If you shoved a giant TV through a wall ... you might be a redneck
by Kevin Kelly 
{ Apr 10th 2007 at 9:58PM }
The real question here though is ... what makes that house redneckish? Other than the guy who submitted it calling it redneck-style, it looks fairly decent to us, although we're not talking about the giant hole in the wall. Hopefully he didn't have to go through anything load-bearing.
[Thanks, Fargo]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tckob @ Apr 10th 2007 10:03PM
someone should just bought a projector
Seroth @ Apr 10th 2007 10:07PM
Doesn't look that bad. I mean, you got a whole room dedicated to the inputs on the back of the TV. Usually it's a pain to get behind the TV, but with this, just walk into the next room!
LongshotX @ Apr 10th 2007 10:11PM
If it ain't in HD then screw this...
Baby21 @ Apr 10th 2007 10:18PM
That is very USA!
a person who made this wall are really noob, cos there is a flat screen or projector that you can buy.
J8675309 @ Apr 10th 2007 10:20PM
Hell, a sturdy enough TV itself could be load bearing.
Justin U @ Apr 10th 2007 10:25PM
4. That is very USA!
a person who made this wall are really noob, cos there is a flat screen or projector that you can buy.
Hey, ass, we aren't all as loaded as you are enought to buy a flat screen that large.
Jesus. The man did what he could with what he could afford.
Arturo @ Apr 10th 2007 10:26PM
Hey, ass, we aren't all as loaded as you are enought to buy a flat screen that large.
Jesus. The man did what he could with what he could afford.
u can buy flat panel sets pretty big nowadays that arent too much as that probably was when he got it
blah @ Apr 10th 2007 10:41PM
@6
I bet he lost more money in cutting a hole in his house than saving money by not buying a flat screen.
Also, he needs to change DVDs and hook up his Xbox or PS in the other room. Now that's stupid.
Matthew @ Apr 10th 2007 11:03PM
He could always make a hole to bring the cords through. Still easier to get behind the TV
Anthony @ Apr 10th 2007 11:03PM
well... this picture is over 2 years old...
slow day huh joystiq?
EihBeir @ Apr 10th 2007 11:28PM
We'll call this....Dorm Room Idea #1
Chewtoy @ Apr 10th 2007 11:36PM
If you know how to hang drywall yourself, then it's pretty cheap to cut a hole in the wall and patch it up when you move.
dusty @ Apr 10th 2007 11:53PM
i had a friend who did this several years ago, but it was a professional job. his parents had a professional come out and put the tv in a media room upstairs. well, the wall on which the tv was mounted was also the same wall used to access the attic. so, you open the door and walk into the attic, and access the back of the tv and all the circuitry for everything else in the house as well, i.e. room-to-room conference speakers, music speakers, and other stuff. they were really rich.
Baby21 @ Apr 10th 2007 11:46PM
Not really cos every ~1500 hours, you have to buy about $250 for replacement lamp for rear projection tv, and average price of good DLP TV is about $800-$1000 but only I can see 720p (I think there is no 1080p for DLP)
I can get 1080p flat screen for $1200 and can watch it in the day-time.
AlcoholicZombie @ Apr 11th 2007 12:30AM
@Baby21
Let me edjamacate(red neck talk for you uninformed) you abit about dlp and lcd prices.
Go to BestBuy.com since your an average consumer and Best Buy naturally sounds like a place for tvs. Look up all dlp tvs by price and when you see the first 1080p dlp tv (yes, they exist), its a 50" samsung for 1,529.99. Now look up lcds by price and the first 1080p lcd tv is a 42"(gasp! its smaller!) sharp for 1,799.99. Both does 1080p but you save 270 bucks for opting for the dlp tv plus the bonus of a bigger screen size (always a plus for me). Also, you were mentioning about the lamp replacement? Well, just spend 350 for a 4yr plan ans you get a free lamp replacement for each year. So im saving $1000 on lamps and service for a price totally a little over that same lcd tv without the service plan. Im sorry, but I call that a deal for the average consumer like yourself. :D
tickytong @ Apr 11th 2007 12:41AM
This was from one of our installs for Dish network. The TV was the Dish tv's we had a while ago that went for $500 when we were trying to get rid of them. Basically it is a RCA HDTV 40". We had it on our home site for while along with other ones as well. One even had a dish installed in the swamp. Go figure...
jordan @ Apr 11th 2007 12:50AM
It doesnt look that bad from the front. F'd up the wall for the other room.
Jo
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Cuja @ Apr 11th 2007 12:54AM
I take it this room is the room you don't see. Access to the bathroom plumbing, hot water heater, furnace/central air, fuse box, mud room/laundry, freezer, the odds and ends, your marijuana stash, and the back of your HDTV.
fawazr @ Apr 11th 2007 1:04AM
why are his walls two inches thick?
AlcoholicZombie @ Apr 11th 2007 1:48AM
Also, the up side is to install an IR receiver to control all your devices in the spare room so you can save alot of room or you can channel your wires under ground to a wall plate that connects to your reciever as a component switcher. Either ways, you never need to mess with the back of the hdtv again. Just make sure the water heater doesnt explode in the spare room. Ouch!
