lol, well they were in stock when I was looking/shopping.
- hdtv mount+stand was roughly $600+ shipped
- laptop cart/stand was roughly $110 shipped
- speaker stands from monoprice.com were less than $20 shipped
Electronics are a diff story.... TV, pc, game systems, joysticks, powered hdmi splitter, distribution amp for sound, cables, video processor, speakers, etc. I have 4 displays in that room. My goal was to be able to display any source on any screen or on all simultaneously with the best picture possible.
some people complain about the black bars, but honestly I don't see them when I am playing, so playing a 3x4 vert on a 9x16 screen works just fine for me. Though these days my 16x9 has been playing Deathsmiles 4x3, same idea.
There's so much action on the game screen I don't see the point at fusing over something you don't have to focus on.