Clare is going to be delighted when she gets in. One, she is not super convinced about the need for a TV there. Two, um, there is no TV signal down in that room, so you can't actually watch TV on it at the moment. Three, it's a bit crooked.
I can fix all of these things! We have two spare outputs from the satellite dish for one so I could get a set top box or something. Really I am planning for it just to be a media centre though, going to put a raspberry pi on the back and have XBMC so it can play our saved TV and music from the NAS. Also the third point about it being a bit crooked is just that the angled wall mount needs a bit of adjusting, tricky to do that on my own (the boys were very little help to be honest).
It's all going to be fine.
UPDATE: It's not entirely fine. It's still up on the wall OK, but the socket by the TV just doesn't work. When we had the room done (this is the playroom garage conversion) I had one socket put high up on the wall for just such a TV mounting occasion as this. It's not been used until now, and now I find that it just doesn't work, no power to either of the sockets. So to get the TV working I have to have a cable trailing down the wall to the socket below, looking dreadful. Also right now I have no sound, not sure what's going on. I've put a xbmc raspberry pi on the TV, so I can play music and movies over the network, it's connected via hdmi and there's a "mute" icon on the screen. I can't find anything in the TV settings or the xbmc settings to get rid of it. It's not the normal TV volume mute icon as I can make that come on as well with the remote control, so it must be something else. I will be investigating now... Glad our internets have come back on, they went out for a few hours this afternoon too, could have been a very dull evening.
raspberry pi: Credit card sized super cheap computer, awesome.
xbmc: X-box Media Centre, some code that would run on an old xbox or other computer hardware to play movies and music etc. I used to talk about this a lot...
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