TV Height on wall in front room

Lisapete · 12 Mar 2016 at 20:32

She wants the TV going up on the wall.

It's a Samsung 40" F6320 Series 6 Smart 3D Full HD LED TV.

I've got the wall bracket and some fixings already. It's a new build and the wall is dot and dab. So cables will be hidden behind it.

What is the best height to mount the TV to the wall to watch when on the sofa?

I plan to run an ethernet, HDMI, Coax cable behing the dot and dab, anything else I should add?

dbmzk1 · 12 Mar 2016 at 22:43

99% of wall installations I've seen have the TV way to high. I cringe when I go into a house and see a TV over the fireplace or half way up a wall!

In an ideal world, when in your normal viewing position, ie sitting on your sofa, your eyes should be roughly level with the middle of the screen, or just below the middle, so you're probably talking about the middle of the screen being 1.2-1.5m off the ground depending on you and your sofa. I'd put it as close to that as I could without it looking daft or getting in the way etc.

Bassmansam · 12 Mar 2016 at 23:17

My brother and brother in law mounted there tv's ridiculously high. Having to physically raise your head to view the TV properly. Why, just why?

lude1962 · 13 Mar 2016 at 00:14

I'd say for a 40" you don't really want the middle any higher than 1m .
But at that height for a wall mounted object (think pictures) its below half the wall height so it could look daft/ out of place.

Lisapete · 13 Mar 2016 at 10:02

Sadly she wants above the fireplace

a1ex2001 · 13 Mar 2016 at 10:41

Lisapete said:
Sadly she wants above the fireplace

Put a monitor on the mantle piece and get her to watch it for a few hours hopefully she will then realise how dumb this idea is!

BristolMethod · 13 Mar 2016 at 11:56

Women are mental! Who cranes their neck back while watching TV?

vila · 13 Mar 2016 at 15:24

Lisapete said:
Sadly she wants above the fireplace

Well you could always sadly explain why that won't be happening.

Caged · 13 Mar 2016 at 15:26

A 40 above a fireplace will look lost. It's also too high to watch comfortably.

wellibob · 13 Mar 2016 at 17:03

Above the fireplace. A mirror, ornaments a clock. NEVER A wall mounted TV. NEVER EVER EVER. EVER.

chaparral · 13 Mar 2016 at 18:14

Both my plasma's are mounted fairly high up on the wall and I and everyone else has never had a problem..

vila · 13 Mar 2016 at 18:17

Do you like sitting in the front row at the cinema?

chaparral · 13 Mar 2016 at 18:21

vila said:
Do you like sitting in the front row at the cinema?

My local cinema so tiny are back row would likely be where your cinema front row is..

vila · 13 Mar 2016 at 18:24

Point is staring up at an image for 2 hours is not what most people consider comfortable.

Lisapete · 13 Mar 2016 at 20:32

Who pays to watch films with other smelling loud annoying people. I pay for broadband and download all my content for free.

vila · 13 Mar 2016 at 20:34

The fact that you pirate films and watch them on your small tv that your wife made you hang on the chimney breast isn't something to show off about.

kingy666 · 14 Mar 2016 at 16:51

I took our fire off the chimney breast and mounted the TV on it. We have central heating and never use the fire anyway.

tom_nieto · 14 Mar 2016 at 19:25

I wall mounted my TV way to high at first. I actually got quite used to the lounging position! I will mount my new one much lower down though. I suppose the other consideration is sticky toddler fingers

Psycho Sonny · 14 Mar 2016 at 19:38

Lisapete said:
Who pays to watch films with other smelling loud annoying people. I pay for broadband and download all my content for free.

lol wtf?

people who want the big screen and big audio experience.

i'll give you one great example. mad max fury road. i watched that at the imax (my first time at imax cinema as it's too expensive IMO) and wow it was simply insane. even my wife who hates action movies loved it.

i then watched mad max at home (her request as i don't tend to watch the same movie twice unless it's been at least 5 years) and even though I have a 50" reference quality panny plasma and a very capable yamaha soundbar it was quite frankly crap in comparison. so much so i've went and acquired a bigger tv and a full proper 5.1 setup.

i bet you use built in tv speakers too. too tight to buy any better. you don't know what your missing out on until you have experienced real quality.

a trip to the imax might open your horizons some. but make sure it's a good film with a brilliant soundtrack.

we went back a month later for the latest jurassic park world and it was meh. fury road is what imax was built for. i think the sound system in that place is extremely under utilised by a lot of movies. i won't be making another trip there again for a while until something truly deserving comes along.