Flat screen T.V. wall mount height

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lucky1974

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I like the Snap & Seal Brand for F connectors and making RCA Cables (composite and component video).I think T&B makes them. Very good quality connection, fast and very user friendly.

Edited to add: Only draw back is the intial price of the crimping tool. I bought mine on ebay for like $50.00 4 or 5 years back. I like the actual T&B tool the best.
 
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It is my understanding that it should be mounted so that the center of the screen is at eye level when seated.

When lying in bed your eye level would be a bit higher so you would adjust for how you and or spouse lay and at what angle you would be sitting up to watch TV.

Most people mount TVs way too high...usually above fireplaces, etc., you now have to tilt your neck to watch... like your in a bar, many retail establishments have highly mounted TVs only because that's the only place to put them, not necessarily cause it's a good viewing height.

It's best to use an articulating mount so you can adjust for different viewing angles...a fixed wall mount limits your viewing angles and thus you don't get the best picture from varied angles.
 
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sullivanelectric said:
It is my understanding that it should be mounted so that the center of the screen is at eye level when seated.

When lying in bed your eye level would be a bit higher so you would adjust for how you and or spouse lay and at what angle you would be sitting up to watch TV.

Most people mount TVs way too high...usually above fireplaces, etc., you now have to tilt your neck to watch... like your in a bar, many retail establishments have highly mounted TVs only because that's the only place to put them, not necessarily cause it's a good viewing height.

It's best to use an articulating mount so you can adjust for different viewing angles...a fixed wall mount limits your viewing angles and thus you don't get the best picture from varied angles.
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Great points,but if mounted below eye level people with bi-focal glasses will have to tilt their heads down to focus.
 
LarryFine

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mtnelectrical said:
How you guys install the receptacle and run the rest of the wires when it is a 100% brick fireplace?
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"Funny you should ask!" ~ Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid


I did that for my sister last year. She had the people she bought the 60" plasma from mount it (in case it got damaged or if it ever falls in the future) but had me wire it. She has a solid brick chimney, about 8' wide, 2.5' deep, and not on an outside wall. There are shelves on each side, against the wall even with the back of the bricks.

I bought a 40" long 1.75" solid SDS-Max bit for my Bosch rotary hammer, drilled at an angle from behind the TV to hit the wall shelves right against the back wall. I made sure to start enough to the side of center to miss the clay flue liner. A hole saw against the side of the shelves gave me access to the end of the bored hole.

I slid a piece of 1.5" orange FNMC (smurf-tube) through the hole as a liner, and ran the necessary cabling through the hole for power, HDMI and component video, and coax for local HD. I covered the "umbilical" from the wall (white-painted brick) to the back of the TV with white duct tape to make it blend in better with the background.

It look great, if I may say so myself! :smile:
 
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LarryFine said:
I slid a piece of 1.5" orange FNMC (smurf-tube) through the hole as a liner, and ran the necessary cabling through the hole for power, HDMI and component video, and coax for local HD. I covered the "umbilical" from the wall (white-painted brick) to the back of the TV with white duct tape to make it blend in better with the background.
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Ooooh, violation violation!!! Mixing low and high voltage I'm telling!

Seriously though, how'djya get the HDMI through the 1.5" tube?
 
Mr.Sparkle

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LarryFine said:
The HDMI connector is less than an inch wide.
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Hmm, maybe I been getting unlucky with ones from different manufacturers. I had 2 occasions I can remember where we could not fit the HDMI cable through the NMC. It has been a little while though, maybe I am forgetting other factors of the jobs.
 
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Mr.Sparkle said:
Hmm, maybe I been getting unlucky with ones from different manufacturers. I had 2 occasions I can remember where we could not fit the HDMI cable through the NMC. It has been a little while though, maybe I am forgetting other factors of the jobs.
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Are you thinking of DVI? that is a much wider plug.


~Matt
 
LarryFine

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Mr.Sparkle said:
Hmm, maybe I been getting unlucky with ones from different manufacturers. I had 2 occasions I can remember where we could not fit the HDMI cable through the NMC. It has been a little while though, maybe I am forgetting other factors of the jobs.
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You sure you're not thinking of DVI?

Added: Or, what Matt said.
 
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