LG 47LH40 47" LCD HDTV 47-inch 120Hz 1080p LCD HD Television

We just got this TV a couple of days ago, our 42" Phillips Plasma died and the B--- B-- 4 year warranty gave us store credit for a new 42" Plasma. After looking at the 42" TV's my wife and I decided to go up in size. This TV has video that is better than the plasma that we replaced, has 4 HDMI ports, with one on the side which is great for hooking up video games real quick, and the HD video from my cable company is amazing. I found myself watching the third Mummy movie (horrible movie by the way) just because the picture was so great. Are there better TV's out there? Yeah, of course there are, but for the price you get great video quality and many features that some like and others don't (Truemotion). If you like watching sports in HD this is a great TV.

This TV is really awesome. Great price miught I say first. $1099.99. That's a steal when looking at the comparable models. What sold me on this TV was when I saw it handle Transformers BLU-RAY. Man-oh-man... it was crazy nice. These compare well tot he higher end Samsung Models.

APPEARANCE- The TV is stylish, and I really like how slim it is, and also the framing on the TV. Its a nice glossy and elegeant design. The LED power button gives a little accent of color on the bottom right which looks nice.

Construction Quality- No complaints here. Everything looks awesome. It was super-easy to mount it on the wall.. and I gues its gonig to be hanging there for a few years. SO EXCITED!!!

Ease of USE - Controls are great. A nice remote. Easy to set up. The ports in the back are very easy to distinguish.

Picture Quality - The picture really is top notch. I've had another SONY 1080P 40 inch TV, but this one seems to be better. I think its the 80,000:1 contrast ratio and 120hz. I couldn't be more pleased

Sound Quality - I'm not going to dock anything really. I don't use the sound form the TV because I have speakers. Through mys peakers, the sound is AWESOME!

Connectivity - Easy to attach stereo cords and device cords. 3 HDMI slots!! Wow, cable, PS3 amd BOX hooked up all at the same time? What could be better?

FINAL:

I don't really see any cons with this tv.. I have to say I'm impressed.

First thing I want to say here is that I spent 2 weeks in and out of different electronics stores, comparing technologies and brands and features to narrow down the best HDTV's in the 46-47" range. Of coarse the Sony Bravia was the #1, but it is over $[...].
This TV came in on my #1, for it's 120Hz "TrueMotion" picture, and true 1080p quality. So I bought it.
For three weeks now I have had the pleasure of owning this HDTV, and let me make some things straight about other reviews.

1. The TrueMotion 120Hz feature is a little strange at first. What it does, is it puts a skinny Blur around the outline of an object in motion, causing that object to look LIFELIKE when it moves. This applies to people walking, trees swaying, and footballs flying. After about two days of watching, you may get used to it. I got used to it, and LOVE IT. It is now weird for me to watch other TV's without this. However, if you do not get used to it, you can turn off the TrueMotion feature and just have a 120Hz refresh rate.

2. The lip-sync. The LG TV is as smart as they come. It will take about 4 hours of TV time for it to calibrate itself to your cable-box or satellite-receiver. Also, depending on your HDMI cable usage, the problem can be solved by going on Amazon.com and buying a $[...] "Digital Audio Cable" and using that for your TV sound rather than the HDMI cord. Again though, easy fix once you get to know your TV.

3. The 47LH40 has smart picture capability. Which kicks Butt. My TV Room has two great big windows directly across from this TV. By enabling the Smart Picture feature ON, it will sense the light in your room, and adjust its backlight accordingly. I do NOT get any glare, and the picture is always razor sharp!

4. Little-known fact, is that LG makes the TV tuners for Samsung, Sony, Sharp, and Toshiba. So naturally, they will put the best technologies in their own TVs, making it one more reason to love LG.

5. It has 4 HDMI inputs! Which means virtually every component you want to connect (PS3, XBox, DVD player, Blueray, etc...) can connect with the best HD picture.

6. The 80,000 : 1 contrast ratio is deeper blacks for dark-shows and movies. This is truly noticeable. I replaced my 4 year old Samsung 32" HDTV with this one, and can not believe how much this actually can be noticed once you have another TV to compare it to. My old one had 60,000:1, and deep-blacks would appear "pixelated"... but any scene, day or night, a lot or a little detail, looks just as good (or better) than it would in person!

