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"A wonderful package, especially for the price." on by chrispfry
Pros: High picture quality, lots of cuztomization options, 120hz, TruMotion.
Cons: No side inputs, red stripe esthetic is not really my bag, but whatever. (if you haven't seen it, there's a red stripe going all the way around the outside edge of the set. come on LG... I want my TV black or silver)
Summary: After exploring the market throroughly I eventually decided on this set because it has all pros of a truly high end television and none of the drawbacks of the budget brands. The price, of course, for this 1080p, 120hz beauty is very reasonable. There are better TVs out there if money is not an obstacle for you, but if you're on a budget this might be the best value in stores. Use the TruMotion feature, it works beautifully for sports, video games, etc. However, some people may prefer to turn it off while watching movies, as it has a tendency to eliminate that cinematic feel and make your $35 blueray blockbuster look more like a soap opera. (a very high def, vibrant, beautiful soap opera) The customization options are incredibly deep, offering standard, advanced, and expert settings. On advanced you control all the standard settings such as contrast, brightness etc., but you also gain control over a wide range of advanced settings such as color temperature, gamma, black level, and the TruMotion feature. Expert is a setting for the most particular of viewers, offering you all of the aforementioned controls as well as a complete color management system which allows you to individually alter the brightness, contrast, tint, and color of all the hues coming through your TV set (red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, and magenta). This is a bit too labor intensive for me, but some people will love it. Bottom line, LG puts together a nice package here: great picture, awesome features, wonderful price. You will not be disappointed with this TV.
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"Exceeded my expectations" on by xtraceyj
Pros: I am a big hockey fan, the fast refresh rate, contrast and color controls are incredible. My Samsung friends are jealous! Family room has a lot of glare, the screen absolutely kills reflections. HD is stunning. We use my son's PS3 for BlueRay,
Cons: A "real" manual would have been nice, but I guess a CD is all you get these days.
Summary: Looking for a reasonably priced LCD? I would buy this again in heartbeat.
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"Great TV for DVDs and Blu-rays" on by g4rfc
Pros: Incredible picture quality when watching in Hi-def, tru-motion is adjustable and can be turned off, many picture adjustments and lots of tweakability
Cons: None really.
Summary: This was my first LCD 1080p TV. Got it on sale through a local vendor. My wife and I have been very impressed with the picture quality while watching with a DVD player hooked up with HDMI. When we upgraded to Blu-ray, the wow factor just got bigger. We have owned this set now for two years and still enjoy it as we did when we first bought it.
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"Excellent value at any price--especially sub-$1200" on by RobD60
Pros: 4 HDMI inputs; 40,000-1 contrast ratio; 120-hz. refresh; auto-leveling sound; Intelligent Sensor for picture quality adjust
Cons: Sound quality is good but not so fantastic as LG might have you believe
Summary: We have had this set for 2 months and are quite pleased. We've hooked up our DVD player, DirecTV box and Roku box to its HDMI ports and our Wii to a composite port. Our DVD player is a standard JVC machine (NOT Blu-ray) with an HDMI output port; the pictures are gorgeous (now we wonder what Blu-ray will look like on it). Roku HD streams look good as well (a credit also to our ISP).
The included remote handles our JVC and our old Sanyo VCR (forgot about that; we hardly use it now), but I could not code our new DirecTV HD-capable box into it. On the other hand, the DirecTV remote had the code for the LG as well as the DVD player and VCR. We use the standard DirecTV package; no HD yet (maybe next year!). The pictures still look great, with beautiful eye-popping colors and very good blacks for an LCD. Of course, with standard-def, the farther you are from the set the better your view. BTW, you might want to throw out those viewing-distance guides. I sit 13 feet from this 42" set and the viewing experience is perfect; in fact, for the first 3 weeks I was almost overwhelmed by the size of the set (actually, my wife made me measure it to make sure we hadn't been given a 47-incher by mistake; we hadn't).
The built-in sound is good, with an auto-leveler for commercials so you don't get blown away. We still prefer ours hooked up to a surround-sound system. Even a cheapie (think Wal-mart) will work, and there's just no way two well-designed front speakers will replicate 5 (or 7) speakers and a subwoofer. We also live next to the busiest 4-lane highway in our town, with our front door open through most of the summer, so we want lots of volume to drown out the semis. When we use the set's speakers, we find that we have to pump up the volume, sometimes to 70%.
We bought our TV at a local store that price-matched an online store; it was a deal at $1300 then, and if you can really find it at $1000-1200, SNAP IT UP. You will NOT be disappointed. Sets with comparable viewing quality are still well above that. -
"Better than the more expensive comparibles" on by Waltonblue
Pros: Color is amazing, really sharp.
4 HDMI plus a USB
120hz make gaming and sports unreal
User frielndly menu and setup
Excellent HD quality, also shows my non HD channels clearly which was a worry for meCons: Like someone else has said, I would have preferred a real manual rather than a CD
Summary: For the price it can't be beat, I searched for a LONG time before buying and was even looking at one $500 more (Samsung 650) after comparing the specs and looking at them side by side there really was not a $500 difference, The LG looked just as good. If you want a high end TV with ALL the mod cons for around $1250 this is the one to get.
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