"mountfords" wrote in message
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The plan is to build an extension to the chimney breast wall - bringing
it out by a few inches. Where the file was there should be a small
recess for ornaments etc, no fire surround (obviously) meaning the
screen will be mounted much lower. I have allowed for the minimum air
space recommended by Sony also. I knocked up a before and after type
image - see below - comments welcome!

Before - http://www.stephenmountford.com/images/livingroom.jpg
After - http://www.stephenmountford.com/imag...ngroommock.jpg

At that height when you "slob" in the seats the picture from the Sony will
be dark as the vertical viewing angle of the Sony's very poor compared to
CRT and plasma.

My mate positioned his 32" Sony LCD above the fire place in house, has was
having organisms about how good it looked etc, standing in the room at a
distance it looked good, going up close looked as good as LCD gets (crap
basically, escaped pixels all over the place), but disadvantage was found as
soon as you sat down, picture was dark and unwatchable

Anyway ended up placing it on a 2 shelf stand thing in front of the fire
place (disused) so that your eye height when stting down is in the centre
third of the screen as recommended by manufacturer, which is why they can
supply a shelf/stand that positions it at the right height for optimal
viewing.