TV install on boat

[jim rosenthal]

Almost finished with the project of installing a TV on Blue Note. Last year my friend Dean Chamberlain built a cabinet for a television, from teak and leftover Afromosia plywood. Turns out it will JUST accommodate a modern 32" flat screen television. And the wall mount for it. There is an area below for the DVD unit, and even room for a better speaker (of the bar kind, anyway)

The usual awful and uninterested service from Samsung- it appears that the new norm of customer service is nonnegotiable prices, vigorous attempts to sell you what you don't need, and complete indifference to any problems encountered after the sale is made. And I haven't even plugged it in and turned it on yet.....

However, it looks good! What was recently a space in which I kept detailing products in a work bag is now revealed in its true purpose. And perhaps I'll even get to watch some movies....

 

[ohanafun]

Hey Jim,

It would be nice to see a picture if you have one. I just replaced the old tv and went to a flat screen on a hinged arm so I can use the space behind for charts and books. The new screens are wider and don't fill the space vertically very well.

Matt
Saved by Grace
1999 50C
Ohana
1985 45C

 

[jim rosenthal]

Sure. Let me get this finished and I will put one up, or a few. It isn't real elaborate but I think it will work well.

 

[Tim Powell]

It must be tv time i just finished one in the master the original was a small portable built it it bit the dust try to find a tv 19x19 imposible
Tim

 

[Boatsb]

Its hard to find a square TV. what I have been doing lately is put larger sets either in front of the old hole or having a door made so it can mount on the door and swing out for you to get behind it. Without redoing all the cibinetry this seems to be the easiest route

 

[GJH]

For great customer service (which I just had to use for a technical question, not a defect) and quality, try Panasonic next time. Got one on the boat and one in the house now, terrific.

 

[dottieshusband]

I would say for great customer service on a TV, buy American.... Good luck with that!

 

[bobk]

I copied Waltp's cabinet design and put my Samsung on a Liftit device. See photos in my profile. It leaves the original cabinet available for a large liquor locker.

Bobk

 

[Boatnut]

Almost finished with the project of installing a TV on Blue Note. Last year my friend Dean Chamberlain built a cabinet for a television, from teak and leftover Afromosia plywood. Turns out it will JUST accommodate a modern 32" flat screen television. And the wall mount for it. There is an area below for the DVD unit, and even room for a better speaker (of the bar kind, anyway)

The usual awful and uninterested service from Samsung- it appears that the new norm of customer service is nonnegotiable prices, vigorous attempts to sell you what you don't need, and complete indifference to any problems encountered after the sale is made. And I haven't even plugged it in and turned it on yet.....


However, it looks good! What was recently a space in which I kept detailing products in a work bag is now revealed in its true purpose. And perhaps I'll even get to watch some movies....

Holy Cow, you're upset and you haven't even turned it on yet? You must have talked to one heck of a sales person. I wouldn't expect great customer service from Samsung, they aren't anywhere close to top of the line electronics. Just bought an LG here, no problems, I even called them about an unusual application of their product, and the support was great.

 

[jim rosenthal]

Actually I own three other Samsung TVs and haven't had trouble with them. This one, though, was built in a very odd way- there are four female threaded receivers molded into the back of the set which accept 8mm bolts which hold it to the wall mount rails. One receiver is next to the surface- the other three are deeply recessed. No one was able to explain why the TV was built this way, and when the sales people at BB opened up a few more, they were all like that.

It turns out this is a manufacturing defect. All of the threaded receivers are on the surface in the design, but they didn't end up there in the actual product. When all the dust settled, I just bought a bunch of different size bolts at HD to put everything together. But when I tried to explain what was going on to Samsung, I ran into the brick wall of stupidity and indifference.

Just more weirdness. I suspect the TV itself will work fine. As I mentioned, my house has three Samsung TVs that get used a lot, and they've given no difficulty.

What TVs are made in the USA? Any of them?