Last night I retrofitted our TV cabinet so that I could mount our LCD TV on an swivel arm. When Melissa, Bill, and Dina were visiting over Easter, Bill bought me a soundbar. Thank You Bill! The only bad thing about the soundbar is that the pedistal that came with our TV didn't make the TV high enough. With the soundbar in front of it, it is not possible to control the TV because the IR sensor was covered. So to do that I had to temporarily put a little platform under the TV to raise it. Unfortunately this put the TV back a good 6-8" and made viewing from either side a little difficult.
I was fortunate to find the omni-mount at TheShack this winter on clearance for $10. Normally this TV Mount sells for about $100, but this one was a heavier model, and we had some new lightweight models. To retrofit the TV cabinet I had to install some reinforcement 2x4s along the horizontal top and bottom of the back inside of the cabinet and then attach an imitation wall stud vertically on the back of the cabinet offset so that the pre-drilled cable hole was not blocked.
I think that the TV cabinet now looks a lot cleaner, and now the TV can be swiveled for an almost straight on view of the TV no matter where you are sitting in the room. The soundbar is also not blocking the IR sensor on the TV. Now I just need to figure out what to do to use up all that empty space in the cabinet behind the TV.
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