Ugh. No offense to anyone here who has their main set sitting above a fireplace, but I just don't get this trend. I suppose I get it in cases where there's simply not a single other place in the room that the TV can go, but it just seems like a terrible idea for pretty much every reason: viewing angles (first and foremost), heat, and cable routing are the big ones I can think of.
With that said, I need to help someone mount their TV above a fireplace
In this instance, yes, it's the only place to put it. The rest of the room is almost entirely glass walls and cut-outs to other rooms and hallways in the house. The only available wall is the one directly above the fireplace, which has no mantle. There are several challenges, but the first things I need to know are:
1) Is it ok to mount a 46" LED TV* above a natural fireplace?
2) There's no mantle whatsoever, but do I need one? Would it help with the heat at all (I'm guessing not)?
Like I said, there's other challenges, like figuring out how we're going to run power and cables behind a brick veneer, but these first two questions are kind of the big ones right now. I've been trying to read up online about this, but I can't find much consensus.
*sorry, Bruno, it's one of "those" LED TVs