I have a nice TV. I have a nice sound system. My TV room isn't large enough to put decent speakers to hear movies as I want to hear them. My wallet isn't big enough to buy the cool small systems, either. I want to put the speakers in the wall, but what happens when the room gets reorganized? Also, if the tv is in the corner, the couch is against a wall, the chairs span the center walk way, how does one get the noise to sound even remotely balanced or "correct?" Is the only way to get true cinema sound to set your room up with the couch and chairs in line in the center of the room and not pleasing to a woman? I would live with it, but she won't. I don't even need to ask. Help!

I have a wired house. I did all of the wiring myself. I ran cat5e and video to all the rooms in the house. All of the wiring terminates at a patch panel in my furnace room... Now what? I definitely enjoy the computer networking, and the options a wired house provides for video/etc. However, now that my house is wired I need to take it to the next level... which is... installing a system for various control and monitoring applications. Here are some of the things I have in mind... 1) A centralized file server to provide mp3 storage. Then in each room, a dedicated (low end 233mhz max) computer for playing mp3s 2) A centralized monitoring computer for video surveillence control, and integrated security system... My question is this... Does anyone know of any off the shelf systems that I can install to get this functionality? Or, am I going to have to design and build it myself (I have 18 years computer programming experience)?