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Retro plasma HDTV looks like an ancient TV set

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Do those modern plasma TVs look too clinical and sterile for your old-fashioned taste? Check out the M21 flat TV console from Wilkerson Furniture. The company's craftsmen have built an elegant and retro cabinet around a 42-inch plasma HDTV for $3600, or will create a custom cabinet for the screen size of your choice.

At 10 inches thick, this 42-incher is nowhere near as bulky as its ancient forebears, but it's every bit as appealing. You can order a TV in either the black walnut you see here, or our fave — cherry wood. Either way, sure beats hanging a TV over the fireplace.

We'd like to see a 60-inch Pioneer Kuro plasma screen built into this fancy cabinet.

Via Wilkerson Furniture (Thanks, Curtis!)

 
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woodworker:
Just a nit: it's just cherry, not cherrywood. You don't say 'walnutwood', 'pinewood' or 'maplewood', do you? ...More »


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By budgethero at 4:28 PM ON 11/06/08

u know, i do have to admit, while tv's now'a days look sleek and crisp, another way to look at them is sternal and (pardon my anti-pun) colorless. black is cool and everything, but there are other colors. and while a wooden tv looks nice, i kind'a want to move away from using wood for style's sake.

By DJ at 3:16 AM ON 11/07/08

Wow!
I didn't realise such hideosity could exist.
Eye of the beholder and all that, but seriously, it looks like something from a downmarket garage sale.
Still, if it floats your boat...

By Boxerfanatic at 11:02 AM ON 11/07/08

I don't see why companies don't just adopt an industry standard for front attachment.

When you buy a TV in the store, it comes with a standard black or standard silver surround trim.

But that trim can be removed without affecting the structural integrity of the casing, and a fixing system can be used to attach other surrounds, molding-based picture frames, or co-operate with the rear VESA mounts to be fixed inside a tamper-proof display encasement, a console stand like the one displayed, or a different type of console, a custom flush wall-mount cavity, or whatever else.

It would open up many options, without having the electronics manufacturers having to try and guess how people want to mount their monitors. And it would insure that the screen would stay flush and front-fixed (or front and rear fixed for stability) to whatever enclosure is being used.

If it could be incorporated into some sort of VESA-style standard dimensional system that the brands could all adopt, one could choose the preferred monitor to go with whichever mounting or display surround they would want.

By CoolProducts at 1:15 PM ON 11/07/08

Well, it's definitely a niche product. As well, I do not feel that many who fall in that niche they're marketing towards wants to spend that amount of $$ on a TV. I guess they'll find out.

By woodworker at 5:54 PM ON 11/07/08

Just a nit: it's just cherry, not cherrywood.

You don't say 'walnutwood', 'pinewood' or 'maplewood', do you?


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