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Cantilever TV stands provide the perfect solution for people who enjoy the look of a wall mounted television screen but do not want or need the hassle of wall mounting. Wall mounting can be more complicated than it sounds not only do you have to drill into the wall, providing your wall is strong enough but you need to run all the cabling, to do this without creating an eyesore requires the cabling to be run behind the wall, if you do this wall mounted TV’s look great, but then you decide to buy a Blu Ray player and you need to run another cable to the TV….

Cantilever TV stands cut out this headache by offering a much more flexible solution to the problem. A cantilever TV stand is a raised home for your Plasma or LCD TV, much like a wall mount solution, however the flexibility of a free standing unit makes life alot easier if you ever need to change equipment or add cabling. When buying a mountable TV stand you should always check the supplied mounting bracket to ensure it is compatible with your TV, measure the mounting holes on the back of your TV set and ensure that the bracket is large enough, if you have a TV 32″ or smaller it is important to check that the bracket itself is not larger than the TV, there are many cantilever stands specifically designed for smaller televisions so why should you buy one where the bracket protrudes from wither side of the screen. Follow this simple advice and you should be fine.

A cantilever TV stand is a tall TV stand with a built in bracket, this type of TV stand gives you a similar look to a wall mounted stand yet provides a much more practical and convenient solution.

The first cantilever TV stands to be launched on  the market were the Alphason Apex series, these stands had a beautiful four shelved leaf design and were immensely popular, Alphason had just created a product which would shape the future of the TV furniture market.

Following Alphason’s move a new TV stand company off the wall released a range of TV stands all with the cantilever theme. Each of the off the wall products also featured a four way adapter for easy management of AV equipment, off the wall proved to be successful and led to the creation of more cantilever tv stand specialist companies in addition to mainstream companies introducing cantilever TV stands.

Optimum launched the elmob TV stands, these European designed stands were of decent quality yet they significantly reduced the price of this type of TV furniture. Following Optimum’s move the then market leaders, S&C releaed afew cantilever models.

Today the cantilever TV stand market is dominated by Stil stands and Aquila TV stands. Alphason and Techlink are large mainstream brands with a strong ranges in the cantilever sector. Additionally high end manufacturers like Spectral and BDI also have a foothold on this market. New cantilever products are being released on a regular basis and the market is set to grow and adapt through the remainder of 2009 and thoroughout the whole of 2010.