luckily this is just a 32; i had a 70 from the same brand with the same INSANELY FUCKING STUPID STAND DESIGN that i had to find something for…literally at the most extreme edges of the thing, what the fuck is this? this is so fucking stupid, it cannot be meaningfully cheaper than a proper design and it looks fucking dumb as hell and surely this has pissed off 90% of people that wanted a TV and want to put it on a little stand like a normal fucking person right??
At least you have a cat to hold it up
They don’t expect you to have a stand at all. They expect you to buy a separate wall mount piece and mount it directly on the wall.
I will never mount a TV on the wall. That shits annoying.
How is it annoying? I try to wall mount every TV because then I can move it around or angle it easily and it looks 100x better than hanging halfway off a bedside table.
You have to find the studs, drill holes, make sure you have screws that are long enough (I imagine most wall mounts come with these, but never tried to actually wall-mount a TV), make sure the mount is level, then attach the mount to the wall, then the TV to the mount. That’s if you don’t care about exposed cables, and if you ever plan on showing your room off, someone’s gonna point out the lack of cable management (hurrr… Why aren’t the cables hidden?).
If you want to hide the cables too, then you have to cut holes in the wall, which means having some kind of saw. If you want the holes to look nice, then you need plates to go over the holes. Depending on the plates – whether they’re a basic, generic passthrough that you push cables through, or something more professional with actual sockets for dedicated inputs/outputs – you may need extra cables, one for each connection you’re wanting to route through the wall, plus extra cables to connect the plate behind the TV to the TV itself.
Now, if you don’t want to diy it, then you could pay someone to do it which makes it a lot easier on you, but now you’re spending cash to have someone do an easy but annoying and time consuming job for you.
This is mostly unnecessary. I just slap the wall mount up into the studs, hang the TV, and use a $7 cable concealer to hide the power cord. Dedicated outlets for power and video behind the TV is great but that’s more suited for rich people or electricians.
Found the American
The annoying thing for me is that you have to plug them in and hiding the power cord from dangling down the wall to an outlet sucks, and the only other option is to wire it up through the wall, which is way more work.
That and, again, the mount is sold separately for like 90% of TVs. Just include a basic one with the TV. It’s literally just a piece of machined metal.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Legrand-0-5-in-White-Straight-Channel-Cord-Cover/3129213
I just use these to hide any cables and it makes them nearly invisible.
It would be nice if they included mounts, but the VESA mounting system is standardized and there are lots of different styles of mounts to fit your needs.
Or you can just buy one for < $60 to fit your particular use case exactly
For me I hate the giant holes in my wall. Taking the mount down is a pain. Once it’s up you can’t move the TV anywhere else. Also, I hate tilting my head up just to see the TV.
Edit. Apparently not hanging a TV is a criminal offense around here.
Do you realize you’re allowed to hang your tv at any height you desire? The police won’t arrest you if you just put your tv at eye level.
Do you realize I simply do not want my TV hanging on a wall?
Yes. Your reason is just dumb.
I’m glad you care so much about my living room lol
The police won’t arrest you if you just put your tv at eye level.
Frankly, the crime should be if you put it at anything but eye level.
How often do you move your TV off its shelf?
I tend to rearrange my livingroom more than once a lifetime.
Do you plan on painting ever? That would be the perfect time to fill the holes and paint over them…
No I do not.
if you’re making giant holes in your wall, you’re mounting wrong.
most wall mounts are going to be two or three bolt holes into a stud. they should be about as big around as a sharpie. if you remove the mount, a small dab of spackle covers them.
Are you not passing cables through the wall when you wall mount?
Yeah I don’t want to spackle my walls, thanks.
I make big ass holes, but I use toggle bolts for anything heavy that doesn’t line up with the studs, and those need a 1/2" hole.
Never rely on toggle bolts to hand a tv, find the studs and use lag bolts
The toggle bolts I use are rated for 60lb per bolt. The TV isn’t going anywhere.
you must not have kids or animals
I have two animals.
Fish don’t count in this scenario.
What if they’re in a tank?
What kinda tank are we talking here
The kind they don’t know how to drive
Smaller tank than the one your mom has at Sea World
A T-55
they expect you to know the lengh of your own table that’s why they put the lengh on the site, also, the legs are already short, how OP expext the TV to be stable with it even shorter??
You can make a stable mount without legs as wide as the TV. I have two 27in, 1440p monitors, which both came with stands that were probably 30% as wide as the monitors themselves. However, the stands were weighted and primarily steel (I’m assuming it was steel anyway) with a plastic shell. A TV doesn’t need a wide base unless the company that made it is cheaping out and refuses to spend the money to make a weighted base.
Your monitors are probably much more expensive than this TV.
If my 75" TV can have a small center stand under it there’s no excuse for smaller tvs to have extra wide stands.
This is like a $150 TV. They aren’t going to make a $50 solid steel base and internal frame for that over some cheap injection molded legs.
Bro… That TV is over 7 years old, meant for health centers, and probably weighs 2 - 3 times the TV in OOP.
While yes, it is annoying, nothing modern has a center stand. https://www.google.com/search?q=tv with center stand
It’s definitely a cost cutting feature and you definitely can’t expect a $200 TV to have a weighted center stand these days.
People really out here at stupid levels of angry now, eh?
Because the TV is exactly the same width.
Have you tried moving it an inch to the left?
😅 I kid.
You can buy a vesa stand mount though fairly cheap.
Sony currently do a cool thing with their stands where you can place them in 3 or so different position along the tv if you wanted. Finally someone thinking!
Chill
This is the conspiracy theorist in me, but it feels a little like they intentionally made it that way to sell more mounts.
Kitty is probably over in !cats being like “mildly infuriating…. Human is ignoring me for a flimsy idiot box…. And it’s meal time!”
Nah, it’s orange, so it’s probably not thinking at all.
Lasagne
that’s so rude. you realize, of course, that orange cats only have one brain cell each, it looks like it’s shared because that cell is quantum entangled with every other orange brain cell. So it’s not that the one cell gets passed around, rather its that all orange cats are thinking the same thought at the same time.
and it’s usually “i’m hungry.”
They’re expecting you to have a mount for your wall, already installed, even, from the last TV. So the legs are an afterthought, they’re cheap, easy to remove and you’ll probably toss them, they know. So they’re enough to use for store display, no more.
Some rental places don’t allow you to mess with walls and it would require repainting if you move.
So not always an option.
There are furniture based mounts and standalone vesa stands
Buying a paint can and some spackle isn’t expensive enough to prevent me from drilling into the walls (unless you’ve got popcorn walls or something and that’s just foul). I have done it
itin several rentals and got my deposit back in full. The otherportionoption though in this instance is to buy a VESA mount. Some of which can even just be mounted to the tv stand.But also, people should do research before they buy things.
I bought a center stand at Walmart, that mounts to the wall mount spot on the back of the TV. “Onn” brand for $18.
Works, but I do understand your frustration.
Cat
Op clearly saying something about the cat but can’t concentrate because cat
Op didn’t check the specs on the item he bought and is upset it’s not perfectly tailored to his individual tastes.
You love to see it.
Mount it on the wall jackass.
Same energy
Agree. I’m canvassing for a 65” TV and I need to include the entertainment stand in the budget because it won’t fit on the current one I have for my 43”.
