Wall mount TV

[trader_4]

You'd have to be a moron to buy some piece of crap that requires you to put screws in it while holding it up to the wall. Apparently they are mighty dumb down under.

[Clare Snyder]

A wall mount takes up no floor space and collects less dust

[Clare Snyder]

We replaced a 26 inch CRT with a new 40 inch Plasma for $2800 around Christmas 2008. Had to throw away the "entertainment unit" it fit in too,and we replaced it with a lowe cabinet with an electric fireplace in it. I could buy a 50 inch LED 4K for less than 1/4 that today - -

Had another 26 inch CRT in the basement - in a semi-built-in cabinet. When it died I had to look high and low for a flatscreen that would fit the opening. Not too many that would fit!!!.

Then a customer decided they needed a 70inch TV with 4 HDMI inputs to replace their 2006 50 or 52 inch Panasonic Plasma - and I scored the plasma for $150 - about half what a cheap LCD TV would cost new.

HEAVY PIG!!!!! and no way it would fit in the old cabinet. It sat on top for a few years until I decided the old cabinet had to go and I bought another electric fireplace cabinet for the basement - the one rated for a 50-some lb 72 inch TV

Had to re-enforce it to hold the 235 lb plasma - - -

[Clare Snyder]

Can't beat Home Hardware for value - unless it's Canadian Tire when they have what you need on sale -- - -

I remember the original Home Hardware store in St Jacobs when I lived in the apartment above the store next door back in 1955-56. Old Walter Hachborn really started something - - -

[thekmanrocks]

Bill Gill wrote: "Not really any of my business, but is there a good reason to hang your TV on the wall? As far as I can see this is basically a fashion statement. I personally like to have "

Saves space, that's all. But I cannot abide mounting them above fireplace mantles - for any reason.

[Rod Speed]

Nope.

Watch the f****ng youtube.

Only in your pathetic little drug crazed drunken psychotic fantasyland.

[Rod Speed]

Never said while holding it up to the wall. Watch the f****ng youtube.

[Wade Garrett]

Yeah, I paid almost three thousand dollars for the pair of them. Couple of hundred bucks each now....

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

To make more efficient use of space. I do have a piece of furniture below the TV, but use that for a DVR.

I wound NOT do it for that reason.

Or just hang something there.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

Before buying my main TV (LCD), I had a 27-inch CRT TV. That "portable" TV weighed 90 pounds.

BTW, the first HD TVs were CRT and cost as much as a new car. I knew someone who had a rear-projection TV with THREE CRTs.

[Clare Snyder]

They want their living room to look like their local sports bar.

[rbowman]

I just read an article on the new 8K TVs on gizmodo. The reviewer was underwhelmed. He said the definition was remarkable -- as long as you had your nose to the glass. More than 4' away and you couldn't tell the difference. The screens were huge so he wondered about sitting 4' from an 80" screen.

That's to say nothing of the lack of 8K media. Right now streaming 4K is pushing it for many people. He though working on a better dynamic range would be more worthwhile but after trying to explain dynamic range to his mother and having her wander off concluded it was an easier sell to convince people 8k is twice as good as 4k.

Personally after going to DVDs, plain vanilla, not Blu-Ray I found I was seeing too much sweat and makeup flaws already.

[rbowman]

Drunks puking on the floor? More noise than a 1600 ton Minster stamping press?

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

That reminds me of when I saw the remake of "Star Wars". One place where I really didn't want more detail was Jabba's butt.