Mounting a TV on the wall

[Murmansk]

I was asked to mount a new Philips 43 inch TV on the wall and the owner presented me with a ridiculously small bracket which, even with the extension pieces provided, wouldn't fit the mounting holes on the TV

I'm used to most TVs having four mounting holes in a square pattern with each side of the square being 20cm

This TV had 4 holes arranged in an oblong pattern with 20cm between the upper and lower holes but only 10cm between the left and right holes.

I happened to have an old bracket with a plate suitable for 20x20 but I couldn't fit it at first as only two of the mounting holes coincided with the holes in my bracket.

In the end I managed to attach it with three bolts by skewing the attachment plate slightly and fixing the third bolt on the outside edge of plate with a big washer to grip the plate.

It seems crazy that a brand new TV should have such a strange arrangement of bolt holes. Good job new TVs are so light!

[Andy Burns]

That's a VESA mounting pattern (sounds like MIS-E?)

[jim.gm4dhj]

tvs are getting so light thse days you can replace a small tv with a small bracket with an adaptor to a large tv saves a lot of bother

[Rob Morley]

That's what you get for buying small cheap brackets. Most better VESA standard brackets can support a range of TVs - they do 100x100

100x200 200x200 200x300 etc. as appropriate for the size and weight of the TV.

[Brian Gaff]

The Samsung I bought in 2020, is not that light, and I'd not really want to mount it on a wall. I guess the lighter they can make them the less they cost to shift around the globe. You never see those curved ones any more do you? Brian

[Harry Bloomfield Esq]

Because it was an idea, which nobody wanted/served no useful function, and simply added to the manufacturing cost.

[Rob Morley]

They don't make a lot of sense for TV unless they're huge; they work better as computer monitors because you sit closer to a monitor, so on a flat screen the edge is significantly further away from the viewer's eyes than the centre of the screen.