http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/ Engadget HD Comments for Flat panel TVs at the heart of furniture accidents http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/May 19th 2009 7:07AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/May 19th 2009 7:33AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/May 19th 2009 8:48AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/May 19th 2009 9:53AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/May 19th 2009 11:12AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/May 19th 2009 11:47AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/May 19th 2009 12:14PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/
RPs are just child killers and a pain for everyone else that has to move them. To top it off the picture is tiny.]]>May 19th 2009 2:07PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/May 19th 2009 2:09PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/May 19th 2009 5:23PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/May 19th 2009 5:26PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/However, you really need to cut away some drywall to make sure your lag bolts are centered in the wall studs. Digital stud finders can easily be off by 3/4", and on a 2" wide stud, which is really 1 5/8" wide, that kind of error makes for a potentially deadly wall mount failure.]]>May 19th 2009 10:45PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/
I have seen pictures of like heavy duty HDTV stands with Glass Shelfs that the weight limit should have easily not been a problem, and yet with no one around, just shatter into pieces. I saw the picture and the display dropped straight down and didn't hurt the HDTV, but pieces of glass in the hardware that was down below. So watch out for that also.

If I had small kids around and my HDTV was just sitting on a stand with it's own mount, I'd have a safety cable mounted onto the back of it for sure. Tall and Narrow, be it a HDTV, or a bookcase, whatever can and do tip over. ]]>May 20th 2009 2:13AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/05/19/flat-panel-tvs-at-the-heart-of-furniture-accidents/
Alex Johnson uses a graphic example of a *CRT* falling on a little girl. Not a flat panel. A CRT. I'm not saying it can't happen - my 42 in plasma is screwed to the TV stand it sits on. But there is no link in the article between flat panels and injuries, just the aforementioned illustration of what happens when a CRT falls on a little person.

There were no flat panel TVs in 1990, or am I the only one that remembers that? Sorry, Sharp had a 13 inch that was wall mountable. I'm sure it wrecked horrible carnage in it's day.

In fact, you'd have to travel through time about 10 years to start seeing any appreciable flat panel TV statistics.

Alex's article says more about the proliferation of CRT TVs and the damage they can cause, than of flat panel statistics, which are mentioned *nowhere* in the article.

In fact, I know less about the issue now than BEFORE reading the article.

Although, I suppose that had the article been titled "Falling Obsolete CRT TVs a Growing but Soon to Diminish Threat to Kids" would simply have confused people.

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