luckily this is just a 32; i had a 70 from the same brand with the same INSANELY FUCKING STUPID STAND DESIGN that i had to find something for…literally at the most extreme edges of the thing, what the fuck is this? this is so fucking stupid, it cannot be meaningfully cheaper than a proper design and it looks fucking dumb as hell and surely this has pissed off 90% of people that wanted a TV and want to put it on a little stand like a normal fucking person right??
They think everyone wants to mount them to the wall now, the legs are like the cheapest possible “courtesy” they’re willing to include. It’s super annoying, I really don’t want the thing on my wall with a bunch of wires hanging down
I’d actually love to wall mount but as a renter, not possible.
Currently living with elderly family and she also won’t have a bar of a wall mount.
That sounds illegal. A rental can’t really stop you from installing certain safety features. But if I read that right you’re renting from and living with an elderly couple and they have refused like a shower bar or similar. If they themselves refuse the safety feature that would be installed for them that’s… Legal I guess.
I’m living with my grandmother in law and she’s just very fussy. Sometimes we think, I’d rather just pay rent somewhere, but we love her and she’s unwell and we’re saving money so we’re all looking after each other for now and trying not to sweat the small stuff like hanging a television when we don’t really need to.
I honestly haven’t even asked, but I know what the answer will be - can’t even leave the toaster that I use daily on the bench, has to go away once cooled. Getting to leave my coffee machine out was a bloody battle.
Her house, we live here for free and just pay our share of utilities and do our own groceries, and I help her if she is having a bad health day etc. It’s fine. It’s (mostly) worth the frustration.
I’m more annoyed with the limitations that renters experience in general - it’s the landlord’s property, but it’s the renter’s home, and sometimes it feels like we’re never really allowed to make any place our own, what with all the rules and regulations and punishments.
ETA: "won’t have a bar of… ", ie she won’t accept that sort of thing.
…you can’t hang anything in your wall?
Cut a hole behind the TV and another where you want the wires to come out, then fish the wires through the wall. Finish off the holes with cable access brush plates like this:
(Either that, or use keystone jacks and separate cables of the appropriate type within the wall.)
I really don’t want to cut a bunch of (or even just 2) holes in my wall though. If I rearrange the room I’ll have to make more holes and it’s just too much
Exactly
Well put cable management pipes under it to hide them
No thank you. I just want it to sit on the shelf next to my record player
Then get a bloody VESA stand or buy a TV with a stand that fits your desires.
Fucking hell.
Or they could, you know, just include a stand that doesn’t suck?
There’s no need to get so upset about it
Pay for it, center stands are more expensive because they need a block of steel in them, don’t buy the cheapest TV and you’ll get a center stand, but the people who complain are also the ones who wouldn’t pay the extra for the same model with a center stand.