Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

What is your home TV set up?

What is your home TV set up?

  • Total voters
    72
Orang Utan said:
Cos people need to work at desks. The desktop at home is on the desk cos there is nowhere else to put it. I wouldn’t put it directly on the floor where feet would kick it and I doubt it would be common practice in offices either. In my admittedly limited experience of probably 10+ workplaces, I can’t ever recall seeing computers on floors.
Click to expand...
My keyboard is on the desk purely because, for me, my desk is the right height and the right distance from the screen to make it "work". Other people are comfortable with other things (shocker) and I envy them that. If my ergonomic needs let me play from the couch like Epona I'd be all over that! But just because I can't do that doesn't make it inconceivable (!! in Sicilian) to me.
 
Last edited:
Chz said:
My keyboard is on the desk purely because, for me, my desk is the right right and the right distance from the screen to make it "work". Other people are comfortable with other things (shocker) and I envy them that. If my ergonomic needs let me play from the couch like Epona I'd be all over that! But just because I can't do that doesn't make it inconceivable (!! in Sicilian) to me.
Click to expand...
I dunno. I can play games for hours sat down in an armchair, though it’s not good for my back.
But work needs to be at a desk, surely? You’d do your back in if you were sat down low all day and evening.
 
Maybe I just have an ideal sofa for this then :hmm:

It is exactly the right height and uprightness for me to sit comfortably upright - when I was doing a physical job I would get home and I literally couldn't sit in a chair at my desk because it was too high up and I was in agony and couldn't elevate my feet after a day standing up, which is when I moved my computer to the sofa.

I mean we have 2 sofas, there is no way I would be able to sit and do anything on the other one, but this one is more comfortable for me than any desk and chair setup I've ever had, either at work or at home.
 
Epona said:
I'd probably never buy a proprietary branded device for gaming, you're tied into their subscription models for a start.
Having to run Windows to play most games is pushing it for my leftie heart 🤣
Click to expand...
I haven’t thought about it much until this evening, but I think I need to keep work and leisure activities extremely separate. Which is why I cannot cope with WFH and only lasted a few weeks at home during lockdown before begging to be allowed to return to work, but maybe that’s just me and my weirdness.
Does anyone else needs those physical and psychological boundaries?
 
Epona said:
Maybe I just have an ideal sofa for this then :hmm:

It is exactly the right height and uprightness for me to sit comfortably upright - when I was doing a physical job I would get home and I literally couldn't sit in a chair at my desk because it was too high up and I was in agony and couldn't elevate my feet after a day standing up, which is when I moved my computer to the sofa.

I mean we have 2 sofas, there is no way I would be able to sit and do anything on the other one, but this one is more comfortable for me than any desk and chair setup I've ever had, either at work or at home.
Click to expand...
There are zero sofas in my house, which is almost certainly for the best, but still :( all the same
 
Traditional dish-delivered Sky, Blu-Ray player and Firestick into a switch that passes into a powered signal-splitter (to remove HD copy protection) then into a standalone game-capture device so that I can easily record whatever is showing on my screen to USB. This and my computer then connect to my TV. I lie in bed feeling like the president of television. Unless something's on Disney because I'm not paying for that :cool:
 
Hollis said:
I''m still confused...many questions..

Why would you take out a more expensive cable package rather than just a streaming service?

If you stream from your laptop can you still piss around surfing on it?

Is the quality of streaming as good as cable?
Click to expand...

I can't comment on cable, I did look at it when I was in a Virgin area, but their basic package didn't offer me anything more of interest compared to the around 100 channels I could get on Freesat, so I just upgraded the dish and got a Freesat recorder. Here the dish was already cabled to the living room and both the bedrooms.

On my laptop if I press the 'window key + K key' it gives me options to duplicate the screen on the TV, just use the TV screen, or set it up as two screens, which means you can stream to the TV as the second screen, whilst still using the laptop as normal, although you have to be a little careful to keep the cursor on the laptop screen and not let it wander off to the second screen. Picture quality seems fine, it's proper HD.

Although I guess it may not work so well on a less powerful laptop, but I am not too sure about that.

One tip, make sure you know which TV to connect to, only my neighbour's TV comes up as an option, which could be embarrassing if you were on the likes of pornhub. :D
 
TV which has netflix, iplayer apps etc on.

