wall-mounted tv questions :o
DiscoZombie
Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
so I'm considering getting myself a nice wall-mounted LCD TV as a post-christmas self-present. I have no idea how these things work. I have never been very up on A/V equipment.
So you've got a TV hanging off your wall. how do you plug it in? How do you connect it to your cable box or game systems or computer? wires hanging off your nice wall-mounted TV kinda defeats the purpose doesn't it? and if you want to use it as a monitor, do you have to have it near the computer? hard to imagine using a 40" TV as a monitor a few inches in front of your face, but it's also hard to imagine 1080p worth of information could be sent fast enough wirelessly to a TV on your wall.
someone enlighten a noob.
also, does <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Westinghouse-LVM-42W2-1080p-LCD-HDTV/dp/B000E7RACK/sr=1-1/qid=1167143267/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-6615343-8816860?ie=UTF8&s=electronics" target="_blank">this sucker</a> look good?
So you've got a TV hanging off your wall. how do you plug it in? How do you connect it to your cable box or game systems or computer? wires hanging off your nice wall-mounted TV kinda defeats the purpose doesn't it? and if you want to use it as a monitor, do you have to have it near the computer? hard to imagine using a 40" TV as a monitor a few inches in front of your face, but it's also hard to imagine 1080p worth of information could be sent fast enough wirelessly to a TV on your wall.
someone enlighten a noob.
also, does <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Westinghouse-LVM-42W2-1080p-LCD-HDTV/dp/B000E7RACK/sr=1-1/qid=1167143267/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-6615343-8816860?ie=UTF8&s=electronics" target="_blank">this sucker</a> look good?
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If you're putting the TV on an interior wall, then you can probably cut a hole in the wall behind the TV and string cables down to another hole cut in the wall near the floor. You would have your A/V equipment there in a cabinet or somesuch, which would cover up the hole there. Watch out for cross-studs, though - a cheap stud finder will help avoid painful surprises.
If you want to put the TV on an exterior wall, or over a fireplace, then you're looking at a surface mount <a href="http://cableorganizer.com/cable-raceway/" target="_blank">cable raceway</a>.
If you don't want to put your A/V equipment or computer near enough to your TV for regular cables to reach, then you might want to look at <a href="http://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=3870" target="_blank">this</a> product, or similar, which claims to be able to run a 1080p signal over 150ft. I've read that the normal acceptable length for a DVI cable is about 15ft.
I have no idea if that westinghouse TV is good or not.
Does that answer your questions?
maybe I'll hold off on getting a TV until I have a computer good enough to be used as a media center, which seems like a popular thing to do these days.
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