If you wall mounted your flat screen tv

[pixy0stix]

what did you do with your cable/satellite box?

[mrs.jacinthe]

Ours sits on the entertainment center below the TV, which is where our Wii, bluray, DVD carousel, and CD carousels sit as well. We really should consolidate better.

[pixy0stix]

We don't want anything sitting on the floor, because it would be right in front of a heat return vent.

[auroraloo]

We have ours on a bookshelf. I cut a hole in the back for cords. It's right below, but it's off the ground, there is a space between the floor and the bottom shelf, because it's also in front of a return.

[TBM]

Our coat closet is right behind the wall that our tv is on, so we converted it to a media closet and use an IR repeater that we attached to the tv. We had an outlet moved behind the tv, had one installed in the closet, and all cords can feed through the wall so there is nothing visible.

[emoflamingo]

We have a stand underneath of it. I would just get something taller that doesn't block the vent too much.

We can't hide our stuff because you have to be pointing at the box for the cable to register any changes. Annoying.

[pixy0stix]

Jul 6, 2015 10:02:52 GMT -5 emoflamingo said:

We can't hide our stuff because you have to be pointing at the box for the cable to register any changes. Annoying.

I've been looking at this, and you can get remote extenders or something where you don't need to be in line of sight.

[emoflamingo]

Jul 6, 2015 10:21:40 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Jul 6, 2015 10:02:52 GMT -5 emoflamingo said:

We can't hide our stuff because you have to be pointing at the box for the cable to register any changes. Annoying.

I've been looking at this, and you can get remote extenders or something where you don't need to be in line of sight.

Interesting! I'll have to keep that in mind when A is mobile. We can hardly get the damn remotes to work pointing it at the box but it probably just needs new batteries lol.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Jul 5, 2015 22:00:59 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

We don't want anything sitting on the floor, because it would be right in front of a heat return vent.

As long as there are legs on the furniture piece, it's fine to put in front of a return.

How many pieces are you wanting to use with the tv?  Just cable, or do you also have bluray or playstation or something?

[pixy0stix]

Jul 6, 2015 11:11:38 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

Jul 5, 2015 22:00:59 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

We don't want anything sitting on the floor, because it would be right in front of a heat return vent.

As long as there are legs on the furniture piece, it's fine to put in front of a return.

How many pieces are you wanting to use with the tv?  Just cable, or do you also have bluray or playstation or something?

Typically we only use the satellite box. If we watch a dvd (rarely) we use an xbox 360, but I don't remember the last time we did that.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Ok, so if you're just wanting to permanently attach the cable box, I'd do something like this:

with an IR extender so you can use your remote OR something like this:

[texassmith]

Could you do a floating shelf underneath, something like this? That way the air flow won't be obstructed.

[redredwine]

We have this TV stand (we also mounted our TV and had the same issue) and we put a basket on the bottom shelf where our modem and cords sit...you could set a cable box on there, too.

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[lavender444]

Jul 5, 2015 22:19:27 GMT -5 TBM said:

Our coat closet is right behind the wall that our tv is on, so we converted it to a media closet and use an IR repeater that we attached to the tv. We had an outlet moved behind the tv, had one installed in the closet, and all cords can feed through the wall so there is nothing visible.

We did this in our old house. I loved everything was totally out of sight. We don't have a closest handy in our current house, so DH ran the wires behind the drywall with boxes behind the TV and behind our media console.  

[Susie]

Media cabinet with legs:

[Rainyday]

Jul 5, 2015 22:19:27 GMT -5 TBM said:

Our coat closet is right behind the wall that our tv is on, so we converted it to a media closet and use an IR repeater that we attached to the tv. We had an outlet moved behind the tv, had one installed in the closet, and all cords can feed through the wall so there is nothing visible.

This is what we did too. Logitech Harmony remote system.
Our TV just floats on the wall with no wires, cords or boxes. The components are on a shelf in the closet.