When you’re talking custom installation home cinema, one thing you have to get right before you start is the positioning of your flat TV or projector screen. Plus, if you’ve opted for a panel over PJ, and you’re serious about replicating the cinematic experience in your home, wall-mounting is a must.
An immediate problem, though, is that the majority of available wall-mount options compromise the slim nature of today’s displays by effectively adding several centimetres to the thickness of the screen when it’s fixed to the wall. This is understandable – the mount itself has to sit behind the TV, with all its fixings – but galling when you consider just how thin modern screens have become. New offerings from brands like Sony, Panasonic and Samsung are thinner than 30mm.
US brand Peerless reckons it’s come up with a solution. Its SlimLine range of ultra-thin mounts maintain the design flair of contemporary TVs by adding as little as 8,4mm to the screen depth. Peerless boasts that its SlimLine product is the world’s thinnest flatpanel mounting solution. ‘We live in a time when bigger is better and thinner is the winner,’ quips Adam Molberger, product manager for Peerless’ flatpanel mounts,.
Now Peerless has added a new range of articulating and tilting SlimLine wall-mounts, providing further flexibility to end-users and installers alike – and HCC has had a preview.
Just swivel
The ‘articulating’ SLWS250 and SLWS350 are intended for 32-46in and 37-56in screens. The arms on both mounts retract to less than 30mm and extend to 604mm on the SLWS250 and 734mm on the SLWS350. This allows full, 180-degree movement (90 degrees left and right), enabling viewing angles to be perfected.Peerless’s SLWS220 and SLWS320 tilting mounts position screens 17mm from the wall, with full-motion tilt of +17.5 and -5 degrees.
Screen adapters hook on to the wall-plate for installation. The SLWS220 extends up to 149mm from the wall, allowing access to the back of the screen, with the SLWS320 extending up to 140mm. Other key features include +/-5 degrees of roll to allow for horizontal levelling of the screen, and tool-free adjustment of +15/-5 degrees.
The SlimLine range is already getting support from some installers, Sevenoaks Swindon franchisee Trevor Farrell told HCC: They are the thinnest products on the market and create the most discrete installations; and they are incredibly quick and easy to fit.
Line up: Using a tilting wall-mount means you can get your flatscreen perfectly lined up with your viewing position
