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Articulating Plasma Flat Panel TV Wall Mount for 32 55 MP32b 1Km

With this versatile wall mount, there isn’t a bad seat in the house. The dual articulating arm, which attaches to any wall, creates the perfect viewing angle for your TV with 180 degree lateral rotation, tilt and swivel. The Articulating LCD Wall Arm supports most 32″ up to 55″ plasma TV. It folds flat against the wall or extends out up to 15″. The two-link arm design provides easy one-touch tilt and up to 180 degrees of swivel for virtually limitless viewing positions. Fits most flat panel LCD or plasma TVs up to 55″. Heavy-gauge steel construction. Lift-N-Lock design offers easy installation. Note: please check what mount your TV requires before place your order. Do not pick the mount by the screen size of your TV. Will This mount Fit my Plasma TV? First check the weight of your TV. It must be less than 135 lbs. Second, look at the back panel of your TV. TheTV has mounting holes on the back of the screen, measure the vertical and horizontal distance between the 2 holes for the wall mount. If the vertical distance is within 2.95 – 18.9 inch, horizontal distance within 30.5 inch, then this bracket will fit. If you currently have a stand attached to your LCD TV this is usually removed prior to fitting the wall mount. Third, the width of your TV should be 32″ or above. Otherwise the mount is too wide to hide behind your TV. We have a smaller tilt mount for 23″ – 37″ TV in our Amazon store. Only the mount is being sold here, the TV and the quater are for display only. They are not included.

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Not the Best
First of all, the directions for using this mount are useless. It seems as if they had a standard (non-articulating) mount that they realized no one was buying and added the arm to it. The result is instruction that don’t show the arm but just a flat panel mount.

In addition, unlike other similar mounts, the articulating arm piece that attaches to the wall uses 6 screws (2 rows of 3) which makes it impossible for all of the screws to attach to a single stud.

Moreover, when attaching the arm piece to the standard wall piece the giant flat piece of metal is highly visable and unattractive for what I would like to see in a flat panel mount.

To make matters worse, the TV can easily slide from side-to-side on this giant piece of metal, which is not only cumbersome but scary….

1 Star Crawfish
If you plan to use as a fixed screen, then it’s great,

but if you plan on using the articulate, I don’t like it one bit.

I practically gave this unit away. The horizontal piece that is screwed onto the wall (parallel to the floor) and the vertical piece that goes on next is not what I call “secure”. It is the vertical piece that takes actual “pressure” exerted by the weight of the TV and the frame, “NOT” the parallel part. The vertical piece holes are only about err 6 inches apart (left and right) so how the hell do you expect me to screw both sides onto a stud (so only one side will be screwed onto the stud) when most studs are around 16″ apart? You might think that the pressure is partially distributed to the horizontal piece, but it doesn’t (unless you meld the two pieces together, or allow the vertical piece to fit first into the wall, then apply the horizontal piece). This unit is good if you have studs that fit perfectly on the vertical bar, or mount it outside like on concrete or something where you don’t have to worry about studs.

3 Stars Flawed But Functional

This is obviously a lot cheaper than most rotating wall mounts for large flat screen TVs. To some extent, you get what you pay for, but it works reasonably well. Installation is a bit challenging due to poorly translated instructions (lots of references to “wind” nuts, which you might think means wing nuts, but there are no wing nuts). Overall, not really high quality materials or engineering either. (One of the the lag bolts broke off in my wall, but I think I’m OK with the other 7.) In particular, be aware that this unit does tend to bend a little forward, maybe 5-10 degrees, due to the weight of the TV – I managed to offset this with some washers. I was only mounting a 37″ LCD, this tilt will probably be worse with a bigger/heavier TV.

But, all things considered, at a cost of 1/3 – 1/4 of other similar mounts, not a bad deal. It doesn’t have the rotational arc of some units, but it’s plenty for most applications. Despite the design deficiencies, it seems very well secured. Once you get it installed correctly it works well and actually looks pretty good too.

4 Stars All and All good Product
Good product for the price,Delivery time slower than expected,Snapped 2 bolts driving into stud.The only other issue is that We have a 32″Toshiba and the bracket shows from behind because it is meant to fit Larger Screens as well.All and All Good product. Ken, Maine.

4 Stars Just what I wanted
I wanted to mount my LCD TV to the wall, but discovered that the TV I purchased had an unusual mount pattern. I purchased and returned two other wall mounts. This product was perfect.

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VideoSecu Full Motion Swivel Flat Panel Television LCD Plasma Tilt Wall Mount 1KM

With this versatile wall mount, there isn’t a bad seat in the house. The dual articulating arm, which attaches to any wall, creates the perfect viewing angle for your TV with 180 degree lateral rotation, tilt and swivel. The Articulating LCD Wall Arm supports most 32″ up to 55″ plasma TV. It folds flat against the wall or extends out up to 15″. The two-link arm design provides easy one-touch tilt and up to 180 degrees of swivel for virtually limitless viewing positions. Fits most flat panel LCD TVs up to 55″. Heavy-gauge steel construction. Lift-N-Lock design offers easy installation. Please check the back of your LCD to make sure if the mount fits your monitor or TV. Note: please check what mount your TV requires before place your order. Do not pick the mount by the screen size of your TV. First check the weight of your TV. It must be less than 135 lbs. Second, look at the back panel of your TV. If your TV has 4 holes or 6 holes on the back of the screen, measure the vertical and horizontal distance between the holes, as shown by the last picture. If the vertical distance is within – 18.9 inch, horizontal distance within 30.5 inch, then this bracket will fit. If you currently have a stand attached to your LCD TV this is usually removed prior to fitting the wall mount. Third, the width of your TV should be 32″ or above. Otherwise the mount is too wide to hide behind your TV. We have a smaller tilt mount for 23″ – 37″ TV in our Amazon store. This mount fits up 200- 480 mm(vertical) x 200-770 mm(horizontal) . If you have a TV which need VESA 800×400 or larger mount, this mount does not fit. IF you are not sure, please contact us with the brand name and model number, we will check for you.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Rotating Wall Mount – pretty good for the $$
This wall mount did all it was supposed to do…it keeps my 42″ tv secure and rotates around for viewing from different rooms/angles. Unfortunately I have to agree with the directions, parts, and uneven hanging criticisms. Those are minor details however, directions were terrible, but a person with any handy sense can figure it out; parts were a nightmare so we simply went to Lowes and got new nuts/bolts that worked; sits a bit uneven to the eye but our level says that it is perfectly level and it does appear to be level with certain positions of the swivel. It is ok for the money but very secure which is the most important thing!!

5 Stars Inexpensive and easy to install
This product is very easy to install and was very inexpensive compared to the ones they tried to sell me at the big box stores.

5 Stars Very Sturdy
As other reviewers have mentioned, the instructions are terrible, but good enough that you can figure out. The unit is top notch. Very sturdy. I have a Toshiba 40″ LCD on it. Very smooth movements and reasonably priced. Very Pleased.

3 Stars Clunky
This is basically a swivel mount bolted onto the to the VideoSecu wall mount bracket. Not an elegant design. Chinese/English instructions take a while to figure out, and once it’s up the swivel arm is very stiff an difficult to maneuver. The brackets bolted to the back of the TV aren’t secured to the hanging bracket, so it slides to the left and right freely. But paying $79 for a $399 wall mount, I can live with it!

5 Stars Great wall mount
Fantastic wall mount for the price, with the weight of the tv it has a slight lean to the right, but all in all it holds really securely. I had to cut the brackets however in order to hide them behind my 32″ tv.

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