I love, love, love my new TV. Awesome picture and ability to instant view movies and other programs as well as Internet capabilities at a reasonable price. It is everything I wanted as an addition to my home theatre.
LG 42LD550 awesome
By A. Bell
Great TV. Sound is a little tinny, but that's to be expected from such tiny speakers. They're not visible, which is nice.
The TV can access netfix, yahoo widgets, youtube, vudu, picasa, gives you the weather and has games! Every time I dig into the menus I find something new. Also, it automatically updates it's own software -- which I love for some reason.
Overall, it's just awesome. Buy 2.
LG 42LD550 Nice picture, lots of gizmos
By W. Beau Christian
I finally took the leap to flat screen, LCD, HD television and have not been disappointed. I selected the 42 inch size as being about right for my den, and chose LG due to reviews and a few news articles about the television. The LG was easy to set up on its stand, although the construction of a new TV stand was not - but that's another story! I get a great picture whether live or from DVD. I guess my only problem with it is that it has lots of gizmos to figure out. I tried to put on a wireless LAN and never could make it work.
Ultimately I ran another cable from my router to the TV and that got the widgets and movie rental screen going. There are so many ways to modify the picture that it required me to spend some time with the manual and remote control. I didn't know, for instance, that I could switch from HD to 'normal' picture on the same channel. All in all I am quite pleased with the product and my learning curve is my problem, not that of the product.
