Large Screen TV various questions

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Hello all

I've just made my first foray into the large screen TV world and am
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for some advice on various topics relating to it.

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going to be mounting the TV using a Sanus VLL5 bracket, onto a wet
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Thermalite block wall.
So no dot and dab cavities to worry about, but I am concerned about fixing
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bracket into a Thermalite block.
The Sanus bracket is a USA product and the only two wall types covered in
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instructions are timber stud and solid concrete blocks.
The supposedly UK based support for Sanus is based in Holland and they
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about as much use as a chocolate teapot.
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hadn't heard of aerated concrete blocks and were unable to offer any
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.
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web browsed and there seems to be a lot of recommendations for the Rigifix=
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product, if anybody here has used those?

I contacted an aerated block=20
manufacturer's technical support and they advised against using any form
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expanding fixing in a lightweight block.
So it looks like I am back to using the Sanus supplied 10mm diameter
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c "Rawlplug fixings, unless anybody has any better ideas?


Next comes the problem of feeding power and all the other ancillary cables
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to the rear of the TV.
I am lucky in that the wall that I am mounting the TV on is an internal
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ity wall, that was created to lose a "foul" pipe.
I can therefore cut a suitably sized hole behind the TV and fish all the
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bles that I need, diagonally down through the cavity, a distance of
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1.5m.

But what type of box or outlet to put in the wall to feed the cables to,
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y recommendation or advice is welcome?
Again I've=20
done some searching and come up with this product, which would seem to
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pretty much what I want, albeit at a fancy price.

http://www.sync-box.com/recessed-outlet/

I want to mount any AV equipment remotely in a Node/Store room on the
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floor and I envisage that an AV amp and PVR would be located about 6m from
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TV.