EarlofBarnet
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Registered: 26th Mar 04
Location: West Cumbria
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I'm thinking of getting a flat screen TV, probs a LCD one. What the fcuk happens to any wires that normally go in to the TV? The pictures I've seen of people mounting them on the walls, shows no power wire, or sky or anything going to the TV. How does this work? Does the TV run on batteries and you somehow infra red the Sky to it?
Also, whats the crack with HD? There is something to do with 500 and better specced ones are 1000... I might get a PS3 in March so would prefer the 1000 (whatever it means) to get the best from it.
Any help much appreciated! 
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p4uls corsa
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Registered: 2nd May 05
Location: BRADFORD
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wires go into the wall [behind the plaster]
u would want a tube running down ur wall for wires to run down and then plaster over it
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EarlofBarnet
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Registered: 26th Mar 04
Location: West Cumbria
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Sounds a bit of a ball ache. Thought there would be a fancy way of doing it. Might wait until I decorate the lounge then. Gutted 
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Colin
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
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You can put trunking onto the wall to tidy them if digging into the plaster isnt an option!!
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Aaron
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Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
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You can get a special paint that you put on the cables which makes then invisible....
Where else did you think they went apart from behind the wall????
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C2RL R
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Registered: 28th Mar 02
Location: Redcliffe, QLD
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ha ha, battery powered tv!!! thats ace. Yeah put them in the wall or just in trunking until you decorate. Ask in geek day about the HD and TV specs.
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Russ 200sx
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Registered: 29th Dec 05
Location: Bagillt - Flintshire
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I did mine when i first moved in whilst there was no paper on the walls so i made the mess of knocking plaster off and putting the trunking in the wall then filling over with plaster before i decorated the wall, you cant even tell the wires are there 
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EarlofBarnet
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Registered: 26th Mar 04
Location: West Cumbria
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I thought that you could run the Sky through infra-red, like the senders that you get so you can watch it on an upstairs TV without running a cable. Not sure what I thought people did with the power though.
I'll wait until I come to decorate the lounge, can sort it out then.
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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My dad's setup has all the wires going into the chimney breast under the tv, then comping out at the bottom on the right hand side to the equipment rack. My mum's is the same for the speaker cable, but for some reason the guy who installed it put up trunking and ran all the cables fro the tv through that. If I was there to do it myself I would have just run them all through the wall, but i guess it doesnt look too bad cos shes got picture rail up the whole way round and the trunking is the same size and in the place there the rail was, so it blends in, you can just about make it out.
If you arent forturnate enough to have a chimney breast to run cables through, you can just chip out a channel in the wall, trunking inside that to protect the cables, then plaster over the top and repaint it
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sinkyboy1
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Registered: 16th Feb 07
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friend of mine has brought some trunking to go up the centre of the wall to the tv then sprayed it with stone fleck. looks good.
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