Your equipment does not need to be located in the same room as your display. Apart from the DVD player you may not even loose any convenience since every front panel control is replicated on the remote and everything on the front panel display also goes to the monitor output.
Pulling wires into an unfinished basement or attic space can be done without cutting any more holes than you need for the wall plates.
Xantech makes good IR repeaters, speaker cable losses are not a problem out past silly long lengths (50' +), etc.
Pulling wires into an unfinished basement or attic space can be done without cutting any more holes than you need for the wall plates.
Xantech makes good IR repeaters, speaker cable losses are not a problem out past silly long lengths (50' +), etc.