How should I transport my HDTV?

[Yoda9864]

I have a 46" LCD HDTV and am going to be moving to a new city 5 hours away. Can I lay my TV flat, or should it always be vertical? Will if hurt it if I move it flat?

If I have it vertical, it will have to go in a trailer in 15F degree weather. However, if I can put it flat, we can put it in my SUV. Which is preferable?

Also, if I can lay it flat, should I have the screen facing up or facing down?

I have the original box and padding and everything.

 

[alfa147x]

Originally posted by: Yoda9864
I have a 46" LCD HDTV and am going to be moving to a new city 5 hours away. Can I lay my TV flat, or should it always be vertical? Will if hurt it if I move it flat?

If I have it vertical, it will have to go in a trailer in 15F degree weather. However, if I can put it flat, we can put it in my SUV. Which is preferable?

Also, if I can lay it flat, should I have the screen facing up or facing down?

I have the original box and padding and everything.

I brought my 32'' LCD flat when i took it out the box said not to lay it flat
The Tv is fine it was about a hour like that

 

[Auric]

I'd opt for SUV, facing up, and take it easy on the bumps. Trailer may be a harsher ride.

 

[laurenlex]

Cold shouldn't hurt it at all. Just let it acclimate before firing it up. I don't think the back of UPS trucks are heated.

 

[NoObTecH]

it's lcd not plasma. You'll be fine either way.

 

[Yoda9864]

I think I might opt to have it in the SUV face up for the smoother ride.

Anybody else have an opinion? I just don't want to ruin my TV. That would certainly put me in a foul mood.

 

[Auric]

'nutha option is shipping it... let someone else assume the responsibility. Although if it arrived box intact that may be the limit of it. Is it still under warranty?

 

[SlickSnake]

Lay it on a thick blanket, face up in the SUV. I carried mine for about 45 minutes in my SUV from the store in the box, but I made sure it was face up in the box before carrying it. Face down might have scratched it on the corners where the styrofoam was pressed against the screen.

I would maybe remove the base from it, unless you have it properly supported so the base is not causing a bending or warping of the tv from the tv lying on it improperly. Also, the base is not shipped attached to any large flat screen tv I know of, and shipping it upright with the base on it might cause internal TV damage to the base mount or the TV itself if you hit a lot of bumps in the road. It might crack something inside the case that way. I think maybe shipped either way you might want to remove the base from it, just to be safe with it. On my 46" LCD the base sticks out a lot on the front and back of the TV.

And it's good you have the original box, but my box was not a very good one, considering the price of the TV that was in it. I noticed when I threw it out today the styrofoam was cracked on all 4 corners of the box, and on the bottom it was almost cracked into pieces. The box, however, was undamaged as far as I could tell. After I noticed that, I inspected the TV for possible damage on the corners, but did not see anything, so I guess the styrofoam worked. I think I would opt for the thick blanket padding it approach over repacking in the box, but that's your call there.