11.4.2018

When you first open the box containing your new Vogel 445 TV Wall Bracket it all looks a bit intimidating and complicated, especially if you didn't play with Meccano as a child. However, take a deep breath and spend a few minutes with the illustrated manual (or watch the YouTube installation video - check Vogel's website) and it quickly becomes clear that clearly it's not a quick process, but it is relatively straightforward. There are three stages, you attach the hanging frame to the VESA mounts on the rear of your TV, attach the main bracket to your wall and then hang the TV onto the bracket.Of course it will need a very secure fixing onto your wall and various bolts are supplied and you use the appropriate set for the kind of wall you have.The main bracket has a relatively small mounting plate which doesn't seem to rely on a cantilever for strength and there are just four bolts holding it into place and so with a cavity wall you'll have to be sure to be screwing straight into a wooden stud or equivalent - one of those electronic gizmos that can 'see' studs and pipework inside your wall will be very handy for locating this. Vogel supply a printed template you tape to the wall to mark where the bolt-holes should be drilled, you have to be sure to get this as straight as possible and there's a mini spirit-level in the kit to help. Later, when the whole bracket is folded against the wall the mounting plate will be positioned slightly off-centre and because most TV's have all their sockets and connectors arranged to one side you're advised to position the mounting plate away from them and toward the other side of the TV.When you come to hang the TV onto the fixed bracket there's another opportunity to adjust the position to really ensure it's absolutely level. The bracket also has the option to tilt the TV forward about 20° with a clever click-release action - if you don't need or want a tilted TV then there's the option to fix it in a vertical position with a little clip-on tilt-lock. With the TV in place the movement is smooth and easy and needs just a light touch. It feels nicely damped but it certainly isn't frictionless and if you bump into the TV it doesn't quite send it flying - nor will it drift to one side if you don't quite hang it perfectly vertical. The bracket pretty much disappears when folded shut and looks substantial but quite sleek when extended. The bigger section of the bracket, that four-part section attached to the mounting plate, has sturdy metal sections in the middle but the top and bottom sections are made from plastic and serve as cable ducts and have removeable plastic inserts you use to keep cables tucked neatly inside.It takes a little bit of patience with the sparsely-worded illustrated instructions and/or the slightly hurried installation video (keep your finger near the pause button to catch the details) but with a bit of effort you get a very secure and effective TV mount. It looks expensive and has a smooth secure-feeling action and should keep your expensive TV flying safely around the room for many years. You'll need a very fortunately placed wall stud (or a solid masonry wall) to get a secure fixing in the right position in your room and it would be worth checking you have that before ordering, but apart from that obvious limitation it's a really excellent quality TV bracket.

3.3.2018

I really need to divide this review into two parts, installation and finished quality of the product.1 - installation. To summarise, fairly easy and straightforward but with two issues.- You put the template on the wall, tape it up with magic tape, and drill through it. Easy. You need a 10mm drill bit, the guide suggests you predrill with a 5mm. You need to go in 80mm which is very deep. Four holes. Not too tricky. The key here is use a good, sharp, fresh drill bit. Don't cheap out on the drill bit. I'm suprised they didn't provide one actually.- You then have to screw the bracket base to the wall. This was hitch number one, a bolt needs tightening but it virtually touches the hinge bolt,

4.1.2019

This item was not available in the US (at the time) and so... I bought it from Amazon UK and paid the $50 freight hoping for a product that spared me "buyer's remorse." This wall mount hardware is engineered by a team of meticulous and fanatic Danes. God bless them one and all! The packaging was excellent and it arrived free of damage despite the transcontinental holiday journey. The pictographic directions are universal and language barrier-free. A VR phone app lets you position the TV for kicks. The unit mounts easily and the supplied hardware for multiple substrate contingencies was supplied by a generous hearted company obviously proud of their product. (

27.2.2018

This is a bit of kit that feels pretty premium- despite being thinner than I expected, it’s weighty in the right way, without being so heavy that it’ll pull your wall down (though do a quick DIY wall check before you start!), it definitely gives the impression of well-built strength. I’m told by friends it’s a very reliable brand (I’d never heard of them)Although the product photos all show the example TV sticking out quite a large distance from the wall, you can of course adjust it so that the TV is not very far from the wall at all, and having the arm contracted like that feels just as secure as when you’ve got the TV sticking out halfway into the room! (depending on the size of your living room…)

10.4.2018

This is a beautifully made, strong yet light TV mount that folds down to a discreetly hidden section which lies almost flush to the wall when pushed fully back. The arm is impressively strong and has a smart black powdered paint finish. We installed this in our lounge - in a recess to one side of a chimney breast. The chimney breast would have given the TV the most central position in the room, but we felt that it looked too dominant here, and were not convinced that a TV should be mounted just above a wood burning stove. This mount allows us to pull the TV out from the corner of the room and tilt it round so that everyone gets a good viewing angle without having our room dominated by the television as a focal point.This was our first time of attempting to install a TV mount,

4.3.2018

At a RRP of perhaps ten or even twenty times the price of most swivel 'n' tilt TV brackets, you'd have the right to expect this to be the Bee's Knee and Trousers and Jacket of the TV Bracket,and that is certainly what you get. It's obviously targeted at the Modernist interior design perfectionist, or perhaps professional interior designers working on high-end hotel rooms and suchlike.Given that, I would imagine that most people who purchase this would be spending a few more quid getting a professional in to mount it, so to get it up and running is a lot more challenging than usual: The bolts are 80mm long, and there's a tricky cover for the wall bolts to ensure that sleek, minimalist look.

