How high to mount a TV on the wall
Pick your room, type your TV size and your own seated eye height, and get exact numbers— floor to screen center, floor to the bracket's bottom edge, calculated for your exact screen.
Couch seating — eye height is measured sitting upright on your actual sofa.
Sit where you'll watch from, measure floor to the middle of your eyes. Don't guess — a couch cushion height alone can be off by several inches.
Mount it at
Screen center, floor to center
3'6"
Bracket's bottom edge, floor to bottom
2'2"
Bottom-edge number accounts for your 65" screen's own height — it moves with diagonal, so re-check it if you change the size above.
The “right” height is your eyes, not the wall
Most generic advice gives one height in inches, as if every room and every person sat the same way. They don't: a tall reader on a low sofa and a shorter one on a tall recliner end up with different seated eye heights in the same living room. The convention mount makers actually build around is simpler and more reliable — put the center of the screen at eye level, in the seat where the TV will actually be watched.
That number also moves with screen size, because the bracket sits below the screen's center by half its own visible height — a 43-inch TV and a 85-inch TV centered at the same eye level need brackets at two different heights on the wall. The calculator above does that subtraction live for whatever size you type.
Measure your eyes
Seated, in the actual spot you'll watch from
Account for size
Bracket sits below center by half the screen height
Check the fireplace case
Mantels force height up — see the real tilt angle
Mounted right still needs a remote you can find
Once a Hisense TV is up on its bracket, the free HiRemote app finds it on the same Wi-Fi network with no pairing code to read off a now-higher screen. This is what it looks like in your hand: a full D-pad, power and volume, app shortcuts, and a QWERTY keyboard for typing streaming logins without squinting at a remote that rolled under the couch.
Still working out the size before you drill into the wall? Use the TV size & viewing distance calculator first, or check which Hisense TV platform you have.
Questions about TV mounting height
How high should a TV be mounted on the wall?+
There's no single number — it depends on how tall you sit and where your eyes land when you're actually in your seat. The convention mount makers and installers use is to center the screen at your seated eye level, measured in your real viewing spot, not a generic "wall height." Enter your own measurement in the calculator above and it converts that straight into floor-to-center and floor-to-bracket-edge heights for your exact screen size.
What's the difference between "screen center height" and "bracket height"?+
Screen center height is where the middle of the picture sits, which is what should line up with your eyes. Bracket (mount) height is where the physical bracket's bottom edge sits on the wall, which is lower by half the screen's visible height — a 65-inch TV's bracket sits roughly 16 inches below its own screen center. The calculator subtracts that automatically so you're not doing the math on a ladder.
Is mounting height different for a bedroom versus a living room?+
The formula is the same — center of screen at your seated eye level — but the eye height itself usually isn't, because you're not sitting the same way. On a living-room sofa you're upright; in bed you're reclined against pillows, which puts your eyes lower. Switch the room tab above and re-measure your eye height for that actual position instead of reusing the living-room number.
How high should a TV be mounted above a fireplace?+
Usually higher than ideal, because the mantel or firebox is in the way of the eye-level height — that's the actual problem with over-fireplace mounts, not a design choice. Pick "Over a fireplace" above, enter the height the mantel is actually forcing you into, and the tool shows the downward tilt angle your neck will cover at your real seating distance, so you can judge whether a fixed mount is enough or you need a tilting one.
Does the distance from my couch to the TV change the mounting height?+
Not the ideal height itself — that's set by eye level regardless of distance. Distance matters for the fireplace case specifically: the same "too high" screen center produces a smaller downward tilt angle the farther back you sit, because the same vertical offset is spread over a longer line of sight. The calculator's tilt-angle result for "Over a fireplace" uses your actual distance for exactly that reason.