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Dave Taylor here and as a film critic
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and fan of modern media I watch a lot of
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content on my television from airplay to
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chromecast Netflix to Amazon Prime video
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heck I run my own plex media server
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there's always content to watch thing is
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my TV sits on a stand and points right
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at the center of the couch and that's
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boring so I've decided I'm gonna upgrade
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I'm gonna move my TV over my fireplace
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as you can see I have a nice big mantel
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have to move the painting but it'll be
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plenty of space for my 55 inch TV now
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when you put a TV over your fireplace
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you have a big lurking danger and that's
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heat which is why I've chosen a mantel
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mount and you'll see after it's
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installed I'll show you they have an
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ingenious way to make sure your TV
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doesn't get any heat damage at all and
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the other thing that's cool about this
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it's the mantel amount mm 540 and it's
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gonna let me not only pull my TV out but
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down and then tilt it at different
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angles to get the perfect viewing angle
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now to be fair I'm not gonna do the
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installation myself I have listen up a
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Boulder Colorado based home theater
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company on their way so let's watch them
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do the install and then I'll show you
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how the mantel mount works because I
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have a well built house they're going to
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be able to install the mantel mount mm
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540 bracket directly to the wall it'll
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have enough freedom of motion that we'll
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be able to pull the TV directly forward
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and swivel it over 35 degrees in either
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direction we'll also be able to stop the
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TV at any position along the travel
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all at the lightest touch whoo I wasn't
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sure how this installation would go but
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as you can see listen up did a great job
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I'm really excited about the new mantel
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mount so let's give it a whirl first off
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the easy and most obvious pull it
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forward and it comes down you get to a
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perfect viewing angle that's great now
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what's even better is that my girls like
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to watch TV while they're working in the
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kitchen which is over there so the
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ability to actually twist it and and
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actually get it to be at the angle you
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want is fantastic that's gonna make a
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big difference for us and I'm really
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excited about that but the mantel mount
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this is the MM 540 remember also has
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some other neat tricks up its sleeve one
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of which is that it's actually made with
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really high-quality metal and automotive
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pistons and everything and so it has a
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really smooth feel to it it's really
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strong and even more important and I
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don't know if you can tell it has an
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auto leveling feature which is huge
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because I can tell you if it was even
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one degree off when I pulled it out it
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would drive me up the wall but it's
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called a mantle mount for a reason let's
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go ahead and put it back up and notice
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it just centers itself and puts itself
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all in the right place but the reason
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it's called a mantle mount is because
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they also have a heat sensitive metal
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handle and that's what's here so I'm
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gonna switch to a close-up and you can
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see we're gonna test it and see if it
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actually reacts to heat what it should
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do is turn orange let's find out as you
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can see the metal used is heat sensitive
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and will immediately alert you that the
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space is getting dangerously hot that's
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great because you can deal with the
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problem before you damage your
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television that's just smart design now
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my new mantle mount is a success and I
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am ready to kick off my shoes and catch
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up on my latest Netflix binge watch and
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I'll catch you in my next video
