HD Home Sports Bar Survey

Hello,

I'm considering looking into a manufacture on demand approach for making HD Home Sports Bar available for purchase. This would allow folks to simply order a "some assembly required" and easy to assemble unit that could be put together in around 30 minutes.

Please help me to determine if their is interest and how the product should be designed.

HD Home Sports Bar Google SketchUp Model And Build Walkthrough

I utilized Google SketchUp to design my HD Home Sports Bar and found the process extremely helpful.

First of all, it allowed me to visualize what I wanted to build and to run that by my wife before I got underway in the project. Always, always a GOOD idea.

It also allowed me to plan all the materials I would need ahead of time, and make sure that it would fit with the TVs and cable boxes I was planning to use.

This really came in handy when I went to Home Depot. I live a house where I do not have room for a workshop so I don't have a table saw or anything like that for cutting my own wood.

So, I was pretty much dependent on Home Depot to do my cutting - It only cost $10 for all the cuts I needed and the lumber manager at Home Depot was actually pretty happy that I brought in my plans and diagrammed all the cuts for him.

So - if you have your own tools you can easily do this yourself, but if you don't - any Home Depot should be able to help you out.

I wanted to share this with the world - so please, feel free to head over to the HD Home Sports Bar First Design page. You can download the SketchUp file and see a walkthrough of the build in photographs too.

Introducing the HD Home Sports Bar!

Finally - Watch all the sporting events on TV at once! Like having a Sports Bar in your home, the HD Home Sports Bar allows you to watch multiple games of your favorite sport all at the same time.

The HD Home Sports Bar is designed to be complimentary to your main HDTV, and to do so with a high "wife acceptability factor" or WAF.

This site will provide you with all the details of how I built my HD Home Sports Bar, with a complete build walkthrough and even a Google SketchUp model which you can download to review or even improve on yourself.

I built my HD Home Sports Bar in a day - and the total cost for all the materials and three 19" HDTVs was around $750 - though I was lucky enough to receive the TVs as wedding presents....thank you honey for letting me run the registry for one day. :)

The WAF is high - much better than when I tried the same thing with a mish-mash of old CRT tvs I found off Craigslist and arranged hastily around my main TV. This thing can stay in the living room, or if really necessary, can be easily picked up and moved by one person.

In the future, if there is enough interest, I'd like to offer pre-manufactured units that you could order and quickly assemble like any "some assembly required" furniture that you could buy online or at a local office or home furnishing store. Maybe even complete kits with TVs and all hardware - that'll be up to you and your interest in the project.