Wallmount or not?

Zid_

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I'm looking to wallmount a 50" Plasma.

Firstly, where's a good place to get a wallmount from? I'd be after one for turn and swivel.

Will this affect Plasma buzz? I imagine with it being affixed to a solid surface could amplify the problem.
 
ruffneck said:
I think it should be illegal to mount a lcd/led/plasma tv any other way :)
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Personally dont see the benefit in most situations, as by the time you've found a shelf for the centre speaker, av receiver, bluray player, htpc, sky/virgin box/xbox etc, you might as well just have the TV sat on top of it?
 
rG-tom said:
Personally dont see the benefit in most situations, as by the time you've found a shelf for the centre speaker, av receiver, bluray player, htpc, sky/virgin box/xbox etc, you might as well just have the TV sat on top of it?
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Depends how ugly the stand is :p

I guess it's about where the TV's going to be mounted as well though, if it's only just higher than where it would normally stand then i'd agree with you Tom. If it's going to be a fair distance further up the wall though then things are different!
 
Whatever you do, don't make the same mistake thousands of others seem to. Mounting it stood up! Middle of the screen at eye level when your SAT DOWN! It looks bloody stupid above fireplaces etc. and you just wreck your neck. You wouldn't buy a 1.5m high tv stand would you, so why are you mounting it that high?
 
Chris1712 said:
Whatever you do, don't make the same mistake thousands of others seem to. Mounting it stood up! Middle of the screen at eye level when your SAT DOWN! It looks bloody stupid above fireplaces etc. and you just wreck your neck. You wouldn't buy a 1.5m high tv stand would you, so why are you mounting it that high?
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^ this :)
 
Have small children, mount it on a wall...

Lot of people I know have really nice houses, they spend a fortune on extensions, kitchens, sofas and stuff, yet they still have their nice new TVs on crappy stands in a corner, with dusty old stb's and consoles cluttering up the place with wires... Shuve it on the wall, put you speakers on the wall, channel out cables runs in the wall - do it properly and you get a nice warm fuzzy feeling when you flop down infront of it and watch some old crap...
 
Zid_ said:
I'm looking to wallmount a 50" Plasma.

Firstly, where's a good place to get a wallmount from? I'd be after one for turn and swivel.

Will this affect Plasma buzz? I imagine with it being affixed to a solid surface could amplify the problem.
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got mine from a well known book website, plenty good deals there, does your plasma have fans in it? as wall mounted can amplify the sound for some.
 
A random name said:
Depends how ugly the stand is :p

I guess it's about where the TV's going to be mounted as well though, if it's only just higher than where it would normally stand then i'd agree with you Tom. If it's going to be a fair distance further up the wall though then things are different!
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unless you're sat on bar stools it shouldn't be higher though :p

if i could start ripping walls apart and putting stuff into cupboards to hide it etc, id consider a wallmount, but still have the issue of where to put the centre, unless i sunk that into a false wall?

For me, for the amount of gear you need to have under a TV anyway you're going to need an AV cabinet anyway, so why not have the TV ontop of it?
 
I have my TV in a corner and I've yet to see a sensible way of wall mounting it so it sits at the same angle it does on a TV stand a lush wall mount in a corner really is not an option.

I know you going to say I shouldn't have a TV in a corner I need to be square on to it etc but the only way to do this would be to re-arrange the whole living room around the TV in the bay window which is for to chav for me to consider.

Wall mounts work great in some situations especially modern houses and flats with boxy shapped rooms and no features they don't however work very well in a traditional victorian style house with all it's origional features intact.
 
a1ex2001 said:
I have my TV in a corner and I've yet to see a sensible way of wall mounting it so it sits at the same angle it does on a TV stand a lush wall mount in a corner really is not an option.

I know you going to say I shouldn't have a TV in a corner I need to be square on to it etc but the only way to do this would be to re-arrange the whole living room around the TV in the bay window which is for to chav for me to consider.

Wall mounts work great in some situations especially modern houses and flats with boxy shapped rooms and no features they don't however work very well in a traditional victorian style house with all it's origional features intact.
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I actually wouldnt rent/buy a house if i couldnt have the TV central with speakers either side.
 
rG-tom said:
I actually wouldnt rent/buy a house if i couldnt have the TV central with speakers either side.
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I could have my living room aranged like that I just choose not too, the clue is in the name 'living room' not 'TV room' I'm not a bing fan of living spaces arranged around a TV but I probably watch less TV than most.

Like most things in life it's all about compromise Ideally my living room would be arranged with two bog sofas facing each other over a nice coffee table but I've yet to see this done in a way that make TV watching anything but a total nightmare so the next best thing is two sofas at an agle to one another with a TV in a corner for convenient but not ideal watching when required. If money was no object I'd have a cinema room with ther perfect viewing layout seperate from my living room but sadly my numbers never come up on the lottery!
 
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