Hate fireplace in home theater room

Thank you very much for sharing the information

My pop up TV mount arrived a week ago.
No time to even open up the box yet.

@ jumia 262 posts
03-30-2022 at 03:01pm
” …Pull down TV mounts are not reliable and they’re not a really good solution...” 

i strongly disagree with this generality bias .MANTLEMOUNT are Uber-reliable . I’ve had mine for 2-years and it is flawless.

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I have a fireplace on the side wall in our room. I like it there a lot and not a big fan of a tv above a fireplace or a pull down screen in front of one. On occasion we'll have the fireplace on at the same time as a movie.

I too hated my fireplace in listening room, tore it out some years ago. The things we do for audio!

Pull down TV mounts are not reliable and they're not a really good solution.

 

As @akg_ca  said...

MANTELMOUNT.CA

This is the way...

What the heck are you talking about?

I went to the website add a confined anything that was helpful here. Maybe you need to refocus your recommendation

You know if you wanted it changed up, I had a similar situation as you except I figured out a way to actually use the fireplace and TV from https://www.thelondonfireplaces.com/ and that was a quick fix, they can try to relocate it so that it doesn't mess with your design. Just an idea!

-SAM

I love fireplaces and cringe when I see a flat screen TV over the mantle. Seeing one in front of the actual fireplace seems even worse. If you never use it, you should probably just have it removed.

I hate fireplaces. Can you tear it down?

My late aunt in London claimed that every British home had to have fireplace (many of them had just a bulb imitating fire). In US, I do have fireplace, but almost never use it. It is a toy, wasting energy. I went to fireplace store and asked about better efficiency. They told me that in order to get efficient heating I need an "insert" and redo of the chimney (expensive). This should get me 60k BTU, about the same as my gas furnace can deliver now. Too much for me.|

Audio gear in front of fireplace looks weird, I agree, but perhaps there is some way to mask it. I have the same problem, hoping to move to larger living room without it.

I have this fingertouch drop-down TV mount for a 2.1 FR audio system that includes the flatpanel TV, the TV cab be above the fireplace that permits it to be dropodd  down to optimum viewing level ( and fingertouch slide back up over the fireplace when not in use)
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https://mantelmount.ca/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5tfusqvO6wIVk-eGCh09MQ9CEAAYASAAEgI4WPD_BwE

A friend has had it for 20 years. Works out good. Build a shelf behind the mantle for ctr spkr, cable or receiver box and BluRay
He used to have Tandberg R2R there but as we know they weren't built to last.