7 Great Ways to Mount TVs
By Tom LeBlanc
Winners of the second annual Mount This! contest announced at CEDIA.

You get points for originality when you enter a flat-panel mounting contest.

Take the winning installation, announced at CEDIA Expo, of the second annual Mount This! contest. It's not often you see a 90-pound flat panel mounted on a log that looks more suited to hold a missing cat flyer.

You get points for saving space. Take the second-place installation, which mounts a TV on the side of a staircase.



You also get points for blending, which is featured in the third-place installation. If you were on a treasure hunt and had to find a TV in that kitchen, it would probably take you at least 30 minutes.

The Gold, Silver and Bronze winners of the Mount This! contest have raised the bar - and the many other submissions made judging difficult. Yes, the contest is sponsored by Chief, but judging was based on inventive installation.

Rolling with Logs | Gold Winner
In a unique house like this one built by McGregor, Minn.-based Yellowstone Log Homes you’d expect an out-of-the-ordinary flat panel installation, but not necessarily this. Oddly-shaped logs add to the home’s character but pose a challenge for Brainerd, Minn.-based Tom’s TV, which was asked to install a Sony 46-inch LCD TV on one.

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CEPro: you should arrange things so that links like the above work the first time.

I clicked on the link, which took me to a page that repeated this same information and required me to click on a link to get to the article.

Once I had done that, the above link worked directly. Apparently CEPro requires a cookie that says I've gone to CEPro recently. Or something. Something that gets in the way of getting the information to me, which is the opposite of your magazine's intention.

Silver Winner: How do you remove that TV for service? Is it on a swing arm, whose sole purpose is to swing out so you can lift it off the mount, or ? ? ? I'm also reminded of the displays I've put in that specify a two inch space for ventilation all around them. How was this ventilated?

Big Beasts: How about a picture of the installed TV?

Party Time: That's such a great installation that it's impossible to see what was done. Are there any other photographs? Does it slide out from the left, or the right, or from below? All seem equally impossible.

I think that might be a bug with the interstitial ad system (which I incidentally received TWICE on the same viewing).