TVs high on walls

[ubersonic]

Looking down even by an inch or so much worse than up by a dozen inches. Like I don't understand the top of bezel at eye line on a desk either.

Prevents eye strain/damage.

 

[Megahurtz400]

Give her a neck brace for her birthday

Don't let @Diddums see this post...

 

[Curlyriff]

Prevents eye strain/damage.

I have worked with monitors daily for over 20yrs and I need to have my monitor bottom bezel to eye line aligned up.

Honestly not sure how if you have it at top or at bottom of your eye makes a difference but I personally find it more comfortable to have it higher.

 

[VincentHanna]

The bigger the TV, the less it really matters as well.

Though of course having it dead central is optimal really.

 

[Freefaller]

True but if you wall mount it at a sensible height then there's no real point wall mounting it aside from the aforementioned "cool" factor.

I don't see what the cool factor you're talking about personally. We have a waist height bookcase which spans part of wall so it was ideal to mount it just above it as the other end we have a fireplace. The cables are hidden so it's neat for us.

In the 'big' TV room it's wall mounted with the speaker mounted below it as I don't like unnecessary furniture, it adds clutter and is largely unnecessary. If we lived in a small property then we'd probably use furniture as it would be needed to store stuff.

Each to their own. I personally find it neater not having lots of unnecessary furniture.

 

[200sols]

True but if you wall mount it at a sensible height then there's no real point wall mounting it aside from the aforementioned "cool" factor.

Not really, mine is wall mounted above the unit which the speakers sit on, centre speaker would look crap sitting on the stand of a TV and the overall look is less cluttered with the TV on a wall.

 

[Curlyriff]

To note some of these newer larger TVs don't even come with stand mounts and come with wall brackets only.

 

[adam cool dude]

The bigger the TV, the less it really matters as well.

Though of course having it dead central is optimal really.

We have a 65" LG Oled mounted above the fire place as is the sound bar. Corner sofa is 5 meters from TV. TV is angled down which is the most important part. We have had several TV's in the same place for the past 10 years. I like to take off my Gucci belt when I relax though.

Never been a problem.

 

[cheesefest]

To note some of these newer larger TVs don't even come with stand mounts and come with wall brackets only.

You don’t have to use the stand/bracket supplied with the tv. I bought a stand for my new tv (actually it was my grandmother’s) and purchased a new stand for £18 on Amazon. As the supplied stand splayed out at the back too wide for my soundboard.

 

[Curlyriff]

You don’t have to use the stand/bracket supplied with the tv. I bought a stand for my new tv (actually it was my grandmother’s) and purchased a new stand for £18 on Amazon. As the supplied stand splayed out at the back too wide for my soundboard.

Yeah it was more the thought about council estate and that TV companies know that people generally wall mount and that is what they are designed for.

 

[cheesefest]

Yeah it was more the thought about council estate and that TV companies know that people generally wall mount and that is what they are designed for.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/GRIFEMA-GB...-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1. My stand. Though it had a third off last month.

 

[HangTime]

I'm with you Cheesefest and a moan I can empathise with.
If I want to upset the wife I just say I'm thinking of putting a 65" above the fire surround.
Personally I don't like them up there and prefer the eyeline when I'm sitting on the sofa.
When I go the pub to watch a match I have to stand up because they're always mounted high.

In pubs they kind of have to mount them high to avoid the view getting obscured too much though, it is a bit uncomfortable staring up at them though.
I've stayed in hotels before that basically had them at ceiling height which was weird, just a way of maximising the space I guess.

I've considering wall-mounting our living room TV but that would move it back further, it kind of feels like I'd need a bigger TV if it was on the wall to offset the increased viewing distance and I got enough flak off the wife for getting 'too big' a TV in the first place.

 

[theone8181]

In pubs they kind of have to mount them high to avoid the view getting obscured too much though, it is a bit uncomfortable staring up at them though.
I've stayed in hotels before that basically had them at ceiling height which was weird, just a way of maximising the space I guess.

I've considering wall-mounting our living room TV but that would move it back further, it kind of feels like I'd need a bigger TV if it was on the wall to offset the increased viewing distance and I got enough flak off the wife for getting 'too big' a TV in the first place.

Pubs is understandable, possibly for the same reason as for some with young kids expect for older people .

 

[bainbridge]

We just have ours on a low TV cabinet a couple of feet off the ground. There's a studwork wall directly behind, so it would be straightforward to conceal the wiring and mount the screen on the wall, but I really don't see the point.

It's our home, not an office foyer!