New 65inch TV- Wall mount or Stand? Whats best?

[JayDiy]

I thinking of purchasing 65in TV, not sure if such a large screen will be suitable for wall mounting. Can anyone let me know pros and cons of this. I'm thinking it will be awkward to connect things after wall mounting due to restricted access? Should I just put it on a stand?
Appreciate any help/comments. Thanks.

 

[Tigercubrider]

65 is big.
I have a 75 on a stand and one on a wall at work.
Access is a nightmare to the wall mounted one, but you can overcome this by using short extension leads with a female end.

If wall mounting you need to consider adjustable angles or a straight hook on.
Most modern TVs are not as heavy as many older and smaller ones.
Some kind of recessed area at the back may help

 

[Iamchamps]

While some people assume bigger is better, have you done a check to see if a 65” would be appropriate? If sitting too close to such a large screen you will not enjoy it after a while. I have seen people with 70” plus TVs with no more than 2-3 metres from sofa to TV. There are online calculators to check optimal distance and size.

My last 2 TVs I didn’t wall mount I found a decent TV unit and standing on top in my situation was best. With out seeing your setup it’s hard to gauge.

 

[Lucid]

Where the room is big enough, and you've a clear expanse of wall, and you're not planning on doing the dumb thing of mounting the TV on the upper third of the wall so it ends up at eye level when you're stood (fine in pubs - not for home), then sure, wall mount it. But do it properly.

Properly means chasing out the wall, dropping in some wide flat mini-trunking for the cable runs (keep power away from signal cables by approx 10"+. Finish the top and bottom with sunken double-gang back boxes topped off with brush plates. Re-skim the wall then redecorate.

Wall mounting any TV and leaving the cables trailing is a no-no. Surface trunking - even the decorative stuff such as D-Line is kind of acceptable in rented homes as long as the landlord agrees. For an owned property though it's a bit of a low-rent solution.

Your wall bracket should be a full motion job something like this, but a version suitable for the size of screen you're hanging. This solves the cable access issue because the screen can be pulled forward when required.

If any of this is going to prove to be too big a thing to tackle then stand mounting is your friend.


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[Tigercubrider]

I am sure that I could ring the house opposite and ask for the subtitles to be turned on.
Would save a fortune in Netflix subscriptions!

 

[JayDiy]

Wow! thanks guys for swift response, I suppose you've got time on your hands with this lockdown! Very useful advise, I think I'm put off by wall mounting so it will be on a stand. I have been told that modern big screens are fine in small homes due to higher resolution so watching from shorter distances shouldn't be a problem?
thanks for your advice.

 

[flameport]

told that modern big screens are fine in small homes due to higher resolution so watching from shorter distances shouldn't be a problem?

Resolution isn't the problem - it's whether the screen itself is larger than your field of vision.
If it is, you will end up moving your eyes/head all the time which will become tiresome and wearing very quickly.

For a extreme example of the same effect, go watch something at an Imax.

 

[Lucid]

Wow! thanks guys for swift response, I suppose you've got time on your hands with this lockdown! Very useful advise, I think I'm put off by wall mounting so it will be on a stand. I have been told that modern big screens are fine in small homes due to higher resolution so watching from shorter distances shouldn't be a problem?
thanks for your advice.

Honestly, it depends more on what you're watching - the resolution of it and how compressed it is - rather than a simple "this-size-of-screen-is-recommended-for-this-viewing-distance" formula.

I've spent the best part of the last 25 years installing home cinema projectors and screens. If you're old enough to remember watching 29" and 33" 4:3 TVs and thinking 'this is massive', well, at the same time I was installing 72"~96" screens to be viewed from the same distance. VHS looked awful, off-air TV was okay mostly, LaserDisc ranged from acceptable to pretty good.

Things took a big leap forward when DVD arrived, and moved forward again when picture processing electronics got a lot cheaper. Blu-ray and HD TV gave home cinema a big boost in quality, but served to underline how much compression there was in standard def' TV. DVD still looked okay though. People started file-sharing movies, and God they looked terrible on a big screen because of all the compression from ripping and reducing the file size to manageable proportions.

The change from 1080p HD to UHD 4K hasn't been such a big leap. In fact, I'd go further and say that just comparing resolution, most people can't say whether they're watching good 1080p or UHD. Once you have enough pixels, the resolution becomes unimportant. The bigger factor is compression. I could play you a 1080p Blu-ray of a movie, then show you Sky's UHD version, and you'd tell me the BD looks better.

This brings us to how good TVs are at upscaling lower resolution formats to fit the pixels on a UHD screen. It's no surprise then to find that in general, higher quality TVs do a better job with low and medium resolution source images. There's more money in the budget to install better bits of silicon. I will qualify that though by saying that if you're looking at the entry-level Bush versus Sharp vs HiSense, that's not what I mean by looking at higher-quality TVs.

The sort of screen-size-versus-distance charts you might have seen are generally to do with how close you need to be to notice the resolution difference that UHD brings to the party, and they're only valid for good quality UHD source material. That's a very niche application. In the real world we watch a variety of sources. The TV can't afford to be a one trick pony.