Now once a technology matures, people start inventing add-ons which sometimes are sensible, and sometimes less so... With flat-screen televisions, at the forefront of making them move were the Australians, who faced with strong sunlight ( whatever THAT is - does anyone remember ? ) and a determination to sit outdoors with a Fosters, devised the idea of televisions that rotate in the horizontal plane.

Now this -the TV that hides in the ceiling :

http://www.instructables.com/id/TV-L...eiling-System/

So is this a good idea or not ? Does your house insurance and TV insurance cover it ?

Now I don't have a TV, so I'll just have to hide a picture of a TV in my ceiling, but maybe you have thoughts on the idea !

Happy viewing !

Products to do this have been available for quite a while now. I have been using a company called Future Automation for the last 7 years where customers of mine wanted TVs or projectors to be hidden when not in use. TTBOMK the company has been going for at least 15 years.

Their product is very much at the Rolls Royce end of the engineering spectrum, so it is pricey gear but the quality and reliability is without equal. They supply a lot in to the super-yacht market which says a lot about the durability of what they make. Here's some of their ceiling products: http://www.futureautomation.co.uk/TV.../Ceiling-Hinge

There's room in the market for DIY solutions. I'm not sure everyone would be so happy to have a 30+cm tall tiered box hanging off their ceilings, but it's certainly one solution where there isn't wall space for a flat-mounted TV.

They've had them in caravans and motorhomes for about a decade now.

You can't get Fosters in Australia any more.