Customer Reviews

Bell'O PP59B TV Mount Holds Up To 63-Inch or 175lbs TV (Black)

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Well packaged. Unlike many manufacturers Bell'O did not skimp on proper packaging. I was impressed. They took extra steps to ensure the finishes would not be marred: heavy duty zip-ties, cloth tubes around the main beams, plenty of cardboard where it counts, plastic around all of the smaller parts. The bolts and other miscellaneous hardware came in their own vacuum-formed plastic over cardstock packaging, one card for stand assembly, one for television mounting. You can tell you have all hardware at a glance. I wish more manufacturers packaged this well.

Very strong stand. All parts are steel. Main beams are boxed 0.070" thick steel (plenty strong). Better than average CNC welds. The three cross beams, when bolted down, make the whole stand very rigid. Barrel nuts ensure high-load areas where bolts screw in will not stretch or tear out. The barrel nuts were used for the leveling feet and for the bolts that the mounting brackets hook onto and attach to the main beams.

Quick and easy assembly. Good instructions. Instructions were especially handy in helping select from the many television mounting possibilities.

Wide variety of television mounting options. They seem to have covered every possible VESA mounting configuration and thrown in plenty of hardware to meet any other flat panel mounting challenge. The absolute widest mounting option appears to accommodate mounting holes up to 16.5 inches high apart by 31.75 inches wide apart. To aid in mounting, they welded bosses behind the main beam mounting bolts to ensure the hooks cannot swing down. The only limitation seems to be the 175-pound weight rating (according to their spec sheet), but that is plenty for even the largest modern flat panels (Samsung's 2010 8000-series 63-inch plasma only weighs 84 pounds without the base).

Convenient cable management. Each main beam has four 1-inch by 3-inch oval-shaped holes, three up high by the television, and one down low by the furniture. Holes are big enough to make routing cables within the beams and snagging back out the bottom hole easy enough. All holes are rubber-grommeted to prevent fraying of cabling.

Cons: 1. The main beams have L-shaped horizontal feet projecting only 8.5 inches to the front. While this is better than nothing, this stand with a TV mounted is not hard to tip with a little help. BUT, this stand was intended to be bolted behind a piece of furniture below the TV. (None of Bell'O's furniture offerings are quite what I am looking for but I see no reason why I could not bolt this to another piece of furniture with the help of a drill.) --Not really a con, but certainly a warning.
2. No television tilt feature. Would have been nice to have. The more premium flat-panel wall-mounts have this feature. If it bothers me enough, I may adapt a tilting wall-mount (if you do this, you are on your own). Warning: most flat panel TVs cannot stand more than 15 degrees of forward tilt. Tilting a TV too far on this stand could make the whole system very prone to tipping forward.

Misc. note: The L-shaped main beam feet are 1-5/8 inches thick by themselves and 2-1/16 inches thick overall with the leveling feet fully screwed in. Keep this in mind when shopping for the furniture piece that those feet need to slip under from behind. Bell'O advertises that this stand works with much of their home entertainment furniture.

Overall, nice black satin finish, very rigid, very strong, easy to assemble, convenient cable routing, and probably can mount every brand of flat panel TV. I am very satisfied with the value.

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UPDATE:
There are two 3/4-inch high boxed horizontal supports running between the vertical posts, the lower horizontal is 20 to 20-3/4 inches from the floor (with TV weight on the stand and on carpet), the horizontal at the top is 58 to 58.75 inches from the ground. Overall height of the stand itself is 58-3/4 inches from the ground. I am not using the adjustable feet, which might give you up to one more inch of height to the stand. The vertical slots that allow you to bolt this stand to furniture fit a 3/8-inch SAE bolt and are 15-1/4 inches apart (at their centers) and are 18-3/8 to 21-1/4 inches from the floor.

