Firstly, 50 years ago houses were designed with the central feature of a living room/lounge being the fireplace. Modern houses tend not to have fireplaces because of central heating, so the TV has taken its place as the central feature.
If I want the full experience I'll go to a cinema, I don't want to convert my living room into a home cinema!!
That figure may be accurate in the UK, but here it's more like 90-100 years. If a house is built with a fireplace now (and many are), it's an extra-cost feature. And the latest tech has them being built with an external combustion air intake so you can keep the doors closed and your centrally-heated air doesn't get sucked up the chimney.
Many people (myself not necessarily included) do want to have a home cinema, but then they spend even more money to disguise/hide it when it's not in use (unless it's its own room with theater-style seats). Even if it's not big enough to be a cinema, the TV is often placed on the wall above the fireplace and then hidden by doors or perhaps a painting. You can even get a cover screen that looks like a painting, but the TV shows right through it when on.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
You can even get a cover screen that looks like a painting, but the TV shows right through it when on.
TV cabinets went out in the 90's when we all had 4:3 aspect ratio sets. Come the advent of the modern flat screen set, most people just leave the thing in the room. Placing a TV on the wall above a fire place is not particularly recommended for ease of viewing however aesthetic it may look. Then again the sort of people that might live in a house with very large rooms and do that, are likely to be out making the news rather than at home watching it.
Our living room is exactly what it says it is, a room for living in. It is NOT a TV or cinema room. That stifles conversation and human interaction. We turn the TV on when we specifically want to watch something. Else it stays off. To cover it up would be pretentious.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
You can even get a cover screen that looks like a painting, but the TV shows right through it when on.
TV cabinets went out in the 90's when we all had 4:3 aspect ratio sets. Come the advent of the modern flat screen set, most people just leave the thing in the room. Placing a TV on the wall above a fire place is not particularly recommended for ease of viewing however aesthetic it may look. Then again the sort of people that might live in a house with very large rooms and do that, are likely to be out making the news rather than at home watching it.
Our living room is exactly what it says it is, a room for living in. It is NOT a TV or cinema room. That stifles conversation and human interaction. We turn the TV on when we specifically want to watch something. Else it stays off. To cover it up would be pretentious.
I have my tv on the wall above the fireplace, a gas one with an outside air source, that is for aesthetics as it's way to warm here even during most of the 'winter' time, but since I watch tv from my recliner, as does my wife from her own recliner, the ideal watching angle is maintained. And if you lay down on the couch the angle is there too, now if you sit on the couch it's a bit high, the bottom of the tv is over 4 feet off the ground. The tv sits above the mantle and is about 3 inches or so smaller on each side than the mantle so it 'fits' in the space. There is also about a foot of space both above and below the tv and the mantle has 'stuff' on it.
As for sound we got the 'surround sound package' that was an option and it works very well with the 5 speakers in the ceiling.
One thing one of my neighbors has is a projection thingy under a small table and no tv on the wall above the fireplace, instead it's painted with some special paint and the wall is the tv when they turn it on, very nice setup and picture. They get regular cable and everything thru that setup.
I have a 34" that was turned
I have a 34" that was turned on when we installed it. I don't think it's been on since. Tend to watch on the laptop or tablet.
Chris S_2 wrote:Firstly, 50
That figure may be accurate in the UK, but here it's more like 90-100 years. If a house is built with a fireplace now (and many are), it's an extra-cost feature. And the latest tech has them being built with an external combustion air intake so you can keep the doors closed and your centrally-heated air doesn't get sucked up the chimney.
Many people (myself not necessarily included) do want to have a home cinema, but then they spend even more money to disguise/hide it when it's not in use (unless it's its own room with theater-style seats). Even if it's not big enough to be a cinema, the TV is often placed on the wall above the fireplace and then hidden by doors or perhaps a painting. You can even get a cover screen that looks like a painting, but the TV shows right through it when on.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
You can even get a cover
TV cabinets went out in the 90's when we all had 4:3 aspect ratio sets. Come the advent of the modern flat screen set, most people just leave the thing in the room. Placing a TV on the wall above a fire place is not particularly recommended for ease of viewing however aesthetic it may look. Then again the sort of people that might live in a house with very large rooms and do that, are likely to be out making the news rather than at home watching it.
Our living room is exactly what it says it is, a room for living in. It is NOT a TV or cinema room. That stifles conversation and human interaction. We turn the TV on when we specifically want to watch something. Else it stays off. To cover it up would be pretentious.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
I'm happy to finally see a
I'm happy to finally see a link back to the forum index page at the bottom of each content page, but what happened to links and images in signatures?
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Those images are on vacation,
Those images are on vacation, they too deserve a break!
We are only the Plebs and the
We are only the Plebs and the Prols, we don't get told nuffing!
The peasants are always revolting :-)
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
These images are not on
Images inside messages are also on vacation! So not just the images in a signature.
Chris S_2 wrote: You can
I have my tv on the wall above the fireplace, a gas one with an outside air source, that is for aesthetics as it's way to warm here even during most of the 'winter' time, but since I watch tv from my recliner, as does my wife from her own recliner, the ideal watching angle is maintained. And if you lay down on the couch the angle is there too, now if you sit on the couch it's a bit high, the bottom of the tv is over 4 feet off the ground. The tv sits above the mantle and is about 3 inches or so smaller on each side than the mantle so it 'fits' in the space. There is also about a foot of space both above and below the tv and the mantle has 'stuff' on it.
As for sound we got the 'surround sound package' that was an option and it works very well with the 5 speakers in the ceiling.
One thing one of my neighbors has is a projection thingy under a small table and no tv on the wall above the fireplace, instead it's painted with some special paint and the wall is the tv when they turn it on, very nice setup and picture. They get regular cable and everything thru that setup.
Another yawny morning.
Another yawny morning.
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Now it's a yawny evening, and I see the images are fixed.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Yes, they are back from being
Yes, they are back from being gone. But where were they? I guess they've had a binary time.