As mentioned previously, our house has four televisions. In the interests of saving space and streamlining the look of two of our bedrooms, I have been considering upgrading our televisions to flat panel lcds and raising them higher than the dresser tops they reside on currently. I know it’ll take us a while to save enough money to replace the two televisions, but I like to be prepared so I started browsing websites to get price ranges now.

I don’t know what make or model of television we’re going to get, but I know it will be a flat panel. Until I was asked to review the AV Now website I never had any idea that there are so many different styles of tv wall brackets, and that there’s something available for every price range. I found the AV Now website to be very helpful and well put together.

The AV Now website sells so many different brackets I thought I’d be confused. Fortunately, the folks at AV Now split everything up into categories including flat to wall brackets, tilting wall brackets and pull out or tilt & turn brackets. The site also carries other related items including TV stands, trolleys, desk mounts and ceiling mounts. Last, but certainly far from least, AV Now carries a large number of cables, accessories & aerials.

One of the popular items on the site is the GD20 bracket which is a universal, adjustable wall mount bracket for 14-22 inch lcd monitors. As is the case with most of the products AV Now carries there is a picture of the bracket. There are tabs containing product features and specifications that tell you everything about the product that you could want to know. For example, this bracket pivots, swivels and tilts. It can hold up to 22.05 pounds, tilts up to 140 degrees, swivels up to 120 degrees and has a security screw to hold the monitor in place. It comes with a ten year warranty and is VESA standard compliant.

When I saw VESA standard compliant I didn’t know what it meant. I wasn’t left wondering for long, because AV Now offers an extensive section of helpful articles on popular topics including standards and cables. What I consider to be the best feature on AV Now is the bracket finder. All you need to do is enter the model television you have and it finds the right bracket for you. It doesn’t get easier than that!

I give AV Now a thumbs up. They’ve been in business since 2002 and are only partner with the best manufacturers and suppliers to ensure quality and customer satisfaction.

Did you ever notice those tv commercials where they offer to teach you how to make lots of money by working from your home part time? They usually have an 800 number, and a guy driving a convertible, and a couple saying how much money they’ve made. Well I noticed that commercial on a couple of times in the past week or two but I think the name and phone numbers were different in one or two of them. That made me wonder if there was such a thing as tv commercial affiliate programs. You know, like internet affiliates where people sign up and all use the same banners but this would be using the same commercials.  I’ve only seen this with work from home programs, never with land auction or repossessed car commercials. Am I the only one that’s wondered about this?

I’m always fascinated by the different homes and living spaces on television. When I’m watching a show I always find myself wondering if the set has been recycled from another show, or if an exterior was used in anything else. One of my favorite interior sets was from a television show I watched for all ten years from beginning to end, 7th heaven. I would love a house laid out like that. What a lot of people might not know is that the exterior shot shown in the pilot is of a real house in California that was used in a number of movies including Risky Business, the Babysitters Club and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. One of the giveaways that it was the same house were the columns on the front of the house (although I do now know if they were fiberglass columns or not). What’s your favorite tv show home interior set?