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Why do all the new TVs expect me to have a platform AS WIDE as the fucking thing?? Fucking shit!! God awful absolutely dumb thoughtless design choice

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨_number8_@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Mitchie151@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Centre stands need to be way more sturdy to hold it up. You can buy aftermarket VESA centre stands though if you can’t wall mount it.

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    • alvvayson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This right here.

      The TV comes with the cheapest removable feet, because VESA mounts exist.

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      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And considering the cost and relative light weight, are more or less a requirement

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    • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep OP went with a cheap brand, what did he expect.

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      • orphiebaby@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Samsung and everyone else does it too.

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    • vanontom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly. I think an aftermarket VESA mount is pretty much required these days for modern TVs, that’s the bad news. The good news is that there are plenty of options (center base, wall, swivel, etc), some very affordable, and they should last for multiple TV generations (check VESA pattern, weight limits).

      But I get that these tiny, wide feet can be mind boggling at first, since TVs all used to have center stands for decades. Finally, TVs got too large, the cost savings and stability from two tiny feet won out over the alternative of the large, heavy single center base.

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  • Ab_intra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be honest they think that people plan ahead for something like this…

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    • OhmsLawn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And not have the TV hanging out in space to be knocked over.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They don’t expect you to have a stand at all. They expect you to buy a separate wall mount piece and mount it directly on the wall.

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    • Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      they expect you to know the lengh of your own table that’s why they put the lengh on the site, also, the legs are already short, how OP expext the TV to be stable with it even shorter??

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      • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can make a stable mount without legs as wide as the TV. I have two 27in, 1440p monitors, which both came with stands that were probably 30% as wide as the monitors themselves. However, the stands were weighted and primarily steel (I’m assuming it was steel anyway) with a plastic shell. A TV doesn’t need a wide base unless the company that made it is cheaping out and refuses to spend the money to make a weighted base.

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      • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If my 75" TV can have a small center stand under it there’s no excuse for smaller tvs to have extra wide stands.

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    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I will never mount a TV on the wall. That shits annoying.

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      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        How is it annoying? I try to wall mount every TV because then I can move it around or angle it easily and it looks 100x better than hanging halfway off a bedside table.

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      • jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        you must not have kids or animals

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  • lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can’t help you but I love this post.

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  • RangerJosie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Get a universal wall mount.

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The wider the TV gets, the more stable a two-feet-at-the-ends design becomes compared to a single central foot.

    Plus if you need anything else, VESA mounts are super-standard and you just get whatever you need then use it on every Tv you buy.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have my tv mounted on a VESA monitor arm.

      The sloped design made it a bit hard to attach the plate but it worked well enough.

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  • 1337@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have that same TV (50"). They know what they’re doing

    • The TV is so flimsy, I don’t trust it with a narrower stand.
    • Making a stand like this means the TVs can have the same stand parts for all sizes.
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  • Tygr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Stand measurements are right on the box! They expect you to read them. 🤣

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  • VulKendov@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Its recommended that the surface that you put your TV on be a couple inches wider than your TV.

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    • Kerrigor@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Only because they made the stand that wide 🙄

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      • wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        because the TV is that wide.

        not sure what you expect them to do about it.

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      • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A wider base footprint is inherently more stable.

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  • electric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I actually just bought a Sansui TV that almost wouldn’t have fit the desk but it had 2 sets of places where the legs could be attached, so I just attached them to the inner ones. Welcome change. Not sure how uncommon it is since I’ve only owned like 5 TVs and most just had the little circular base in the middle instead.

    The legs being so far out is maybe since manufactures found it to be the most stable places for the skinny leg designs they use now. So yeah, cost cutting measure probably.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Putting a giant TV on a tiny stand is not normal… Be mildly infuriated at yourself, not the manufacturer

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  • Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You should seek a therapist

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or buy a wooden board. People with large TVs can afford a fence board.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Kitty is probably over in !cats being like “mildly infuriating…. Human is ignoring me for a flimsy idiot box…. And it’s meal time!”

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    • DonPiano@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, it’s orange, so it’s probably not thinking at all.

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      • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lasagne

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        that’s so rude. you realize, of course, that orange cats only have one brain cell each, it looks like it’s shared because that cell is quantum entangled with every other orange brain cell. So it’s not that the one cell gets passed around, rather its that all orange cats are thinking the same thought at the same time.

        and it’s usually “i’m hungry.”

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s way cheaper to produce such stands (they can be way less sturdy).

    Also stop wide-shaming your perfectly nice 32" cat.

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  • DanteFlame@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They want you to stop being poor and get better furniture if you want a big tv

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  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They think everyone wants to mount them to the wall now, the legs are like the cheapest possible “courtesy” they’re willing to include. It’s super annoying, I really don’t want the thing on my wall with a bunch of wires hanging down

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    • siban@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well put cable management pipes under it to hide them

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    • ComradeBunnie@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d actually love to wall mount but as a renter, not possible.

      Currently living with elderly family and she also won’t have a bar of a wall mount.

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  • guacupado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m curious what picture you saw that made you think the legs would be any different.

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  • Scrof@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The cat is not impressed, yeah.

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  • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    you bought a cheap TV on black Friday, what did you expect?

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  • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t buy TCL if you want a nice stand included.

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  • Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No idea but cute cat

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  • pipe01@lemmy.pipe01.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Chill

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  • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Agree. I’m canvassing for a 65” TV and I need to include the entertainment stand in the budget because it won’t fit on the current one I have for my 43”.

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  • Pistcow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Usually, It’s to distribute the weight. Cheaper brands won’t put the weight in the base needed.my LG oled came with a massive but narrow base. I mounted to the wall with a pull and tilt mount and sold the base on offer up for $50.

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  • Zellith@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If feet at the edge of the tv (done for stability) is a stupid design, what would you do differently?

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  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My 2008 Samsung had a great center stand. My new TCL has those little feet. Solution is spend another $30 or so on a center stand.

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  • DudeDudenson@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Everyone’s talking about it being stable, but what’s the benefit in stability from having the legs a couple of inches off the end compared to having them halfway from the center to the end?

    I don’t think it would be worse in any way and it would allow the TV’s to stand on smaller surfaces

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