I can live with the TV being up high but it's not ideal. I'd prefer it to be closer to eye level. I wear glasses. My wife complained about the TV being up so high so installed a Dynamic Mount and we pull the TV down for movies.
Our family room TV is above the fireplace and with the room not being very large we sit about 10 feet from the screen.
It was a pain in the butt installing it myself but we got done.
