Just did a quick search and found this http://www.practical-home-theater-guide.com/lcd-mounts.html
Scrolling down to the "hide the cables" subtitle the picture shows a little box under the telly. This looks like the best option without having to plaster anything or break open the wall! 2009/12/8 Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> > On 08/12/2009 13:26, javadayaz wrote: > > thats cool. So far this looks like the best option for me! > > > > So for something totally unrelated, for those of you who have hung > > your tv's on a wall....how do you hide the wires so that nothing is > > visible? > > Hmmm, embed the cables in the wall and plaster over them? > > I've been looking into this as our TV is on an arm (it was a comprimise > between me and the wife, I wanted it wall mounted, she didn't). I've > looked into running cables from every socket on the TV (2 x HDMI, 2 x > SCART, Component video) and then embedding them in the wall, then having > them plugged into couplers to connect to the cables for everything that > needs to be plugged in. That way they're hidden and still usable. > > Or on the other hand you could maybe look at running cables in the walls > and have faceplates with short cables from the faceplates to the TV. > > Maybe something like two of these... > http://www.revealcable.co.uk/acatalog/info_AA3819.html > > That way you can run standard HDMI cables embedded in the wall to > another location and have faceplates at each end of the cable. Then > you'd just need a short HDMI cable from the TV to the faceplate, and > another from the other faceplate to your devices (PC, Bluray etc). > > Of course you've also got the cost of getting a plaster in unless you > can do plastering yourself (I'm lucky as my dad is a decorator and can > do it for me :-) ), or other than that, you could look at trunking. > > I gather for HDMI cables there are no differences between the cheap > cables and the more expensive cables, at least up to about 15 metre > cable runs. I certainly have a cheap HDMI cable of about 5 metres and > it does the job, I gather it's a case of because it's digital it'll > either work or it won't. > > On the other hand with analogue connections (standard VGA, component > video, composite video, analogue audio, SCART) the cable quality can > make a difference. > > If you're just going to connect everything using HDMI (DVD/Bluray > player, PC, Sky/Freesat HD/Freeview HD box) then you may find a couple > of cheap cables would do the job. > > Rob > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Regards Javad
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