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I was fiddling around with my video/audio set up the other day and I realised what a real mess all those wires, leads and big bulky electrical bits and bobs get into when left alone.
Now, I haven't got the most amazing home cinema set up ever, it's just a Dreamcast, amplifier, DVD, video, strangly square-shaped TV and midi system, with a few speakers and audio leads stretched across the equipment for good measure. It bothers me slightly that if I turn my back my leads somehow knot themselves together. It's like they are doing it on purpose! I don't know how the speakers wires manage to wrap around the phono leads and scart from my Dreamcast, but somehow they do and can I untangle them? not without tearing my hair out, no.
But, and here's the point, I would have to do a lot less work if at least a couple of the boxes were all built into one. I know the DVD and video combination probably wouldn't sell very well but if I could just have a machine that played DVD and audio CDs as well as a radio and tape deck (remember those?) AND had an amplifier and somehow managed to avoid the problem of having wires to the speakers, I would perhaps get a little more cleaning done instead of getting the scouts round to untie the knots in my leads. Perhaps they could use infra red (the speakers, not the scouts) and maybe this could even stretch to leads going to the tv?
Well I can but dream, but you'll have to excuse me now, I'm going to read through my 'big book of knots' again...
Now, I haven't got the most amazing home cinema set up ever, it's just a Dreamcast, amplifier, DVD, video, strangly square-shaped TV and midi system, with a few speakers and audio leads stretched across the equipment for good measure. It bothers me slightly that if I turn my back my leads somehow knot themselves together. It's like they are doing it on purpose! I don't know how the speakers wires manage to wrap around the phono leads and scart from my Dreamcast, but somehow they do and can I untangle them? not without tearing my hair out, no.
But, and here's the point, I would have to do a lot less work if at least a couple of the boxes were all built into one. I know the DVD and video combination probably wouldn't sell very well but if I could just have a machine that played DVD and audio CDs as well as a radio and tape deck (remember those?) AND had an amplifier and somehow managed to avoid the problem of having wires to the speakers, I would perhaps get a little more cleaning done instead of getting the scouts round to untie the knots in my leads. Perhaps they could use infra red (the speakers, not the scouts) and maybe this could even stretch to leads going to the tv?
Well I can but dream, but you'll have to excuse me now, I'm going to read through my 'big book of knots' again...
Being an organised person myself, if there are any loose wires hanging about behind my setup, they are bundled and tied individually so that there is only a little slack between the respective connected units and not 30 feet of self curling cabling.
Co-ax cables you can't really do this with, but you can wind it around a reel without affecting the signal quality. So this way I don't end up with your knotty problems.
I'm even organised to the point where that if a lead ever works it's way loose, all the connections are labelled too, so speaker wires have 'speaker left +ive' tags and 'speaker right -ive' tags and so forth. This is a great help when you have to pack the whole lot up when moving house or changeing the system to a different room and so forth.
The only drawback to all this is that your mates think you are a nerd.
:-)
Co-ax cables you can't really do this with, but you can wind it around a reel without affecting the signal quality. So this way I don't end up with your knotty problems.
I'm even organised to the point where that if a lead ever works it's way loose, all the connections are labelled too, so speaker wires have 'speaker left +ive' tags and 'speaker right -ive' tags and so forth. This is a great help when you have to pack the whole lot up when moving house or changeing the system to a different room and so forth.
The only drawback to all this is that your mates think you are a nerd.
:-)
I was fiddling around with my video/audio set up the other day and I realised what a real mess all those wires, leads and big bulky electrical bits and bobs get into when left alone.
Now, I haven't got the most amazing home cinema set up ever, it's just a Dreamcast, amplifier, DVD, video, strangly square-shaped TV and midi system, with a few speakers and audio leads stretched across the equipment for good measure. It bothers me slightly that if I turn my back my leads somehow knot themselves together. It's like they are doing it on purpose! I don't know how the speakers wires manage to wrap around the phono leads and scart from my Dreamcast, but somehow they do and can I untangle them? not without tearing my hair out, no.
But, and here's the point, I would have to do a lot less work if at least a couple of the boxes were all built into one. I know the DVD and video combination probably wouldn't sell very well but if I could just have a machine that played DVD and audio CDs as well as a radio and tape deck (remember those?) AND had an amplifier and somehow managed to avoid the problem of having wires to the speakers, I would perhaps get a little more cleaning done instead of getting the scouts round to untie the knots in my leads. Perhaps they could use infra red (the speakers, not the scouts) and maybe this could even stretch to leads going to the tv?
Well I can but dream, but you'll have to excuse me now, I'm going to read through my 'big book of knots' again...
Now, I haven't got the most amazing home cinema set up ever, it's just a Dreamcast, amplifier, DVD, video, strangly square-shaped TV and midi system, with a few speakers and audio leads stretched across the equipment for good measure. It bothers me slightly that if I turn my back my leads somehow knot themselves together. It's like they are doing it on purpose! I don't know how the speakers wires manage to wrap around the phono leads and scart from my Dreamcast, but somehow they do and can I untangle them? not without tearing my hair out, no.
But, and here's the point, I would have to do a lot less work if at least a couple of the boxes were all built into one. I know the DVD and video combination probably wouldn't sell very well but if I could just have a machine that played DVD and audio CDs as well as a radio and tape deck (remember those?) AND had an amplifier and somehow managed to avoid the problem of having wires to the speakers, I would perhaps get a little more cleaning done instead of getting the scouts round to untie the knots in my leads. Perhaps they could use infra red (the speakers, not the scouts) and maybe this could even stretch to leads going to the tv?
Well I can but dream, but you'll have to excuse me now, I'm going to read through my 'big book of knots' again...