An Engineer's View

Football on the wall this season?  I hope so.  We have finally decided to get a wall mount high definition television (HDTV).  The price points are amazing right now.  We stopped by Sears with some idea of the dimensions over our fire place mantle.  Even with written down measurements, we still had a hard time visualizing how the various available flat panel HDTV sizes would look in our home.  So we wrote down some of the actual box measurements for several screen sizes and taped sheets of paper to the wall, just like shingles.  The smaller units did look good, but the paper models helped us rule out smaller sized.  Here it is…
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