23.3.2018

- Reviewed by fitting to a Samsung 40" LED television -This is a very high quality, well engineered wall bracket. There is some weight to it but in the good places like the fixings and the joints, all of which are beautifully made and move effortlessly.Installing this for me was not a problem, i have no concerns about the walls in my house though so this gave me one advantage (1960's terrace house with nice thick walls).The instructions were good and clear i could easily follow them, it took me about 20 mins to get the bracket and the TV on the wall.Movement of this is great the 20 degree vertical tilt is very useful as it means you can mount the TV higher than you may normally consider.

26.2.2018

This is my first suspended TV wall bracket, so I was careful to make sure all was double-checked before drilling the 1st of deep 4 holes to mount it on the wall. Initially I was a bit sceptical about it holding my 48" Samsung curved TV off the lounge wall given the TV's weight, but Vogel is a good brand and their own website allows you to enter your TV make & model number to check compatibility with the bracket. Installation is pretty straight forward in terms of drilling holes - just read ahead and take your time is my tip. For a bigger or heavier TV it's a 2-person job really for attaching the TV onto the bracket but everything else is then easy in terms of tightening up and securing.The

26.2.2018

I haven't had a bracket by Vogels for years until I discovered this. I used to have a TV bracket by them in the days of heavy cathode ray tube TV's and it carried the weight for years. When the TV went, the bracket remained! This bracket is just as well made, in fact it is even better! Supplied with a lifetime warranty, this heavy duty bracket will carry a 26 to a 55" screen, up to 18Kg or 40lb's in weight.This extra thin bracket will snuggly hold the TV as little as 3.5cm from a wall, but will also extend to a maximum 51cm!This bracket will also tilt the TV down by 20 degrees and turn it around a full 180 degrees.A heavy duty fixing kit is supplied,

19.9.2018

I purchased this directly from the manufacturer - but felt compelled to leave a review here too, this bracket is that good! I have recently purchased an LG OLED TV and wanted a high quality, slim, full movement bracket. Quality being key - there are a lot of cheaper mounts available, but having used them in the past I'm not sure I would trust them with my new TV.Mounting was relatively easy and completed in an afternoon. All the components (even the wide-ranging fittings included) are high quality, everything I needed except the drill bit was there. You level and tape the included template to the wall, mark and drill, the rest is tightening screws.Adjusting the level after was really easy,

10.3.2018

This is my second Vogel's TV bracket, the first one I have had for about five or six years, so I can testify to the quality and longevity of the brand.The hardest thing when mounting is to find somewhere suitable on your wall. As I live in an old house it took me a while with a stud finder to locate a suitable point. Once I had, I stuck the template to the wall, drilled the holes and attached the included fixing bolts. There is a video online available to help for the less DIY savvy, but if you are really unsure I would maybe suggest getting help as this bracket could be holding a lot of expensive weight.Once installed the bracket holds my 49" TV securely and the range of motion is really excellent.

15.2.2019

This was the latest offering from Vogels TV wall mount and suited me because of its flexibility. I had already had previous model and I knew the company made a good quality product as time as gone on TV have become lighter and bigger and with a 55 inch TV i needed the flexibility to be able to push the TV flat against the wall and then be able to pull it out to go diagonally across two walls in a corner of the room .I didn't find bracket which has such a range of movement. I know its expensive but it suits my particular need so if you need flexibility and good quality this is the one . Its in White as well.Because of its flexibility its important that you have a really good study of what range

9.3.2020

This absolutely did what I wanted: a very shallow depth but fully flexible wall mount. I used it on an LGOLD55C9PLA. Due to the design of the TV itself (VESA in bottom half of the TV) the mount must set lower on the wall than for a normal TV of the same dimensions but no problem accommodating this and the mount does not protrude below TV. Two minor quibbles:1) The instruction app (in addition to written instructions) was useful but I couldn't get the the fancy Augmented Reality part for positioning it on the wall to work and I therefore couldn't proceed in the app beyond that point. Fortunately the written instructions and old technology (tape measure and spirit level) solved that problem2)

26.9.2018

The product was used to hang a 43 inch TV on wall. Very easy to fit to the bracket to the TV and the rest of the bracket to wall. Needed to buy some longer screws because of the amount of insulation between plaster and wood in the wall. Had no problems unlike other reviewer with bolts being close together possibly because I have different spanners. Certainly useful to have a variety of spanners, pliers , mole grips etc. Joining the two parts of the brackcet needed to people but that was due to the size of the TV rather than any problems with brackets. Have had TV off the wall since and very easy simply requires two thumb screws to undo and lift the TV down.

16.5.2018

Made from quality materials. Relatively easy to install and permits leveling vertically and horizontally after the bracket has been bolted to the wall. I paired it with a AVF JAK101 to mount a Samsung sound bar under a LG OLED 55B7V. The combination (which is about 25kg so well within the 30kg limit) works well. My only criticism is that the second stage mechanism is very stiff. It is not possible to fully extend the bracket without applying considerable force: certainly more than you would want to apply to an OLED screen. Therefore, to do so, you end up having to work from behind the TV and manipulate the bracket directly. This is a shame as the first stage is very smooth and you can rotate the TV with only fingertip pressure.

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