I like movies. But I love upper-class audio & vision technology.
Crystal clear pictures and astonishing sound effects is what you need for a decent home cinema setup. You have to choose your components carefully and, of course, need to invest a bit of money…

I decided to get the major components from Pioneer. You get good value for your money and the design is classic.
Another reason to have a single-source supply: You’re pretty sure the components just play together.

The speakers are from KEF. What else…

Currently the screen isn’t full hd because the price tag was just too high when I bought the plasma some years ago.
But the rest of the system supports full hd, so I can just exchange the screen whenever 1080p has come to an affordable price range.
The whole chain also supports 24p, of course.

All the music is stored as high quality mp3 or AAC on a NAS. The squeeze center server runs on my Mac Pro where I also maintain my growing iTunes library. I installed 2 squeeze boxes accessing the server via wireless lan for my multiroom setup.

To watch movies, tv shows and pictures there is a Mac Mini attached to the switch running a Plex Media Center. Plex accesses the video and picture content through an AFP share and the music is directly picked up from the remote iTunes on my Mac Pro running the Plex Media Server.

Using my iPad or iPhone I can control the whole setup over wireless lan from every location in my flat.

To stream video content to my iOS devices (iPad and iPhone) I installed AirVideo. Like this I can watch my movies and tv shows everywhere – at home and over the internet.

Component	Brand	Type
Screen	Pioneer	PDP-436 XDE 42″ Plasma Display
Switch	Pioneer	VSX-LX60 AV Multichannel Receiver
BD/DVD Player	Pioneer	BDP-LX70A Blueray Player
Speakers	KEF	KHT 6000 Front & Center
Surround	KEF	KHT 5005
Subwoofer	KEF	PSW 2500
Digital TV	UPC	Cablecom HDTV Settop Box with HD Recorder
Media Center Hardware	Apple	Mac Mini connected through HDMI
Media Center Software	Plex	Plex Media Center running on Mac Mini
Video Streaming (WLAN and Internet)	AirVideo	AirVideo Server running on MacPro with live conversion and AirVideo Clients on iPad and iPhones
Music Streaming	Logitech	SqueezeCenter & SqueezeBoxes
Remote Control	Apple	iPad 64GB with iPeng for iPad, Rowmote for iPad and Plex for iOS
NAS	QNAP	TS-659 Pro+, 2 TB mirrored
Game Console	Microsoft	XBox 360
Game Console	Nintendo	Wii
Furniture	Spectral	Closed 2056