I just had to have a tilt feature so I adapted Bell'O's Tilting Wall Mount (#8315DB) (it came in a box with black, yellow, and red "...For Dummies" markings). This tilting wall mount was packed as well as the stand and also had a generous amount of hardware organized on a card... another excellent Bell'O product. I chose this particular tilting wall mount because its main supports that mount to the wall are horizontal and would give me the most versatility to mount to the stand. Some wall mounts have vertical main supports which rely on the wall studs being spaced apart a certain amount (or in this case, my TV stand's vertical supports) which does not always happen. To adapt this to my stand, I drilled four holes in the verticals in ideal spots that miss the bosses that support the original non-tilting TV mount. My holes, generously fitting 5/16" bolts, ended up being approx. 1-1/8 and 6-7/8 inches down from the top of the verticals and 13-5/8" apart (the hole centers are ~3/4 inch from the inside wall to help resist crushing the opposing walls when the bolts are tightened down). The top bolts went through both walls of the verticals (be careful not to over-tighten the nuts and collapse the walls; use Grade 5 or 8 washers to better distribute the pressure). The lower bolts barely miss the previously mentioned bosses and are accessible through the upper cable pass-through hole so I could use a shorter bolt and thread the nut pretty tight without worrying about crushing the front and rear vertical walls (careful not to drop the nuts and washers down the tube). Grade 5 SAE 5/16" bolts, nuts, and washers hold the tilting wall mount to the stand (1-inch-long lower bolts and 2 or 2-1/2-inch upper bolts depending on the thickness of your mount and number of threads left after the washers).

the TV itself is 35-3/4 inches tall overall and the bottom of the TV ended up being ~36-5/8 inches from the ground. The rear panel of the TV is 2-3/4 inches from the front of the stand's vertical supports (using the #8315DB tilting wall mount). Holding the original mounts from the stand to the back of this, it appears the TV would mount maybe an inch closer to the stand using the mounts that came with the stand. Since the L-shaped horizontal feet project only 8.5 inches to the front, I would not want my TV mounting to much further forward, even if it is usually bolted to furniture. Having some room in front of the TV and a 27-inch high credenza I can sit my center channel speaker's tweeters at ear level without interfering with the TV's viewable surface... which was my goal with this stand.

The product even though had all of it parts in the box as to the items list in the manual, they forgot to include nuts in the list and in the box, Since I have a fairly nice work shop it wasn't a big issue for me. It did go together fairly easy and it very well build and is very sturdy and very professionally looking piece as to match my entertainment center. It is well worth the price I bought it for.
My son and I put it together which I discovered that you must have two people on this project.
I love the hollow support beams which allows access to insert the other TV components wires to be hidden so that you don't have any dangling wires from the TV set itself for all to be seen. The only other complaint is, I have a 58" Samsung Plasma set, and this doesn't leave any type of adjustments for as to how high or low you can adjust it. I had to have it on the highest setting in order to hang it, which is just about where I wanted it to be. Actually I wanted it to be a little higher up so as my center speaker would fit a little better under the Plasma T.V. set better for my surround sound.

I bought this to use with my 32" Samsung I bought for the bedroom. Didn't trust a wall mount (hell I can't install a towel rack without problems), at the same time I also wanted to use the cabinet top for something other than a TV stand. Found the assembly instructions on the Bello website, this unit look pretty easy to build.

No problems assembling the base. The two uprights are joined using three cross supports each needing 4 screws. To attach the display, the kit comes with a number of support systems, so youl'll probably have a number of spare parts left over.

Most display are supported with a pair of mounting bars. Two sizes (27" & 32") are included in the kit, attached the set that best fit my display. Positioned and attached the display to the stand. Tightened the four support screws. The frame itself has a number holes on the back side to slide cables through.

Up against the wall the unit with the display attached was stable, the manufacture recommends attaching the unit to the cabinet. You'll need about an 1.5 inch high open space under the back of the cabinet to slide the base of the stand under.

I am VERY happy with this stand. The system included all the hardware I needed to mount my 50" samsung 3D plasma. The top edge of my TV now sits about 62" high, the bottom edge is about 32.5", the back of the TV is 4" from the wall and the front face is 5.5" from the wall when mounted on this stand. I have a tile floor so the leveling feet are great. Once the TV was mounted and eased back against the wall I used a magnetic bubble level stuck to the stand to make final adjustments to the leveling feet. Perfectly vertical, rock steady.

