The Consumer Electronics Show or CES just ended in Las Vegas. At this show, major electronics manufacturers try to wow the crowd by debuting new products and new technology. LG set the bar high this year with two new TVs. First they introduced the largest OLED TV and it is only 4mm thin! OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode. This new TV technolgy will create larger, thinner, brighter, and more energy efficient TVs. LG also introduced an 84″ Ultra Definiton TV. Ultra Definition is twice the resolution High Definition. Check out the video below for more information.

LG OLED and 84″ Ultra Definition 3D TV at CES 2012 from Dave the Gadget Guy on Vimeo.

It is a common problem.  The cabinet in your living room was built for an older TV and you are ready to upgrade to a flat panel TV.  What do you do?  Call Sound Ideas!  Our client had an existing cabinet custom built for a  65″ rear projection TV.  The cabinet had a front piece built so that only the TV screen showed.  They wanted to upgrade to a 65″ flat panel. 

 First we removed the old TV.  That left us with this giant opening.  The width of the cabinet allowed for a 65″ flat panel, but we needed a way to mount it.  We also needed to cover all the empty space below the TV.

Next we built a false back and painted it black.  We installed this inside the cabinet to mount the flat panel. 

Then we designed a new front panel and matched the existing cabinet’s paint to achieve this fantastic final result. Some cabinets require a lot of work, some require only a little. If you are ready to upgrade your TV, let us look at modifying your existing cabinet to acommodate it.

On the latest cabinet modification we did I had to laugh. The old television was over 3.5 feet deep and the new flat panel we replaced it with was a whopping 1.2 inches deep. What a dramatic difference. To make everything  look seamless we made some minor modifications. Check out the before and after photos below.

Before

After