Mac Home Theater Project – A work in Progress
Mac powered home theater systems are quite underrepresented on sites like YouTube. I thought I would share my work in progress to give a very simple overview of how I approached accessing my media in my living room. I have BOXEE but have been too busy to play around with it. (Update: I removed boxee, not for me.) For now controlling the system with my iPhone seems to work well. The system features: -Brains: Mac Pro (3.0GHzX8cores – 18GB memory – 4TB storage (0:28) -Sound: Logitech Z5500 …
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October 13th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
pretty setup. You have a bad robot infestation!
October 29th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Nice to see someone else rocking a mac home theater
My work in progress is a Mac Mini, 42″ LCD, Xbox 360, Lacie 500gb mini ext. HDD.
Amp and surround speakers are next
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:27 am
*-* aaw ! very good room!! i like so much!
i like the song to xD what’s the name?
January 4th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Fucking bad ass set up. This is what I aspire to haha.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
i love this!!
February 9th, 2009 at 6:21 am
What song is that? please respond
February 10th, 2009 at 5:08 am
uggghh, whtas the sonng???? i want to know soo add, man its awsome BTW UR CANADIAN TOO AWSOME!
February 10th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
The song is “24″ by Jem.
Yes, I am canadian but I live in Australia for 10 months of the year.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:10 pm
how do you get your iPhone to control your itunes movies like you did in the video
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Its an app called “Remote” by Apple. Works amazingly well although it does drain your battery a little quickly.
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:50 pm
this is a great setup…thanks for the info
May 1st, 2009 at 7:16 am
nice u need some gaming stuff like 360 or ps3
May 1st, 2009 at 8:32 am
I added a PS3 in January and had a friend’s Xbox for a while (preferred the PS3 but only because I bought all the games and they were exactly what I wanted).
May 19th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Im glad i chose OSX also for my HTPC setup, it never ceases to amaze me and its rock solid stable.
June 17th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Might I say, a lovely set-up indeed, Mac for life, baby! I will add a couple constructive criticisms though – you should strongly consider adding a few acoustic panels to your room. They will greatly reduce unwanted sound reflections, as well as peeks and dips in many sound frequencies.
Trust me, acoustic treatments are the single MOST important aspect to a listening environment. And yes, I do offer custom made panels if you are interested.
July 9th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Hey, im thinking of gettin the logitech Z-5500 speaker system. I read a couple of reviews, they all said they dont perform very well in a large space. My room is as big as ur by the looks of it, how is the sound system ? good surround effect ? Is the ideal spot very small ? grt interior design btw !!
July 17th, 2009 at 9:38 am
WHo sings that first song? It’s great!!!
July 21st, 2009 at 6:27 pm
The song is “24″ by Jem.
July 21st, 2009 at 6:31 pm
I am very happy with the Z-5500s, aside from the regular issues getting iTunes to play in 5.1 they’re great. So great in fact I bought a second set for my bedroom which I hooked up using an airport express – My neighbors hate me!
Surround on the system sounds best from VLC in digital output as well as from a Blu-Ray but for the price they do a great job.
July 21st, 2009 at 6:35 pm
The strange “paintings” on the wall are actually custom panels I got from a friend who disguises ugly panels as paintings. While they aren’t custom for my room they do a great job as eliminating echoes and reflections as you mentioned. They also do it while looking very strange
I am only in this apartment for 2 years so I’m not planning on investing too much in this system. That’s why I get my friend’s hand-me-down sound panels.
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Thank you sydcansam. You have a very cool set up there. Have you checked out Plex? It’s a pretty fantastic and free front end for media management. If you haven’t already, you should check it out. It would go well with your set up. Thanks again.
July 25th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Isn’t a Mac Pro a little bit overpowered for such a simple task?
August 7th, 2009 at 6:38 am
At the time I was setting this system up my
(The best one had a full custom Bang & Olufsen (for music), snell for video + Sony SRX projectors; the definition of excess but great for entertaining.
only other Mac option was a 2.0ghz Mac Mini which would have been quite underpowered. I was already planning on buying a Mac Pro for bulk re-encoding so I made it my media center.
@Johnnytturbo – they don’t mind, one of their three home theaters cost more than my downtown apartment
August 12th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
thts sick man!!!!!!!!
October 24th, 2009 at 3:02 am
This will get a whole lot easier when the apple tvs come out integrated in mac branded flat panels soon.