So what are your recommendations for mounting a flat panel on the wall? Currently, that's not an issue for me since I have a 6-year old monster 57-inch RPTV (it's monster-sized for me, but I know others don't consider that a monster-sized display) that still performs pretty well for me. Looks great when I feed it an HDTV signal or something form my Oppo.
Anyhow, my wife likes to watch these re-decorate your house shows on HGTV, and it always astounds me that a) there's almost never an audio system in these houses, and b) if there is, they let the daffy designer do things with the speakers that are, IMHO, criminal (like taking both speakers of a stereo and putting them next to each other on a sidewall so that you can put a large piece of glass over the top of them and use that as a table.
So, I'm pretty underwhelmed by what I see there in terms of audio, but even televisions get mounted above mantles, and while it may look impressive, it strikes me as a pretty bad angle to watch TV from. I've always assumed that you kind of want your eye to be at the same height as the midpoint of the television (and I'm willing to admit I'm wrong on this, but I sort of view the middle of the television as sort of the visual equivalent to the correct position for your tweeters).
Here, then, (FINALLY) are my questions:
1 - Are you more inclined to mount the display higher when you have a wall-mount device like this?
2 - I live in Detroit, and the best wall for me to mount something like this is an exterior wall. I'm not excited by the prospect of cutting out a huge wad of insulation to accommodate a wall-mount that hides inside the wall. How does this mount handle the need to keep your house warm in colder climates?
Thanks.