On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 7:26:17 AM UTC-7, jmcquown wrote:
> On 7/2/2013 6:07 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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> > On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:11:43 -0500, George Leppla
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> >> Don't tell Becca... but we have a fireplace in the living room that will
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> >> never again be used for a fire. I'd like to mount the TV over the
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> >> mantle and install the electronic stuff inside the firebox.... then make
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> >> a nice cover. Maybe some day.
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> >> George L
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> > The ones I've seen over a fireplace were too high for comfortable
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> > viewing though. Maybe in the right recliner it would be OK.
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> I could mount a TV over the fireplace mantle. The cable connection is
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> right there next to it. But it would have to be a very *large* flat
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> screen. It wouldn't look nice at all. (I currently have a nice
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> Japanese hand painted screen hanging over the fireplace.) As you said,
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> Ed, there is the it's too high so not comfortable for viewing issue. I
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> really don't want to crane my neck to watch television.

Before the advent of the LCD/LED, when a "flat screen" was an expensive plasma, my buddy bought a HDTV projector and a silvery motorized screen. Both projector and screen were relatively unobtrusive when not in use. But he and his wife did have to watch TV in recliners.