This is where I watch my anime, whether DVDs or downloaded from the net.

The TV is a Sanyo 32" CRT Widescreen HDTV. Yes, it is a CRT HDTV capable of 1080i resolution, though usually I keep things at 720p because there's no flickering in the image. I didn't discover the high definition qualities of the TV until I was playing around with the XBOX360 resolutions a while back, even if the TV had HDMI and component inputs. I was thinking about buying a larger LCD screen until I discovered this; now I'm very satisfied with the picture quality, and the screen is plenty large enough for how far away the couch is from it. If I break down and get a Blu-ray player in the future, I'll reassess my setup.

The sound is outputted by a Pioneer VSX-D710s 5.1 receiver which drives 2 full sized Technics speakers, a Harmon/Karmon powered subwoofer, an H/K center speaker, and 2 H/K satellite surround speakers.

The DVD player is an Oppo OPDV971H upscaling DVD player. I got this player for two reasons: Its touted quality in upscaling a 480p DVD to 720p or 1080i resolution, and the fact that it can be made region free quite easily, which is a real bonus when I get R2 DVDs. Also nice is that it has an optical connection the the audio receiver to pass through Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS audio.

To the left, there is the tower of gaming consoles: A Nintendo Wii, a Sony Playstation 2, and an XBox, but the console that gets the most use is the XBox360. With it connected to the Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato which is wirelessly bridged to the other Linksys router running Tomato, it can connect to the TVersity server to request streams of the anime1 I download. Though the XBox360 is also connected to the audio receiver via an optical cable, it seems TVersity either down-converts any 5.1 audio in the source videos to 2 channels, or the XBox360 is not capable of passing through AC3 DD 5.1 to the receiver. I do hope that this can be fixed in a future version of TVersity or software upgrade of the XBox360, but this is only just a minor issue for me.

1. 1. And I have the ffdshow codec on the system running TVersity set to include the subtitles when transcoding from, say, MKVs with softsubs. It should also be possible to show up to 720p resolution videos, too, but I haven't fully tested that yet.