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Why Not To Hook Up Your Personal Home Theatre System
If there were an instruction manual on how NOT to DIY install a personal home cinema system, I think I could add a few chapters of my very own. Having decided to not contact my local Electrical Contractor in Swan Hill - it all started off well. Enviably gigantic plasma TV? Done. Speakers that would have the neighbors complaining until morning? Check. Enough wires to wrap round the block? Tick.
With all my stuff in hand, all that was left to do was basically just assemble it. O.K, I admit that I am no techie genius or certified sparkie, but I am rather good when it comes to reading and following a guide. Fitted out with a heap of instruction books and a fresh cup of coffee I got to work.
To make a long story short, I failed badly. What occurred in between starting on this journey and ultimately giving up is a bit of a haze, but here goes.
The main issue was all that language! Somewhere between matrix, anamorphic and bridging, I started to develop a little bit of a brain meltdown. Not to mention the proven fact that I could've played Words With Friends with all the undecipherable acronyms like ADSL, THX and DHCP. Phew!
Once I wrapped my head around a number of these foreign terms (O.K, I admit I Had to use Google more than a number of times), it was on to making all of the disparate pieces come together in one pleasant system. Well, my dreams of home cinema system glory were pulverised once again when I discovered how incompatible the various hardware can be. It's as if the manufacturers intentionally make it baffling purely for their own folly. The idiot box is off doing its own thing, while the blu ray player is going in the other way, and in the meantime the satellite receiver is nowhere to be found. Each wants to be in charge of the various functions, but the more you try and shed light on your options, the further you spin into a deep, dark hole of system overload.
As I sat there besieged by loose wires, random elements and a handful of remote controls, I realized that installing a home theatre system is not a DIY sort of job. I only wish I had come to that conclusion earlier. Regardless of how much I tell myself I am able to do things on my own, this is one case where I had to confess defeat and call on someone to dig me out of this technological hole I had dug myself into. So after hours of trying, a few not-so-nice words, and 1 or 2 cups of coffee I came to one simple conclusion: Some things really are better left to the pros!
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