[Shop-talk] Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone, oh yeah, and I have a question about tv mounts

[Peter Murray]

Good day and Merry Christmas to all of you.

Eric - I don't want to rain on your parade, but I have an alternate
suggestion grounded in experience.

My office had one of this series of Panasonic plasma TVs. They're nice and
bright, which was a consideration in this southern-facing conference room
on the top floor of our 9-story office building. Ours was a bit bigger than
that 65" - it was the 103" version (
http://www.hdtvsolutions.com/Panasonic-TH-103PF12U.htm). Even with the
motorized blinds up on a sunny day, it was very viewable.

It is indeed a monitor with no tuner. Ours had modules that would determine
what kinds of inputs were available to you. It had no audio outputs,
either. (Yours likely came with a component input and at least one HDMI
input. Hopefully both work.)

Weighing at 440+ lbs, the TV was mounted to several significant structural
steel mounts, and had its own dedicated 208V outlet, from which it drew 2hp.

When the company moved out of that space, the TV did leave with somebody,
but I had no interest. It was only 1080p, required significant structure
for wall mounting, special power, and generated a not-insignificant amount
of heat. Never mind that the display is 9+ years old

Maybe I'm lazy, but for much less hassle, power consumption, etc, I can buy
a new, good quality 4K smart TV for less than $800 - and it will not only
have decent speakers, but it will have a proper VESA mount! No, it wouldn't
be 103", but I'd also be consuming about 1/18 the power! Never mind that I
don't have a room in my house where that wall-of-TV could go!

Wait, what am I saying? This is shop-talk! I am clearly looking at this all
wrong.

Eric - You should not buy a Monoprice mount, though they are quite nice. I
advocate you create something with your considerable tool collection. Can't
you just weld up a proper mount for this, and attach it to some nice
Inch-fabricated wood that you can then connect to the wall?

-Peter

On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 5:28 PM Ronnie Day via Shop-talk <
shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Looks like this is a monitor with no broadcast TV tuner, unless it has a
> optional, external tuner of some flavor. Also plasma screens are somewhat
> prone to image burn-in so be careful about displaying a static image for
> very long.
>
> RD
>
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 12:22 PM Jeff Scarbrough via Shop-talk <
> shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 7:17 AM eric--- via Shop-talk
>> <shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > BTW, the TV is a Panasonic TH-65PF12UK Plasma Monitor.
>>
>> I couldn't find any specs on VESA size for this screen, but I do note
>> that it's a 1 horsepower TV.  Be sure to get a mount that can handle
>> that sort of power...
>>
>> Jeff Scarbrough
>> Corrosion Acres, Ga.
>>
>>
>> (In case you're wondering:  The specs show it consumes 745 watts)
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