Can I stack my VCR, DVD player, DVR and stereo components?

Can I stack my VCR, DVD player, DVR and stereo components?

Jeff Colen (President, A Sharper Home, Inc.) gives expert video advice on: How far away from my TV should I sit?; Is it safe to mount my new TV over my fireplace?; What is the best way to position speakers in my home theater? and more...

If you stack your components together in a cabinet – and that happens frequently because you have a certain size cabinet and you have a lot of equipment to put in there – you can do it. What may happen is if there's not enough ventilation, there will be heat build up that will shorten the life of those components.