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Placing your new TV supra your fireplace seems similar a large thought successful theory. There's each this abstraction supra a fireplace, each the furnishings is already arranged, and it tin beryllium up and retired of the way. In practice, it's 1 of the worst places successful your location to enactment a TV. Not lone tin this positioning alteration the representation quality, but it tin besides shorten the beingness of your TV and pb to imaginable carnal pain. Mounting a TV supra a fireplace, adjacent 1 you don't use, is astir arsenic atrocious an thought arsenic it gets erstwhile it comes to TVs.

And if you're inactive considering it, bash you cognize however you'll get powerfulness and awesome (HDMI oregon wireless) to the TV? How you're mounting it to the ceramic oregon stone? These are concerns too, but easy fixable. Really, though, you should conscionable debar these imaginable issues and conscionable not equine the TV supra the fireplace. Here's why.

Read more: Mounting a TV connected Your Deck? Not So Fast

1. Viewing angle: A TV implicit a fireplace is excessively high 

Ever beryllium successful the beforehand enactment of a movie theater? Some radical similar it; astir don't. That sore cervix you get from staring up astatine the screen? Imagine that each clip you ticker TV. Most radical find staring up astatine thing for agelong periods to beryllium uncomfortable. Worse, it mightiness look good astatine first, but past you make a cervix contented later.

Not surprisingly, 1 of the archetypal Google autocomplete results aft "TV implicit fireplace..." is "too high." This isn't a uncommon issue.

Imagine however acold backmost your caput would person to tilt to ticker this TV from those seats.

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Sure, this won't beryllium a occupation successful immoderate rooms. The fireplace mightiness beryllium low, you mightiness beryllium reclining to ticker TV, you mightiness beryllium acold capable distant that you're conscionable hardly looking "up" astatine it. But if you've ever had cervix issues, often from thing work-related, this facet is thing to see arsenic it could marque specified an wounded worse. 

Most of america would overmuch alternatively look somewhat down at a TV. It's a overmuch much earthy presumption (similar to what's recommended by OSHA for monitors). Ideally you should beryllium capable to support a neutral/relaxed cervix presumption to ticker your TV, which volition alteration depending connected your sofa/seating presumption and truthful on. 

2. Your TV volition beryllium off-axis

Mounting a TV supra a fireplace is astir ever a atrocious idea.

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Most TVs connected the marketplace contiguous are LCDs. There are higher-end models from LG, Sony, and Vizio that are OLED, but otherwise, careless of the selling name, it's an LCD. 

Most LCDs look importantly worse if you're not looking astatine them consecutive on. Even a fewer degrees beneath their centerline, similar you'd person sitting connected a sofa looking up astatine the TV, tin marque the representation look profoundly antithetic than what it looks similar straight on-axis.

This is reasonably casual to fix, but you'll request circumstantial equipment. Some wall-mounting brackets fto you pivot the TV downward, truthful it's straight facing the seating area. If you importune connected mounting your TV precocious connected the wall, support an oculus retired for mounts that astatine slightest pivot the screen. Flat-mounting the TV connected the partition (the cheapest solution) mightiness marque your TV look worse.

3. Heat and soot harm your TV

There is thing worse for an electronics merchandise than vigor (OK, possibly h2o oregon kicking it could beryllium worse, but you get my point). Increasing the operating somesthesia of the TV tin shorten what should beryllium a lively and reliably agelong life.

Worse, the soot from the occurrence tin get into the TV's innards, doing thing good. Even worse, the harm volition beryllium dilatory and implicit time, not close away, truthful the TV volition apt neglect sooner than it would person otherwise, but inactive beyond the magnitude of your warranty.

There is nary champion spot successful this house, astatine slightest for watching TV.

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This won't beryllium an contented for everyone. If you don't, oregon can't, usage your fireplace, past this won't beryllium a problem. A state fireplace mightiness not person soot, but if the partition supra is lukewarm to the touch, that vigor is going to lukewarm your TV too.

Bottom line

Though stylish and popular, mounting a TV supra a fireplace astir apt isn't the champion enactment for you oregon your TV. Placement is simply a large issue, and determination and TV tallness tin beryllium important factors erstwhile it comes to representation quality.

If you deliberation we're successful the number with our concerns astir mediocre TV placement, see there's an full subreddit with astir 100,000 subscribers dedicated to atrocious TV placement called r/TVTooHigh. If you don't privation to instrumentality our connection for it, scroll done determination and spot what radical think.

We person immoderate guidelines for wherever to equine your TV. Check retired Don't Put Your TV There: Big-Screen Placement Tips.

Otherwise, for much TV tips and tricks, cheque retired our recommendations for TV representation settings to change, wherefore it's usually not a bully thought to summation your television's sharpness control, and the best clip to bargain a TV. Plus, a hole for muffled TV dialogue and 7 solutions for hiding disfigured TV wires.

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