Question about putting a home theater together.

sandman512,

There are lots of threads here in the general and in the dedicated which can show you in detail with pictures many various ways to do this. Myself I ran a conduit to the panel location and will be using an IR repeater to run the devices (in your case it would be the cable box) which is out of site.
I have more detail in my thread and others have even more indepth information which you may find even more helpful in the dedicated area.

Good luck
Calvin

You can use a remote control that has RF (radio frequency technology, like cordless phones) so that you can put the cable box out of sight and still control it. Once you get used to not having to point at something to control it, it's hard to go back.