Over at Home Theater Blog, Brian has taken the time to put together instructions on how to mount your own flat screen television. It all started, he says, because "Over the weekend I helped a friend wall mount a Panasonic LCD and thought to myself, hey why not take a few pictures and post an illustrated how-to guide on this." That's how everything good begins. DIY.
This will help you even if you are only needing advice on siting your TV (that said, we think Brian's friend went a little high up above).
Brian's instructions are detailed and easy to read. He has included pics so that you can see crucial steps and the comments below fill in missing holes. Also, Brian does include a small disclaimer and says that home installation is "not for everyone." (Thanks, Oliver!)
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Comments (7)
If you are mounting to a wall and there is no stud, use the Snaptoggle toggle bolt from toggler. I got these from Grainger and they make the installation easy.
We are at the starting point. We want to mount our 42" plasma over the gas fireplace. We have sooo many questions.
Besides the power cable/ outlet what type of (and how many) cables do we need to run to the TV? Component? HDMI? Coax? Combo? Any help or direction is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Scott Polo
I have recently invested in a new flat screen TV and am now in the market for a mount to put it up on the wall. For the past few weeks I have been shopping online and think I am decided on a mount from Moview. There mounts have a very appealing design and are backed with a 10yr warrenty. Also they are pretty affordable I feel. Please if anyone has any comments or suggestions please let me know.
The website I have been looking at is www.moview.com if you want to take look.
Thanks!
It is very possible to mount a TV over a fire place & there should not be a problem with running wires thru the wall. I mounted my 50" flat screen above my fireplace with a mount from Moview and its amazing. Adds a ton to the room and is very functional. I invested in the tilting mount to avoid glares but they offer a flush mount and a full motion mount as well.
I highly recommend these mounts!
Forget bestbuy and any big box store for cables. They are a major rip off. I got a whole bunch of cables (hdmi for under $5.00) cheap at MONOPRICE.COM. I have no affiliation with them, but I hate the fact that stores feel its okay to charge us 10-20 times the actual cost of a product. Btw I am searching for a good LCD around 46" to hang over a fireplace at my moms house for christmas. Any suggestions?
@Jer The Omnimount cantilever mount is great, thanks for the tip I picked mine up on www.ebay.com for a bit less than you paid.
We also got a nice frame to go with it from http://www.hdenvy.com/ and a minimalist component rack from http://www.ikea.com/. I wasnt gonna get the frame at first but we have little ones and I was afraid it would end up falling over on one of them.
Over all I love having my TV mounted. I dont think I could ever go back to a big entertainment center.
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