Mounting Dream UL Listed TV Mount Bracket for Most 42-75 Inch Flat Screen TVs, Full Motion TV Wall Mounts with Swivel Articulating Dual Arms, Max VESA 600x400mm, 100 LBS Loading, Fits 16 Wood Studs, MD2296

Where did the 5th star go???? Wall bracket, needs to be wider. Many wall mounts these days are installed over fireplaces. Sometimes the studs are not placed 16 on center secondary to the fireplace chimney or flue, or for whatever other reason, and have to be spaced slightly wider than 16 on center. My fault for not recognizing the spacing of my studs for the intended location, but the manufactures fault for not anticipating variances in stud spacing. I could have just sent it back, but I decided that $50 for a mounting bracket was too good of a deal to pass up and was time for me to think outside the box. Well I wasnt going to give up on the location for where the TV was going to be mounted, so I had to fabricate a wall mount extension piece. I went to Home Depot, got a 36 metal bar, sawed that sucker in half, drilled several holes, mounted it to the back of the wall mount bracket with carriage bolts/ nuts/ flat & lock washers, and mounted the sucker. Because I was being cheap, and only wanted to buy one piece of steel bar as opposed to two, I had to offset the 18 bars to just one side. In doing such it left a portion of the mounts wall side bracket without a bar piece, or otherwise a void where the bar should also extend. To fill that void, I used two flat washers that (when placed together) were the same thickness as the extension bar. (I hope this is clear, and not too confusing). All I am saying, is that will a little extra time, patience, effort, and a trip to the Home Depot (or wherever sells flat steel bars), someone could fab an extension (highly not recommended secondary to safety and work involved). If you are one of those with limited experience with this, I wouldnt suggest this for safety reasons, and would just look for an accommodating wall mount for your specific application. Additionally, another ding I would hit this mount on for not having is the lack of including or having a thread locker on the multiple screws included. Remember this is a movable mount, and if its is the owners intention to move the TV around quite a bit, you might want to consider applying a liquid thread locker to the metal on metal threads before torquing the screws down (again, for safety sake). All in all not that bad. I would not recommend this mount for anyone who either does not know their stud spacing for the intended location, and/ or for for known stud spacing greater than 16 on center. If I knew that I would have to fab something like I did before I bought the bracket, there would be no way I would have bought this bracket. Do yourself a favor (measure first, dont be a dumbo like me, and be persuaded by the inexpensive nature of the item) << However, very well made from what I can tell. Wally World sell similar brackets for $149!!!! Not sure on the wall side bracket accommodations, but I would have bought that quickly if I knew that it would fit and the Mounting Dream would not. Good luck

Great quality, would recommend it.

Seems exceptionally sturdy and was easy enough to install with a 12in level and a drill with a nut driver. Swings away from the wall to give plenty of space for plugging in cables and doesnt show the slightest sign of sagging with a 60in TVs weight. The length of the mounting rails made it possible to secure it to 2 studs for an optimal and worry-free installation.

I found this unit on Amazon and ordered it for a new Samsung 55 Curved 7200 UHD 4K TV from Costco (you can find the same unit on Amazon as a 7250 UHD 4K - Costco just asks Samsung for a different model number to avoid hassles with price matching). The MD2296 is an excellent articulated arm/mount, with a back wide enough for direct wall mounting if the studs are on 12 or 16 centers, mine were 16 so very simple. 24 centers would have required a pair of 2x4s to span between the studs, but that would cost like $2-3 at any local home improvement store, and none of the arm/mount units span 24 center stud walls anyway. In the previous review, it says the X-plate can go up to VESA 300x300, this is not the case. The X-plate will handle 100x100, 100x200, or 200x200, thats the max VESA span possible without adding the H-bracing onto the X-plate. My 55 7200 UHD 4K TV was 400x400, so I had to assemble the H-brace pieces - very simple, took me longer to read the instructions than to stick the two required screws into position and then tighten those two plus the two that already come pre-screwed-in. The vertical bars on the H-brace just slide onto it, no screws are used until you are actually mounting it to the back of your TV - the four last screws are the ones that lock down the positions of the two vertical bars once everything is installed on the TV. Note that the max possible VESA mount these arms can handle is 400x600, and the max weight was, I believe, 100 lbs. At 42 lbs (without the stand), my TV was well under all limits. For a 41 lb. TV like my 55 unit, it is recommended that you use two people to hang the TV with the X-Plate and H-brace screwed onto it onto the pivot end of the articulated arm, and while that would have been nice, I didnt have another person, and was OK with figuring out a way to do it myself. With the aid of a pair of handy bar stools @ 28 height, I got the TV up very close to where it needed to be, and then just lifted it on the few inches up and over. Id have used another person if it had been possible, and I dont recommend impatience, I just suffer from it. Once the TV/Brace/Plate part is hanging from the arm end by the hook structure of the mounting system, there are two screws left to put in which lock the two together and which also lock the TV into a horizontal orientation. This means that you only have to mount the wall mount bracket onto the wall with it pretty close to level (the closer the better, of course, but perfection is not at all critical). The huge 1/4 lag bolts that are provided for screwing into the wall studs make it virtually impossible to install the arm/mount perfectly level anyway, so just get as close as you can and dont sweat it. A stupid little one-bubble level about 2 long is provided, and I was initially kind of disgusted, because what was shown on the website was a nice little torpedo level as the included level... alas not the case. However, when I actually used the stupid little thing, it actually proved to be all I needed - I was surprised by how accurately I could judge the level of the TV with it, so I didnt detract any for this, even though the picture shows a better level. It works, it was free, care-care. The point of all this is that you can wobble the TV on the arm up to 5 degrees either way, until you lock in the level with the final two screws. That is the only part where precise level of the TV is important. One point is that if there is a surrounding cabinet or structure, you may have to match to ITS level, or if its not perfectly built to a true zero-bubble level, it will look funny with the TV appearing slightly off level even though the TV might be the ONLY thing thats level. But, either way, you can adjust for it, tightening these two last screws up until the TV just barely moves, then making any final adjustments with someone standing 10-12 feet back to advise on matching other vertical/horizontal lines if needed, or the level thingy on your TV if thats all you care about. Once those last two screws are tightened, you just grab the TV and manipulate it into place, the articulated movement of this mounting system is wonderful, smooth, and constant, no graduations or set angles or distances from the wall. Everything they say about this mounting arm is true, it will hold the TV up to 14 out from the wall just fine, or collapse inward until the TV seems almost flush with the wall - about 4 out is the minimum IF YOU HAVE TO USE THE H-BRACE. If you are at VESA 200.200 or less, its less than that by about 1, or about 3 out. A couple more points of interest:and 1> For my curved TV, or any with an irregular shaped back, as the instructions call it, there are some spacers and longer screws of all sizes provided to allow the H-brace to stand out about an inch from the back of the TV, allowing for a curve or whatever. As it happened, my Samsung 55 7200 models VESA 400x400 mounting holes, which required the biggest M8-sized screws, were also inset somewhat into the back of the TV, with the result that the provided M8 (x1.25 thread pitch, 2 length) screws, once inserted into the provided spacers, were too short to get to the fixed threads in the back of the TV. What to do? I went to my local hardware store, M8 screw in hand and determined that standard 1/4 flat washers were the perfect fit over the M8 screws. I bought a bag of 50 1/4 standard washers for about $2.50, and built my own, slightly shorter, spacers using - as it turned out - 9 washers stacked on each of the M8 screws. When I used 8 washers, the screws hit the end of their travel in the threads on the back of the TV with the washers still slightly loose - I could turn them with my fingers if I tried hard. Adding one more washer to each stack let me tighten the M8 bolts on the washer spacers without hitting the limit of travel - all good. I did not deduct anything from the mounting arm rating because, geez, not their problem if Samsung insets their mounting holes and the threads deeply into the TV back. There are a bunch of different lengths and sizes of screws provided with the Mounting Dream arm, and most people should not have to go looking for a custom stand-off solution as I had to. 2> I second the previous reviewers suggestion to Mounting Dream to add a paper template for the wall side of the mount, like most similar units provide. It is a simple matter to include this, and it makes it much easier to locate the positions of the holes over the wall studs. In the event, I didnt have another person, nor time to grow a third arm, so I just flexed my massive muscles and held it to the wall in its flattest position long enough to mark the holes. Yeah, Im a stud. Sure. But the template would be a good idea... 3> After all is screwed in and locked down, there are velcro cable ties provided to help route the cables along one of the two articulated arms. Youll want to do this, and do it with care and a bit of slack in the cables, because how they sit in their little velcro straps with the arm extended is NOT how they will happily sit with it retracted, since the two articulated arms both go from almost straight in line with each other at max extension to basically flat against each other retracted. So, route the cables along the bottoms of one of the two articulated arms, with some give to how you velcro them down. Youll see what I mean, and you can make corrections as you go, and as the arms realign as they retract. Just something to be aware of. 4> I found the instructions to be quite complete and very readable and simple to follow. Much better than some similar items from Chinese manufacturers that Ive had to deal with in the past. 5> There are two sizes of hex/Allan wrenches provided, and they would fit all the screws... except that for the larger/M8 screws that I had to use, they actually had a huge #3 Phillips plus sign type head, not the hex/Allan type screws. Now, I do happen to own a large #3 Phillips screwdriver and was bemused but unphased by the switcheroo they pulled on me, but not everybody is going to have the #3 Phillips screwdriver handy. A suitable wrench should have been provided but is not. I decided that this is also not a big enough deal to drop this excellent unit to 4 stars, you rate it as you see fit. I strongly recommend keeping the smaller wrench with the arm, since that wrench would be needed to either remove the TV, or to adjust the rotation (level) if it had to be readjusted for any reason. Losing this little Alan wrench would mean digging up a suitable replacement to do ANYthing like remove or adjust your TV. Nuf said. One last thing - this Mounting Dream articulated arm worked so well that I bought a second one to mount the old TV that I pulled out of my living room onto a wall in my bedroom. If that gives you any indication of how pleased I was with this mounting system and its ease of installation, I am very pleased and I highly recommend this to others with similar needs.

I normally do not write reviews. But with product I definitely wanted to share my experience. So as far as mourning it is pretty straight forward and comes with everything you need. I would definitely suggest investing in a stud finder(even just the cheap one with a magnet that detects nails works fine). Here is where I messed up and a 100% on me. I centered the mount both vertically and horizontally on the wall. But where I messed up is I did not take into consideration the brackets where not centered on the back or my tv. This cause my tv to hang a little higher than what I would have liked(just a few inches higher than eye level). After giving it a couple of weeks it was still bothering me slightly. Here is where the product absolutely turned into a 5 star review for me. I googled the customer service number, and on the first try I actually got a real person. I described my problem, and the lady said don’t worry bout it, it actually happens quite a bit. She offered to send me some different brackets(I believe I these brackets actually come with the bigger tv mount) but since these brackets are a lil longer it allowed the tv to actually drop maybe 2-3 inches. Which is exactly what I needed and now my tv sits eye level, and I did not have to remount the wall mount, thus I did not have the re hang the mount and did not have patch any holes in the wall. The customer service rep actually send the tv brackets for me for free!! They didn’t even charge me shipping or an extra fee. The mistake was totally on me and they helped me out. So in closing a couple of things to take into consideration 1. Ensure you get a stud finder and mount it on the studs with the provided lag bolts (I used two additional heavy duty dry wall anchors in the middle just for additional support) 2. Measure twice drill once. Ensure you take into consideration how the brackets fit on the back of the tv( ie If they are centered or not. 3. What I did to help visualize the tv on the wall is to cut out a piece of cardboard the size of your tv and tape it on the wall and that will help give your your mounting height. 4. For the most part you can do this with one person, but definitely suggest two people when you lift the tv to the brackets 5. Definitely use the spacers and saftey mounting lock to keep the tv secure

Super easy to install, put it up on my wall in less than an hour and its made my tv viewing experience better 10 fold! Amazing for the price

Definitely a sturdy mount! Far better then most currently available. I had to build a custom fiberglass mount only because the area in which I mounted the tv had studs oddly 18 apart on center

Great to mount our TVs. Very strong and sturdy and at a lower price than Best Buy.

Let me just start by saying the quality is awesome! Right out of the box, the paint on every surface of every component was flawless. The metal was rounded off and no jagged edges. The installation instructions were very easy and I had my Samsung 60 tv mounted in no time. There is an included template with a stick on bubble level and I used painters tape to attach it to the wall, after using my stud finder to mark center on 2 of the studs in my wall. After I had the template taped up and perfectly level, I drilled the pilot holes then the larger holes into the studs. The template was dead on to drill into the studs. Next up is putting the mount on the wall. The lag bolts included are ridiculously overkill and I have full confidence in this mount. I pulled on the mount with a good bit of weight. The lag bolts are probably 3 long and 1/2 in diameter. I ran them down with an impact driver and it was struggling. I had to torque them with a 1/2 ratchet. I said to my self, wow.... thats not going anywhere!!! Once the mount was on the wall, I began assembling the mounts to the back of the tv. They come with multiple washer, spacers, bolts, etc to adapt to your TV. In my case, my tv has a slight curve on the back housing and I needed the longest bolts and the thickest spacers. Once I had the mounts on the back of the TV all I had to do was lift this huge awkward tv, but no matter, the mounts are super easy to use. The top of the mounts on the TV attaches to the bars on the wall mount simply hangs there. With my oddly spaced wall/studs, I had to slide the tv on the mount all the way to the right to center above my entertainment center. Once the I had it situated, all I had to do was flip the locking tabs up on the bottom of the mounts and insert the screws to lock it onto the mount. Ive had the TV mounted for days and it shows absolutely no signs of coming off the wall by itself! Id almost bet I could sit on this mount and it wouldnt budge. Dont spend big money on a mount, go for this one! Put the money you save towards a sound bar, led backlights for your tv, a new entertainment center, or anything else. I also recommend purchasing an in-wall wiring solution. The only wire I wasnt able to hide is the optical cable for my sound bar because it was too short to run from my entertainment center to my TV. However, it will suffice once I mount my soundbar to my tv.

sturdy and love the range of motion. Easy to install for handy people. Directions are lacking some specificity on assembling some parts but Im handy so it worked great for me.