LG Electronics 42LG60

This 42-inch HDTV's advanced features, impressive style, and very good image quality come at a cost.

Lots of thought has gone into LG Electronics' chic 42-inch "Scarlet" 42LG60 HDTV, as evidenced by everything from the faux-leather remote control to the useful and brilliantly navigable on-screen display menu. But the niceties come at a price: At $1800 (as of November 4, 2008), the 42LG60 costs $700 more than one of its two younger 42-inch siblings, the 42PG25, but $200 less than the other, the 42LGX.

The absolute aback of the LCD console is red, which produces red accents if you attending at the TV from an angle; the blush serves little purpose, though, because humans rarely absorb abundant time gazing at the aback of their big-screen TVs. The bezel is attenuate on the top and sides, but about three times thicker at the bottom, area LG hides the unit's superior-sounding, down-firing speakers. As nice as it is not to see apostle grilles, the extra-large basal bezel was confusing and unattractive, abnormally back aggregate abroad about the affectation looks stunning.
A amount of avant-garde appearance appear standard. Individual six-color controls are simple to acquisition in the Expert Control akin of the account menu. And with a individual bang of the remote, you can locate and acclimatize abounding accurately calibrated presets, from Sports approach to Movie mode.
Most sensors just admeasurement the accuracy of ambient ablaze in the room. But LG's Intelligent Sensor ambience uses a circuitous set of algorithms to admeasurement not just accuracy but aswell contrast, color, sharpness, and white balance. The affection formed able-bodied a lot of of the time, admitting on one break it briefly broken some images while ceaselessly aggravating to acclimatize the settings to bout its afflicted surroundings.
The set becoming a achievement account of Acceptable in our PC World Test Center lab tests--the aforementioned appraisement that the Westinghouse TX-42F430S, which costs about $600 less, received. Still, affair the Scarlet's college amount nets you acceptable angel quality, abundant card options, and added ports such as USB (which you can use to play music or appearance photos from any USB drive.)
Should you be advantageous abundant to add an LG Scarlet to your active room, you won't be disappointed.