It's true the missus and I are having our first baby. Next week we find out (hopefully) whether it's gonna be a boy or a girl.
We're really excited, but recently I realized that my brand new 52 Inch DLP with it's stand containing one HD reciever, one Xbox and one Xbox 360 are all in the "high slobber - probable puke - prying fingers - scooping food" area. (see below picture):
That means I need to figure out a way to keep my baby from turning my electronics into scrap before he reaches 2 years old. So my dilemma is this, do I build a shelf attachment for the wall directly above the set and store my electronics there? or do I put the whole set on a higher stand and hope it doesn't get toppled at some point? :S
Anyone with any winning suggestions will get an Xbox 360 picture of box only and my enduring gratitude.
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Evidently the stand doesn't have a spot to mount a door, although I suppose I could build one in some fashion. The only problem with my idea of wall mounting a shelf for the entertainment equipment is that unless I use cordless controllers for both my Xbox and 360, the cords will dangle in front of the screen when I am playing... Urg.
The surround sound I'm not really worried about, because the wires I can drop down thru the walls and wall mount the speakers without a lot of trouble. I may have to purchase some kind of closable stand for the other equipment though. Set it beside the set maybe. *shrug*
I would say your second idea would be best: Buy a stand next to the TV.
http://www.mitsubishi-tv.com/other/category.asp?id=6
One of these seem golden.
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As for the electronics, could you put on lockable shelf doors on the stand or does it not support those? Otherwise, I'm not sure. Generally higher is better but I don't know where you could put the receiver, sound system, and ever so important XBoxes where they would be out of reach of inquistive fingers. Maybe wall mount but I don't know the details. Anyways, congrats again.