Sometime in the next few months, if all goes well, I'm going to take the plunge and finally upgrade to HDTV.
Before that happens, I want to get the other big purchase out of the way.. replacing my entertainment center. It's an old beasty.. nice and big. About five feet tall, six feet wide, with room for anything you'd want to put in it. But, it's "TV slot" is only big enough for a 36" standard TV. Nowhere near big enough to put a 47" widescreen LCD.
So, I want to go ahead and "prep" my living room by replacing it early, and just putting my old 27" Sanyo on it until I get the new one. Get all the other components in their places and so forth. DVD player, receiver, maybe the VCR if there's room. Figure out where the consoles will go, etc.
Bear with me, you know I like to provide backstory when I'm asking a question.. lol.
So I'm shopping around, and these things are insanely priced. I mean, that big monstrosity I have in my living room? Hundred bucks. A little table with two shelves? Two hundred fifty. WTF?
Basically, I just need a basic shelf/stand, with enough room to put a receiver, DVD player, VCR, and the little switchbox I have some of my consoles running through. But I don't want to pay out the ass for it, either. Preferably black or silver, with a stand at least 30" wide (preferably larger), capable of supporting at least a hundred-pound TV. The HD I'm eyeballing is only seventy-eight pounds, but I'm not sure how much my current CRT weighs, and I like to leave a bit of room for error, since I'm probably going to put little knicknacks on it, too.
I found one on Wal-Mart's website that looks kind of nice:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5151029
A bit expensive, but nice and big, with plenty of space for everything. But, they don't stock it in the store, so I've got to pay shipping (which is probably going to be outrageous given it's weight).
I found two at Wal-Mart locally yesterday, when I went down there to do some shopping. Both were far cheaper than the one on the site, but neither was really perfect. One was silver/black, with a glass shelf for components.. 40" wide, plenty of room. But it was kind of.. plain. No drawers or doors or anything. The other was slightly smaller, 32" wide (the stand on the new TV will fit, but the TV itself will overhang on the sides). Component room on one side, door on the right for other stuff like the switchbox. That one also had a slot running across the top, beneath the main stand, where I could rack my games nice and neat. But it was wood-grain, which doesn't really go all that well with the black/silver electronics that will occupy it.
Any ideas? Any places I should look to spend about $100-150 on a decent stand, with all the ameneties and room for all my stuff?
Before that happens, I want to get the other big purchase out of the way.. replacing my entertainment center. It's an old beasty.. nice and big. About five feet tall, six feet wide, with room for anything you'd want to put in it. But, it's "TV slot" is only big enough for a 36" standard TV. Nowhere near big enough to put a 47" widescreen LCD.
So, I want to go ahead and "prep" my living room by replacing it early, and just putting my old 27" Sanyo on it until I get the new one. Get all the other components in their places and so forth. DVD player, receiver, maybe the VCR if there's room. Figure out where the consoles will go, etc.
Bear with me, you know I like to provide backstory when I'm asking a question.. lol.
So I'm shopping around, and these things are insanely priced. I mean, that big monstrosity I have in my living room? Hundred bucks. A little table with two shelves? Two hundred fifty. WTF?
Basically, I just need a basic shelf/stand, with enough room to put a receiver, DVD player, VCR, and the little switchbox I have some of my consoles running through. But I don't want to pay out the ass for it, either. Preferably black or silver, with a stand at least 30" wide (preferably larger), capable of supporting at least a hundred-pound TV. The HD I'm eyeballing is only seventy-eight pounds, but I'm not sure how much my current CRT weighs, and I like to leave a bit of room for error, since I'm probably going to put little knicknacks on it, too.
I found one on Wal-Mart's website that looks kind of nice:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5151029
A bit expensive, but nice and big, with plenty of space for everything. But, they don't stock it in the store, so I've got to pay shipping (which is probably going to be outrageous given it's weight).
I found two at Wal-Mart locally yesterday, when I went down there to do some shopping. Both were far cheaper than the one on the site, but neither was really perfect. One was silver/black, with a glass shelf for components.. 40" wide, plenty of room. But it was kind of.. plain. No drawers or doors or anything. The other was slightly smaller, 32" wide (the stand on the new TV will fit, but the TV itself will overhang on the sides). Component room on one side, door on the right for other stuff like the switchbox. That one also had a slot running across the top, beneath the main stand, where I could rack my games nice and neat. But it was wood-grain, which doesn't really go all that well with the black/silver electronics that will occupy it.
Any ideas? Any places I should look to spend about $100-150 on a decent stand, with all the ameneties and room for all my stuff?
