See we are in agreement. That's what I said in post 17.......Hilarious..

Your logic is flawed. Check the posts. I merely backed up a poster's opinion and questioned the mindset that would assume anyone would give themselves a "crick in the neck". I never said I disagreed with you or anyone else, except in your imagination. If I happened to duplicate an opinion of yours, so be it: fora are like that. Why that should trigger hilarity only you can answer: I assume you're just easily pleased. Anyway, this is getting boring, although I expect you'll want the last word, however trivial............
Mike

Oh that's ok then

Only reason to mount it high is if you have the misconception that it should be mounted like a painting. You don't stand there watching a tv like you do a painting though, so it doesn't make any sense at all.

It's all down to individual taste isn't it and as others have pointed out, many rooms are not ideal for the perfect set up of audio/video equipment. Take for instance a home cinema diagram. nearly all the diagrams shown have the seating position right in the middle of the floor. My wife and I have to turn our 2 seater around to face the tv when we're watching our programs on a night time. The shape of many sitting room/lounges just isn't ideal for this kind of set up.

We have a 3 seater against one wall and the 2 seater against the opposite wall and the tv sits in a recess/alcove just behind the door. Our room is long but not very wide as we live in a flat and sitting side ways to watch the tv is a pain in the ahhhhh.

Well not entirely, ergonomics are based on standard human bodies Unless you have a 3 foot stretch neck a high mount tv is going to be bad regardless.

People just take the "picture frame" analogy too far is all, its their first flat panel, and they have to learn the lesson.

Garbage
Nothing wrong with where my tv is thank you very much.
It's above my mantle piece which may not be suitable for yourself, but it's perfectly fine for me and alot of others.

Not sure...if...serious.....

It's also based on how far you are sat, a TV positioned two thirds up the wall would be fine if the viewer was 15ft away. So without that information no one can say it's too high and not ideal, screen size also comes in to it.

I have cavases on the wall and their height would be perfect for positioning a TV, so the picture frame analogy works for me, I don't know anyone who hangs their pictures much further up the wall anyway, I would have thought they are admired sitting down just as much as a TV, don't know anyone who stands in their home viewing their paintings, a gallery would be different.

Maybe, but 15 feet seating would be a heck of a room....and then your tv would have to be absolutely enormous to make up for that kind of distance.

Just going by a fair average distance of 6-8 feet there is no way to justify a high mount though.

Well you do stand to view a painting, if only for a moment, but that is kind of the difference, you only do it for a moment and then it becomes decoration, whereas a tv requires your full attention for long periods of time.

I would have thought that the best guideline for how to position a TV set would be to use the same criteria used to position a computer monitor correctly; top of the screen at eye-level.

I'm sure you could put a TV in any position and you'd become used to it eventually. Doesn't neccesarily mean it's a smart thing to do though.

We have always had the TV on a low TV stand, about 30-35cm from the floor of course you need a 40"+ TV to accommodate this low, but a few weeks ago my autistic son launched a toy at it...

so its now mounted about 100-120cm from the floor above the mantle as its 3D passive its also tilted at 12-15 degrees downwards and it has made a massive amount of room and looks really good, i have also found taht having the extra 50cm viewing distance (55" TV) has improved the 3D viewing as well...

there is no rules only opinions.

One thing I will say is for gaming its more preferable to have it at eye level and sit as so it covers as much of your field of vision as possible..

Well they sold pedestals for many higher end crts and such back in the day, and even tv stand/av rack units today are only made to be about eye height when seated.