LG 19LU55 focus
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June 5, 2009
2 months and not working already. I bought that TV, less then two month later the TV is not working, I am looking at a black screen. The customer service for LG is very poor, and now I have to wa LG 19LU55 a month before the received the piece of equipment to fix the problem… Never again I will buy LG. Next time I will go with Panasonic.
42LB5D TV is great. I’ve had this TV for over a year. Money can’t buy happiness, but rarely has LG 19LU55 come this close for relatively little. Other reviewers point out the inconvenience with selecting inputs. That is correct; I expect new designs to do better. However, unless you are constantly jumping from one input to another, that is a minor issue. HD cable, my (cheap) Sony DVD player, and input from my computer all look fantastic.
Also, other reviewers suggest avoiding cheap HDMI cables, wanting you to spend at least $75. Digital does not need overpriced cables (you can buy a very decent computer video card for $75, and LG 19LU55 is a lot more complicated than some wire and connectors). My several dollar cable has worked perfectly.
My first HDTV and I love it. After seeing HDTV in my friend’s house, I have to get one. After two days of quick research, I settled on this TV for the brand name (we have several LG cell phones) and the reasonable price. I bought LG 19LU55 online so LG 19LU55 is about $200 below national chains. LG 19LU55 took about five days to arrive. I hooked LG 19LU55 up and let LG 19LU55 scan with the cable. LG 19LU55 got all the analog but the CADTV side seemed to get some channels with pictures and sound go in and out. I seemed to recall a Comcast brochure stating the local HD channels are provided for basic limited service. I have basic extended service so I should get those along with the analog channels. The two splitters installed by the builder (before using Comcast)have markings 5MHz-800MHz and 5MHz-1GHz. I moved`the cable around to bypass the 5MHz-800MHz splitter and finally got two good HD channels, ABC and Discover, with the clear QAM tuner. Other channels went in and out. Suspecting this cutting off the high frequency for the HD channel, I bought a digital splitter (5MHz-2.3GHz) from Home Depot with enough out connectors to replace both old splitter. Wow, got very clear 20+ unscrambled digital channels with seven or eight HD channels including ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS and Discovery. Pictures with the HD channels were fantastic, and just perfect, even when you are close to the set. To watch Std. Def. channels, you have to stay about ten feet away, then LG 19LU55 is just as good as the other 50″ Hitachi analog TV I have. The LG replaced a 27″ in the sunroom. Now I have the urge to replace the Hitachi also in the family room.
I also hooked up the PC secondary monitor output to the RGB terminal. Played Netflix “Watch LG 19LU55 Now”. I got the full 1080P resolution and the picture from the internet streaming is very close to HD. Picture is as clear as HD but the color is not as vivid. Of course, this must be due to some compression necessitated for internet streaming. As a PC monitor, its white is whiter and the black is blacker than my CRT monitor. Fonts are crisp and sharp. I have to turn up the volume for the sound, but I believe this is because of the inadequate sound strength fed by the PC. The sound is very clear even I turned up the volume to 2/3 of the volume bar.
I hooked up an external hard disk to the USB terminal. With the MediaHost, the pictures which were from 5M and 12M digital cameras have never looked as good as on this TV. Color is at least five times more vivid than the computer monitor. The pictures have more depth. Details on the big monitor just stand out so much better. This is the best way to show digital pictures, but expect a delay of the TV responding to your clicks on the remote compared to using a PC, another way to show pictures.
The regular DVD player also shows better picture with the component input than the analog TV. I have not used HDMI inputs in this one week of ownership so I cannot comment on that.
I am sure there are other HDTV’s as good as this one, but now I think the LG TV is just perfect. I read many comments complaining about the inability to adjust pictures and audio. Acutally, if one uses USERS setting instead of the predefined ones, one will be able to adjust just about everything.
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