Home Theater Geeks 456 Transcript
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00:00 - Scott Wilkinson (Host)
In this episode of Home Theater Geeks, I answer a question from Victor Pavi about TV wall mounts. Stick around Podcasts you love From people you trust. This is TWIT. Hey there, scott Wilkinson. Here, the home theater geek. In this episode I answer a question from Victor Pavi, who writes what is your favorite TV wall mount? Short and to the point, I love it. Short and to the point, I love it.
00:59
Um, in my media room I use a sanus vlt7 for my sony xr77a95l qd oled tv. I can move the tv from the wall by as much as 6.8 inches. I can swivel it up to 15 degrees left and right and tilt it up 7 degrees up or 12 degrees down and it works great. It fits TVs from 42 inches to 90 inches costs $190. I talk more about this in my episode about my media room and the TV therein, which is episode 455. But here you can see some graphics that show you can get it out as much as 6.8 inches from the wall, which is great for easy cable access, and it can swivel back and forth. It can tilt up and down, it can extend in and out. They call it Advanced Tilt 4D and it's a great. It's a great mount.
01:57
Sanus is very well respected in this field and they make some great mounts. In fact they make a bunch of other models and so I would recommend that you check out their website. We'll put the link in the show notes for you. They make a bunch of different TV mounts. In fact you can get some that extend out much farther than the 6.8 inches of the VLT7. In fact, up to 30 inches or more, and they can swivel up to plus or minus 90 degrees so they can be facing sideways completely. I don't need that much extension or that much swivel, so I went with the VLT-7, which was perfectly fine. Now the website, wirecutter, which is part of New York Times, really likes the company Echo Gear, which is less expensive than Sanus, and their website. We'll put that link in the show notes as well. In particular, wirecutter gave an honorable mention in their best TV mounts to the EG-LT2 Max Motion, which will tilt and swivel and extend up to 22 inches from the wall and also fits 42 to 90-inch TVs here you can see it's kind of a scissor action situation and it sells for 110 bucks, so quite a bit less than the Sanus Another company I know of.
03:31
I don't know much about them, but I do know of them, is called Mount it, with an exclamation point, and we'll put the link to their website in the show notes as well. In particular, their MI392 extends to 36 inches swivels, plus or minus 90 degrees. They call it 180 degree swivel, and it tilts not as much. Well, 10 degrees, plus 10 degrees or minus 5 degrees. I'm not sure which of those plus 10 must be facing downward. I can't imagine that it would face upward 10 degrees. That would seem to be silly, unless it's near the floor. So I'm assuming that it can tilt 10 degrees downward and 5 degrees upward. Why you'd need any upward tilt, I don't really know.
04:30
Now, if you must mount your TV over the fireplace, first of all, don't. Some people don't have any choice, they just have to do it. If there's any way to avoid it, please do, because it puts the TV too high for comfortable viewing. Now, if you have to do it, I recommend a company called Mantle Mount, and we'll put their link in the show notes as well. This is a company that specializes in TV mounts that let you take the TV and pull it down from where it is above the fireplace, which is too high, so it kind of angles out and down, bringing it lower and closer to eye height, which is where it's supposed to be. Here's a picture showing you kind of how it works. You can bring it down 26 inches and it still allows you to swivel at 30 degrees either way, and I think I put a picture in there as well of yeah, here's a before and after. Here's a TV above the fireplace, way too high to be watching anything seriously. But then here it is, brought down on the right and it's much better for viewing. In my opinion that is still too high, but it's certainly a heck of a lot better than the left side of that picture. So that is what I recommend if you're mounting it over a fireplace, but if there's any way to find another place for it that you don't have to do that. That's my first recommendation.
06:25
Some of their models swivel One is motorized. Even the others are manual and you can even add a sound bar holder under the TV. So that's pretty cool, and they range in price from $300 to $1,000. The motorized one is the most expensive one. Of course, mount it also sells pull-down mounts and they're $200 to $950, so roughly the same price range. But mantle mount that's their specialty, so that's what I would recommend to do it.
07:01
So I hope that answers your question. Sannis is my first choice, but there are a couple other good options there as well. Now if you have a question for me, you can send it along to htg at twittv and I will answer as many as I can right here on the show. And, as always, we thank you for your support of the Twit Network with your membership in Club Twit. With that membership, you can have access to all the Twit shows in all their video glory. You get to see all the graphics that we all put together for you. If you're listening to the audio, you're getting a lot of good information, I'm sure, but Geek out.
