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.

Dreadful, unsightly and very poor show.
However my wish to lie in bed watching sunday night dramas is greater than any need to be tasteful

No, I don't think he's a great person knitted. Tatum O'Neal said he chatted her up at a funeral, not realising she was his daughter. If that's true, it's all kinds of wrong.

But I like to look at him 40-odd years ago. Barbra Striesand looks very good too.

For those confused about the wires you can route out a channel in the wall for them to drop through, (best though a sleeve and then plaster over. You can pull the cables back through when needed... We have done it in a new extension with the sky box, Apple TV and sonos player hidden under the stairs. Can replace any of them at any time and just use same cables or feed others through. Controls are all wifi.

yes indeed Limited - Paper moon with them both in was great too - ( father and daughter), love story on other hand.....needs x rated cert

But what I don't really get is why if you live anywhere other than Buckingham Palace, you would need a 50 inch tv which is huge?

50 inches is the optimum size if watching from a distance of about 8 feet. I doubt there are many living rooms where the sofa is closer to the screen than that, so 50 inches is the absolute minimum size for a living room, if you care about quality at all.

Our sofa is 10ft from the TV and we manage fine with a 32". I am thinking about a 40" but am worried it will look too big. A 50". Would look stupid in our room.

Love "Mounter"

I probably watch a couple of hours of an evening. Also love using it as radio and there's a cracking music channel called Vintage that I have on if pottering.

And for the record, I consider myself a cultured wall mounter. Having played the lead in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, being asked to be in Merry Wives Of Windsor (illness prevents sadly) and won an award for playing Popova in Chekhov's The Bear, I think I qualify just about

I'm also an incredible show off hence the mounting of TV and leading men

I must admit Id love a massive tv on my bedroom ceiling.

50 inches? 8 feet away? No way, really? Ours is probably 6 feet away, it seems too big at 37 inches.

viva maybe iron lung technology would suit.

You can't get it, Knitted? I thought TCM was Freeview.

I always get the TV guide in the Daily Mail - another VERY BAD THING - to plan my weekly viewing pleasure.

TCM is one of the first things I look up. They're having a Western thing atm. Not that fussed but a previous Western series was really good.

Romper Stomper is on tonight and I've never seen it, so will record.

I like Barefoot In The Park too. And I love A Touch Of Class even more. So bitter-sweet. I like a black comedy called No Way To Treat A Lady which also has George Segal in it. I definitely could have gone for him in 1968.

It sometimes turns up on TCM.

And Paper Moon has Madeline Kahn who's Eunice Burns from What's Up Doc? Knitted.

Who are these people who think that TV watchers don't have a hinterland?

I love ours on the wall. Meant we could get rid on the old stand in the corner and replace it with an extra bookcase.
What a lot of snobs on this thread.

Ours is 47 and about 6ish foot away. We watch lot's of films.

Nah limited, I tried watching that but it made me nod off twice, in Welsh and English.

Umm not heard of No Way To Treat A Lady Will watch out for it, but we def do not get TCM, But I do very much like George too....esp in Duchess and Dirtwater Fox.....film really cheers me up. I would have fought you for him , so many Delicious actors back then

Again I ask- especially to the "mounters" - how much TV do you actually watch? Giving a device such prominence in a room- why?

Surely the question should be: what proportion of time spent in the living room is not used for watching TV. If you watch 2 hours a week of TV, and that's the only time you are in the living room, then surely the room should be optimised for TV?

Apparently people in Britain watch about 30 hours TV a week. So I ask those of you who think the living room shouldn't be organised around the TV: what activity do you spend more than 30 hours a week on, in your living room, with the TV off, that justifies not optimising the room for TV watching?

The only thing I'd say is that if the noise is bothering your neighbours then it's wrong.

Our neighbours speakers bothered us. We told them. They apologised and moved them. We don't hear a thing now.

I try not to annoy them either though I put the washing machine on at 10pm last night because there was a bit of an emergency. I think I got away with it.

OMG I am so glad you started this thread - I've been meaning to do it myself for weeks! I have been spending a lot of time on rightmove lately and I was just having a rant to my DH this morning about how the TV on the wall thing needs to stop now - it's getting beyond naff. It's not easy to get right and too many people are doing it REALLY badly. When it's done well (all streamlined, buried cabling, well placed, well proportioned in relation to the stuff under/around it) I admit I can see the attraction. Sort of.

But far too many people place them in a way that looks utterly ridiculous and ugly and I can't help getting all judgey over it.

But why judge someone over something so inane Hello? It doesn't really matter to you that my telly is on our wall (big room, perfectly placed, hidden cables, no sky box so you might approve). There are loads of things I see in other people's homes that I'm not keen on them but I couldn't be arsed to get judgey about it.

Theoretician- good question.

We use spend 90% of family time without tv.

Wilbur
Are you saying that there are no fashions, trends or styles that you dislike?

No Way To Treat A Lady is worth checking out knitted. It's probably based on the story of the Boston Strangler, so shouldn't be funny, but it is. And George Segal looks good. So does Lee Remick, who's the damsel in distress, but she's not that feeble.

Yes, I remember Duchess and The Dirtwater Fox. I also quite fancied him in Look Who's Talking. I think that was probably the end of my George Segal crush though

I really couldn't care less about where people put their TVs and how large they are. Mines 37 inches and sits on a big old ikea unit in the corner but I quite fancy mounting it.

Seen a couple of creative solutions though. My friend has no TV and they watch only Netflix and dvds, but use a projector shut away in a cupboard which projects on to their white wall over the fireplace, they must have some really top notch equipment as the picture is amazing.

Another thing I saw on some makeover programme was a TV over the mantelpiece, but it actually was a mirror when switched off. I thought that was a great idea. I think in the future TVs will be mainly giant mirrors or pictures etc except when in use.