Archive → September, 2009
Why put a TV on the wall?
Remember those days some 7 years ago or so when we started to see the first plasma flat screen TVs, didn’t they look fantastically cool fitted to the wall securely on a close fitting TV bracket so that they look like they were just glued on! Each one cost many thousands and the experts all said the screens would only last 5 years!
Well it didn’t take that long for prices to tumble, quickly followed by smaller LCD screens being invented and a lot of these were the first ones where we had experience of wall fitting – whether for PC screens or bedrooms the TV wall bracket very soon started to become more common place.
Shortly thereafter, people wanted the screen angle to be adjustable and the tilting TV bracket was introduced and with the explosion of new TVs it logically was soon followed by tilting and swivelling TV brackets that allowed you to bring the TV right out into the room and yet push away flat when not in use, and that’s before we get onto TV brackets to mount your TV on the ceiling or popping up at the end of the bed.
Today it doesn’t seem odd to want to mount your new TV onto a wall – well why would it? – it gets it out of the way, you save space, it gives more flexibility and saves money as TV brackets are much cheaper than those specialist TV cabinets and stands….. and of course it just looks so good on the wall.
Don’t however think TV brackets are just for the main viewing room, these days we have flat screens just about everywhere – the bedroom, the kids bedrooms, study, kitchen, dining room and we’ve even heard of TV brackets being used to fit screens in the garage and even in Dad’s secret sanctuary – the shed!