But the TV is ten years old and and the apps are no longer updated and don't work.

So online stuff is cast from a phone
 
Last edited:
Just use the wifi to watch what I want on the 'puter. I am tempted to get a second hand Bravia for 30-40 quid and a firestick. Some of the films are not being done justice on the computer screen and its a cheap option.
 
Orang Utan said:
Cos people need to work at desks. The desktop at home is on the desk cos there is nowhere else to put it. I wouldn’t put it directly on the floor where feet would kick it and I doubt it would be common practice in offices either. In my admittedly limited experience of probably 10+ workplaces, I can’t ever recall seeing computers on floors.
Click to expand...

It's far from ideal to have a PC on the floor. The fans suck all the dust it.
 
Freesat via a quad LNB. Two feeds to the recording box in the living room, one feed each to the TV and Freesat box kindly bought by the good people of Urban for Mary, one feed to Freesat box in the computer room.

We used to subscribe to Sky, but stopped it when the price hit £70 odd for the package (which didn't include sports or movies). We don't miss Sky at all, there is plenty of stuff on Freesat.
 
Come on, even relatively cheap cases come with filters on all intakes these days.
Mine's on the floor, but the filters get a clean every so often and it stays pretty cool. No point buying a £300 chip and putting it in a £30 case.
 
Amazing how triggering cycling infrastructure can be

I heard they don’t even pay any road tax!!
 
Chz said:
Because desk space is useful for other things and it doesn't need to be on the desk if the case isn't shit?
Click to expand...
It just seems daft not to put a desktop on a desk (or table, or other elevated piece of furniture if you have a desk. Right next to the monitor, out of harms way.
 
Orang Utan said:
It just seems daft not to put a desktop on a desk (or table, or other elevated piece of furniture if you have a desk. Right next to the monitor, out of harms way.
Click to expand...

I think you're very confused.
My PC is a metre tall and about 20cm wide, where would I safely put it on a desk so it wasn't at risk of being knocked over - and why? I don't want the thing towering halfway up the wall, I want it on the floor which is where the case was designed to be put.
(And yes my case has washable filters, it's not sucking in dust further than that)
 
Epona said:
I think you're very confused.
My PC is a metre tall and about 20cm wide, where would I safely put it on a desk so it wasn't at risk of being knocked over - and why? I don't want the thing towering halfway up the wall, I want it on the floor which is where the case was designed to be put.
(And yes my case has washable filters, it's not sucking in dust further than that)
Click to expand...

A metre tall? :hmm:

I've just measured my tower and it's only 15 inches tall.

And, thanks to this thread, I looked at the back, and discovered it has filters, which need cleaning. :oops:

I have a big desk, but with two large screens, there's no room for the tower, I have a filing cabinet to the right, but that has my printer on it.
 
Epona said:
I think you must be on a wind up, it's like you've never seen a computer before...
Click to expand...
i’be never seen one that big! That’s massive. The ones I’m familiar with at work are about the size of a book. And the one at home that to me looks ridiculously unwieldy is exactly a foot high.
 
Alright apparently I am shit at judging the size of things
I got the tape measure out and it's 54cm h x 20cm w x 46cm d

For a gaming PC you need room for large components like the GPU which has a multi-fan cooling unit attached, and lots of fans with airflow (or a water cooling system with pump) because everything gets really hot and needs to kept cooler than really hot.

The case looks a bit like this, only less glowy, I'm not really into all the glowy stuff in a case.

There is no way I would put this on a desk.

Tower Case.JPG
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

T & P
What’s your kitchen drawer’s fork-knife-spoon-small spoon ratio?
2 3 4
Replies
99
Views
2K
newme
newme
I
Show us your teapot / tea cosy
2
Replies
30
Views
581
Happy Tree
Happy Tree
Mation
Post your roast 🍖🫑
Replies
4
Views
297
High Voltage
High Voltage
trashpony
What the fuckety fuck is this thing growing behind my pipe?
2
Replies
50
Views
2K
two sheds
two sheds
story
Coffee making accessories for the coffee wanker in your life
2 3 4
Replies
104
Views
3K
Happy Tree
Happy Tree
Back
Top Bottom