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Going hand in hand with the explosion of flat panel TV’s and HDTV upgrades are flat panel TV lifts. I’ve written on models from the likes of Auton and Lift-Tech and I must say I’ve been very impressed with what’s arrived so far.

You used to only see TV lifts in movies when the bad guy pops on the screen and demands “One million dollars.” Now they’re popping up (sorry, terrible pun) everywhere.

Häfele has joined the party with its introduction of a flat panel lift for use with hinged lids, which is fully adjustable to fit TVs with maximum box dimensions of 50 x 5-1/2 x 30-inches.Each lift arrives to you pre-assembled onto a plywood box and is easily dropped into a cabinet. The cross bars are adjustable and can be removed from the lift and mounted directly to the TV for quick and easy TV mounting.  

It can be preset to automatically stop and a safety tray shuts off the process in the down position if it encounters any type of interference. The lift will not close entirely, stopping six inches from the closing position if the TV is left on and will automatically rise six inches to circulate some air in if the TV is turned on while the lift is in the closed position. That’s a neat feature—we don’t want our homeowners burning out their nice new $9,000 flat panel now would we?