Wall mounted TV’s - A question
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I’ve been house hunting recently, and I can’t help but notice almost every single property I’ve looked at with a wall mounted TV had the telly mounted quite far up the wall. By far I mean the centre of the TV was probably around the 4-5ft level off the floor.
Having now secured a property, I’m looking to bolt a honking big TV to the wall myself, but sticking it that high on the wall doesn’t seem quite right to me as you must spend half the time peering up at the thing from the sofa?
So, I supposed my question is what height off the floor are they actually meant to be?
Having now secured a property, I’m looking to bolt a honking big TV to the wall myself, but sticking it that high on the wall doesn’t seem quite right to me as you must spend half the time peering up at the thing from the sofa?
So, I supposed my question is what height off the floor are they actually meant to be?
The offcial way to mount a screen is so your eyes are 1/3rd the way up the screen. This is from THX cinema setup guides. Lots of research done by people with lots of experience.
People have TVs mounted up high on the wall because an aweful lot of people have a fire place smack bang where they really want their TV so they put it above.
It IS very council (as are recliners), you just have to walk past the ex council houses where I live and all the TVs are up high :-) Two of them are friends' houses and watching TV at theirs is uncomfortable. They both have recliners. It's defo a pleb thing. My partner grew up in a council house, where her parents still live, and she lies on the floor with her feet on a stool to watch our TV to get that authentic council feeling.
Joking aside (and being serious), I think unless you have a very big house, it's unlikely most people can have a telly at eye level, or it would be behind a chair/sofa/budgerigar cage (
), and people were glad to free up the "corner" where their old TV set used to be. Corners made sense for TVs when they were on stands/TV units, but now we have flat screens that can be wall mounted you can understand what people no longer want to use the corner, so it ends up being put on the wall above the fire place/occasional table.
People have TVs mounted up high on the wall because an aweful lot of people have a fire place smack bang where they really want their TV so they put it above.
It IS very council (as are recliners), you just have to walk past the ex council houses where I live and all the TVs are up high :-) Two of them are friends' houses and watching TV at theirs is uncomfortable. They both have recliners. It's defo a pleb thing. My partner grew up in a council house, where her parents still live, and she lies on the floor with her feet on a stool to watch our TV to get that authentic council feeling.
Joking aside (and being serious), I think unless you have a very big house, it's unlikely most people can have a telly at eye level, or it would be behind a chair/sofa/budgerigar cage (
), and people were glad to free up the "corner" where their old TV set used to be. Corners made sense for TVs when they were on stands/TV units, but now we have flat screens that can be wall mounted you can understand what people no longer want to use the corner, so it ends up being put on the wall above the fire place/occasional table.Edited by Griffith4ever on Wednesday 6th July 20:12
Pistonheader101 said:
mount wherever you want - if you have small kids then higher is probably better, just angle it down.
This is definitely a consideration. Ours is about 1M to the bottom edge so much higher than folks here are recommending, But it's an 85, and is in a big room and we have kids that can't be trusted not to touch it or throw things at it. I've never felt that it is too high
Appreciate the replies, it’s nice to know I’m not losing my marbles!
New flat doesn’t have the biggest of lounges, hence trying to avoid cluttering up the floor space with a TV unit. The current owners have a 42’ telly above a small electric fireplace (as many of you have mentioned), my plan was to ditch the fireplace, fill the holes and mount a 55’ much lower down.
New flat doesn’t have the biggest of lounges, hence trying to avoid cluttering up the floor space with a TV unit. The current owners have a 42’ telly above a small electric fireplace (as many of you have mentioned), my plan was to ditch the fireplace, fill the holes and mount a 55’ much lower down.
QJumper said:
Sporky said:
Ideally eye height is 2/3rds of the way up the screen. Hard to achieve with big modern screens though.
Would that be measured against the first, second or third row of seats in one's cinema room?D_T_W said:
Appreciate the replies, it’s nice to know I’m not losing my marbles!
New flat doesn’t have the biggest of lounges, hence trying to avoid cluttering up the floor space with a TV unit. The current owners have a 42’ telly above a small electric fireplace (as many of you have mentioned), my plan was to ditch the fireplace, fill the holes and mount a 55’ much lower down.
fNew flat doesn’t have the biggest of lounges, hence trying to avoid cluttering up the floor space with a TV unit. The current owners have a 42’ telly above a small electric fireplace (as many of you have mentioned), my plan was to ditch the fireplace, fill the holes and mount a 55’ much lower down.
k only knows why people mount them at head height. Great it you watch TV standing up, useless otherwise. As others have said, mine have always been placed so my eyeline roughly half way up the screen when sitting down. Gassing Station | Home Cinema & Hi-Fi | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff