Why do all the new TVs expect me to have a platform AS WIDE as the fucking thing?? Fucking shit!! God awful absolutely dumb thoughtless design choice

Centre stands need to be way more sturdy to hold it up. You can buy aftermarket VESA centre stands though if you can't wall mount it.

The wider the TV gets, the more stable a two-feet-at-the-ends design becomes compared to a single central foot.

Plus if you need anything else, VESA mounts are super-standard and you just get whatever you need then use it on every Tv you buy.

Op didn't check the specs on the item he bought and is upset it's not perfectly tailored to his individual tastes.

You love to see it.

Putting a giant TV on a tiny stand is not normal.. Be mildly infuriated at yourself, not the manufacturer

OP blaming their shitty decisions on others. Why are you buying something without knowing its dimensions?

Fuck I hate people like this. The answer btw is pretty obvious. From a weight distribution perspective it's easiest to have two feet as wide apart as possible.

To be honest they think that people plan ahead for something like this..

How do you not do research on the dimensions of anything before buying something big like a TV?

So many people attacking OP and perhaps not remembering there was a time when nearly all flat panel TVs came on a pedestal mount. The designs were largely changed to mitigate claims and liability.

Nobody tell him about what TV makers expected of you when they were all CRTs…

They don't expect you to have a stand at all. They expect you to buy a separate wall mount piece and mount it directly on the wall.

I think the fucking stupid part of this post is the OP buying a TV oversized for the space they want it on.

The true reason is cost, those stands that are included nowadays are insanely cheap and flimsy. If you're buying a large TV, you should budget $30-$50 for a VESA mount.

I can't help you but I love this post.

Because you bought a really cheap TV and the little feet on the sides are cheaper than a center stand that needs to be much heavier and sturdier.

No one has seemed to mention the rise of sound bars. Center stands block sound bars and so so many people are using them now.

I have that same TV (50"). They know what they're doing

• The TV is so flimsy, I don't trust it with a narrower stand.
• Making a stand like this means the TVs can have the same stand parts for all sizes.

Stand measurements are right on the box! They expect you to read them. 🤣

Cat

Same energy

Hahahaha what do you mean? This has to be satire. Nobody is that dense right? If it doesn't fit, don't buy it lmao.

You'd be first in line bitching that your TV fell over if they moved them in 6". Wall mounts are $18.... buy one

Two tiny legs are cheaper than a large flipped “T” base for it to rest on.

If the TV is VESA compatible, there are tons of third-party stand options.

At least you have a cat to hold it up

All of you saying you need center stands don’t realize how much heavier the stand needs to be for safety. For cheap TVs, you will get wide stands for freight reasons. They usually come with mounting mechanisms where you can get your own stand that will cost more than the TV itself.

Common sense people. If these shipped with center stands the cost would be double and you’d be complaining about how there’s no TV deals anymore.

They're expecting you to have a mount for your wall, already installed, even, from the last TV. So the legs are an afterthought, they're cheap, easy to remove and you'll probably toss them, they know. So they're enough to use for store display, no more.

I bought a center stand at Walmart, that mounts to the wall mount spot on the back of the TV. "Onn" brand for $18.

Works, but I do understand your frustration.

Because it is genuinely is way cheaper to include 4x 4" plastic legs, than a steel center stand capable of withstanding the torque.

For people who wall mount and for those with wide tv stands these work fine and save probably $30 / TV, and produce less overall waste.

I don’t understand why most of the commenters are against you, i find the change from center stands to edge stands annoying. Especially since it seems difficult find smaller TVs nowadays

There's nobody but yourself to blame in this one lmao

You should be mounting in on the wall anyway. Unless you want your cat to tip it over, that is.

Pepperidge Farm remembers when TVs didn't even come with a "stand". It was just a big box with no real "mounting" options.

I can still remember the sound my back made when I picked up my first 32" TV.

Sketchy fast math says a 32" TV will be roughly 30" wide .... Feet appear to be 3" in on each side which would put them at 24" on center... What kind of umpa lumpa ass table do you have? If that is your only option you can get a treated 8' decking board for like $8, have Lowe's cut it in half and throw it on top of the table to extend it.

It's way cheaper to produce such stands (they can be way less sturdy).

Also stop wide-shaming your perfectly nice 32" cat.

Its recommended that the surface that you put your TV on be a couple inches wider than your TV.

I don't have anything to say about the TV sitch but your cat is pretty.

I measure the shit out of everything before I even go out to buy a TV. Having this feet design simply would have meant that either I wouldn’t have bought this televisi, or I already intend to replace the table.

I actually just bought a Sansui TV that almost wouldn't have fit the desk but it had 2 sets of places where the legs could be attached, so I just attached them to the inner ones. Welcome change. Not sure how uncommon it is since I've only owned like 5 TVs and most just had the little circular base in the middle instead.

The legs being so far out is maybe since manufactures found it to be the most stable places for the skinny leg designs they use now. So yeah, cost cutting measure probably.

cat is build better. cat can stand good.

