So at work I get bored. Yes, I've been in the office for an hour on Monday morning, and I'm already bored. So when I do get bored, I start browsing LCD projectors on Ebay since that's an ongoing project here. And every time, it makes me think I need one. Seriously, you can find good ones for well under $1000 - that's better for the money than a big TV, if you've got either a screen or a large white wall.
So then I get to thinking about how I'm going to set up my entertainment center in my bachelor pad once I'm out of college (or at least done with dorm life). I want to put everything on one system - computer, TV, consoles, everything - so everything goes out onto the same screen and puts sound out through the same set of speakers. What's worse is I want to make it easy enough for a girlfriend to use, because I don't want to have to be asked twenty million times how to make it all play a DVD movie and then be exasperated when I get up and do it myself. My best guess is the trick is going to be getting an extremely good receiver with tons of inputs/outputs in every format imaginable. Who knows, maybe in the next four years someone will come up with a really good media control console that involves all that stuff. Cause hey, sitting on my super-comfy couch and playing Counter-Strike then switching to a DVD sounds really good to me right about now.
