There really were no complications with this part of the installation either and everything went very smoothly.  I just took the TV back off the wall after ensuring my measurements were correct, used the included templates to trace out my cuts and then went to work with the drywall saw.

The left and right front channel speakers dropped right in without any fuss at all.  The only real problems I had left was all the marking left on the wall from the Onkyo speakers I had hanging and the mounting holes for the center channel screws.  I was saved some work because my wife didn’t like the stock white these speakers came in, so she wanted them painted to match the wall.  Since I was going to do some painting anyway, I wouldn’t have to mask them off.  I inserted the included paint shields behind each speaker grill, put together the Wagner power sprayer and found the rest of the paint we used on that wall.  I was finished in about 10 minutes.  After drying, I used the included tool to carefully remove the speaker grills so I could remove the inserts and put it all back together.  I used a small foam brush to touch up a couple of lightly scratched areas (the grill is held in by pressure, so it hits the frame a little) and that was that.  Below are some terrible quality images I took with my Droid (I really need to find my camera battery).

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Four Lions – Beyond silly, but it will make you laugh.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time – Thought Gyllenhaal was a strange choice for the part when it was first announced.  Still think he was a strange pick, but the movie was pretty good.

Downstream – My wife and I both like post-apocalyptic movies, but this should have been destroyed along with the world.  It may not be fair to rate a movie that we didn’t finish, but I have to say we switched this off after 15 minutes.  Absolutely terrible.

Dorian Gray – It’s hard for me to say if I liked or disliked this movie, so I will say I am impartial.  It’s very slow moving, but we stayed up late to see where it was going.  I won’t know if it was worth it or not until the coffee wears off later this morning.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – We watched this as a movie night for our 5-year old.  He liked it and I didn’t think it was all that bad.  Much less special effects than I had expected though.

If I get some spare time tonight, I may just have a success story to write tomorrow.  Be sure to check back often!

Update:

I was able to disassemble both monitors yesterday evening, but I did not find any blown or bulging caps on them.  Good news is that one of the monitors did work.  I’m still going to go ahead and replace the capacitors I have on the other one just to see if it changes anything.  I’m pretty certain I’m going to have to replace the entire inverter in order to get it going though…there’s just too many capacitors, transistors, etc. on there for me to narrow it down.  I’m not patient enough to use my multimeter on it.

Update2:

I cracked the non-working monitor open when I got home and replaced the two capacitors known to go out out on it and that fixed it!  I’m using that one as an extension to my desktop right now.

They’re old, but they’re still worth something somewhere around the house if they can be fixed.

My only obstacle now is finding out if the 52″ Samsung will overlap the speakers once I am able to put it in.  I’m going to have to measure it and see how it will fall into place with the speakers I plan on buying.  I want to go with the 8″ fronts, but they have a 10″ footprint width.  If that Samsung overlaps, I may have to go on the other side of the stud and that’s going to look a little strange with the 37″ I have now.  I will go with the same 6.5″ speakers I used as my rear left and right surrounds if I absolutely have to, but I think they will be too small for front channels.  This is the center channel speaker and since the stud space is slightly off-center, I should have at least 4 mount locks to hold it in place if I have to cut out two corner ones to make it fit without notching.  That will work fine.

Once I get home this evening, I’ll break the tape measure out and I’ll know for sure what I’m getting.  The only thing left is to get a sample of the wall paint we used…the speakers I hung marked them up pretty bad.  Plus I think I’ll have a few mounting screw holes to patch up.

Update:

I measured it out and I am going with the 8″ FRL speakers.  I also realize I am going to have to notch a stud for the center channel, but I’m pretty sure I can do it easily without causing any problems if it’s load-bearing.  I went ahead and order it all Friday afternoon, so I’m hoping it will arrive before next weekend.  I doubt it since the last shipment took so long, but we’ll see.

Centurion – I was very pleasantly entertained by this one.  My wife actually enjoyed it too.

From Paris with Love – I had reservations about this one considering the character Travolta was playing, but he made the movie watchable.  Pretty good fun in this one.

Battlefield Earth – My wife loves science fiction movies.  I told her this was considered one of the worst films of all time and so she became curious.  She actually liked it.  I was simply reminded of why it is considered one of the worst films of all time.

That’s it.  Unfortunately, I don’t know if this will be a weekly event anymore.  My wife starts school today and our movie-watching availability will probably plummet to next to zero (except for some weekends).  I’ll do what I can to provide my crappy reviews though :)

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I also wanted to make this post to make sure it’s still working without another ‘Test’ post :)