do you want to hang yours on the wall?

I'm planning to get a corner cabinet for mine in the FR when i move. 'for mine' - ha! I only have one and it'll be in my bedroom for when I'm sick (that's often).

I guess i'll have to think about getting another one.

You all are making me feel guilty that we just bought one. And we don't even watch TV (just the occasional movie). But the old set was about 25 years old and a hand-me-down, with a terrible picture. Neither DH nor I has ever bought a TV before, so we figure total TV lifetime expenditures are less than $5 per year so far.

I have to say, the light weight and low profile of the new one are very nice, not to mention the clear picture. You can actually pick it up and move it around without throwing your back out. At least it's an Energy Star product. We're shopping for a stand for it right now (old stand is a very utilitarian little bench my father-in-law slapped together at some point), so no pictures yet.

So what did you decide? I'm trying to figure out what to do with mine too.

Buy an LCD instead of a Plasma. :) We have a wood and glass TV stand in the living room which has two shelves below for all the gismos.

In my bedroom my regular TV sits on an antique cedar chest that was my grandmothers.

In the office, the TV sits on an old and low armoire.

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Here is a link that might be useful: TV Stands

The LCD TV sits on a small bookshelf and all the cords go through a grommet in the wall to an adjacent cabinet that has outlets and the cable hook up etc. in it-- no exposed wires or plugs. Right now the cable box is on the lower shelf but if I would hook up the electric eye, it could be remote in the cabinet as well.

My 20 year old bedroom TV sits on a Stickley console table.

I would also suggest just buying a piece of furniture you like and putting the TV on it, whether it is defined as a TV stand or not. We have an extremely small TV that sits on an... elephant, actually. It is an elephant carved out of a teak tree trunk, of which we bought a pair over twenty years ago. The other one serves as a footstool. They are totally useless for holding stuff so a little cabinet has to sit next to it for TV detritus.

KarinL

I had DH put our big TV (it's a 5 yr old big screen not an LCD or Plasma) up on an old wooden blanket trunk. It raised it up off the floor and gives the appearance of a flat screen.

I wish the people that make stands for the new flatscreen tv's would make them attractive looking. I was not impressed with the junk they sell at best buy etc..glass and more glass..ugly looking things and they are not cheap. I would get a sofa table and use that, except you have the ugly cords showing behind it... see what I mean. Mfgrs. make something that is pleasing to the eye.

I am waiting for the new wireless flat panels (Sony) to go down in price a little. That way, I can hang it on the wall, move the one we have elsewhere, bedroom maybe- although we have resisted having a tv there so far-
and have the components in a cabinet that is not obviously a tv stand/cabinet!

I did find a wonderful low profile glass and cherry stand for the tv in the library, but it was really expensive.

We used the bottom to our Gun cabinet for the new flat screen TV we bought a couple of years ago. Last TV literally blew up smoke and all. We had trouble getting it out of the house to the yard it was so heavy and we were afraid to leave in in the house sitting there smoking. Sheese.

The gun cabinet was this two piece monster that took over any room it was in. Being split apart it is so much better now. I really should get proper legs for the top part now it does not have a base on it. It will look better but I have not gotten that far yet. Do we call 2 by 6's tacky?? YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

DH made a make shift stand to set the TV on so there is room for the dish control box. We do not have any other TV stuff.I did some goofy mosaic on it and call it good.The stand could have been taller if we needed more room for TV stuff. Or wider.This is all we needed so all he made and he was in a hurry to watch his beloved Boxing.Groan>>>>>>>>>>>

Chris

Here is a link that might be useful: TV Stand

There are some nice entertainment centers out there, but we need to have our TV on this wall which you can see has a window. If we had no window, we'd maybe go that route or else wall-mount. For wall-mount, probably get a pro installation to have them hide the wires. We got this one with the post mount because we did not want to risk the cats knocking into the TV. I think we got it at Circuit City, and it was not cheap, probably around $300 or so. It does swivel so if we needed to angle it or put it in a corner, we could.

LOVE the TV, and we have no regrets spending the money a couple of years ago. With the economy being bad, we can enjoy a night at home. For watching sports, it's the best. Of course, you need an HDTV package from your cable or satellite provider.

"I have to say, the light weight and low profile of the new one are very nice, not to mention the clear picture. You can actually pick it up and move it around without throwing your back out"

that part is very helpful - and safer. I finally got a flat screen monitor this past yr - wow - I can even move it to clean now! last time my other monitor was moved my gf had to come move it for me.

i do still have the old tube type tv tho. the used when I got it 13" i'd had for 11 yrs finally gave out so dbf brought me a 26" (tube type) he had sitting around his house. I do love the bigger screen! I can see it!

We bought a hand painted cabinet and put the TV on that. It has shelves inside that the "stuff" fits on. Drilled a hole in the back of the piece (I cringed) and pulled the cords out the back. Nothing shows. The downside of this is that you have to open the doors of the piece for the remote to work.

I am still looking. I finally had the carpet laid in this room last Friday, so am ready to get furniture put back in. So the pressure is on. I've been looking at antique stores, hoping I might find something I can use that has a little character. In the meantime I'm going to use my grandmother's old cedar chest. This just shouldn't be so hard! Of course my 20 year old son is pushing me to get an LCD. However he has a hidden agenda as he wants to old tube tv to take back to college. I haven't decided what to do about that either, and am thinking what I find for a stand may help me make the decision about the tv.