There are many thoughtless, idiotic design choices today, for example curved edge phone screens, shitty ultrasonic/photo fingerprint sensors in the scren, no jack connector, microsim, etc. I call it engineer idiotism.

Pepperidge Farm remembers when TVs didn't even come with a "stand". It was just a big box with no real "mounting" options.

I can still remember the sound my back made when I picked up my first 32" TV.

Lmao op you are truly a moron

Did you not see the foot in the store showmodel?

give your cat some scritches for me :)

I don't have anything to say about the TV sitch but your cat is pretty.

It's way cheaper to produce such stands (they can be way less sturdy).

Also stop wide-shaming your perfectly nice 32" cat.

I actually just bought a Sansui TV that almost wouldn't have fit the desk but it had 2 sets of places where the legs could be attached, so I just attached them to the inner ones. Welcome change. Not sure how uncommon it is since I've only owned like 5 TVs and most just had the little circular base in the middle instead.

The legs being so far out is maybe since manufactures found it to be the most stable places for the skinny leg designs they use now. So yeah, cost cutting measure probably.

cat is build better. cat can stand good.

They think everyone wants to mount them to the wall now, the legs are like the cheapest possible "courtesy" they're willing to include. It's super annoying, I really don't want the thing on my wall with a bunch of wires hanging down

why are all of the 48" tv screens bigger than my 32" bedside table?

I'm curious what picture you saw that made you think the legs would be any different.

Did you measure the table before buying the TV?

Even then just a piece of wood cut to size to lay on top wouldn’t hurt. Table looks scratched up pretty bad as it is anyways so it’s not like appearance is your game here.

Your orange cat is still trying to process your anger.

People really out here at stupid levels of angry now, eh?

Kitty is probably over in !cats being like “mildly infuriating…. Human is ignoring me for a flimsy idiot box…. And it’s meal time!”

I agree. The tipping threat on a TV is almost exclusively front to back, not side to side. Putting the support legs closer to the middle, but still spaced a third of the width of the TV should be totally adequate. I suspect it's an aesthetics thing now.

Cat: Did you get the accidental coverage Dad? Purrrrr Purrrrr (rubs scent from face on tv) Purr Purr CRASH MRERRRREREOW!!!!!

Sadly nowadays the stands that come in a box should just be used temporarily tool you get a more permanent solution. You can get done really good mounts that use the VESA mounts at the back.

I would never trust the standard stands, they have way too much wobble to them.

I mean two little hunks of plastic are most definitely cheaper than something big and sturdy in the middle as it needs to be over engineered to make up for the lack of physics being on its side. You can buy an aftermarket TV stand or wall mount it.

If feet at the edge of the tv (done for stability) is a stupid design, what would you do differently?

"your in my spot" - cat