LG 47LH50 47-Inch 1080p 120Hz Broadband LCD HDTV – Gloss Black (Disc 17%)

Posted by supreme On August - 4 - 2009

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The flat-panel LCD LG 47LH50 is the first one offers Netflix streaming, which offers free-to-subscribers access to all menu of thousands of movies and TV shows without having to connect another box. For now the LH50 holds exclusive claim to Netflix. The LH50 has Yahoo Widgets feature too. The LG LH50 lacks any overt, eye-catching styling cues to set off its glossy black sheen.

It is designed with thin and transparent strip along the left and right edges of the frame. A bump on the bottom right edge houses the blue-lit power indicator. LG’s remote is not too good with similar buttons around the cursor control. The different-colored buttons are used for “Netcast” (for Netflix, YouTube, Yahoo Widgets, and local photos and music streaming) and Widgets (for Yahoo Widgets, again), and there’s another prominent button labeled “Energy Saving” that directly accesses said control and a little energy saving graphic to provide enviro-geeks a warm fuzzy. The remote can’t control other brands of gear directly with infrared commands.

The menu system is quite extensive, so the easy-access quick menu for aspect ratio, picture and sound modes, the timer, and other oft-used functions. A new onscreen “simple manual” provides basic setup and function information. The Netflix was easy to use, interfacing flawlessly with our Watch Instantly queue on the Netflix Web site. The video quality depends a lot on Internet connection. In the best-case scenario, with “full bars,” the so-called HD videos looked a bit better than DVD, although the frame rate still seemed too slow, creating a stuttering effect in pans and other camera movement that dejudder didn’t address. The LG’s built-in Netflix service doesn’t allow you to adjust any of the picture parameters beyond the presets for the various picture modes.

The LG offers freedom to sign in into YouTube account, brose most-recent, most-viewed, and top-rated videos, search via an onscreen virtual keyboard using the TV remote and sort by date. Unfortunately YouTube.com’s “HD” category is absent and video quality is significantly worse than it is on the Web site, even with higher-quality non-HD videos. No “continuous play” option is available to automatically move on to the next video in a category. The LG also offers Yahoo Widgets.

The LG LH50 can stream photos and music from networked PCs in the home, as well as from thumbdrives connected to its USB port. But the LG’s doesn’t allow video streaming. Unfortunately the LH50 doesn’t include wireless capability. The LG LH50 is a full-featured HDTV. It lacks the LED backlight and 240Hz refresh rate. LG’s dejudder processing is similar to past 120Hz and 240Hz displays, which force you to engage the smoothing effect of dejudder if you want to enjoy the benefits of reduced blurring. The LH50 series offers two strengths of dejudder, Low and High, and also offers a separate “Real Cinema” function designed to work with 1080p/24 sources.

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Some picture controls are a well-thought-out Picture Wizard that uses internal test patterns to help perform into basic calibrations of the controls for brightness, contrast, color, tint, horizontal and vertical sharpness, and backlight. The settings are saved to the Expert1 picture memory slot. Each of the eight adjustable picture memory slots is independent per input. A ninth mode, called Intelligent Sensor, reacts to ambient lighting conditions and automatically sets picture parameters accordingly. Advanced controls abound in even the nonexpert modes, with three color temperature presets, settings for dynamic contrast and color, noise reduction, three levels of gamma, a black level control, wide and standard color spaces, edge enhancement, a room-lighting sensor, and even an “eye care” setting designed to prevent the screen from being too bright (disabled in Vivid and Cinema modes).

The 10-point white balance system can really help to get a more accurate grayscale. The company upped the ante for 2009, adding the capability to target a 2.2 gamma, internal test patterns, and even color filters for blue-only, green-only, and red-only to help set color balance. There’s a quartet of progressively more aggressive Energy Saving settings that reduce the backlight. Engaging the settings disables the standard backlight control.

The LH50 series is missing picture-in-picture, but does provide plenty of aspect ratio control, including five modes for use with HD sources and four with standard-def. Two modes are adjustable zooms, and there’s a “set by program” mode designed to automatically choose the correct aspect ratio setting based on the signal. We recommend using the Just Scan mode with 1080i and 1080p material, which assures zero overscan and proper 1:1 pixel matching for this 1080p display.

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Connectivity on the LH50 are four total HDMI ports, three on the back and one on the side. The back panel also offers two component-video inputs, an AV input with composite video, an RF input for antenna or cable, an RGB-style analog PC input, an optical digital audio output, and an RS-232 port for custom installations. In addition to the fourth HDMI port, the side panel has a second AV input with composite video and a USB port for display of digital photos and playback of MP3 music files. Our one connectivity complaint is the lack of any S-Video inputs.

Plus :

The LG 47LH50 has a built-in Netflix streaming, Yahoo Widgets engine, accurate color, extensive picture controls including unique Picture Wizard, solid connectivity, and energy efficient.

Minus :

The LG 47LH50 is expensive, reproduces light black levels, does not separate antiblur and anti-judder processing, fails to properly handle 1080p/24 content, below-average off-angle viewing and it has no S-Video input.

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