I just purchased this home. Its a 1989 built with 1/2 basement and a crawl. The previous owners finished the basement into a sports bar i think with a pool table. They had wiring run with speakers and I am trying to figure it out and see if I can use it for a home theater set up. I have an amp and 5.1 speakers. my guess is it was set up just for watching sporting events on tv with speakers for more sound. You can see in the attached photos they have 4 speaker plates up high with a speaker mount bracket, then theres one speaker plate with no mount bracket and in that same corner down low is a coax cable for tv and two rca? cables for what a tv or sub? Sorry about the photo quality. I circled in red where the speaker plates or close to since you cant see them in some spots with things in the way. Then over on the bar is where they must have had a receiver? and then two more speaker plates on the back wall with mount brackets. So if I try to use this for a 5.1 system how do I do it? Which is the center channel hook up? then I have the problem if I put a receiver in the same spot I would still need to run HDMI which may be possible. Not sure its smarter to just buy a sound bar and call it a day. its really not a great layout at all for a home theater game room but its what I have to work with. funny part is I dont drink much at all nor have people over or party so the bar is a waste.

Probably been beaten to death but I got a 65in Sony x900 and a tv mount a couple days ago. Take the mount out and start measuring things up, I've got studs that are 24in OC on the wall I want it on, the middle of the wall is a stud (next stud on either side is 24in away), and the mount Will barely span the gap either way. Sooooo I can't center this tv unless I rig this thing up somehow. Don't really wanna go the plywood span route unless I have to. This is what I'm thinking... Catch the one middle stud with the middle of the back bracket using two lag bolts, then use 4 toggle bolts in the four outside corners of the bracket for support. The tv itself is only 50lbs, and im not using a full range or swivel tv mount so it' not moving a lot and the weight is kept close to the wall as opposed to a full motion mount with an arm pushing weight away from the wall. I'm using a tilting-only mount. Don't really think it would be an issue but figured I'd see if any of y'all have tried something like this and had any bad results. thanks, LR010