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Gary, We have several TVs displaying content in the Engineering Building. Each one has presented different mounting challenges, because of its location and surroundings. I'm currently mounting two screens in the north entrance to the EB, and I think this closely matches your situation. If your hallway has a drop ceiling, it gets pretty easy. We have phys plant install a data and power outlet just above the drop ceiling where the TV would be mounted. Then install the wall mount bracket for the TV, and have a piece of small square steel raceway ran from the drop ceiling to the top of the wall mount. This is to accommodate the TV power cord and HDMI cable up into the ceiling. We then use an AOpen mini-itx computer to drive the TV with powerpoint; and UltraVNC to update the computer. The AOpen pc is mounted up above the drop ceiling, so no video extending is necessary. AOpen makes a wall mount bracket for the pc. AOpen mini-itx computer: http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/myaopen/MP45.html I also take security pretty seriously, so I modify the wall mount brackets to make it difficult to steal the TV. I weld all the nuts onto the bolts, so the wall mount bracket cannot be disassembled. I install 2 padlocks to prevent access to bolt heads, so the wall mount bracket cannot be removed from the wall, and 1 more padlock so the TV cannot be removed from the wall mount. I'd like to think it would be impossible to steal the TV without destroying it. This is the slim tilting wall mount I start with and modify: http://www.chiefmfg.com/productdetail.aspx?MountID=48 We are mounting two LG 42SL90 TVs. They are thin LED edge-lit 42" LCD TVs and with the above mount will stick out less then 3 inches off the wall. They are being installed into a very busy entrance hallway, so appearance and unobstruction was important. You're more then welcome to come over and look at the setup. On 3/15/2010 12:38 PM, Gary Schrock wrote: > Just kinda wondering whether anyone has had to deal with trying to mount > a monitor outside in a public hallway. (Our advising office has to keep > putting different posters out in the hallway, and thought that something > like this might be a good way of making the content a bit more dynamic > and easy to change). > > Any thoughts on how people have done this? Unfortunately, it looks like > the spot where it would be best to put this the other side of the wall > is a stairway, so just punching through the wall to mount a computer to > drive it wouldn't be practical. > > Basically I'm just kinda looking for any helpful ideas, we've never > tried doing anything like this before. > > Thanks, > Gary > -- Steven Foley <[log in to unmask]> Systems Administrator <[log in to unmask]> College of Engineering at Michigan State University