AlcoholicZombie @ Apr 11th 2007 2:17AM
Sorry for the typos, im harvesting brains...
richbum @ Apr 11th 2007 2:36AM
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richbum @ Apr 11th 2007 2:44AM
Thats nothing, I created a better DIY project to make my projection tv look like a plasma. 65" plasma that is. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v674/richbum/p6.jpg quick picture. i never took a real picture because I didn't think it was really that impressive.
richbum @ Apr 11th 2007 2:56AM
Here's a better picture of the TV actually, http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v674/richbum/DDR.jpg
Anonymous @ Apr 11th 2007 4:16AM
It's a mute point about the cost of LCD screens with regards to this actual picture and why he didnt just buy one - as Anthony said, the picture is years old it's been floating about the internet and jokes made about it for ages and LCD screens havent always been cheap ;)
It's still funny how the actual TV setup blocks the door from opening properly! LOL.
Poisoned Al @ Apr 11th 2007 4:18AM
Well I for one prefer the picture on a CRT then a plasma or LCD. I mean the colour is better, there's no sucky ass ghosting and I can watch TV at an angle too!
Korova @ Apr 11th 2007 6:08AM
Yeah, thats real classy! Especially the blocked door. In the city, thats called ghettophabulous.
All it needs is front and center channels cut into the wall around the TV. Now that make a man proud.
Rob Holiday @ Apr 11th 2007 6:42AM
@ Baby21
Baby21 said:"Not really cos every ~1500 hours, you have to buy about $250 for replacement lamp for rear projection tv"
I have a Phillips 60" Rear Projection HDTV. It's about 3 years old and has over 3000 hours. All 3 projectors still work beautifully. It has a 1080 resolution. When I bought this, Plasma (No LCD's even close to this size at the time) HDTV's that did 1080 were more than 5x the price.
Todd @ Apr 11th 2007 9:33AM
There might not be sufficient room to have a an effective projector installed. An LCD that size can be pretty expensive. DLP is damn expensive. A CRT that size is pretty cheap, especially if he already owned the TV and merely moving to another room OR the TV was given to him. Facts we don't know. They also make HD CRT TV's in that size, which are insanely cheaper, so that could also be an option.
I think people are looking at the pic and jumping to all sorts of ignorant conclusions.
itguy07 @ Apr 11th 2007 10:07AM
Who wants LCD? Slow motion response, and expensive at large size.
I'll stick with my Plasma, thanks.
And bigger is not always better. Depends on the size of the room.
Beef Soda @ Apr 11th 2007 10:53AM
Cheaper, better, cleaner, AND quieter? I'd do this if I had an extra room.
And if I knew how to use a hammer. Oh well.
polly @ Apr 11th 2007 11:09AM
@25 "It's a mute point"
Funniest thing I've read all day.
ShortFuse @ Apr 11th 2007 11:22AM
I have one 1080p 42" LCD (Westinghouse LVM-42w2) for $1250 and didn't have to put any holes in my wall. The two I holes i have are unrelated. But I guess, I could understand if you already had a big screen TV. It's not like he bought the TV deciding to break a hole in his wall. If the room behind him was a closet, then kudos to him.
Game Artist @ Apr 11th 2007 11:48AM
@32 Yah. It's weird how people use that. It's 'moot point'. From the fact that a meeting used to be called a 'moot'. So a moot point really means that its a point worth having a meeting about or arguing about. Somehow its definition has reversed on the internet. *shrug*
Will @ Apr 11th 2007 1:19PM
@33
In United States law, a matter is moot if further legal proceedings with regard to it can have no effect, or events have placed it beyond the reach of the law. Thereby the matter has been deprived of practical significance or rendered purely academic. This is different from the ordinary British meaning of "moot", which means 'to raise an issue.' The shift in usage was first observed in the United States.
You know, checking Wikipedia is AWESOME before making off-the-cuff remarks abotu how the Internet invents terms.
FndrStrar06 @ Apr 11th 2007 12:57PM
Wall studs are spaced every 16" apart.
He definitely went through several load bearing supports.
Obvious @ Apr 11th 2007 1:56PM
@34: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mootness
(your comment intrigued me enough to actually look this up... now THATS boredom at work...)
As for the TV: visual addiction to the glowing box never warranted spending as much money as is required to pull this kind of stunt. That being said, I also don't get the huge deal with hi-def... Whatever. :)
Aberu @ Apr 11th 2007 1:04PM
This is extremely creative. Maybe a good design in a house would be a slot for your tv built into the wall that would make it look like this, without using the space of another room, just cut it out of one of those dry spots of a wall that has nothing behind it.
will @ Apr 11th 2007 1:20PM
at 34, not at 33, my bad
Obvious @ Apr 11th 2007 2:06PM
(from @39): ARG!!! slow comment approval e-mails!
soul4sale @ Apr 11th 2007 3:11PM
Most wall studs are not load bearing elements, just drywall and electic-socket bearing. ;-)
Quando @ Apr 11th 2007 6:08PM
With the money (and labor) spent on making the whole and then inevitably repairing it, one could afford a flat screen. Unless one's labor is really cheap ... which would make one
a redneck.
xVariable @ Apr 13th 2007 4:57PM
"We hold these things to be self-evident: That cutting a giant hole in your living room's wall, to flush-mount a rear projection TV, and ruining a whole other room in the process, is the height of idiocracy."
Note the door coming right up against the back of the TV. There's no concealing it behind a cabinet of some sort. That fool's property values fell through the floor the minute he started cutting...