I was looking for a large screen monitor for a project I am working on that requires a fair bit of screen real estate. I was tired of toggling between tabs and moving windows around my iMac monitor. Buying an 30″ Apple Monitor screen would have set me back $1799. I started to do some research and I was surprised to find price of comparable LED screens to be significantly less.
The LG 42LE5400 is my first flat-screen television, and I’ve only had it for a couple weeks now. So there are the caveats.
But to my eye, it’s a beautiful machine — with the power on or off. I’m the kind of person who wants the giant TV in my living room to look nice even when it’s off; only Samsung sets can match this LG in the looks department. It’s almost impossibly thin, and when powered off it’s just a cool-looking black panel sitting on my entertainment center.
This is a great TV: awesome picture and features.
- picture brightness is great: I’m using it in a bright living room (with windows on either side of TV), and the LED screen is bright enough to watch w/o problem.
- overall features great: Assume I’ve gushed on about the picture quality, the number of inputs (including several on the side for easy access), the neat ‘video mute’ feature (under energy saver) so I can play a music CD on my DVD player and not have to see the DVD’s stupid music screen, and so on. (Hmm, I guess I could play mp3s on a thumb drive directly from the tv itself; I haven’t tried that yet.)
What a marvelous TV! I love it! The High Definition is unbelievable. The colors just pop out and are so vivid. You see colors that you never noticed before on a conventional TV. The internet and netcast are awesome and easy to set up. The sound is fine and more than adequate for TV speakers with lots of volume, it goes to a scale of 100 and I usually set mine around 10. I am very pleased with my purchase and would recommend it to anyone. My only complaint and it really isn’t a problem, is that everywhere I look, including LG’s website, states that the contrast is 4,000,000:1 but the box mine came in states 3,000,000:1. Could someone even tell the difference between 3 or 4,000,000???? I don’t know, I would just like to be told what the specs actually are.