Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler When I get rich and famous...

...I gotta get one of these!!!!!!!! (You will have to click on the "play" arrow. At least I did.)

Yikes.... $12,000 - $15,000 depending on what size TV you want to hold, and that doesn't include any "upgrades".... But, if you are rich, who cares about $15,000?!?!

It's false advertising. A left, right and center do not make surround sound. How do you clean the dust bunnies under the bed?

Precisely! That's why I said "when I'm rich and famous." That is an outrageous price though, isn't it?

It's not so much the fact that the TV hides under the bed that attracted me, it's that once deployed, you have a large screen at what appears to he a good height to watch from a reclined position without breaking your neck with your chin on your chest and looking through your toes. Though, I suppose an argument could be made for the fact that, when not in use, the TV is out of sight (WAF?).

However, after I posted this, I got to thinking that if one has, at the end of one's bed, the space for this thing to deploy, why couldn't one simply have a handsome piece of furniture of some sort that would hold a similarly sized large screen at a decent height, and might even have room for some decent speakers to boot? I'd wager I could find something that would do the trick for a heck of a lot less than $12K.

Maybe, there are two surround speakers the pop out of the bed's headboard.

Sticking with the "rich" theme, if one can afford this thing, once the TV is deployed, one likely could afford to pay someone else to crawl under the bed to get the dust bunnies while one was watching their favorite TV show.

I bet Tharkun has one of those already, or is building one himself.

That is an obscene amount of money.

Jack, I think "famous" is overrated, but you'd know better than I.

LOL! Tom that "rich and famous" phrase is a flashback to my naive youth. When we were kids, we'd play our guitars and sing for hours and hours until our parents would throw us out of the house (we'd end up sitting in a car, parked on a side street somewhere in town, playing and singing until 3 in the morning -- needless to say, we were well known by our local gendarmes ).

In those days, the phase "when we're rich and famous...." was a common part of the fantasy. By the time we were actually real, full time, working musicians, though we had matured and faced reality, the phase remained common, but had morphed into a sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek reference to our youthful naivety.

Thus, when an outrageously "out of the question" situation arises, such as owning a 12 to 15 thousand dollar, under-the-bed TV mount, my chances of owning such an extravagance being about equal to my chances of becoming "rich and famous" (zero), the old phrase quickly comes to mind.

Fame is not merely overrated, Tom, I think it is a curse that I am greatly relieved to have missed (the "rich" part would've been nice though )

I haven't turned Tharkun on to the under-bed mount. Here is his latest toy. Can-Am Spyder Roadster