 Strong mount, confident in mounting hardware. |
| Review Date: October 26, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Christopher Powell, Ohio |
This mount is heavy and has a lot of strength to support heavy panels. The cable management is much better than competing products that don't even attempt to hide cables. Be careful and take your time - the covers are made of plastic and make break if you try to force them. I would have liked to see metal covers, but with appropriate installation, they work fine and Omnimount may have been trying to keep the weight of the mount down. The cantilever arms are attractive and don't look as utilitarian as a Sanus or Peerless mount. They have a distinct strong and techy look.
Installation took me an hour, but there's no reason to rush the install. A mistake in preparation just makes it take many times longer. I recommend that you make sure you have a good stud finder and then use a finish nail to test the edges of your stud location. You really want to have the lag bolts hit the center of each stud. I used a decent box level and the provided template. The mount base, once lagged onto the wall, is fairly easy. The adapter plate for the plasma attaches easily.
I'd have to say that the hardest part is to have another person able to lift half of 150lbs of plasma tv up to the mount. Thankfully Omnimount has provided a method to rest the adapter on the mount until it can be fastened tightly. I placed a level on top of the plasma after it was mounted and made a tiny adjustment using the adjustment screws to ensure the TV wasn't canted.
So order a pizza, chill the beer, and invite a buddy and make sure you start early enough to watch a game afterward.
Note: many mount instructions show diagrams with the tv screen flat against the floor when installing an adapter on the back... That's not a good idea for a TV that has "this side up" in 17 languages on the box when shipped. Put a blanket on the top edge and lean it against a wall when installing the adapter to the rear of the TV and make sure that you check for depth on your screw holes before chosing the adapter screw.
Lift with your knees ;) |
Great Mount..Poor Manual
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| Review Date: November 23, 2007 |
| Reviewer: D. Van Houten, Rancho Cucamonga, CA |
| Incredibly engineered product...instructions written by 9th graders who have never held a tool. They should honestly just put cartoon pictures in their manual, no words. Horrible website if you are trying to find info for spacer and bolting for newer lcd/plasma models not included in the list. I should have never opened the manual. If you know what you're doing, no problems. I give the mount a 5 out 5 and the instruction manual a 1 out of 5. They do include an excellent wall template for mounting. This was used for a 58" plasma. I love the product. |
Best mount on the market, hands down
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| Review Date: April 21, 2008 |
| Reviewer: J. Shaw, Chicago, IL USA |
| This product exceeded my expectations. In my opinion this is the best mount on the market that I have seen, hands down! It gives the flexibility of panning the TV left, right, up or down depending on where you or your guests are sitting or to avoid glare. It also allows the TV to extend from the wall a good 3 feet or better! The instructions are suspect. Download a better version from the Omnimount website. I was able to install it myself with the help of a friend. The dual arms mount on two studs and gives me that "warm fuzzy" when I mounted my 52" Sharp Aquos. You don't want to trust your $2,000 - $3,000 investment on a shabby mount. The best part is that I saved at least $250 with Amazon over Best Buy! I highly recommend for any 47" or larger TV |
It's Awesome
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| Review Date: July 31, 2008 |
| Reviewer: David Bell, Alabama |
To the guy who gave it 1 star... you forgot to do your homework before buying a $300 wall mount. Thats on you, not the mount. 16" studs are standard, and you can always cut out some sheetrock and make a brace.
There is a slider and slotted bolt holes so you can center the tv about 6-10 inches off the center of the studs.
After I mounted it, I fully extended it and hung my body weight from it (175 lb) before attaching the TV with no problems.
Cable management could be better.
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Overbuilt--but do you really want to save $50 on the mount for a $2000 flat panel?
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| Review Date: December 3, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Todd Stockslager, Raleigh, NC |
OK, this thing is big, it's heavy, and from the side without the TV mounted looks like the creature from Alien. But it is overbuild in all the best possible ways. I looked at it this way: I was mounting a $2,000 plasma. I didn't want to save $50 on cheaper mount.
I used it to mount a 50inch plasma that weighs about 90 pounds. The mount is rated up to 63 inches and 200 pounds, so it is comfortably oversized. Because I was mounting in an opening over a gas fireplace, I didn't have struggles with finding studs or figuring out the template. I put in my own studs screwed in place with metal L-brackets, and mounted the bracket directly to the exposed studs with the six immense lag bolts provided.
The installation was pretty straightforward. Two cautions:
--Measure your desired flat-panel height carefully before drilling. The bracket allows adjustments east and west to center in the desired position, but not north and south.
--So 90 pounds seemed light after heisting down the 180-lb 32-inch tuber I took out of the opening before installing this bracket. But plan on at least two strong men to help lift and mount the panel on the wall bracket, because the weight is very awkwardly distributed and hard to maneuver in the air--and you don't want to drop and splatter that $2000 flat panel before you even turn it on!
With those precautions, this bracket is a beauty. It feels rock solid, moves in and out and tilts, pans, and swivels with ease without ever feeling wobbly. Its hard to imagine how it could be any better--and I priced extensively before buying, and Amazon's price was easily the best at the time I bought. |
Sturdy, flexible, neat outlet cut-outs
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| Review Date: December 25, 2008 |
| Reviewer: H. Tam, Los Angeles |
PROs:
+ Great supply of misc hardware to mount for almost any size flat panel.
+ Comforting double arm support for nice pivot motion. Handy tilt function for up and down viewing angles (especially good for LCD with viewing not as great as plasma).
+ Clever +/- bolt spacing for slight stud spacing +/-.
+ Excellent mechanics with support bracket spanning evenly to pivot arm.
CONs:
- Plastic caps for metal rails are cheap and don't even fit/attach.
- Too much misc hardware left over.
- No caps to conceal wall bolts. Use same color bolts? |
Sturdy, strong, and beautiful
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| Review Date: February 12, 2009 |
| Reviewer: C. J. Gucfa, Madison, WI |
| This mount is awesome. It looks great and is super easy to install. The instructions leave a little to be desired. If I had to use this mount again, I could get the tv and the mount installed in a third of the time now that I know what I am doing. It is adjustable on every axis - tilt, in and out, side to side and rotation. I was a fraction off when I put the mounting plate onto the wall. I was able to make the slight correction by rotating the tv slightly up or down. This insures the user, even with a small error, that the tv will be perfectly square to the viewer. My wife and I were easily able to lift our new Samsung 52 lcd onto the mounting bracket and secure it. Great product, would recommend to anyone even those who are not all that mechanically inclined. |
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