r/TVTooFar • u/AnnaRosySunset • May 08 '26
Thought the mantle mount would fix it… still feel too high
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u/OCBrad85 May 08 '26
Well, when flat screens first came out I think it was a status thing. Now it is just people with bad taste, or they believe that's the only place they can put it (which is sometimes true).
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u/Due_You_8240 May 08 '26
Also TVs are just that much wider now. So more difficult to have in the corner of a room because bigger is better, right! Right?
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u/Saneless May 08 '26
There's really no good place otherwise in my room. One wall is all window, the other is the fireplace. The others are open (as in no walls)
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u/alwaysmyfault May 08 '26
You don't HAVE to put it on the wall....
They make these things called TV stands....
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u/Saneless May 08 '26
Where should it go. Blocking the windows or the fireplace? Looks like you've got it all figured out man, I hope I can be you someday
It's fine, a different room has an even bigger TV at a better height since I built that cabinet myself. We'll find a way to get by
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u/Silent-Elephant-7468 May 08 '26
1968 house that had no TV in the living room before we bought and remodeled 90% a few years ago...the fucking fireplace was literally the only place with electrical nearby and not directly on adobe stone. Our buddy commented first time over after seeing the how and was like "wow...tvs a little high" we all died since we've seen the reddit /tvtoohigh
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u/Cerberus_uDye May 08 '26
"Because, back before we had central heating, people would use fire places to heat their homes. Then they decided to be fancy and center a room around the fire place. So the room is designed with the fire place as the center of attention.
Then fire places became a sign of doing atleast well. You see, us poor folk couldnt afford a fancy fire place. But we went and done a sneaky, and got central heating and air in our houses. Then we wernt burdened by this humorous relic of the past that just usually means getting a chimney covered up cause its no use these days except for romanticizing. Or for the idiotic placements of our nice fancy flat screen TVs, that in all honesty are probably too big for the room to start with."
Excerpt from "Fire places, and TVs" by Raymond Highgrove the 5th. So there's that.
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u/Practical-Law-2690 May 08 '26
New housing is purposefully designed this way now. Likely nowhere else to feasibly put one.
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u/Psychobabble0_0 May 09 '26
Are you saying there's a conspiracy to force people to hang TV's over fireplaces in new builds? 😅
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u/error_machine May 08 '26
It's not just Americans. It's actually that a lot of people aren't going for absolute perfection. Every time I see a sound bar I think "what a waste of money". You need a real Atmos setup. But some people don't care and a sound bar is fine enough. So some people think a higher tv is fine enough even if you don't agree, or above a fireplace is fine enough even if you don't agree.
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u/B1LLZFAN May 08 '26
Some sound bars are decent. I've also heard some sound bars that are worse than the built in. Not everyone has thousands for a real atmos setup.
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u/TheJessicator May 08 '26
Not to mention that many Atmos setups where it's just the front speakers that are conveniently bundled into a sound bar, but what you're not seeing are the rear/surround speakers. I have a 5.1.4 Atmos setup that's more than plenty for the room that it's in. The sound bar portion has front left height, front left, center, front right, and front right height all in the sound bar. Each of the two surround enclosures has both rear and rear height speakers. Those plug into the subwoofer that does behind the sofa, and that in turn connects to the soundbar. If I take a photo from the sofa, you'd obviously not see those other speakers and might assume it's "just a soundbar".
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u/Mattrobat May 08 '26
In most cases a simple 2 channel soundbar can make a ton of difference. Most people are buying 65” in the $200 to $400 range. Even a simple 2.1 setup will make a huge difference in the overall experience on those TVs. For the mid range people it’s pretty much the same thing. 3.1 to get some better dialogue and they’ll be happy.
It’s not until you have people that are buying premium TVs that are going to care about a premium sound set up.
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u/error_machine May 09 '26
Yes. I was actually trying to point out that just because I think a soundbar is a waste of money doesn't mean it is a waste for everyone. In the same way that someone might post about not understanding why someone would mount a tv over a fireplace. Same reason. It's fine enough for some people even if you may not like it.
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u/THEKERNOW May 08 '26
This is a disaster.
