I am mounting a flat panel TV over a fireplace and the components will be located in a closet in an adjacent room. I will be placing a new outlet over the fireplace to power the TV. How would you recommend that I surge protect the TV? All the components will share surgeprotection in the closet, but the power cord for the TV wont reach the surgeprotector in the closet. I imagine the TV will need to be plugged into some sort of surge protector which is mounted on the wall behind the TV and then plugged into the new outlet.

I have seen a few products but they were "expensive", around $300 for some "Monster" "Panamax" type surge protection and power conditioning device at Tweeter.

I am open to solutions of all types and expense. I know surge protection and power conditioning can be a controversial topic around here but I am just looking for some options to choose from. This is my first Home theater and I am learning much of this technology as I go. The theater is composed of an Onkyo 894 TIB and I am still shopping for the TV. (If you want to suggest a 50+inch flat panel that could be considered a bargain I am open to that as well. I would like to keep the TV under $3K but over 50in)

Thanks!

*I found the thread "How do you provide surge protection for a wall mounted plamsa/lcd? - CarbonCrew " But if anyone has additional info I'd appreciate it.

I love using these from Panamax. MSRP is $50, surge protected outlet along with a passthrough slot that you can use (unless you purchase optional surge protected video/audio connections). Its a double gang electrical box, and you wire nut the stranded wire that is attached to the unit to the romex that you ran, plus the outlet is recessed great for flat panel on-wall type deal.

http://www.panamax.com/products.cfm?group=1&sec=detail&id=219&ly=h

Oh there are also surge protected regular electrical recepticals which go about the same price I think or a bit less ~ $40. You can find them at a Home depot, or Lowes