
Now is the time to pull the trigger!!!!!!!! I really like this one… right size for the apartment and right set of features. $998.00 + Free Shipping
Introducing the LH50 LCD TV with NetCast Entertainment Access. This Full HD 1080p LCD TV lets you tap into Internet content directly on your TV–something you may have never imagined possible. While watching TV, use Yahoo! Widgets to check the latest headlines, weather, financial updates and more. And wait until you experience the entertainment services. Having instant access to Netflix and YouTube lets you watch movies and online videos whenever you want them. The future of TV entertainment is available now with the LH50.
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Innovative Technologies
Virtually limitless Possibilities
A TV with the web’s best entertainment and services included. NetCast Entertainment Access lets you tap into movies, TV shows, news, stock information, and weather updates—direct from the Internet and without a computer. (Learn more)
Less blur. Better action
Brings detail to even the fastest moving scenes and virtually eliminates motion blur with TruMotion 120Hz.(Learn more)
View it in the Right Light
Every room has different colors and lighting. Intelligent Sensor automatically optimizes the picture to your room’s unique conditions.(Learn more)
Double the Detail
Make all your favorite sports, TV shows, movies, and video games more realistic. Get nearly double the pixel resolution of standard HD with Full HD 1080p Resolution. (Learn more)
See More in the Dark
It’s easy for details to get lost in the shadows. The 70,000:1 Contrast Ratio lets you experience deeper blacks and greater picture detail, especially in darker scenes. (Learn more)
Core Technologies
Find the Perfect Picture
Getting your picture looking great is easier than ever with Picture Wizard. Enables easy self-calibration with your remote by providing on-screen reference points for key picture quality elements. (Learn more)
Audio Should be Heard, Not Seen
The slim-silhouette Invisible Speaker System delivers a look and audio that are equal parts clean and polished. (Learn more)
Hear Every Whisper
Get audio the way it was meant to be heard. Clear Voice II enhances and amplifies the frequency range of the human voice to help keep dialogue audible when background noise swells. (Learn more)
Customized Enjoyment
Sports, cinema and video games can all be heard and seen as they were meant to be with AV Mode II. (Learn more)
Other Features
Watch Like A Pro
It’s ISFccc Ready for professional calibration. A more personalized viewing experience awaits, if you’re so inclined. (Learn more)
Memories Brought to Life
View family photos and listen to MP3 files right in the comfort of your living room with USB 2.0. (Learn more)
A Colorful Personality
A TV that looks great on and off. The Color-Infused Design is a nod to your sense of style. (Learn more)
Smart Energy
Conserve money and energy. With an Energy Star 3.0 rating, you can be green and save green. (Learn more)
Bring Theater to the Couch
Don’t feel like making it out to the multiplex? 24P Real Cinema gives you a movie-theater-experience right in your own home. (Learn more)
Connect with Crystal Clear Color
You won’t miss a single tone or shade. 4 HDMI V.1.3. Deep Color inputs give you the rich hues and HD picture you want. (Learn more)
Versatile Technology
LCD televisions offer a greater variety of sizes, are generally more energy efficient than Plasma and work wonders for video games and computer graphics. (Learn more) |
Yahoo Widgets
With Yahoo Widgets, your TV can also serve as your on-demand weatherman, stockbroker, news source and more. Yahoo! News, Weather, Finance, and Flickr are right there at your fingertips. Better still, as new widgets are developed, they’re automatically uploaded to your TV.
I bought this tv because of the netcast/netflix internet option. The netflix takes a second to come setup and works great. The audio on this tv is great for a LCD. The color are pretty good but the blacks are light especially in dark scenes (this is my only compliant). Also there is some concerns that cnet.com pointed out in regard to how this tv processes 1080p. If you are looking for a TV with out of this world picture that than this is not it (I would suggest a newer LED model or older Sony/Samsung). This TV is for those who really want the yahoo widgets and netflix/youtube. Another drawback is that it has no wireless connectivity.
This TV lists for $1600, but is often available for less than that.
The picture quality is not equal to competing $1600 TVs (like the Samsung…or just about any other brand). This TV is often on sale in the $900 to $1200 range. When the price is below $1100, it may be difficult to find any other 47″ TV that cheap. (of course, TV prices drop so fast, that my pricing recommendation could be soon out of date). You can get a 780p plasma TV in that price range, but those usually have even worse picture quality (I never liked the creamy quality of plasma TVs).
Note that the first one I got was bad. After it ran for a few minutes, it would start getting black bands. This is the first time in my life that I ever had to return a TV (except for a small protable DVD player with a screen).
The picture quality is OK but not vibrant. Like all LCD TVs, you can play around with the picture settings a lot and improve the quality. It seems like with all LCD TVs I have seen that the default settings are not the best. But, the problem is that it takes a lot of screwing around and trial and error to get the best picture.
The TV has a “Picture Wizard” to help you calibrate the picture. I tried it and didn’t like the results.
The TV also has power saving modes that adjust the brightness and an automatic brightness adjuster. I found that to get the best picture, you had to crank it to the brightest picture.
What was really disappointing to me was the 120 Hz motion feature. With 120 Hz, the picture should be smoother during action shots, where something moves quickly across the screen or there is a fast scan. During fast motion scenes, there is a lot of pixalation on this TV. It is worse than my old 37 inch 60 Hz EMPREX TV.
The sound quality on this TV is only fair, but I have heard even worse. But, most LCD TVs seem to have poor sound quality. I’m not sure why. In the last days of CRT TVs, the manufacturers were paying a lot of attention to sound quality. You could a 24 inch JVC or Philips TV for fairly cheap with excellent sound quality. The speakers had a wide dynamic range and were crystal clear. Maybe people are so intringued by high definition picture that they aren’t demanding high quality audio. Or maybe the manufacturers are assuming everyone will use a separate surround sound system, so it doen’s matter what the TV sound is like.
The TV takes a long time to come on and a long time to switch between the input modes. All LCD TVs do take longer to come on than the old CRT TVs, but this one seems worse than most.
I don’t like the remote control on this TV set. It is hard to get to the menus for the functions I use a lot, like sleep timer and aspect ratio. And trying to train my wife how to use those features is almost impossible.
Overall, I am not impressed with LG’s video or audio quality. I have an LG DVD recorder/VCR hooked up to this TV. You combine the two together and you get some real horrible quality. (However, the DVD player is responsible for most of it).
So what is good about this TV?
-Very nice, attactive design.
-It swivels.
-I got it at a low price and it was way cheaper than any other 47″ TV.
-It isn’t horrible (it just isn’t as good as other LCD TVs)
-It has the NET FLIX, U Tube connectivity that is supposed to be really easy to use. I haven’t tried it yet. It isn’t wireless, so you have to either have to run a LAN c