While it's normally best to mount a flat panel TV at eye-height to the seated position, sometimes there's that slab of wall space above the fireplace just begging for a TV, impractically high but otherwise the perfect center of attention. Or perhaps the footboard on the bed would block the view if you mounted an LCD at a conventional height in the bedroom.

Turns out, Clo Systems' Motorized Tilt Mount TP150B (or "T2 Tilt" to its friends) is the fix for your TV mounting pickle. It's your typical wall mount for 40" - 60" LCD and Plasmas TVs with a twist - rather, a tilt, which you may have inferred from the label.

As a flat panel wall mounting system, there's not much to say save for it's sturdy and strong - it's pretty hard to make a "bad" mount once you've taken care of the quality steel and bolt-fastened engineering, which Clo does. But this is a motorized TV mounting system, as the name suggests; one that's optionally automated, as it doesn't.

Packaged with all the requisite wiring, cabling and a surplus of bolts and washers to accommodate the backside of most any flat panel TV set, the AC power-adapted tilt motor of the Motorized Tilt Mount takes its wired cue from the TV's optical audio output. If you actually use the optical audio out, you can split it and carry on.

Turn the duly rigged TV on and the whole kit and caboodle will tilt down to a preset, couch-slouching angle up to 13 degrees. Power off and it sucks back upright to hang the TV upright and art-like.

While a tad noisy about it, the mechanized motion looks cool as all get out, like something Robocop might have in his living room. There's even a remote control so you can just fiddle with the angle for the heck of it, impress your friends and annoy your wife.

Speaking of for-better-or-worse, the retail price on the thing is almost impossible to peg. Smarthome.com is selling it for a crazy US$249.99, other "boutique" A/V shops for $179.99, but Costco.ca (that be in Canada) is listing the thing under a slightly different name, the Clo System's Evolution TC105B Motorized Tilt Mount, for a scant C$109.99. For a hundred and change, that's a smokin' deal for a Robo-mount; two-fifty, not so much with the smoke. Shop around.