And I am happy with it sitting on a piece of furniture but my wife wants it wall mounted over the mantle of the fireplace. OK, I guess that can be done. But what do I do with the rest of the junk? I've got a big amplifier, a dvd player and a Tivo. What good is to have a TV mounted on the wall if you still have all this extra junk on a piece of furniture or a shelf sticking out a foot and a half from the wall?
Mounted OVER the fireplace? NO. Electronics hate heat, as we all know. Tell her you called the place where you bought it, and THEY said, no.
If she finds another spot away from the fireplace, route the cables under a small shield or behind the wall to shelves/entertainment center holding all the ancillary equipment.
IR extenders and place in the basement or a nearby closet
In reply to triumph5:
We've never turned on the fireplace before but there is the principle of the thing, I suppose.
"Penetrating the bricks with mounting bolts for the TV canl compromise the chimney's structural integrity, leading to possbile failure, we'll have to call the Insurance company with the homeowner's policy to see if mounting this will void the insurance. "
"Penetrating the bricks with mounting bolts for the TV canl compromise the chimney's structural integrity, leading to possbile failure, we'll have to call the Insurance company with the homeowner's policy to see if mounting this will void the insurance. "
That is great. I should consult you before I argue with my wife about anything.
Surely the set can be protected by a makeshift sheet metal heat shield, much as you would use to protect underhood components from exhaust heat from say, a turbo. 
Is it a conventional fireplace, or gas logs?
In reply to 1988RedT2:
Conventional. Even if that would work, I still have the problem of where to put all the other crap. I have windows on either side of the fireplace that go almost all the way from the floor to the ceiling. There is a second story directly above, so there is no easy way to access wiring through the ceiling.
Yeah, check your fireplace out. How much heat goes over the mantle? Also how often will there actually be a fire in the fireplace. Odds are over the fireplace will turn out to be a good spot.
BUT take a little time and just sit on the couch and stare at a spot above the fireplace and see if that's comfortable. Many times it's not. Lower is usually better, but it depends upon the chairs and the viewing distance.
Otto_Maddox wrote: That is great. I should consult you before I argue with my wife about anything.
I'm available almsot 24/7, cheap rates for those on this board. volume discounts available, too. 
Grtechguy, still known as, Grtechguy wrote: IR extenders and place in the basement or a nearby closet
this
Since you never use the fireplace how about putting the tv in the fireplace and make a surround for it so it looks cleaner?
EvanB wrote: Since you never use the fireplace how about putting the tv in the fireplace and make a surround for it so it looks cleaner?
Wow. Custom A/V cabinet in the fireplace! Intriguing!
1988RedT2 wrote:EvanB wrote: Since you never use the fireplace how about putting the tv in the fireplace and make a surround for it so it looks cleaner?Wow. Custom A/V cabinet in the fireplace! Intriguing!
That would kick ash!
Grtechguy, still known as, Grtechguy wrote: IR extenders and place in the basement or a nearby closet
We did this!
All that is on the wall with the TV is the entertainment center that it is installed in. All equipment is behind the TV in a bedroom/storage area. IR extender "eye" is above the TV and hooks to a repeater in the other room with emitters placed in front of all equipment. Works nice, looks nice.
Who wants to look up at their tv all the time. I can hear the chiropractors warming up their torture tables already. This is a fad that needs to die. Tell here Oprah's favorite thing this year is a TV on a stand like god intended.
In reply to SupraWes:
I dunno. If I ever get a flat screen, Ima put it on the ceiling so I can watch while I'm laying in bed.
In reply to 1988RedT2:
I might do that too, but then I'd have to move the mirror. (It's there so I don't have to get out of bed to tie my bowtie.)
SupraWes wrote: Who wants to look up at their tv all the time. I can hear the chiropractors warming up their torture tables already. This is a fad that needs to die. Tell here Oprah's favorite thing this year is a TV on a stand like god intended.
actually, tv's were meant to be big wooden consoles that were able to be used as a shelf to set other things on. i want to get an old console tv and replace the guts with a modern flat panel tv..
1988RedT2 wrote: In reply to SupraWes: I dunno. If I ever get a flat screen, Ima put it on the ceiling so I can watch while I'm laying in bed.
I actually have a 60" mounted on the wall above the windows in my bedroom. It is set so that you can see the tv comfortably when laying in bed. It's set so that with 2-3 pillows the transition from watching TV to sleep is totally seamless.
You should have seen me when the house was being framed. I went into the bedroom and squatted to what I hoped was head height and then tried to calculate best viewing angle all the while workers sat around waiting for me to tell them where I wanted the extra bracing. They seemed to get quite a kick out my contortions.
I finally gave up and and just told them to cover the whole wall in plywood and then cover that with sheetrock. That made it super easy when it came time to put the wall mount up.
I was told the issue of mounting a flat screen over a fireplace, if you have a natural wood fireplace as I do, is that the smoke from the fire can get between the screens and cloud the image over time. No idea on the truth of that one, but I have heard it from a few people.
Not to mention between the firebreaks in the wall, the heat-o-lators, the chimney, etc, it became a huge cluster.
TV ended up mounted on one side of the fireplace, large picture on the other side for symmetry, and life was well.
Using an RF remote and a closet full of AV gear. Its a good setup. The only downside was the cubic dollars required to to run the cabling as far as we did.
I was told the issue of mounting a flat screen over a fireplace, if you have a natural wood fireplace as I do, is that the smoke from the fire can get between the screens and cloud the image over time. No idea on the truth of that one, but I have heard it from a few people.
Not to mention between the firebreaks in the wall, the heat-o-lators, the chimney, etc, it became a huge cluster.
TV ended up mounted on one side of the fireplace, large picture on the other side for symmetry, and life was well.
Using an RF remote and a closet full of AV gear. Its a good setup. The only downside was the cubic dollars required to to run the cabling as far as we did.
triumph5 wrote:Otto_Maddox wrote: That is great. I should consult you before I argue with my wife about anything.I'm available almsot 24/7, cheap rates for those on this board. volume discounts available, too.
Just write a book like everyone else. Tell me when you're almost finished, I'll pre-order! 
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