Seeing as I've now seen where Tim takes a bath (I'll never wash again
) though you might like to see my DIY effort.
So yes as luck would have it did stay on the wall! I bought a decent stud detector as the one that came with the mounting kit was random to say the least. The little cabinety thing below it is just something we had lying around, I'm just using it to keep the cable box off the floor at the mo. I'll need to get something to stand the PS3, surround amp (both yet to be purchased) and cable box on, anyone got any recommendations, must be child friendly, i.e. not glass.
I'm also gonna box in the cables with one of those white plastic box section things and then paint it the same colour as the walls when we redecorate. Oh and I need to redirect the lights so the screen doesn't reflect. And clear up the kids toys!
The TV is just a 42" 720p/1080i set that we got as a good deal with the washer and dryer from futureshop, I think it ended up at $599 plus I managed to haggle the wall mount kit for free, I think that was worth $85! I love haggling for stuff! In time this TV will be replaced with a bigger (hopefully 65") 1080p model and this will get relegated upstairs, but it's good enough for now. Looks tiny on the wall though...