After 32 years in the same house, Peg and I are moving into a new home.
This means I've got some HT issues to figure out.
The HT will either be in our living room or family room.
IF we put it in the family room, the wall we would prefer to put our display on has a fireplace. It is a gas Heatilator fireplace.
I remember reading decades ago across the forum that putting a display above a fireplace was a bad idea.
I can't imagine much has changed to change that opinion, but I also don't know very much about it. Here is a picture of the room. The current owner has a 65" set mounted directly over the FP. And, there is also a built-in 6" shelf that extends from the middle of the wall (between the display and FP). You can see some small speakers sitting on that shelf
So the question of the day is: is this an extremely bad idea? Or maybe I am misremembering and is it an okay practice?
My display is a 2012 Panasonic Plasma P55ST50...if that is any kind of factor in this.
Many thanks in advance for any input.
This means I've got some HT issues to figure out.
The HT will either be in our living room or family room.
IF we put it in the family room, the wall we would prefer to put our display on has a fireplace. It is a gas Heatilator fireplace.
I remember reading decades ago across the forum that putting a display above a fireplace was a bad idea.
I can't imagine much has changed to change that opinion, but I also don't know very much about it. Here is a picture of the room. The current owner has a 65" set mounted directly over the FP. And, there is also a built-in 6" shelf that extends from the middle of the wall (between the display and FP). You can see some small speakers sitting on that shelf
So the question of the day is: is this an extremely bad idea? Or maybe I am misremembering and is it an okay practice?
My display is a 2012 Panasonic Plasma P55ST50...if that is any kind of factor in this.
Many thanks in advance for any input.