I'm diggin' the squid, man. That thing is freaky lookin'!

Bluray and Ps3 support 7.1 channels

Turns out my receiver does 6.1 not 7.1, weird. I'll stick with 5.1 though.

Is it bad to stack components? Putting the dish receiver directly on top of the a/v receiver, xbox on top of that, etc. I've seen people do it, but I wasn't sure if that was something you should definitely NOT do, or if it's pretty much ok.



I still need a cabinet, and we already have a nice table that would work if I can stack the components. It's a table with single drawer, and a single shelf at the bottom between the 2 large, round legs. There are no shelves otherwise, and no simple way to mount more shelves on account of the round legs. However, there is room to stack everything on that bottom shelf.



I was thinking of stacking them in an order that would help the heat a bit, like placing the Xbox between the dish and a/v receivers (since those 2 run more than xbox/ps3 will).



Good idea? Bad idea?

I'm thinking I'll add a block/spacer between them to help dissipate heat, hopefully a fan won't be necessary.

Yeah, cable boxes run surprisingly hot. Not sure about dish receivers. Try to put the hottest item on the top of the stack (obviously). That may or may not turn out to be your receiver, depending on how often you run it at or near full crank. I would think if you kept the area open that natural convection would ventilate the stack well enough. Extra space between components would help, as would a small boxer fan. During parties, you could put a shelf over the A/V stack and use it as a food warmer.

mmmmm, food warmer. That's brilliant.



The Xbox probably won't get too much use after Christmas, and it cools through the back, so I think I'll put it between the av and the dish receivers (the 2 things that will get most use).



When playing a game, dish receiver goes to standby mode, so I'm not concerned with its heat. There might be a problem if I play Xbox though, since the av receiver vents out the top, so I may add space there.

We have a Lg flat screen, we only get one channel over air on it, as we are in the sticks. I purchased it to watch Hockey night in Canada on , on Saturdays.. How typically Canadian right?

We have a slingbox in Japan, we get about 80 channels streamed via satellite internet to us, which we watch on a large Imac. And thats about all we have, oh yeah, we have a WII.

Not a good idea for the 360 the red ring of death (rrod) is caused mainly by the system overheating I'd stack anything else though

Oh well, the stuff won't fit on the table I was talking about, not enough width. Guess I'll pick up something cheap from wal-mart (we don't have Ikea).