What is "Wall Mountable" ?????????????????????????????

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Deadjasper

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I'm looking for a monitor with a VESA mount. The kind that bolts to a monitor arm. Viewsonic seems to be the only brand that advertises that their monitor have a VESA mount. But I'm wondering about all the "Wall Mountable" monitors that are out there. Can these be used with a standard monitor arm?

TIA
 
Digging a little deeper I found I can search Amazon for monitors with VESA mount monitors but none of them say so. I did find a spec sheet for a LG monitor that says -

Wall Mountable 100mm x 100mm

So maybe "Wall Mountable" is VESA. But why don't they just say so?
 
For computer monitor you can assume that any wall mountable mention would refer to a vesa system and not some big alternative tv rail.

I imagine a lot of potential customer get what wall mountable mean and not the VESA name for the mounting system ?
 
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Because it doesn't need to be said; VESA mounting has been the standard in the consumer space for a long time, and nobody's changed things up, so it's become synonymous with "wall mount". The most common sizes on sub-40" displays are 75x75mm and 100x100mm. You can also buy adapter plates to support whatever size you need, e.g. if your mounting arm only has a 75x75mm end, but your monitor is 100x100, you can attach an adapter plate to make it fit.
 
Thanks guys. Now to find one without a ton of sucky reviews or hundreds of complaints about shitty customer service.

Any recommendations welcome. :)
 
Deadjasper said:
So maybe "Wall Mountable" is VESA. But why don't they just say so?
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Because no one but geeks knows what "VESA" is. Have not seen a monitor in a long time that was not VESA compliant.

Three years in on my LG OLED and could not be happier.
 
FrgMstr said:
Because no one but geeks knows what "VESA" is. Have not seen a monitor in a long time that was not VESA compliant.

Three years in on my LG OLED and could not be happier.
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Non vesa mountable monitors are extremely rare. Usually it's because they're extremely cheap or have some weird special stand.
 
Deadjasper said:
I'm looking for a monitor with a VESA mount. The kind that bolts to a monitor arm. Viewsonic seems to be the only brand that advertises that their monitor have a VESA mount. But I'm wondering about all the "Wall Mountable" monitors that are out there. Can these be used with a standard monitor arm?

TIA
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Pretty much every monitor out there is VESA-compatible. Those that aren't are the exception, not the rule.
 
FrgMstr said:
Because no one but geeks knows what "VESA" is. Have not seen a monitor in a long time that was not VESA compliant.

Three years in on my LG OLED and could not be happier.
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I picked up this HP IPS monitor back in the day since it was pretty inexpensive at the time for it's specs, IPS, DP, DVI, and I think HDMI, had no analog input.
Only thing missing was a VESA mount. Had a lit up HP logo where a VESA mount would go.
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