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After reading many amazon reviews of various LCD and Plasma HD TVs, I decided on this one (for my living room). It’s got beautiful color and sharpness, especially with HD channels. It’s very user friendly. The only thing I could complain about is that the base isn’t real solid, but it’s solid enough.
This is the most I ever paid for a TV ($500 shipped).
Speaker quality is very good, and plenty loud enough. With an HDMI cable and HD channels, they produce a very nice sound.
It’s a big improvement over the 26″ wide screen CRT TV I was using. Salespeople at several TV stores highly recommended LG and Samsung TVs over all other brands.
For the price, this LCD is phenomenal. I went to the local best buy looking for something to mount in the dining room so I can watch the news in the morning among other TV shows. After looking at all the 32s, 37s and 40s. This one stood above the rest. I have a Samsung LN46A650 and in my opinion, it was their best line of TVs and I’m glad I don’t have to pick from their subpar line of TVs now. I’ve seen clarity, rich colors 1080p etc etc etc. The LG is comparable to a TV that was 3 times its price.
Let me explain. You really have to literally take look all of the quailties of a TV in order to make an educated and smart purchase. Don’t buy a sony becuase it’s a sony. Don’t buy a TV of the same size that’s more expensive because somewhere in our upbringing we wer taught, expensive = better. Not the case. When looking for a TV, look at how choppy fast motion is. Do you see background pixelation around the central image? (like a fast moving car, a football player, etc.) Can you see inconsistencies in the back lighting? Are blacks rich while the rest of the picture is vibrant? (not bright, vibrant)Does the picture look grainy or are the textures smooth? Try not to get caught up in the technical aspects of the TV if you don’t know what they mean. They’ll just make you *think* one TV is better than the other. Look at the TV and let your eyes decide.
After comparing several models in a similar size range, and taking cost into account, this TV wins hands down. At the store, you have to try to remove the factor of the factory settings becuse stores don’t take the time to optimize *each and every* TV. Most TVs nowadays have more customization than you can shake a stick at. Gone are the basic color, tint, brightness settings. Now it’s gamma, RGB, temperature and so on. Most TVs have the ability to be tuned the way you want it and it’s because of this that it is so important to focus in on the mentioned above items. This LG shows a wonderful smooth picture that isn’t grainy, doesn’t show pixelation and colors are rich and lifelike, not plasticy and bright. Yes the Samsung of the same size is just as good, but the extra $200 it cost isn’t. Go and literally take a look at your local store and look for the things I mentioned above an you’ll see that this is a great Tv.
Very disappointing set. It’s boxed back up – the Best Buy folks pricematch, so I was able to pick this up cheap, no waiting.
I currently own a three year old 26″ Sony KDL-26M4000 series set. It’s a lower res 720 set. I figured that the LG for about what
I paid for the Sony three years ago ought to imply comparable panel quality (both are IPS panels) and I am ready to get a larger
set.
I use the panel both as an outboard monitor, a TV and a netflix and other media streaming target. My primary monitor is also
an IPS-based monitor, and I own a color calibrator.
The LG out of the box has very good sound for an LCD set. Most LCD sets have lousy sound, the Sony included.
I fed it an antenna, it was able to lock onto the local CBS affiliate and I got ready to start to work on setting up.
I never got as far as breaking out the calibrator. The choices with this set are bright enough that the blacks are washed out and
any well-lit face develops an ugly discolored sheen to more or less of an extent, or dark enough to be approximately comparable
in color range to a calibrated set – but so dark that fine detail is lost.
The clincher was watching Letterman, broadcast at 1080. On the 26″ set, I could see the fabric of his suit and the dark shine
of the floor behind him during the monologue, with stage lights reflected in it. From about 2 feet farther back, the larger,
supposedly higher res 37″ LG could not resolve the fabric properly and while you could see the lights reflecting, you couldn’t tell what
they were reflecting from. Adjusting contrast, brightness, sharpness, did not bring out the level of detail that the 720 set was
delivering.
No reason to calibrate a panel this poor. It is nice that LG has the test patterns burned into the firmware for all of their sets, but
they’d only be worth pursuing on a high-end model.
Does LG have a high-end LCD line as well? I’ll probably never bother finding out. This set is just a terrible value, even on sale.
