Philips LCD wall installation with AV shelves

Finished AV shelves provide a tidy solution to house audio visual equipment on the wall for this home installation in London.

AV shelves and LCD wall mounting

Wall mounting bracket for LCD flat screen Philips screen was mounted along with Audio visual shelve unit wall chase to hide cables from sky and power .

Plasma and LCD screens mounted on plasterboard and stud walls

We fitted 4 screens today in London. A Pioneer 50" and a 40" LCD Samsung, both on a plasterboard wall. All the cables such as HDMI had already been chased, and hidden into the wall.

A Panasonic screen was mounted using an articulated arm bracket on a stud wall. This would normally be a problem because of the lack of a secure fixing but as the screen was light coupled with being able to locate a central stud with our detector it was possible.

The fourth screen was a 42" Samsung plasma TV screen which was mounted on chimney breast with just surface mounted cables in trunking. We also had to extend the Sky cables. This plasma screen was fitted on a tilt bracket to help extend the viewing angle.

Pioneer to stop making plasma panels

Recent claims suggest that in favour of sourcing plasma panels through a third-party, this may only be the start of changes taking place at Pioneer. It’s now being said that the company is finalizing plans to out source the whole lot.

Last week, Japanese newspaper Asahi reported that Pioneer is looking to buy 46in and smaller plasma display panels from Matsushita Electric Industries, owner of the Panasonic brand, or from Hitachi.

A spokesperson for Pioneer later confirmed that the company is reviewing its plasma display business because of poor sales performance.

Japanese publication Nikkei, citing company sources, today claimed that Pioneer is finalising plans to buy in all sizes of plasma panels and shut down one of its three plasma production sites in Japan this year.

Pioneer hasn't confirmed either claim yet. It looks as though LCD may be winning the plasma vs LCD war.

Vogel's Electric Wall Mount for Plasma and LCD screens

You can control all your Audio Visual equipment with a remote. Why not control the movement of your TV screen, too? The Glider™, is suitable for large and extra large screens and comes with a stylish small remote control that turns your TV screen 45 degrees left or right for the optimal viewing angle.

The Glider™ is unique in many ways. It moves like no other wall support on the market, gliding along the wall while turning at the same time in a impressively fluid and efficient motion. It features soft-start en soft-stop for safety and style, as well as user-programmable pre-sets for often used viewing angles. Another great feature is the auto-home function: the Glider™ senses when the TV is switched off and will return to the wall automatically! Suitable for 42-60'' screens. This wall mount is suitable for wall mounting fitting of most manufacturers of plasma and LCD screens.

London office LCD screen AV installation

Master AV Services brief for this large office installation was to fit 14 screens in total.

• One 42" Samsung plasma in the lobby to be used for company presentations.
  
• 42"LG plasma in board room on ceiling mount.
  
• Two 32" Sharp LC32X20E LCD TV s in gym area.
  
• One 42" LG plasma in relax area.
  
• The rest of the screens were mounted on trading floor. These 9 were, 42" Sharp LCDAquos on tilt wall brackets. These screens were mounted on supporting pillars.
  

All screens were fed with a digital Freeview aerial and RF feeds from two Sky boxes located in comms room. The screens in the lobby and board room were fed via cat6 from a PC in the comms room where we converted the VGA output from the PC to CAT6 and reversed the process at the screen end back to VGA. Aerial and sky RF were distributed from 16 way aerial amplifier and combiner this allowed separate control via sky eyes located on screens.

Toshiba LCD and home cinema installation

This Toshiba LCD and home cinema installation involved chasing all the cables into the wall on the chimney breast. All the equipment

• Sky HD
  
• AV receiver, Denon AV-3808
  
• PS3
  

were located in the next room. Speaker package was Antony Gallo, Gallo Nucleus Micro Speaker Pack.

All the equipment was controlled via a remote relay. This clever device receives IR signals and converts them to RF. They can then past through walls up to 30M. The IR receiver which sits close to the Audio Visual equipment converts the signal back to IR which then controls the AV receiver etc. Speakers were fitted up at ceiling level. This wasn't our recommendation but instructed by the client. The walls were then plastered to undercoat finish ready for decoration.