Voom is a good company but satellite installers suck ass. The first guy butchered the job (badly!) and now I've been playing whododat with the subcontractor to get it all resolved. Hopefully tonights visit will fix the lack of local channels.

Sitting here waiting for the HT installer guy and the Voom installer guy to show up. Waiting for other people is never as fun as making em wait for you.

The Caudroplex is taking form. Behold the majesty that is the Proto-Caudroplex:

• SIM2 Domino 30 projector
• Dalite 96"x54" (110" diagonal) Cinema Contour HDTV format screen with IR controller
• Chief RPD-3200 projector mount
• Salamander Twin 40 equipment rack (Black/Aluminum)
• Side panelling for Salamander
• Saturn Wheel Set for Salamander
• Denon AVR-3805 7.1 channel, multizone, A/V Surround Sound receiver (Silver)
• Denon DMS-305 Custom Designed Microphone for AVR-3805
• MAX 5300 power cleanser and UPS
• RACMAX light and extender for MAX 5300 (2)
• Harmony SST-688 Universal Remote
• UF22 Speaker Stands (one pair)
• UF26 Speaker Stands (two pair)

Well, I put my money down for the Caudroplex. It's gonna be sweet! Maybe tonight or tomorrow I'll post the equipment details.

The Caudroplex is underway. Domes AV is helping with the install. I hope to see real gains in the next couple of weeks! Sweet! Gonna be SO cool! Pictures will be posted and praise will be warranted! :-)

I dropped Bryan's shit-ass company and have moved to a company with great customer service. It's satellite, so there are issues with storms and stuff, but overall I'm happy so far. We'll see how it all turns out.

Last night, I got a chance to get into the house I'm moving into next week. Very cool. Can't wait to get moved. I took Dave with me, since he's gonna be doing a lot of carpentry work for the Caudroplex. I plan to have a raised rear floor (for the back row) and the speakers will be inset in columns that will hide their raw ugliness. Now I just need to get the current occupant outta my damn house!

Physical media (CD's, DVD's, Tapes, Records, etc...) is dying. Good riddance, I say. Mark my words, within 10 years, we will be replacing the format wars (e.g., Betamax vs VHS, DVD-A vs SACD, etc...) with the codec wars (MP3 vs Ogg, Mpeg vs WMV, etc...). Frankly, codec wars are far easier to handle. Software upgradable solutions are always preferable to hardware upgradable ones. I look forward to a day when all data is tranferred in real time between systems without the need for an intervening physical medium. Purchase an album and have it downloaded to your home media server. Rent a movie and have it downloaded to your movie player on the fly. Home theater racks will shrink in size as the AV receiver starts to handle more and more of the functionality that the DVD player, the CD player, the VCR, the TiVo, and all the other stuff used to handle for it. No need for all that stuff if the receiver can just fill the void with the right codec! I can't wait. Now, how do we fit linux into that future?

My home theater is gonna be so sweet when I'm finished. The plans have begun!