You should seek a therapist

Did you not see the foot in the store showmodel?

Even then just a piece of wood cut to size to lay on top wouldn’t hurt. Table looks scratched up pretty bad as it is anyways so it’s not like appearance is your game here.

give your cat some scritches for me :)

Your orange cat is still trying to process your anger.

Did you measure the table before buying the TV?

Sadly nowadays the stands that come in a box should just be used temporarily tool you get a more permanent solution. You can get done really good mounts that use the VESA mounts at the back.

I would never trust the standard stands, they have way too much wobble to them.

The cat is not impressed, yeah.

Kitty is probably over in !cats being like “mildly infuriating…. Human is ignoring me for a flimsy idiot box…. And it’s meal time!”

I mean two little hunks of plastic are most definitely cheaper than something big and sturdy in the middle as it needs to be over engineered to make up for the lack of physics being on its side. You can buy an aftermarket TV stand or wall mount it.

There are many thoughtless, idiotic design choices today, for example curved edge phone screens, shitty ultrasonic/photo fingerprint sensors in the scren, no jack connector, microsim, etc. I call it engineer idiotism.

Cat: Did you get the accidental coverage Dad? Purrrrr Purrrrr (rubs scent from face on tv) Purr Purr CRASH MRERRRREREOW!!!!!

I agree. The tipping threat on a TV is almost exclusively front to back, not side to side. Putting the support legs closer to the middle, but still spaced a third of the width of the TV should be totally adequate. I suspect it's an aesthetics thing now.

I'm curious what picture you saw that made you think the legs would be any different.

They think everyone wants to mount them to the wall now, the legs are like the cheapest possible "courtesy" they're willing to include. It's super annoying, I really don't want the thing on my wall with a bunch of wires hanging down

Lmao op you are truly a moron

I've seen the design and I thought it made good sense mechanically, but I hadn't considered this issue. I wonder if stand designs are getting wider too, as a result.

why are all of the 48" tv screens bigger than my 32" bedside table?

"your in my spot" - cat

that's why i like the lg stand

Have you tried moving it an inch to the left?

😅 I kid.

You can buy a vesa stand mount though fairly cheap.

Sony currently do a cool thing with their stands where you can place them in 3 or so different position along the tv if you wanted. Finally someone thinking!

People really out here at stupid levels of angry now, eh?

How dare the tv manufacturers and homesense not discuss each other the exact width of possibility you would purchase both products.

If feet at the edge of the tv (done for stability) is a stupid design, what would you do differently?

DON'T BE FOOLED! This post was made by the cat! It wants narrower TV stands so it can knock them over easier when its owner forgets to feed it!

Because the TV is exactly the same width.

This is the conspiracy theorist in me, but it feels a little like they intentionally made it that way to sell more mounts.

Just got my first TV since my old vacuum tube stopped working in the early 90s. 55" Sony flat screen. It has gour fixtures for its stands: a pair that's narrow close to the centre, and a pair if you want a wide stance. I didn't mind the wide option, but I appreciated having a choice.

Cute cat.

My 2008 Samsung had a great center stand. My new TCL has those little feet. Solution is spend another $30 or so on a center stand.

you bought a cheap TV on black Friday, what did you expect?

Hey OP, Wallmount it , will take 15mins and $20.

Damn, this is some next level entitled, petulant, energy.

If you're gonna complain, at least try to do it constructively. As opposed to... Whatever this drivel is.

No idea but cute cat

Don’t buy TCL if you want a nice stand included.

Noticed this trend like a decade ago with LG. They used to have a stand in the middle which was much better design wise.

also the Samsung manual would tell you to use the tv on a platform as deep as it's height???? wtf

Get a board and put it beneath the thing?

Usually, It's to distribute the weight. Cheaper brands won't put the weight in the base needed.my LG oled came with a massive but narrow base. I mounted to the wall with a pull and tilt mount and sold the base on offer up for $50.

That leg design is incredibly ugly as well.

I'm confused why there is a cat in this photo

Came across the same issue when I set up my dads new bedroom telly for him, I bodged it up with a plank on top of the dresser it was sitting on.

Agree. I’m canvassing for a 65” TV and I need to include the entertainment stand in the budget because it won’t fit on the current one I have for my 43”.

Does it have VESA mount?

This post sure brought out the ugly in some people...

I don't know about your TV but that cat rules!!!

They want you to stop being poor and get better furniture if you want a big tv

It's cheaper to make it that way. Less materials needed.

Y'all expecting too much of OP. Someone who impulse buys a tv on Black Friday isn't smart enough to worry about silly details like physical requirements

Get a universal wall mount.

Swap the legs around so they face inward, not out.

Chill

Everyone's talking about it being stable, but what's the benefit in stability from having the legs a couple of inches off the end compared to having them halfway from the center to the end?

I don't think it would be worse in any way and it would allow the TV's to stand on smaller surfaces

Mount it on the wall jackass.