-102" screen using a projector and theater seating. Maybe I should rethink this.....
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I assume you could divide the projector output into different screens/channels? If so that would be sweet. Sometimes, you just don't need more than 1 TV really. So if there is just 1 game on then you have the entire screen for that, or if there are a couple games on, you split the projection output to show them all on the screen. You may be able to divide the output into as many as 6-8 screens/channels I'm guessing as long as you have that many inputs. I am out of my knowledge base here, I don't know anything about projection units. But that would be more versatile for nonsporting events like movies and stuff I imagine.

Alot of people told me I should do 1 big TV (like a 70" or something) and then do all my small TVs around it. But we all know that there are plenty of times that you want more than just 1 game on the "main" TV, so having two "main" TVs is what i wanted from the start.

These two big ones are 60" and then the middle ones are 39-40". I forget the size of the old one on the floor and the smaller ones over the big ones are 32" I think.
 
In my previous residence, I split cable and 4 tv's on sat afternoons. On New Year's Day I sometimes got up to six. My arrangement was very primitive compared to yours, and this was before the espnU's espnnews, cbssn, NBC SN etc.

your arrangement is professional quality, and just awesome. Like me, you probably have sound muted? :cheers3:
 
M.W. said:
Year 2? Let me guess -- this is the first time you ever had all eight TVs without a commercial on any, and that's why you finally snapped the photo for us!
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I used to bet with a friend that there would or would not be a commercial on all 4 of my sets in a 45 minute period. Just added a little spice to the day. I think commercials on all 4tv's at once won more than it lost.
 
Controlling the volume is the hardest part. Because, you want to hear some things or critical moments or replays or whatever. The volume can be controlled on all 8 independently with 8 different remotes. The volume on the left and right upper on the TV is 100 and the volume on the top middle and second from the bottom middle is 100. Then I can control the volume to those TVs via the cable box behind the TV, each cable box remote can assign a unique rf. There is electrical tape over the ir sensor on those TVs as I was getting problems from remotes controlling them that were not supposed to. The left 60" is an LG, the right is a Samsung. The directv remote controls those flawlessly. The middle 40" is a Sony and that uses the Sony remote for the audio, but an old school stand alone directv receiver and remote. It can also be antenna input only. The bottom TV is only connected to Directv. So if the Sony is on, it has to be on antenna and the floor TV can be on Directv. On a day like Sunday the bottom TV isn't used and I send the directv signal to the Sony.

It works really well, except for the times that there are more games I'm interested than there are TVs, but with so many games on TV at once these days, you can never have them all on at once. Not counting overlaps, there were 17 televised games kicking off between 3:00 and 5:30 eastern yesterday. That's not counting PAC 12 Network which I don't get and the espn3 games which you can watch on the laptop or phone. Alot of football to try and consume at once.
 
Great setup, I run 3 all at once and for March Madness I bring in a 4th from upstairs. My problem is that I have comcast which requires a box for every tv. I would like to add a 4th permanently but all the boxes at $20 a month just gets ridiculous. Showed it to the wife via text, she responded with. "NO"
 
Great setup, I run 3 all at once and for March Madness I bring in a 4th from upstairs. My problem is that I have comcast which requires a box for every tv. I would like to add a 4th permanently but all the boxes at $20 a month just gets ridiculous. Showed it to the wife via text, she responded with. "NO"
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Our cable company is a smaller regional that charges $3.50 per box. Directv is $6.50 each I think. $20 is steep!

Why don't you look into an HD antenna. I'm not sure about the table top type how good they work, but we have a medium size one in our attic (not as big as the real old ones people had on roofs). Lowes had a made in USA one for like $99. The over the air HD signal is great, you can't tell one difference between it and the Directv or our cable HD. You just run a coax from the antenna to the TV (or to a splitter and then to multiple TVs). Obviously the antenna only works for Network Channels, but you could use it for CBS basketball games and your comcast boxes could do the BTN/PAC12/ESPN/TBS/TNT/TruTV channels or whatever they put those games on. Would gain you an extra TV for basketball. Antenna is a good option for college football since NBC, CBS, ABC and even some weird CW or other ABC afilliate over the air has football on throughout the day.

Yes that is the basement. It was week 2 night games.
 
Please tell me you live on a lake nearby Atlanta and you want me to come visit for a weekend. Awesome setup!
 
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