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February 9th, 2010, 15:50
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_home-theater-under-the-stairs-sz-020810.jpg (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/home-theater-under-the-stairs-sz-020810.jpg)There's nothing fancy about this idea for a home theater (http://gizmodo.com/tag/hometheater/), but it's a very clever way to save space in a small house, using the dead space under the stairs to store a ton of tech gear.
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The setup was built by Jason Swell, who thought that this was the best way to place his 50-inch Samsung HLR5078W DLP projection television, along with a Dual-Core Mac Mini, Series 2 Tivo, and Comcast HD STB. And rightly so, because it not only saves space, but places the screen at a good distance to watch from the sofas.
The stair hides even more high tech stuff behind that screen: A 1-terabyte hard drive array, an audio amplifier, the 30Mb/s FIOS connection, an EyeTV 500 HD tuner, and a UPS unit. In fact, he uses five tuners and he is able to record three shows concurrently while watching a fourth. [Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsewell/149772572/) via Unplggd (http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/flickr-finds/jason-sewell-builds-media-center-under-the-stairs-108234)]
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The setup was built by Jason Swell, who thought that this was the best way to place his 50-inch Samsung HLR5078W DLP projection television, along with a Dual-Core Mac Mini, Series 2 Tivo, and Comcast HD STB. And rightly so, because it not only saves space, but places the screen at a good distance to watch from the sofas.
The stair hides even more high tech stuff behind that screen: A 1-terabyte hard drive array, an audio amplifier, the 30Mb/s FIOS connection, an EyeTV 500 HD tuner, and a UPS unit. In fact, he uses five tuners and he is able to record three shows concurrently while watching a fourth. [Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsewell/149772572/) via Unplggd (http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/flickr-finds/jason-sewell-builds-media-center-under-the-stairs-108234)]
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