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Ziggidy

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Hello!!

Cliff Notes:

Wanting:
swivel wall mount for 46" Sony Bravia KDL-46NX800
Mount video sources to back of TV, or mount.



My wife and I have just purchased a new home, and I am looking for assistance in finding the proper wall mount for our television. At this time, we have a small entertainment cabinet that it sits on, but I want to move away from this, as my daughter has already broken off one of the doors last year. We have a 2.5 year old, and a 4 month old, so I want to get the TV up on the wall and out of reach.

46" Sony Bravia KDL-46NX800 (300 x 300 mm mounting pattern)

Now comes the odd part. I want a mount that is a full motion swivel mount, so that if we rearrange the room, it won't be an issue, and also so that it can be swiveled to be viewed from the front porch. The house has a very large front porch with ceiling fans, and the full width of the house. I am going to attach a VERY crude drawing of what the floor plan looks like. Having 2 young kids, as well as 7 nieces and nephews under the age of 6, I want to conceal the video sources behind the TV. These include an AT&T U-Verse set top box which I intend to get an RF remote for (not the DVR, I keep that in the network rack so that if the kids DO mess with the STB, it doesn't affect shows being recorded), a Roku 2 which already has an RF remote. The only thing left would be Blu Ray player, which currently is a PS4, but I am wanting to just get a low profile small Blu Ray player to use that rather than the console.

Floating shelves is something my wife as brought up a few times, but to ME, I think it is a bad idea, just ASKING for one of the kids to pull the shelf down, or pull something down by the wires. Also, I think a flaoting shelf just wouldn't look very nice. I think the clean look of JUST a TV on the wall will look very nice. I intend to install an electrical outlet behind the TV, as well as a wall plate for Ethernet and Coax, likely 3-5 Ethernet jacks, and 1-2 coax jacks. Currently have a network switch under the TV, but I would rather eliminate that with more Ethernet runs from the patch panel to the wall behind the TV. Currently the house isn't wired for Ethernet, but I wired my last home with 3 Ethernet drops and 1 coax drop to each room of the house.

I have thought about housing the video sources somewhere else, a closet for example, but I don't want to have run HDMI a long distance (not sure if there is an HDMI to Ethernet conversion, and how reliable it would be if there is.) Plus, if everything is able to be mounted behind the TV, ventilation shouldn't be a concern like it could be in an enclosed space.


Here is a photo of the room that the TV will be in, looking at the wall we intend to mount it on.
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Here is the rough sketch showing a top-down view of the setup as planned, which is NOT at ALL to scale...
HouseSetup.jpg
 

schan1269

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HDMI to cat extenders have existed for more than 6 years and is the preferred thing to do for runs over 30 feet.Your other possibility is wireless HDMI.
 

Ziggidy

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Well, I did just look at HDMI to Ethernet converters, and unfortunately it looks they are just going to be too cost prohibitive. I guess I will just end up using zip ties to zip tie the video sources to the back of the wall mount, but I still need to do some research and find one. Have to do it soon too, because I am hoping to get it set up when I am at the house with my father-in-law properly securing the kitchen cabinets to the studs.... Foreclosure where kitchen was ripped up by previous owner, bank hired contractor to replace everything, and they stapled the cabinets in with brads, not a single screw in the wall, already lost one of the upper cabinets, found it on the floor when doing our home inspection last month. Fun times.
 

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