Upgrade to Beosound Theatre or not.

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There is no way you can hide an ATV behind a wallmounted LG….unless you’d make a hole/a cave for it in the wall.

It makes much more sense to connect it directly to the Theatre (and use the PUC).
I can assure you, that you can control the ATV just like before - I do that every day.

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

 Are you able to hide yours away?
Yes, but that is because my tv is placed on a lowboard. Actually it is the same, that I had with my (wallmounted) Avant previously - and the BV8-40 before that. I need the space there - not just for the ATV - but also for a Bluray player, a network switch, a Chromecast Ultra dongle, the power sockets and ‘cables that are always too long’. No need for wall mounting here and no need for turning the tv. If you have the Theatre on a tablestand/floorstand, the ATV should be able to fit into the SMI, you’ll need for mounting the tv to the Theatre. MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

In my old setup I had B&O speakers connected to a Marantz AV system, with 3 game systems and other HDMI cables connected in a cabinet bellow.  It was a hot mess of cables and a major pain to change anything. It was all hidden though including the cables.

When I got the theatre I decided to get rid of the cabinet and get the floor stand instead.  The problem was I still needed to connect 4 HDMI devices like: Apple TV, XBOX, NINTENDO, PS5.

So I put all those HDMI items in the closet behind the couch and listening position. I use a Hue Sync box as well which all the HDMI devices input to and then I run a single Optical HDMI cable through concealed floorboards to the theatre. Everything turns on and off through HDMI control, I never have to interact with the HDMI devices unless I insert a DVD game. It amazingly has worked perfectly since day one, all of it.

In your case you can put the AV system tucked away somewhere and just run the one cable to the TV.

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And you can wall mount your Apple TV somewhere hidden:



But honestly I just recommend the theatre.  It's rather glorious visually and the sound is amazing as well. I do suggest a Sony TV over the LG G2/3 though.  Sony has much better picture processing.

This is my previous AV setup with everything in the cabinet:



This is the cabinet removed and all the cables required:



This is after the theatre and all HDMI devices in the back of room. I was using a black cable hide temporarily.



And in the end I hid them with some white cable hiders:



Hope that helps

Location: Toronto, Canada

This is the cabinet removed and all the cables required: I know this story well. PITA .......And when you move home (which I'm doing now), its PITA all over again un-knotting the spaghetti and coiling it neatly. Its also irritating that all the cable lengths are now wrong for where to to/from distances are. Still looking on the on the bright side, my new home has plastered and decorated walls (no stone or naked concrete visible). After buying the Theatre I know how much we have to cut back our spending and a bit of plaster paint comes later (just joking with you!)
Relax…..as long as you label your cables properly, it is doable.







MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

In my old setup I had B&O speakers connected to a Marantz AV system, with 3 game systems and other HDMI cables connected in a cabinet bellow. It was a hot mess of cables and a major pain to change anything. It was all hidden though including the cables. When I got the theatre I decided to get rid of the cabinet and get the floor stand instead. The problem was I still needed to connect 4 HDMI devices like: Apple TV, XBOX, NINTENDO, PS5. So I put all those HDMI items in the closet behind the couch and listening position. I use a Hue Sync box as well which all the HDMI devices input to and then I run a single Optical HDMI cable through concealed floorboards to the theatre. Everything turns on and off through HDMI control, I never have to interact with the HDMI devices unless I insert a DVD game. It amazingly has worked perfectly since day one, all of it. In your case you can put the AV system tucked away somewhere and just run the one cable to the TV. https://www.cablematters.com/Blog/HDMI/how-do-active-hdmi-cables-work And you can wall mount your Apple TV somewhere hidden: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07BPX8KL8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 But honestly I just recommend the theatre. It’s rather glorious visually and the sound is amazing as well. I do suggest a Sony TV over the LG G2/3 though. Sony has much better picture processing. This is my previous AV setup with everything in the cabinet: This is the cabinet removed and all the cables required: This is after the theatre and all HDMI devices in the back of room. I was using a black cable hide temporarily. And in the end I hid them with some white cable hiders: Hope that helps
Just want to know can theatre's TV connect part works with non-lg brand tv?
If you take the pull and rotate bracket from STB (https://www.stbbrackets.co.uk/en-GB/product/Beosound-Theatre/Close-Wall-Bracket-Beosound-Theatre) you can easily hide your AppleTV behind the TV with their Decoder mount (https://www.stbbrackets.co.uk/en-GB/product/Beosound-Theatre/Decoder-mount-Beosound-Theatre).

As I read their website, you even don't need their wall bracket to use the mount. However if you will use the LG wall mount there is not enough space to put it in between.

Just remember that the STB bracket will not be flush wall mount, it will put the TV exactly in the centre of the Theatre, and the wall bracket also has some extra space, I used it and thats my only concern that i could be closer to the wall but still very nice solution. Also when you need to 'do' something with cables or whatever, its very easy to pull it and you have all the access.

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