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How do you buy an HDTV from Amazon?
Gray_Area:
I'll have to remember this thread when I'm back in the market for a large display. Oh, wait, I alread have a large thread to look back on. Man, talk about working for the priviledge.
shmokes:
PBJ, allow me to enlighten you so you can take care of the horror that is your TV's wall mounting, all for less than $4.
I assume you haven't seen these. I know that until I saw them, I hadn't ;)
You don't even need a top one because it'll be behind the TV so who cares how it looks. I just have a round hole from my hole saw back there. I'll patch it up before I move out of my apartment.
By the way, when that thing says that it's "two pieces" it doesn't mean you get a top and bottom plate. It means the plate itself is two pieces. So if you want a top plate it'll double the price.
shmokes:
Um . . . okay. Not that it matters to me beyond curiosity, but why take a pass? It could almost not possibly be easier to install. Just drill a couple holes in the wall with a hole saw, which takes two minutes. Drop the cables behind the drywall through the top hole. Gravity does 95% of the work to get them to the bottom hole, and then pull them through. Oh yeah, and then you have to mount the plate over the bottom hole which involves about 1-2 minutes twisting a screwdriver.
It's obvious that you aren't completely oblivious to the fact that dangling cables look stupid or you wouldn't have taken the trouble to ziptie them together. But the fact is, ziptied dangling cables also look stupid. Just slightly less so. I could understand your immediate dismissal if we were talking about something that was either expensive or difficult, but both the cost and effort involved in this is pretty much negligible, so your unexplained dismissive reaction is strange.
Nephasth:
Love the beige sockets with the white face plate. [/sarcasm]
There's better temporary solutions to hide TV wires than cutting holes in the wall for 3 feet of cords...
shmokes:
For example? We're talking about a wall mounted TV, keep in mind. Also keep in mind that we're talking about hiding, at the very least, the TV's power cable, an HDMI cable (but likely two or three), a component cable (which is actually three thick cables, and there could be two or three component cables too, up to nine cables), possibly a TosLink optical cable (maybe two if you're using input and output), a USB cable, the cable that runs from a Wii sensor bar, the Kinect camera cable, possibly even some composite or even S-video cables, etc..
The bunch of cables running to my TV is 1.5-2" in diameter. What better way is there to hide these than this--a <$4 solution that renders the cables 100% invisible and is a breeze to install? Hell, even if all you have is a power cable and a single HDMI it defeats the purpose of wall mounting your TV. Just put the TV on a stand. The whole purpose of wall mounting a TV, 100% in every way the whole purpose of wall mounting a TV is for aesthetics. It's for a clean, nice looking installation. Dangling cables ruins it. You could use a cable run, which would improve the appearance compared to just dangling cables, but that's going to be more expensive, be less attractive, and be at least as difficult to install. Not to mention that a cable run large enough to contain all the cables the average home theater has running to the TV would look ridiculous.
But maybe I'm just not familiar with the solutions to which you're referring. A link would be helpful.
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