After purchasing a new flat panel, I was challenged with finding a location where both accessibility and viewing angle existed in harmony in relation to our furniture. The logical place was over the fireplace – so I purchased a fixed mount, installed it and quickly realized the challenges. While watching just an hour or two of programming, the unnatural viewing angle left my family and I with stiff necks. The same was true when I noticed my sons straining their necks while playing their favorite games. It looked great up over the fireplace however, so I thought “what if I could drop it down in front of the fireplace?”.

We rarely had a fire lit, but I had to make sure that when I did it would be back in safe position over the fireplace. That night I used my previous experience in designing hydraulic/pneumatic clamps – the lifting equipment that handled the top and bottom covers of large airplane wings to design the Down and Out mount. I had a prototype designed and installed in less than a week and both my family and friends loved it. After doing some research I noticed there was no comparable solution in the market place so I decided to start the Dynamic Mounting company.