So the new house had a television wall mount already installed in the basement.  Also, someone was smart and made sure to install it into the studs.

My television has been sitting on it’s pedestal stand for too long. so I went and mounted it last night.

BTW, I totally love these little box-less wall plates.  They are much easier to get cables through.  I picked a double wide one because I knew I’d have a bunch of cables to cram through here.  Though in hindsight there weren’t THAT many cables and a single would have worked just fine.

I originally was just going to stick it inside the frame but the box wouldn’t fit.  Putting it below like this means it’s still hidden though so it’s not a huge deal. 

I imagine that if the box were visible then the television would be small enough that the frame itself would end up being visible anyway.  Not to mention too small for the room.

So yeah, it’s hidden.  Also there was an existing box below that had a couple of phone lines and a couple of coax wires in it.  The previous owners had DirectTV so every cable jack has a phone jack with it (Direct TV Boxes require this).  I’m not sure why there were two here.  Our DSL based TV through the phone company works a bit different so one of the coax lines was used to feed the house and the other three cables were extras. 

It also used a closed off sealed box.  Getting two HDMI cables and a VGA Cable and a hand full of composite cables through this box would be a pain so I opted to just put a flat plate over it and put in a new box.  To power the TV I simply dropped the power cable down through the holes and plugged it into the wall.

Selecting cables was a little tricky since I’m not real keen on running extra cables after the TV is up.  The TV has 4 HDMI inputs but at the moment I only need one for the Blu Ray player.  I have 4 cables but often to just drop two.  Sometimes i hook a laptop up to the TV with HDMI.  I also almost forgot to use the VGA cable.  Right now it does nothing but the office is behind this wall.  I plan to put in a VGA jack in the office so i can feed the TV with a PC (for Hulu or other video files, possibly even for Emulator gaming).

And so we have the semi final product.  No wires, nice and clean.  The console is temporary, which is “The hard part”, picking one out.  The wife said she has one picked out at K-Mart so that will look much better.  I also play to buy/build some narrower (probably 6” deep) shelving up both sides for books and movies.  Not too huge but something classy, and black.

The room also has a dimmer on the lights already, it’s a pretty kick butt movie room really, or at least it will be.