To hate this trend for hanging televisions on the wall.

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Especially when it is on the party wall in the fucking bedroom and we have to listen to the NND watching crap at night.

It is the worst idea ever IMO. Looks terrible and is highly anti -social.

End of rant.

Exactly Shakey. We have our Sky box and only ever watch prerecorded stuff, (haven't seen a commercial for years, thanks to the wonders of fast forward). Our telly is never just on in the background; if it's on, then it's something we want to see, and hear, properly.

You wouldn't want theatre or football tickets with an obstructed view, you wouldn't go to a cinema where you crane your neck around to see. What then is so particularly cultured about tucking your telly away in an awkward corner?

at 'mounters'.

The amount of snobbery on here is priceless

It's right up there with threads about children who've never even looked in the window of a McDonalds Shakey1500

TVs in the bedroom. No- just wrong.

i adore our tv in bedroom, wanted one for years and I love it!

esp when I am ill, or listening to radio on it at night, or when it comes on to wake me up in the am..LOVE IT.

But I love tv, film etc..

TinklyLittleLaugh- so you suggest there is something cultured about football?

TVs in the bedroom are very, very right.

Again I ask- especially to the "mounters" - how much TV do you actually watch?

In the winter a fair bit.

My objection to wall mounted tvs (in my house; you can stare up at yours if you like) is nothing to do with it being déclassé to have anything other that a teeny black and white screen in a cupboard that can be wheeled out to watch a documentary on bbc4 once in a while. It's that, generally, tvs on walls aren't in the right place for anyone to watch them comfortably in british houses. Fair enough if you've got some sort of specially built home cinema room somewhere in your house, but most people are just working with rooms in houses that were built long before anyone even expected to have a tv in them. So they get stuck above victorian fireplaces or in other less than idea places.

knitted-perhaps the point.

But.... but... but.... I don't have anything special, and wall mounted, where it is, is probably the only place we could have put it, without it being weirdly prominent, sat in front of the fire and taking up loads of space.

As I said earlier... lots of assumptions being made! For some people/places wall mounted may well be a wonderful solution - just like our quite low mounted, unobtrusive, largish, wall mounted in a British house telly is!

"but most people are just working with rooms in houses that were built long before anyone even expected to have a tv in them. So they get stuck above victorian fireplaces or in other less than idea places."

So classy darling.

so you suggest there is something cultured about football?

I like my big telly and I like a bit of football, (though generally not on the telly) bigblue and I'm really not bothered whether it is considered cultured or not.

I am not a mounter though...yet

BigBlueStars

I will tell you how much TV I watch - about the same as you from the sounds of things! Maybe an hour a night, sometimes a bit more at weekends when we might watch something as a family, but I work for myself so am usually slaving away at my computer in the evenings when I would probably otherwise be watching.

Giving a device such prominence in a room- why?

So will you answer the question I have repeatedly asked? Why is a tv on a wall more prominent than one on a piece of furniture?

But I have to say, hiding your telly away in a distressed, faux antique cabinet strikes me as more than a tad Hyacinth Bucket.

Background noise.

Someone came round once to give me a NHS physio and occupational therapy session. She walked in and instructed me to turn the TV off.

Rude cow. We had words. The TV stayed on.

It was tuned, quietly, to the Daily Politics because I was waiting for Prime Minister's Questions.

But I still wouldn't give a shit if it was tuned to Jeremy Kyle. She was a rude and superior cunt who in her job is presumably used to telling people what to do and being listened to without question.

As it happened, I would have muted the sound if she had but waited to get her coat off. But after that I was buggered if I would.

I have the TV on for background noise. What's wrong with that? ATM I have What's Up Doc? on TCM in the other room. I've seen it so many times that I don't have to watch, though I drift in now and then to marvel at Ryan O'Neal's beauty.

I hate the noise of motor racing and football crowds but just shut the door if DH wants to watch.

So when you move house do you leave the cables in the wall and take the TV leaving the brackety thing on the wall?

Mine is often used as a radio, too.

And when we move we will take off the bracket and make good the wall - like any sensible person would!

I don't understand all the snobbery about someone else having their television in a different place from them. Why would anyone else care? Ours is on the wall and there's no neck craning because the living room is fucking massive.

Mine is often used as a radio, too.

So's mine Nomama. Always Radio 4. Though my cat likes to sit on the warm amp so walks across the Sky box and often changes the channel to Radio 3.

He is so much classier than me.

ATM I have What's Up Doc?

Love that film.

I like background noise too.

By the By LImited I have just finished reading Allegra Huston - Love Child and in it - not a very flattering portrait of Ryan....at all...

Mine is often used as a radio, too

I like radio 4 on a timer as drifting off but also radio 2 has had some brilliant late night stuff on.

You've missed it Knitted. We're on the final courtroom scene. It's great though, isn't it?

i dont have TCM sadly! Its a great chanel! I adore all those type of films from that era...ish...Barefoot in park, touch of class, etc