I am totally inept when it comes to installing things, so I am just curious in what steps I should do this.
Right now in my family room we have a 40 inch TV that I want to move into a room without a TV connection set up (I.e., cable wires etc). We want to replace the 40 inch one in the family room with a 50 inch one. The 40 inch is now wall mounted on a regular mount. What I was wondering, first will the 50 inch tv fit on the 40 inch mount (there is no issue with space limitations to either side of the tv). Second, in what steps should I proceed, Should I get the 50 inch tv first, then call the mount guy to mount the old 40 incher in the room that currently has TV and put the 50 inch tv on the old mount where the 40 inch tv was and then call the cable company to set up the wires? Is that a sensible or best way to proceed? Just curious how if anyone has a good gameplan for my situation because I am totally lost with this type of stuff (among other things). I know there are some really handy people on this website and would appreciate any inpute--thanks in advance.
In that case, your first step wold be to remove the old TV (;>
There only 2 wires that should be involved - a cable wire that goes to your cable box and an HDMI that goes from your box to your TV (so really only 1 cable needed for your TV).
As for the mount, take the tv down, unbolt is with a phillips head screw driver, attach the bracket to your 50" TV and just measure how far apart they are to make sure it will fit on the already installed wall bracket.
This shouldn't take you more than 10/15 minutes.
Thank you to all for the suggestions; yes this is my core problem. Since I am definitely not going to do this on my own (I am too inept to do so no matter how easy it is), who should I call first, the cable guy to run the cable into that room and then the mount guy to mount it, or vice versa or it doesn't matter?
I misread the OP, I took it as you were swapping TVs and just doing smart features on your existing TV.
Who’s your provider? Active and Frontier offer wireless cable service for the secondary boxes.
I misread the OP, I took it as you were swapping TVs and just doing smart features on your existing TV.
Who’s your provider? Active and Frontier offer wireless cable service for the secondary boxes.
Its spectrum. Thanks again.