Get A Good Stand Or Bracket For Your TV?
Get
a good stand. You need to consider the obvious things like sharp
corners and if it matches your room decoration but also this as well.
Is the stand physically suitable? I.e. Is it strong enough, wide
enough, deep enough and stable enough. Most importantly get a stand
that is either supplied specifically by the manufacturer or a stand
that specifically states your TV size/weight as being suitable.
Not only because you don't want to be woken up by a fifteen hundred
pound crash in the middle of the night or of course have any of your
family injured but because your insurance company will not pay out that
amount of money without a home visit. And they will look for any way to
avoid paying you. If the stand is not specifically and categorically
suitable they will almost certainly deem it was used negligently or was
not damaged during normal use.
As an aside I was at a conference to do with electrical equipment and
the speaker made a joke. He was using the joke to get across to his
audience how a large screen TV is the pride and joy of many homes and
is replacing the fancy HI-FI as the item to get better than 'the
Jones'. But he asked this question(he asked it. I am not asking it).
“If your 3 year old was falling off the TV stand at the same
moment as your 42 inch LCD (or Plasma) and you could only catch one
thing! What would you catch?”
Now I am sure all you family guys are saying, “stupid
question” but ask somebody with a shiny new 52 inch Sony Home
Cinema and see there eyes look upwards towards there forehead. This is
a sign that they had to think about it. Maybe only for a brief moment,
but they DID have to think about it.
