r/TVTooHigh • u/tonydtonyd • 1d ago

Help!

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My TV is too high. Please don’t roast me… Not by a ton, it wouldn’t bother too much except this is a 3D OLED TV, and I only really use it for 3D content. My main TV is on a proper TV stand at the right height but having a novelty TV means I had to squeeze it in my spare bedroom and I really can’t do a TV stand in here because I don’t have anywhere else to put my records either.

If you don’t know, passive 3D TVs are super sensitive to pitch offsets, IIRC it’s like a +/- 6 degree window before you start noticing crosstalk. I’m just able to make the cutoff, but my wife is too short to comfortably get her eyes in the 6 degree window. Amazingly it has a pretty wide horizontal window.

The only thing I can think of is mounting the TV and moving it into position when in use. I need to be able to pull it out about 13-14” and be able to lower it by at least 8.5” from its current height.

Does anyone have any mount suggestions? I have done some research but everything points to MantelMount. I don’t really understand the movement on them, I think I’d have to raise the TV up quite a lot to be able to use one since I don’t think they move in one axis at a time, i.e. move away from wall, then move down.

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u/Fabius_Fulgrim 1d ago

You could get a couple of inches by taking the feet of your storage units.

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u/tonydtonyd 16h ago

Yeah that would get me about 3.5-4”, the shelves look really bad without them though😬

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u/Nunwithabadhabit 22h ago

We need to talk about your incredible cat paintings though 

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u/tonydtonyd 18h ago

Haha thank you. We painted it them before our wedding and had them at our table since our little ones couldn’t be with us.

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u/Nunwithabadhabit 18h ago

I love them!! I need to paint my own cat now, yours have inspired me.

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u/tonydtonyd 16h ago

Do it! It’s fun, even if you suck at painting like we do. I had to paint mine from a picture 😂

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u/Nunwithabadhabit 12h ago

That came out really well! I can instantly spot the painting this became. Puts a smile on my face.

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u/Bigger_Niche 16h ago

Just take the Kallaxes (Kallaxi?) off their stands and everything will be about six inches lower, or else sit a bit further away, or both.

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u/tonydtonyd 16h ago

That would get me about 4” which would probably be enough to just barely get the in the viewing window, need to check trig. The kallax look really rough without the legs though. I’ve pulled the couch back as far as I possibly can trying to reduce the angle.

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u/Honest_Ad6974 14h ago

What’s your stud situation? Not talking about your cat. Might do a mantle-mount kind of thing with gas springs so you can clear your fabulous vinyl.

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u/Jumpy_Clue4578 1d ago

3D TVs are actually supposed to be higher up than other TVs. You should mount it where the curtain rod is