The other set I’ve unboxed recently was (I’ll have to check model # tomorrow) a 42″ Viera a friend bought. Out of the box, at default
settings, it looked great. I haven’t put it side by side against anything, but the weird skin sheen made no appearance and the presets
on it show deep black blacks. I believe this is the L42U22. The picture on it is great, but the volume is poor and quite low at max.
I wish Panasonic made a 36″ or 37″ in that line. They jump from 32″ to 42″, which is a bit too large for the space I’m trying to place
a set in.
If you see this LG set cheap and are new to HD, you may well find that the price justifies buying it. (The local Best Buy will soon have an
out of box model!)
If you’ve used HD equipment in the past, you may be disappointed in this set. I was.
I bought this set to replace my older LG 32″ 720p LCD TV.
PROS
Good price
Excellent picture
Easy to adjust settings
Lightweight (careful putting it on a table/stand if you have curious kids or pets!)
Doesn’t radiate alot of heat
Lots of inputs, USB, HDMI, RCA, Component, etc
Headphone Jack
CONS
Audio system/speakers are weak performers
No surround sound enhancement
TOSLINK optical digital audio output ONLY
It’s really not a bad set if you have a TOSLink digital audio friendly receiver to boost the sound. If you don’t, you might want to get one. I’m surprised – the sound on this set was a big step down from my earlier LG model! To get the sound near where I found it natural sounding (for film, videogame, and music) I had to set the bass around 90% and the treble around 10%. And then it still sounds thin.
The one nice audio feature is a speech booster which makes voices more audible, but at the expense of further squashing the other frequencies.
This is my only complaint with this set. The speaker system provided is – weak.
The picture is flawless, heavenly, easy to set up, and customize.
Very happy with the picture, price, and all other aspects.
Our first hi-tech television brings my spouse and I into the modern era. This LG replaced our venerable and ancient Philips 16 inch tv that we got used, for free, and watched for over six years. It was purchasing the new re-imagined Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (with Collectible Cylon) which was filmed in HD, that finally pushed us into getting an HDTV for ourselves.
Well…wow. Unreal difference from a tube tv to a flatscreen. I had never heard of LG corp (Life’s Good) before. I started by looking at more recognized brands like Samsung, Sanyo and Panasonic. But LG is in the hotel and club TV manufacturing and they were offering a heck of a lot of flatscreen tv at a better price than the others. So the risk was–try an unknown brand–LG–and hope we got something cool. We did.
It’s black and sleek. A lot physically lighter than I thought it would be and I was able to easily assemble the base to the TV with the instructions that came with it. These HDTV flatscreens are less like a TV and more like a super-monitor.
This feature-rich HDTV has three HDMI ports (Try these Mediabridge Ultra Series – High Speed HDMI Cable – 6ft – Supports 3D & Audio Return Channel to connect your devices up). In addition to ports for component and old-school adapters like RCA and AVI it has a USB port! You can make a slideshow of photos on your laptop and put them on a USB and watch them on your LG flatscreen. Sweet! It has an 8mm headphone jack as well.
Very *very* colorful. Easy on the eyes in all lighting situations and distances. 1080p resolution renders a pleasing level of detail in objects. Only drawback is that non-HD tv looks meh now. Our playstation 2 and VCR tapes don’t look so great either. On the other hand, a nice upscaling DVD player could make some of your DVDs look a lot better on this kind of TV.
From an interoperability standpoint, I am still figuring out all the things this TV can do. One of the most awesome functions is its onscreen interface. We used to use a small cable-switching box with big plastic buttons to tell our old TV which composite AV feed to display: DVD, comcast cable, PS2. This LG HDTV uses an onscreen interface in the ‘inputs’ section on the remote control to scan all incoming data signals and display what devices you have connected that are on. It lets you surf with the remote, which input to view, USB photos, cablebox, Playstation, DVD player. No more clunky cable switching box–thanks to a generous and varied array of input options on the back of the TV and a great onscreen menu to manage them.
Remote control is a little largish–but buttons are easy to press, super responsive and the onscreen menus are easy to navigate. TV is super smart and will power down the DVD player when we switch the screen off. Really nice introduction to flatpanel HDTVs with this LG. Well priced for its features and just incredible picture to look at. Wonderful piece of technology.