LG 42PG3000 TV reviews

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Score 8.7/10 Read 226
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+ This TV scores high on ease of use. - It has no outstanding negative points.

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LG 42PG3000 with 42" HD ready Plasma screen, 3 HDMI ports and Freeview. See full product description

Image quality	8.4
Sound quality	8.4
Design	9.1
Value for money	9.2
Overall rating	8.7

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margaret, bedworth Film and documentary lover

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: at the moment the tv seems fine
Bad points:: not had the tv long enough to find a bad point

Image quality	8.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

Was this review helpful? 16 of 37 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 23 Apr 2009

Susan, Mansfield Multi-purpose viewer

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: Reviewer left no comment
Bad points:: no on and off switch

Ease of use	10.0
Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	10.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

Was this review helpful? 19 of 36 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 21 Mar 2009

Confirmed purchaser Film and documentary lover

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: ease of setup
Bad points:: would have been nice to have headset input

Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	10.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

Was this review helpful? 23 of 44 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 21 Apr 2009

Confirmed purchaser Sports and games fan

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Fantastic picture and sound. The built in TV guide is awesome and the automatic tuning make it so easy to set up. This is a great TV and I would recommend it to anyone
Bad points:: Although not really a bad point the tv can really show when poor quality film has been used. For example, older programs and films from some years ago really show up as poor quality on this TV

Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	9.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

Was this review helpful? 18 of 35 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 20 Apr 2009

jane, dundee Film and documentary lover

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: easy to set up, looks really good, great picture
Bad points:: Reviewer left no comment

Image quality	8.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

Was this review helpful? 27 of 45 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 19 Apr 2009

Tom, London Sports and games fan

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: Easy to set up.
Great picture.
Awesome for playing on my PS3 with.
Bad points:: Reviewer left no comment

Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	7.0
Design	7.0
Value for money	8.0
Overall rating	8.0

Was this review helpful? 18 of 39 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 19 Apr 2009

Confirmed purchaser Film and documentary lover

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: It has an excellent and stable picture whether using a HD source or not.
Bad points:: Hard to find! The base stands unusual shape doesn't fit easily onto a TV stand.

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	7.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	8.0
Overall rating	8.0

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Confirmed purchase: 14 Sep 2008

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Product Features

Screen size (Inches)	42
Screen size is measured diagonally from corner to corner.
Type of screen	Plasma
Most small flatscreen TVs have LCD screens. Some larger TVs have plasma screens. Some very new TVs have LED screens. Traditional TVs are called Standard or CRT.
3D	No

HD TV	HD ready
‘HD Ready’ is a Europe-wide standard designed to made HD technology less confusing. HD Ready TVs must have • Minimum resolution of 720 horizontal lines (in widescreen format) • Ability to display 720p and 1080i formats • An HDMI or Digital Video Interface (DVI interface) Full HD is a higher standard. Full HD TVs have screen resolutions of 1080p and can output at least 24 frames per second. Full HD is becoming common, but you won’t see Full HD on normal TV channels for a long time, so it remains optional for many people.
Built-in disc player	No Disc Player
Some products come with built-in DVD players or Blu Ray players.
Freeview or Freesat tuner	Freeview
Freeview is free digital terrestrial TV. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service, which gives you HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You need a dish to receive Freesat but not Freeview. For more information see the Freeview site or the Freesat site. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service. The main benefit is that you can get HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You’ll need a dish to recieve the signals though.
Number of HDMI ports	3
Like a scart interface but capable of carrying HD signals from or to other devices. You’ll need these to link your Playstation 3 or your Blu-ray player to your HD-ready TV.
Number of scart ports	2
Scart sockets are places where you can connect other devices to your TV. If you already have a DVD player, a VCR and a Playstation you might want to make sure your new TV has enough Scart interfaces so you don’t have to keep crawling round the back of the TV.
Connections	HDMI

Smart TV	No
TVs with internet capability allow you access to a range of online services.
Frequency (Hz)	100
A TV’s frequency is how often the picture is updated per second, and is measured in Hertz (Hz). A higher frequency, such as 100 Hz, means that a TV is more likely to show fast-moving images with high detail.
Screen aspect ratio	16:9
This is a ratio of the horizontal to the vertical size of the screen. 16:9 is standard widescreen format for TVs, replacing the older 4:3 format.
Contrast Ratio (X:1)	20000
This figure is designed to tell you how much difference there is between dark and light colours on the TV. It is quoted as a ratio, between the brightest white and the darkest black. 500:1 means the brightest white is 500 times more bright than the darkest black. Plasma screens have historically boasted better contrast ratios than LCD screens.
Reflection angle	178
Also known as the viewing angle, it’s a measure of how good the picture looks when you are not face on to the screen. Higher is better.
Horizontal resolution (Pixels)	102.4

Vertical resolution (Pixels)	768

Brightness (Candela per square metre)	1500
Brighter TVs, such as LCDs, tend to provide a better experience in lighter rooms, whereas TVs with a lower brightness, such as many plasma TVs, are often better suited to darker rooms.
Electronic Program Guide (EPG)	Yes
TVs with this feature have an on-screen guide to all the programmes that are currently showing or coming up, so you can find your way around all the extra digital channels easily.
Headphone Socket	No
Weight (kg)	25.5

Release date	2008-04-14
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.

Also known as: LG 42PG3000/A1

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Manufacturer's Description

HD-Ready
High-definition television, or HDTV, is a new standard of TV with better-quality picture and sound than normal TV , the sort of standard you would see at a cinema. HDTV brings you closer to the action, offering more colours and a higher resolution picture (twice as many horizontal lines). This can make HDTV images clearer, sharper, more detailed and very life-like.

1,000,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio
With a top-class contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1, this LG HDTV provides vivid images, even in a bright environment, eliminating optical glare and minimising light reflection.

Clear Voice
Sometimes, when watching movies, dialogue gets lost in the background due to the down-mixing that occurs when your TV pushes 5.1 Surround Sound through the TV’s 2-channel speaker system. LG Clear Voice Technology alters the sound balance to emphasize human voices and reduce background noise.

Freeview
Freeview is a subscription-free service that delivers up to 48 digital TV channels, including ITV2, E4, BBC3, and Film4-plus 24 digital radio stations, with no contract and no satellite dish.

HDMI 1.3 Deep Color / 3xHDMI
HDMI 1.3 supports 30-bit, 36-bit, and 48-bit colour depth. HDMI 1.3 eliminates on-screen colour banding for smooth tonal transitions and subtle gradations. It also enables increased contrast ratio, and represents many times more shades of grey between black and white.

Invisible Speaker
LG’s Invisible Speaker System has been fine-tuned by world-renowned audio expert Mark Levinson for an increased sweet spot. Breaking through the fixed idea that speaker grills must be exposed, this system provides a fully realized sweet spot, and powerful, realistic sound with speakers integrated into the panel design.

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