You may have recently bought a widescreen LED TV such as LG 42LE5900, and now you are looking for the best place to fit it into your home. You want your new purchase to improve the appearance of your home, and you also don’t want it to occupy a lot of floor space. You now think that a wall mounted TV would be right for your home. You know already that different styles of wall mounts are available: flat, tilt and swivel mounts. You can find out which is best for your home by reading the rest of this article.
You first thought of putting the new widescreen TV in the corner where you kept your old CRT set. But the widescreen is so big it seems that it will take up a lot of room. You are also worried that it will be a dominating presence in the room. Much more dominating than the old set with its smaller screen.
You may also have young children and worry that they could knock the widescreen TV over. This could happen easily during rough play. A small child could be badly hurt by a heavy TV falling. This gives another good reason to go for a wall mounted solution.
Once you have made up your mind that you want a wall mounting you need to consider some specific related to your room, and TV watching habits. Then you can review the three basic styles (flat mount, tilt mount and swivel mount) and choose the one which best meets your needs.
Start off by deciding which wall you will use to mount the widescreen TV. Its best if you can choose a wall free of such clutter as light fittings and picture rails. Then think about whether you want to mount your widescreen TV at your eye level, or higher. Then think about where you, your family and your guests are going to sit when watching the TV. Will they be right in front of the TV, or spread out around the room, or even in the corners of the room if there are a large number of people watching. The last thing to consider is whether the sun shines directly on the TV screen when you want to watch it. This can cause reflections which make it difficult to see the picture. Now you have pictured your requirements in your mind you can go on and choose a mounting.
A mounting which is both cheap and easy to fix is the flat mounting. However, once fixed it is always fixes, and cannot be adjusted. Before picking this you should be completely happy about your viewing angles, and completely sure that you won’t have problems with sunlight reflections.
If you have mounted the TV high up on the wall you may find the tilt mounting better. It will usually allow about 15 degrees of tilt. Besides helping with high up TV the tilting can eliminate reflection problems.
The swivel mounting allows both tilt and swivel. It is therefore the most versatile mounting. It is also the most expensive. You might find this is best for you if your viewers are not directly in from of your LG 42LE5900 widescreen TV.
