Motion Simulator for Home Theater

Dalvenjah FoxFire writes "D-Box, a Canadian speaker company, has designed a system called the Odyssee consisting of four motor-driven actuators that go under your couch and a controller box with a CD-ROM drive for the control files. The controller reads the Dolby Digital bitstream from your DVD player, and plays back synchronized motion effects designed by the company. For about $20,000, you too can add motion simulation to your home theater. They have a list on their site of the movies they've encoded, including The Matrix, Drunken Master, Star Wars Episode I, and more, though it also has an 'audio driven' mode which will work with any source."

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I would pay...

[digitalsushi]

Well, I think it's neat. I would pay up to 300 dollars for the controller unit, and 85 dollars per lift, if it can do 4 couches total (16 lifts). And I would buy 4, not 16. But my living room is in a better setup than theirs. I think I even have a jpeg... *looks* oh look at that, yes i do. http://digitalsushi.com/konton/livingroom/ You know whats funny is that I am not an audiophile. If you swapped those crap Bose 301s and Boston whatevers (a further tribute that I dont know what models they are) with some 20k dollar rig, I wouldnt even notice. Anyhoo, I figured I'd post that link since it was already there. I like seeing other people's personal LAN/office setups, and living room setups. It's too bad I dont have a camera that can get the wide tight shot that is my LAN, cause its cooler than my living room- I never spend time in there. Maybe thats why I've been here 4 months and the nintendo is still unplugged. Thing that ticks me off is that I get a 99/100 signal rating to DirectTV, and I average about 20 minutes of television daily (so like 2 or 3 shows a week)- DirectTV made me sign a one year contract where I can't bust out. Lame huh. Sorry for the wild rambling- hey anyone else have pics of their setups? (the theme of mine is that I have the coolest speaker stand on slashdot (little lights on a dimmer run under all the cloth- it diffuses!) and that I have no idea what my equipment is.. heck I dont even have a sub in that room!)