I found mounting the TV very straightforward. Everything aligned perfectly for me. Take your time, measure, be careful. I had my wife help me lift the TV off its pedestal and lay it face down on several blankets on our floor. I mounted all the new bracket hardware onto the back of the TV by myself. If I can do it, you can do it -just resist the urge to lean on the back of the TV while you work. I prepped the stand about 1.5 feet out from the wall and my wife helped me lift and hang the TV+bracket on the stand. At that point the stand is now carrying the weight so you can tighten up the 4 bolts that secure the TV+bracket to the stand.

I did not want to wall mount the 50". Our last TV was a big old heavy 4:3 SD TV and we tossed the old incompatible entertainment center when we made the upgrade. When the plasma first came home it sat on a coffee table that we pushed in front of our old entertainment center and SD TV. Now we have the entertainment center electronics on the bottom shelf of the coffee table pushed in front of the stand. I'm picky and I'm still looking for the perfect new cabinet but I'm in no hurry because the TV is already in the perfect spot. That won't change once I finally decide on the perfect cabinet.

I can't imagine how they could have made the system any easier to use. It looks VERY sharp. I want to mount blue LED light strips on the back of the TV and stand for accent lighting.

I bought this mount to complement my recently purchased TV stand. It was easy to assemble and works great. Oh yeah, it works on non-bell'o stands too.

I didn't want to drill holes in my wall and didn't want to purchase a whole new home entertainment stand with a this mounting option built in. So, I ordered this.

What can I say, it works perfect! You don't need to buy the matching home entertainment desk to have this work. Im using a glass TV table I bought from Costco last year. This is a great price and alternative between getting a wall mount and buying a whole entertainment center.

This is a reasonable product. There were some alignment issues, but I was able to get my flat panel mounted well enough to feel it was secure. I would recommend this product. It is fairly attractive, well built and did meet most of my expectations. The shipper they used is very professional.

As for the cabinet that it is meant to attach to, the product is also very attractive but is poorly constructed. The stand is suppose to bolt to the back of the cabinet, but the cabinet design uses some cheep press inserts that popped out the first time I tried to bolt the two together. I ended up gluing the fasteners in place. The cabinet is also assembled with some pretty crummy snap lock fasteners made from the softest metal on earth. Because of the poor quality of the hardware used to assemble this cabinet, I did not feel it would last 2 years before reverting back to a pile of flat boards. I ended up clamping and gluing the entire cabinet together. I am now mostly satisfied with the combination of the stand and cabinet.

The other comments are pretty accurate with instructions, alignment issues, and missing screws. What is a pain is that everything is metric in MM and being in America everything is standards. How do I know what the difference is between the different mm sized screws? I do not have a MM ruler nor is a scale provided. There are only 100 screws and pieces. I have the Bello cabinet and it attaches just fine and had no issues. The Installation says to check you TV manufacture for the mounting instructions. Well, my sharp TV does not have the instructions. There are several permutations on who to attach to a TV and I had to spend quite a bit of time figuring this out. Once I did it was a pain to tighten screws properly because of positioning.

I bought this mount about a year ago. I've mounted my 46in LED Sony TV (KDL-46EX710 VESA 300x300), and so far it has been great. This review is not about installation and how good it is. Most of the other reviews have nailed it.

The major reason I am adding a review now after a year is that Bell'O support is AWESOME, FANTASTIC, SUPERB, MAGNIFICENT!!! Recently I bought a Yamaha soundbar. I wanted to mount the soundbar right below the TV. I explored various options, and decided the best option is mounting the soundbar with "Part G". However, on a 300x300 mount, Part G was used on the TV already. I need additional part G. I contacted Bell'O support inquiring about the cost. They shipped out the parts quickly. No charge, free shipping! Now that is customer service! A "universal sound bar mount" is sold on Amazon for $49.95. Even if I go the cheapest route and getting a "book shelf mount" at home depot would cost about $12 at least - but the color would not match and would require more work.

Thank you Bell'O customer service/support.

This is the second mount I have. Highly recommend it as an option, so as not to mount tv on wall. Very stable when placed behind solid stand or dresser.