LG 42LS5700

I have had this TV for about a week now and am very satisfied.

Very nice picture quality, even my very basic, non-HDMI cable box looks decent. A little hard to see a dark show in a bright room but its hard to blame the TV for this, its plenty bright in the evening. I turned off "Tru Motion" which by the way must be done for each individual input.

Lots of inputs which was very important to me. Biggest complaint here is that you can NOT have an AV input and a Component input plugged in at the same time. This is very misleading because the description lists this as 2 separate inputs and I was counting on this to plug in all of my devices at the same time. Deducted 1/2 star for this.

This is my first Smart TV, I haven't had any problems with lag but I have a good internet connection and have the TV plugged in with an Ethernet cable, not wireless. The Home Menu interface is pretty good but very busy, there is a lot on there that I am not interested in using and just like phones it comes with a bunch of default apps that you can't delete. Deducted another 1/2 star for this. I do not plan to use this TV to browse the internet, why the heck would I with 2 computers and a smartphone. I do use Netflix and YouTube.

I have read a lot of complaints about the Magic Remote but I haven't had any problems with it. I have owned a Nintendo Wii for years so the point and click concept is familiar to me. The remote seems to have a great range, I can control the TV easily from very far off to the side of the screen. I find the curved shape of it really annoying, not sure why they couldn't just make it a normal shaped remote, but then I suppose it wouldn't be "Magic"...

Overall I am highly satisfied and would highly recommend this TV. The biggest/most valid complaints I have read about it were about LG's customer service. Fingers crossed I will not have to deal with this, but I guess lots of electronics companies have poopy customer service nowadays.

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I had this TV for almost a year now and am very happy with this TV and LG products. This is an outstanding razor thin TV!! and picture quality is amazing when you watch in HD or non-HD channels. Though it has smart TV feature I use it very rarely because we have so many devices to use Internet..laptops, smartphone, ipads etc.

The Magic remote is bit confusing and irrating in the beginning but once you are used to then it works fine.