just get a projector and call it a day

Vouch what MGS4 said. Get a good projector and a retractable projector screen (most retractable screens are motorized, and controllable by many universal remotes). You can get screens in excess of 100" easily. One thing to consider when doing this is the throw distance of the projector in relation to how much room you have away from the screen to mount the projector. Basically, to get a good picture on a 100" screen, you'll generally need to mount the projo farther away from the screen than you would if you had an 80" screen. Projectorcentral.com has a very good calculator which, when you choose the make/model of the screen, and put in things like screen size, will tell you the optimal mounting distance. If you only have say, 10 feet of space (which would be ludicrous to even go with something that size in that type of space), you're not going to find a good projector that will fit the image properly on a screen that size over that short of a distance. Also, consider the aspect ratio you want in a screen (16:9, 2.35:1, etc), and make sure you get a projo that can display the aspect ratio you choose.

Now, assuming you have space to work with, and if you were considering a 90-100" TV, I assume you have the budget for it, I would highly recommend Runco projectors. Pretty much the best on the market, but you do pay for them (I think the cheapest model they carry is $4,000 or so).

Anything bigger than 80"=projectors.

Have a power outlet added where you might add it then you won't have any wires showing.

Then you can cut hole behind tv and fish all ir wires down to the table below for all ur devices.

Results in no wires seen.

For that size, a projector would be better, so wire fishing would be a moot point, anyway.

If you do go the route of getting a projector, you will need a way to get AV signal to the projector from your input sources, whether it be a cable box/Blu-ray player/etc directly, or through an AV receiver. If the distance from where your source components would be to where the projector would be mounted is greater than about 12 feet, I would highly recommend using an HDMI balun instead of a long HDMI cable to make that run. A balun converts the HDMI signal to Ethernet, and uses Ethernet to cross the run, then converts it back to HDMI. Ethernet can carry a signal a much greater distance without signal degradation than HDMI cables can. In this case, you might want to have power for the projector installed at the mounting spot, and have CAT6 Ethernet cable pulled from where the gear stack will be to where the projo will be, so you don't have to worry about pulling wires later.

That's a mighty bold statement

Runco's a certainly among the best but I wouldn't say THE best. the $25,000 Sony VW1100ES 4K projector is probably the single best display in terms of overall picture quality on the consumer market (that includes LED, LCD, plasma, DLP, IPS monitors etc) IMO.
but they're "only" ideal for screen sizes of 90-150" which is why professional projectors like the Sony SRX-T540, Christie, Barco flagships etc cost north of $250,000 - they're designed for screen sizes up 1000 inches.
I happen to know one of Norway's only two owners of a Sony VW1000ES and he challenged SIM2's division in Norway to a public showdown head 2 head his $25k Sony projector vs a $60,000 SIM2 which often gets called the best consumer projector on the market by reviewers. Needless to say they declined
I've also heard stories about reviewers getting to keep the SIM2 ($40,000+) projectors if they give them full scores / call them the best.

in the sub $15K and sub $10K price category there's nothing that beats JVC's X900 and X700, in fact no projector regardless of price level has black levels as deep or contrast as high as these two. but you lose 90% of that contrast/black level if your entire room isn't windowless and masked with non-reflective matte black paint. Here's where Runco, SIM2, Digital Projection etc come in the picture, they\re made to perform well in problematic/imperfect environment (like almost any living room is)

This post was edited by MGS4BestGameEverMade on Jun 24 2014 04:57pm