u/symean

I recently posted about wall mounting and have some ideas. While on the track of figuring out fixed v tilting and how wide and where I want it positioned, I have realised something about the port access and VESA hole positions.

On a Bravia 7 85” (seems to be the same for the B5 from what I’ve seen), the VESA mount is quite low, with the top holes being roughly in the middle of the tv’s height.

The ports start just below that level, and extend down half the way to the bottom of the tv.

Most of the mounts I’ve looked at will unhook from the bottom with pull tabs while remaining ‘hooked’ on the top, allowing you to swing the bottom of the tv out, as many advertise, for ‘easy port access’.

However those wall mounts all seem to place the top VESA holes close to where it will pivot. So for every inch you pull the bottom of the tv out, the top of the tv moves in toward the wall an inch. In fact most of them have the top mount hole ABOVE where it pivots, so the top of the tv moves in more than an inch.

This basically means given the depth of most fixed mounts, I can only pivot the tv out at the bottom a small distance - barely enough to reach the bottom most cables with my hand, and not enough to reach most of them higher up (and closer to the wall) at all.

I don’t like the idea of having to ask a neighbour over to help us change a cable (two lifting the tv entirely off the mount and one fussing with cables). I also don’t like the ‘extending’ mounts as their minimum distance to the wall is double or triple that of a fixed mount.

A fixed mount with much longer vertical bars, allowing the tv to hang far lower than the wall mounted part, would move the pivot point up so the bottom of the tv would swing out more, but I can’t seem to find one.

I could just buy extra cables for every port and plus EVERYTHING in once, so I hopefully never have to deal with it again, but that doesn’t sit right with me.

Interested in people’s experiences specifically regarding port access and wall mounting with these big monster TVs.

Cheers :)

We are a cybersecurity company that had staff using all kinds of assistant apps according to what they liked the best or what they thought worked best for them. A couple months ago, after a few (literally) people asked for a basic subscription upgrade (me to the lowest paid version of ChatGPT, someone else wanted Claude, and so on), one of our security team decided we needed 'for security' to standardise on one platform that they could monitor and control. So everyone got M365 Copilot Premium.

I've been using it quite a bit and honestly, the free version of ChatGPT was better. I hit limits far less often, but I'm using up credits or tokens or whatever by repeating myself or clarifying what I wanted or telling the chat bot it is just plain wrong. It flat out argues with me that I'm wrong when it's regarding a snippet of code for a platform I have 20 years experience on, and the answer is all over the web.

Then there's the supposed advantage of integration with MS apps and data. Don't get me started on the bloody Copilot pop-ups EVERYWHERE the moment they enabled it for all users, I eventually hid or disabled all of that so now the app just sits there quietly until I choose to use it. What amazes me is stupidly simple requests it can't get right. Like asking it to provide a table it just generated in a format I can copy-paste directly into Excel (keeping all the row and column structure), it literally replies with 'Sure, here's a Copy-paste version that's Excel-ready'. I copy and paste it, completely messed up!

Of course it is quick to apologise and say 'of course you're right, here's the right answer', but it also gaslights me, like suggesting my previous table (which it generated) had inconsistent values or could be simplified.

I felt like I had a good handle on how to ask questions, at least I did with ChatGPT. Be clear, use the right terminology, provide an example, no room for ambiguity...usually get a spot-on answer. But with this thing it's like talking to child sometimes, having to repeat myself or argue back and forth or clarify what I want more and more and more until I'm at the point where it would have been easier to just google it and piece it together.

Don't get me wrong it still saves me time (sometimes) but it's highly unreliable in that regard - I often find myself wondering, while typing a prompt, if it's really going to be quicker. NGL on several occasions I've just used ChatGPT on my personal computer and emailed the end result to my work email to use!

Haven't done a survey but some close team members generally agree. If this is the average user experience company-wide they're wasting their money. I hope it gets better.

Rant over! Time for a gin. Tonight will be mixing it with some Mandalorian 'mystery flavour' Galactic Lemonade and a slice of some citrus thing that's been growing in our back yard - possibly a 'calamondis' if ChatGPT is right, and I'm sure the outcome will still please me more than whatever Copilot can serve up 😛

Just got our Bravia 7 85”, quick setup and test playing some 4K YouTube and it looks amazing! For anyone wondering about reflections (seems to be a lot of talk about it), I’m coming from a 9500G (might be called 950G in other markets) and it’s better - not by a huge margin, but it reflects slightly less and it blurs the reflections slightly more. I was never bothered by the older tv so I’m happy.

Anyway, next step is wall mounting. Started going down the rabbit hole of spacing from the wall (big gap, easier for cabling versus slimmer gap, harder for cabling), weight ratings, built in cable clips, etc. Do I plug in all cables now (including HDMIs I’m not using, USB male to female extensions, etc) even if I’m not using them immediately to avoid having to get the tv off the wall later?

I’m looking for real world experiences of people who have mounted a Sony monster this big. What did you use? What did you plan for that made life easier later on? What do you wish you’d done differently?

Love to hear or see what you did. Cheers :)

Loved it. After being traumatized by Game of Thrones and some other shows that go out with a whimper, Stranger Things left me feeling really good about how it ended.

It had it all for me: big final battle, mum getting revenge, teamwork, lots of close calls, surprise twists, sad death, happy endings for everyone.

Well done, it was an amazing show. The combination of sci-fi, horror and the whole 70s/80s setting was fantastic. Loved watching the whole cast literally grow up following the storyline.

Dad loved it too, he can’t get over how well they nailed a time from when I was a bay and he was in his 20s: the cars, clothes, music, hairstyles, every single thing on a wall or table or bookshelf.

So yeah, sad it’s done but glad it ended so well.