How do you go about doing this?

Question

im sticking my 50" on the wall and im hooking my sky box,desktop,xbox 360 and my wii and i need to know whats the best way to hide all the wires.any ideas will help.

thanks

Answer 1

If you are hanging it on a drywall surface, before hanging the television, but in an electrical box or low voltage plate (like an electrical box without a back) in the wall behind where you plan to hang the television, put another electrical box or low voltage plate where you plan to keep your sky box, Xbox 360, Wii, etc., then send your power, component, composite, S-Video, HDMI, coax, and all other cables from one box/hole to the other (you can fish through the actual wires if you wish, but I would prefer you run extention cables in the wall, then connect the equipment to the extention cables, that way you can still disconnect and take stuff with you, like if you want to take your Wii somewhere for example), then hang the television after you fished all the wires, connect the wires from behind the television to it and connect your equipment to the extention cables (if you used extention cables)

As a side note, you might want to think about getting a wireless sensor bar for your Wii, or you may want to make your own, the sensor bar is nothing more than a row of infrared LEDs, but the sensor bar cable is so thin, you may break it when trying to fish it behind the wall, just be sure to turn it off when you get done playing, as there is no signal from the Wii to shut it off

If you are trying to hang the television on a brick wall or chimney, you amy be able to remove a brick and put your wires through that, but it's not as easy