Hiding wall-mounted TV cables

[Teho]

A not so nice looking alternative would be to just run a single length of plastic conduit down the wall. You would be able to see it, but it would hide the cables.

Seconding this, it's the only thing that'll do the trick. They exist in various sizes, so won't necessarily be that ugly. Any place that stock all kinds of building material will have them, or you could go straight to an electrician's outlet.

[J T]

The Panny Z1 plasma from last year had a wireless tuner-AV box but the whole set up was hideously expensive. Lovely picture on a big, thin screen though.

Personally I think stands are better as you can easily hide the cables nicely behind and the tele is at a nice height already. Sometimes wall mounts are put up way too high.

If it must go on the wall I'd favour making a channel too. It's not too hard to do. Failing that you could fanny about mounting an HTPC behind the plasma and streaming to it but a) it's a faff and b) you've still got to get power (and other) cables up there.

[Harrison]

There are a lot of nice looking stands around to sit one on. Quite a few have cable management to hide them. My parents recently bought a large 50" Panasonic with glass stand and that has a central column down the rear centre with outlets on each shelf. Looks good.

[Tiago]

I had a similar situatino in my bedrom, 2 meters of cables that would go to the balcony, i didn't like that, so i break to wall 5/6 cm deaph and put some cable enclosers inside, that rebuild the 5/6 wall. It gives a bit of work, but when it's done, it look nice.