Well my my brother just got a 50" plasma TV last week and got Directv HDTV yesterday. He hooked it up to his Bose system for surround sound. So he now takes the somewhat unusual position for him as the entertainment technology leader in our family.

Have you taken the plunge? Planning too?

Plazma or LCD?
720P or 1080P?
Dish or DirecTV, Cable ?

Wiring? I heard that the new HDTV satellite dish is quite large and has 5 cables coming out of it. I only have two wires routed from the roof to the basement where I have my distribution panel to all the rooms. I have a zimwell switch at the panel in the basement. I read that a switch is built into the slimline Directv HDTV dish. It has 5 LNB's one for OA. OA I think stands for Off Air? Not sure what that is, would I even use it? So I was wondering if their is a way to take the five cables from the dish and multiplex them with a swrich in the attic down to two cables that run to the basement to my distribution panel where another switch would demultiplex them for distribution? Possible?

Since my dish is on the gable of my roof the size could be ugly, might need chimney mount.

The biggest barrier is my wife, though she is petite and around 100 pounds, she carries more weight than I do when it comes to interior design issues. She is wed to keeping the 32" TV in the custom cabinet we bought 15 years ago. Has anyone tried hypnotism to aid their spouse in forgetting about that old TV cabinet? Any strategies?

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