i recently wall mounted a LCD in my master bedroom. i have a receiver, DVD player, and soon HD cable box/DVR that will be run to this TV.

"the big idea" is to keep everything pretty well hidden or mounted so it is not a distraction. the wife does not want the bedroom to look like a "media room." the TV is in a corner in the room and a wall mount component rack is not going to carry a good look. not to mention i have not found anything even half decent enough to use. we don't want another piece of furniture to store them in. that would defeat wall mounting the TV in the first place.
the next idea is to store the equipment in the closet about 30 feet away from the TV. i have no problem at all running the cables/wires through the wall to the closet to the shelf the components will be on.

the obvious problem here is the remote control situation. the closet is on the other end of the bathroom which is on the other end of the bedroom. what is a good product/solution to regaining remote control control? if it is a wired IR repeater, i will need to run the wires through the wall also and that will require a good amount of cable length. does anyone make something that will allow such a thing?

Try this - http://www.smarthome.com/59500.html or any one of a number of similar solutions at smarthome. Most work with the cheap 2-pair telephine wire you can get at home depot. 30' is no problem. I ran mine 50' and I think it'll go a few hundred feet.

awesome, thanks. now i have to figure out how that whole deal works.

awesome, thanks. now i have to figure out how that whole deal works.

If you say it's no big deal for you to run the wires, it should be a piece of cake. I have the Xantech Hidden link system hooked up with CAT5 (don't really need CAT5 because you only use 3 of the conductors) on a 75' run and it works great. I even have the tabletop receiver right underneath a plasma, and it's not one of the "plasma proof" receivers, and the whole thing functions like all of the equipment is right there.

Running and hooking up the CAT5 is easy. You just strip the mini-plug on the receiver and and twist the conductors from the Cat5 together, and on the other end, run the conductors into the connecting block (which sits with the equipment).

Alternatively, if it's 30 feet and you're not comfortable twisting Cat5, you could conceivably run a few extensions on the 3.5' mini plug on the IR receiver to the connecting block, but I imagine Cat5 would be a better solution. There are also wall mount IR receivers that you connect the Cat5 to and screw into a Jbox or into the wall, thus eliminating the need to cut any wire off of the IR receiver. Possibilities are endless - running the wire is the only hard part, and it sounds like you've got that covered.

that doesn't sound bad at all. i guess i just need to narrow it down to the best/most affordable system.

last weekend i ran a new outlet and coax behind the TV to meet the WAF requirements

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i ran a couple drops of conduit during the process because i knew i would be running more wiring down there, so dropping the Cat5 or miniplug wiring will be a snap. i installed a triple gang box because at the time, i wasn't expecting to run A/V cables down there. it won't be a problem at all to pull that out and extend it to fit a 4 or 5 gang box there to make room for the A/V outlets.