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I will suggest something that I haven’t used much, but depending upon your back yard area. I did install the exact same TV mount on my back patio and an extension cord (outdoor) that I hid in the bushes. I can put the TV on the screened porch onto the wall next to the grill area. I don’t use it much at all, but it is there. We don’t have as many parties in the back because it seems like we are at baseball or football every weekend anyway now that my boys are bigger. Again, I don’t recall how you are setup but with Internet TV, Firesticks and WiFi, one TV mount with power gets you TV anywhere. The mounts I have have a hand screw with a plastic knob so it’s easy to move and hang on the other mount.

They still have voltage. The problem with Non-outdoor rated stuff is water. Which it are still plugged into the same 120V/220V outlet of yesteryear. Ways to mitigate this are making sure your GCFI (At minimum) outlets work. You do have those right? So if there is a short it’ll trip the outlet.

But if they are enclosed and have a front cover i guess they’ll be ok from the rain if sealed good enough. TV’s going to be the last thing you worry about if Hail can break the clear acrylic. The cost to replace your roof because of the damage will be 50X that. And just a main disconnect for when they aren’t in use.

And where the outdoor stuff is even more different then indoor. Is the layer between LCD(Or whatever) and front surface(Glass/Plastic) should be sealed from humidity and condensation being able to form. First example i found on youtube.

I used to work next to a crackhouse and they’d pull a massive tv outside onto the porch at night, even in the icy winter, to play Call of Duty as to not bug the kids with their screaming at each other. If they weren’t mass-producing pitbulls in the basement and having fistfights in the front yard and hiding fugitives who pepper sprayed clerks at the gas station before a smash and grab, they were otherwise really nice neighbors.

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