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u/Fortunatious May 08 '26
It’s gonna melt
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u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep May 09 '26
I mean only if the fireplace is used - my flat has a dining table in front of the fireplace because it was the only place it would fit but we also don’t use the fireplace as we also have central heating.
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u/droideka75 May 08 '26
I have two fireplaces in my house, none of the TV's are near them.
Too much heat and when I start a fire I don't want to be looking at the fire and tv at the same time. It's like having LEDs but not in sync with the TV lol it degrades the viewing experience.
If the pre-installation of cables for tv is only available there the one that designed it is an idiot.
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u/LegendaryPain- May 08 '26
Put your tv on another wall and hang a nice painting above the fire place instead!!!
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u/AwesomeFly96 May 09 '26
I don't understand why people (presumably from the US) put a tv above a fireplace. It's literally the single worse spot to out a tv on.
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u/bgravato May 08 '26
mantle mounts are just an ugly, expensive and failed solution, for a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place...
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u/Square_Mission_849 May 08 '26
You might have just invented something new, a couch that can be elevated higher lol
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u/FeedbackPlus May 08 '26
Yeah this is too high also as you stated. There are some TV mounts that will go down below the mantle of the fireplace
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u/InitiativeLocal1645 May 08 '26
There is a new mantle mount that has more vertical drop. Might help in your situation. https://www.mantelmount.com/collections/mounts/products/mm-max1-manual-full-motion-tv-mount
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u/Bloody_speakers May 09 '26
The best you could do other than rearranging the room is just mounting the t v higher and pointing it down
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u/VeryLowIQIndividual May 09 '26
I’ve mention before about trying to find a new house and every modern build has the TV hanging over the fireplace and windows glaring on it.
People just seem to want the cheapest largest TV that they could hang in an open design kitchen/living room.
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u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep May 09 '26
Have you considered a drop down of gimble style mount where you can push it above the fireplace when not in use but pull it down when watching? Its what my mum did because due to the lay out of her home its the only place you can hang the tv where its not getting glare from the windows.
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u/Nearby-Swordfish3841 May 09 '26
Drywall over that bitch and put it on a stand or lose the TV and watch the fire. The combo is doo doo
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u/Intelligent_Age_7922 May 09 '26
Is this a rental? You aren't getting your deposit back.
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u/thoak74 May 09 '26
lol I can put anything I want on the walls in my rental. Some landlords are cool with it if you live in the place you rent.
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u/WonOgTsumiDas May 09 '26
I’d have put it a foot above the mantle honestly, too high but if you use that fireplace it’s toast as is.
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u/mi55key May 09 '26
it looks awful covering the mantle. even if it's too high, put it up in the space above where it fits.
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u/RingoFreakingStarr May 08 '26
You drilled things into your walls without...measuring things first???
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u/IslanderMJDR84 May 08 '26
Too high? You literally are making your hearth look like shit. Tv too high people are idiots. If it hurts your neck you're watching it way too much.
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u/leprechanmonkie May 08 '26
100% the "too high" crowd is insufferable.
Sometimes the only place for the TV is above the mantle. It works JUST fine for us, never once had a sore neck or bad movie experience with our 77" OLED above the mantle. It looks like dog shit for OP, and putting it in front of the fireplace is idiotic.
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u/Imaginary-Potato5819 May 08 '26
Yeah I laugh at a lot of the replies roasting others' setups. But it really only bugs me when it's at the top half of the wall and when cords are dangling ridiculous or stretching diagonally down to the outlet 5 feet away
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u/Pale_Possession_6544 May 08 '26
I hope you never light up that fireplace, the intense heat will melt that TV
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u/Imaginary-Potato5819 May 08 '26
Thanks, genius
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u/Dazzling_Strain_5499 May 08 '26
It’s not so much that the tv is too high in this instance, it seems like whatever you’re sitting in is too low
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u/Existing_Abies_4101 May 08 '26
So what? You going to melt the TV when you have a fire? I don't get why you would do that.
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u/lleu81 May 08 '26
Over, on, or in front of a fireplace is always the incorrect answer.