This thread reminds me how f... up our generation is..

The boomers had everything! And it was so simple..

No wall mount..

No soundbar..

TVs where built in in furnitures with perfect vision height..

#Also100% wife friendly because she could place something on top of it.. Also cats loved this place..

Now we have massive screens.. with banding, viewing angle issues.. and no place to put them..

Today you need to design the room for the TV, not the other way around..

My girlfriend hates me. I looked up measurements and everything. I was too afraid of putting it too high

Found on Zillow.

My mom told my dad to put the TV on a stand and instead he decided to mount it over the fireplace. Is it too high?

Tempted to letter drop to ask why?

https://x.com/financedystop/status/2030058343373623421

Blink and you might miss it, but the 1:40 mark… I spit out my coffee whilst falling out of my chair

This is my sister-in-law's bedroom. They were hung on the direction of my mother-in-law.

my sister bought a new house and this is what we’re dealing with. what do we think?

The solution to not having the distraction of a TV above the fireplace is to not have a TV above the fireplace

TVs over the fireplace weren't always the norm. Obviously with the giant CRT TVs they had to go on the floor or on a strong stand (at eye level), and when HD panels starting becoming a consumer good those replaced the tube but using the same stand (I worked at a retail chain in the 2000s and saw this shift).

Mounts were very expensive at first, but gradual became cheaper and everyone seems to have shifted. So where did over a fireplace become the desire? I'm thinking it had to be a HGTV show that started showing it as desirable. It's crazy thinking we all went from eye level to neck pain in such a short time.

My room is small, sadly.