That one made me
smile.
Will architects
ever
get with the program and stop putting TV points in the
corner?
That was fine
years
ago, but now we have flat panel TVs (at prices which are starting to
compare
with CRTs now – ask Graham J), and surround
sound, tallies just don’t work in the corner any more. I had to
persuade the
architect who put the plans together for my place to leave out a window on
one
wall because that was where I wanted to put the plasma.
The thing that
makes
me laugh, is that before she started to draw the plans she came to visit
me,
and as the few members of the group that have been here will attest the
“telly” does dominate the room somewhat. Even Mark “I
don’t really watch
telly” Harrison, was doing some back-of-fag-packet calculations which
included
a wall bracket, second hand Sky box and a FTA BBC card J
Tim
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Message-----
From:
Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)
High WAF
items:
1. Wiring for whole house audio with all cabling
hidden
2. Hiding hifi gear at
node
zero
Neutral
WAF:
1. Relocating "tv point"
to
new lounge corner
Low
WAF:
(completely negates all of the above)
1. Not wiring a "tv point" to a place "we" never thought
we'd put the TV,
and can't be
cabled from anywhere else. Hence the reason I'm hiring a
wall
chaser (again) this
weekend.
That's about all
I've
got cabled at the moment. More as it happens . .
.
Tim
H.
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Message-----
From: Mark
Harrison
Ooh - she came up
with 2 more just after I hit "send".
1: Got rid of cables that ran all round the room for
surround sound
2:
babycam
Both are, of
course,
KAT5 implementations.
Mark
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From: Mark Harrison
Dear all,
For
those of you not on the UKHA_Meeting group, it looks like the
2003
meeting may well be an
all-weekend event to which SWMBOs are invited.
Keith Doxey has suggested that there are two possible
outcomes to an SWMBO
conclave:
1.
They discuss all the disasters and massive credit card bill we all
get
resulting in us being
banned.
2. Each SWMBO say
how
cool <insert High WAF HA feature> is and they think
"I
must get him to do that as
well" resulting in us being encouraged to extend
our systems.
In order to make "2" happen, we have about 10 months to
implement a large
number of
high-WAF features in our systems... which means we need to
start
pooling ideas now
:-)
So, what are your
high-WAF
features?
My starter for
ten,
based on Mrs. H's comments are:
- Rio Receiver in her study
- She can control the lights from beside her
bed
- Garden lights come on
automatically when it gets close to dark
- Pronto was better than all the
separates
- (When on maternity
leave), liked to be able to read her discussions
groups
in
bed
Any
others?
Mark