 | LG 42PJ350 42-inch Widescreen HD Ready 600Hz Plasma TV with Freeview |
| Price: | £389.00 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Delivery. Details |
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Great TV at this price point
I have had this TV now for around a month. At the the time of ordering there wasn't too many reviews of this TV but decided to take a gamble anyway and went for it. Opening it up and setting it on the swivel stand provided was all very simple and required only a x-drive screwdriver. The TV is very stylish and elegantly designed with the sub-inch bezel making it seem almost as though the screen goes right to the edge. The piano key black looks great too, although dust and fingerprints do show up easily. The screen is like glass, not matt like LCDs so reflections might be a problem on dark scenes in your particular room but I have to say that it's not been much of a problem for me and the swivel stand makes it easy to find an angle to overcome this, as well as allowing easy access to the connections on the side and rear. I was a little disappointed by the picture to start with, particularly the colour reproduction, but then used the Picture Wizard feature to set it up and have to say that there was a massive improvement - as such, all the following comments on picture quality are for after I'd set it up. I'm sure with a professionals touch, the fine tuning could go on and on and on but for me, the Picture Wizard was enough. So, the picture quality on SD is as good as any other TV (my viewing distance is around 9 or 10ft) and I can't say I noticed any difference in HD between this and my father's 42LH7700 which is Full HD (1080p) as opposed to this one being HD Ready (720p) but then I am just the average viewer - I'm sure a true TV geek would be able to point them out. The Xbox360 looks great over HDMI, as does my PC and upscaling DVD player. At distances of 4ft or less the image starts to look a little 'grainy' but I understand that this is something akin to all plasmas(?) and I never sit that close anyway. There are some complaints about a loud buzzing being heard from the set. Granted, there is an audible hum, but only when the set is muted and you're stood next to it - any kind of normal viewing and with the volume even down low, and you're not going to notice this, and you certainly wont with the volume on the surround sound cranked up while watching generic action film! My only niggles with this TV come from the connectivity. There are only two HDMI connections which for most would be fine but if you have a Sky+HD box, an Xbox360, an upscaling DVD player and a PC and you want to have all of them going over HDMI to get the best image quality you will need a seperate switcher as in my case. I could hook the PC up to the VGA and the Xbox360 to the components but I don't want to. And secondly, there is a USB port on the side but you can't for instance, plug in a USB pen or external HDD to view videos, only pictures or to play music. I did a bit of digging on this though and it seems that this model sold in other countries does have video enabled but is disable for Europe, probably to sway customers to a TV at a higher price point. Although this is a bind, it does mean that the TV could play video were somebody to find a way to get into the service menu and enable it, so will only be a matter of time. Not that I am endorsing this behaviour - it can also ruin TVs and is not advisable!
So in summary;
Great TV for the price once calibrated, which is a doddle.
No real great difference between this TV and those Full HD plasmas at twice the price.
Would have been nice to have an extra HDMI input.
Shame video is not an option without fiddling and voiding warranty etc.
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