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CCM:
Well, the wife decided to replace all the bedroom furniture with these huge wardrobes from Ikea and rearrange our bedroom.  Since she got rid of the dressers, we lost our tv stand.  We just had an old 20" tube tv.  So I told her due to all of her changes we now need to get a flat-panel tv to mount on the wall.

I'm looking at a 32" LCD, probably an Olevia or Vizio.  Anyway, my issue is that we want a clean look in the bedroom so I don't want the wires from the cablebox showing and I want to put the cable box in another room.  Has anyone set up an IR repeater and, if so, how well does it work.  Or would I be better off going with an RF remote setup?

The RF is probably much more expensive, so I'd prefer the IR repeater route if it works well.

ChadTower:

The 32" Olevias are totally worth the price, especially for a small dark room like a bedroom.  I have one in just that situation and it is great.

If you don't want wires showing how are you going to power the TV?  Or get video from the cable box in another room to the TV?  Seems it would be much easier to just put a piece of furniture in front of the TV to hide the wires and keep the cable box somewhere close by but hidden.

CCM:
Circuit City has the Olevia on sale this week for 499.99, I may jump on that.

Well, for the wires, the other side of the wall where I'm going to mount the TV is the closet in the office/spare bedroom.  I was thinking of drilling a hole straight into the closet on the other side and running all the wire thru it.  I could set up an IR repeater and keep the cable box in the office closet.  There is an outlet right out side the closet in the office, so I can run the power to it.

I am also considering a solution like this for the power:

http://www.panamax.com/products.cfm?group=22&sec=detail&id=221&ly=h

http://powerbridgesolution.com/aboutpowerbridge.html

ChadTower:

Spiffy.  You'd better make damn sure you're not going to move that TV.

The Olevias in that price range are usually HD monitors, not HDTVs.  They don't have tuners.  That's what I have.  I haven't actually used a TV tuner in years, though, so it doesn't matter for me.

CCM:
yea, if a I ever have to move it I'll have some serious wall patching to do.... 

Here's the tv I'm looking at:

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/OLEVIA-32-LCD-HDTV-232V/sem/rpsm/oid/163702/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

I'm not concerned about built-in tuners either as it will be hooked up to an HD cable box.

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