flat screen above a fireplace

[DragonD]

Anybody ever seen (in person) a flat screen mounted above a fireplace?

If so, how did it look? Was it to high? Did you watch it for extended time?

I currently have a 65'inch DLP that I bought back in 2001. It's time to replace it with something new and shinny (and THIN).

I was thinking about mounting it above my mantel. Man, would that ever create extra room!! (DLP's back in those days were HUUUUGEE).

 

[Cut Chem!st]

Mm, I think that would be kind of awkard trying to watch. Don't want the light interferance when the fire place is on either.

 

[DragonD]

...I'm south of Houston. I bought the house in Feb 2001. Probably used the fireplace 8 times since then, and those were really just cause I wanted to, not cause I needed to.

 

[Cut Chem!st]

Gotcha, just sayin it would be weird depending on how high it sits.

Don't really like having to look up.

 

[FreakingHell]

Depends. The top of my fireplace mantel at my current house is 4 ft high. At my old house, it was nearly 6ft. It works fine at my current house, would have never worked at my old house.

 

[gothroach]

I have seen a few large TVs mounted above fireplaces - about half of them prevent use of the fireplace (). In my experience, they're also mounted too high to be watch comfortably.

 

[REpear]

Does the heat interfere with the TV(or other eletronics near it) while it is actually lit? I would think if it gets to hot just like computer it would burn up and fry.

 

[Celtic]

Well like he said, he lives south of Housten. He's only used it 8 times because he wanted to, not needed to. So, most likely, yes the heat would be a bit much for the TV if he was using the fire place, he's not. Honestly, I think it would be just a lil too high for anyone, unless you've got like a bar-couch(Bar-stool meets couch LAWL). Anyways, if you can, you should mount the TV on a wall, and have the fireplace off the the side, but not totally blown off. Just my 2 cents XD

 

[Maj.Emish]

i have it's not too bad to watch.

 

[xKodiakx]

My boss has his over his fireplace and he said nothing but good things, they watch stuff all the time.

 

[bigwilly]

Mine is sitting on my mantel, which is 4' high. The mantel generally protects it from the heat. Be sure you have a long room to sit back aways (like mine) from the TV, or your viewing angle will be steep looking up, which could be annoying. You might can get a mobile mount that would allow you to swing your TV downward when watching it, but idk.

 

[DragonD]

You might can get a mobile mount that would allow you to swing your TV downward when watching it, but idk.

that's actually what I'm thinking about doing. I'm looking at a 58'inch plasma, and mounting it above the mantel. The mount i'm looking at actually comes out from the wall a bit (that's good, would keep it off the fireplace wall), and has a tilt ability, so I could put a slight down angle on it.

 

[Goretex]

Remoldled a basement and installed a fireplace, which had a flat screen installed above it. THe fireplace was roughly 5ft tall, and it looked fine afterwards.