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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
What do you have hooked up to your TV?
We just bought a new flat and spent the weekend moving in. DH and I discussed it, and I think a lot of our old gaming consoles are going to go into storage (We already have a large cardboard box earmarked "antiquated electronics").
DH was making a case for not hooking up the DVD player, since it doesn't get used much anymore (I insisted that it stay because it's currently our only region-free player). It struck me as a little odd to not really need a DVD player anymore, and it made me curious what other people's setups are like.
So... What kinds of devices do you have hooked up to your TV? And which do you use the most often?
[Props to the old-school people who answer "rabbit-ear antennae"!]
Re: What do you have hooked up to your TV?
Our new setup will be: Mac Mini, region-free DVD/DivX player, PS3, XBox 360, 5.1 speakers, and the TV cable (our building has a collective subscription).
(We're taking out the XBox, PS1, VHS player, and the jury is still out on the GameCube.)
Aside from the obvious speakers, the Mac Mini definitely gets the most use, since it functions as our primary TV and film source as well as our stereo (hooray Rhapsody).
Right now:
HD DVR satellite receiver
DVD player that includes surround sound
PS3
Xbox 360
Wii
Computer
We use the HD DVR all the time. The dvd player a lot as we get movies from netflix.
We also have other game systems hooked up to another tv.
In Our Bedroom: MacMini and DVD player
In the Living Room: Laptops, PS3, Wii, DVR, Surround Sound (and like 10 speakers), MP3 dock
We use the Mac Mini practically every day and DH uses the PS3 various times a week- those def. get the most usage.
Let's see...
DirecTV, PS3, PS2, Wii, Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, NES, and our audio receiver.
The Wii, PS3, and DirecTV get the most usage, but we definitely play the old-school games from time to time.
Our setup is slightly complicated. We have your standard receiver and speakers, but also have a game console switchbox.
Through one way or another, this is everything that we have hooked up:
XBox 360 w/ HD-DVD
PS3
Wii
TiVo HD
DVD (5 disc)
Occasionally we'll hook up a laptop, and we'll be adding a Mac Mini soon. We have our Time Capsule near the tv also serving as a router for the 360 and the tv (it has an ethernet port).
Here's our setup:
TiVo HD (used EVERY.SINGLE.DAY)
Blu-Ray Disc Player (usually a few times a week)
XBox360
VCR (I can't remember the last time we actually used it...)
on occasion, my laptop (but not very often as most of our streaming content comes through the TiVo).
We had rabbit ears until they broke a couple months ago
Fortunately for our geek cred, that was only one device of several 
I'm afraid lots of it is pretty old school, as we don't actually watch much television and so don't invest in the setup. We have an XBox 360, with XBox HD-DVD player (we could not resist all the super cheap DVDs when the standard got dumped!), a big CD player, 2 VCRs (again with the embarrassment), a DTV tuner, a receiver that manages most of the stuff, and an equalizer. We have a couple speakers too, for not-quite-surround sound.
It's all so sad and old when I look at it all listed out like this, lol
At least the XBox is newish!
HD DVR cable box
Wii
5-disc DVD/CD changer
Surround sound system
Playstation
Other things that get rotated in once in a while: Nintendo, Super Nintendo, iPod, laptops, digital camera and Sega Genesis.
We use the XBox and DVD Player most
I think just the XBox 360 and the Wii. We don't have fancy speakers and the XBox acts as our extender for the Media Center PC, our DVD player, game console, and Netflix device.
We have an Apple TV, XBox 360, Wii & PS3.
No cable. I just learned like last week that our LCD tv is actually just a really big monitor, and that's why it has no built in antenna. The only tv we see is what we get on the Apple TV and on DVDs/Blu-Rays.
Our big TV has:
Surround sound with DVD player
Cable w/HD box
PS....something. Not sure which one as it never gets played!
Occasionally the computer gets hooked up when we want to watch past episodes of something online.
My two other televisions have VCRs hooked up to them.
Blu Ray w/Netflix and Pandora streaming capabilities
Wii
Sometimes the netbook
Cable
.: Diary of a Recovering Runner :.
We have a digital antenna & a dvd player hooked up to our main tv in our living room.
DH's video games hooked up to the tv in the basement.