Now that I have given you a few reasons to consider this TV, I just want to say that in the past 3 weeks of me owning this, it has been nothing but excellent. My TV shows have never looked more realistic... Football and (preseason) Hockey make you feel like you are in the stands! And Video Games (PS3 specifically) make you feel part of the game. It is truly a great TV, at a great price, and I highly recommend it. Just have patience, if your lip-sync is off for the first two days, give it time to adjust, or watch the owners-CDROM they give you, you'll find out how to fix that. Everyone's cable input is different so the Tuner needs time to adjust itself.

Hope this helped!

Just purchased this TV two days ago from a local home entertainment store. Got it for $1050, a steal! Since Best Buy had it for 1079, I got the price down a little more.

I did lots of research and read tons of reviews. I was considering the Sony V5100 series and all of the Samsungs 650 series and up. This beats both of them. Do not listen to bad reviews about LG, none of them apply to this tv or any of LG's newer TVs, and don't compare pictures between this and other TV brands at best buy or FRYs because TV calibration can be way off at those big chain stores.

I compared side by side at home entertainment stores with the Sony (way overpriced) and the Samsung 630B and 650B. The Sony is nothing special looking on the outside and the picture doesn't blow you away. The Samsung, you lose so much detail in the color because the screens are way too bright. I saw side by side the Samsung's reds were so pink and its greens so bright and fake, a red flower on the LG was dark and beautiful and you could see all of its fine lines and folds...however on the Samsung it was pink and the lines and folds faded because you lost that detail. Samsung just looks to artificial and bright for me and I don't like that. Also the LG isn't a glossy screen so you never have to worry about light reflecting from the screen. The blacks are very nice as well, I mean it isn't an LED or plasma but the average consumer cannot tell that much anymore with LCDs becoming so good.

The LG was recommended by two very good home entertainment stores over the sony and the Samsung. It is just such a good deal and I liked the picture more, truer colors, very deep blacks and a classy look on the outside. Not to forget the speakers are much much better than the Samsungs, and the LG has the intelligent sensor which detects light in your room and adjusts the panel for how bright or dark you room is, to make picture calibration automatic and more accurate for the setting.

It is a truly amazing TV for the money, I mean if you want to overspend for a SONY go ahead and if you want the top, top of the line, this obviously isn't your set but it is a damn good TV. I mean keep it for 4 or 5 years and then the next big thing LED or OLED will be out, so whats the point in spending $2K+ today when in a few years your TV will be old news.

Go for the bargain and just get this TV, its an incredible set.

This TV looks great and the picture is sharp and clear. Good price. I do notice some lip sync delay at times but the problem may be that I have't learned how to adjust everything correctly.

Amazon delivered as promised, no shipping and on time. I have recommended Amazon to all my friends.

Great picture. Delivery people set-up in a matter of minutes. Saw this size TV at Best Buy, Handy TV, Sears and Wal-Mart. Amazon beat their price by $350.00 and up. No shipping or handling fee.

I was so impressed with the Amazon service on this, Free Delivery included complete setup and install. I am currently using this with regular cable signal and it is great! Just use the setting to let the TV choose the view by program. Eventually I will go to HD cable, but need to get an HD tivo first, so this is great. Without HD input, it doesn't use the whole screen, but it is still huge. Very clear picture and easy to use setup screens.

OK, so I reviewed TVs for months until my eyeballs were about to fall out of my head. Our old 90s Toshiba Theaterview projection TV was about to bite the dust for the fourth time. I had decided not to have it repaired again, but to replace it with an LCD of comparable size. Finally I decided on either Sony or Samsung and was leaning heavily toward Samsung. Samsung had great reviews, BUT I saw many reviews where customers' brand new TVs just died. As I read more I discovered Samsung had a power supply problem and that the repair process was so agonizing that some customers just bought new TVs. That turned me away from the Samsung brand to the Sony. I was just about to commit when I accidentally stumbled on the LH series by LG. I was impressed with the reviews and the specs were amazing. Once I saw the Amazon price for the 47" I knew I had found my TV. I'd like to mention quickly that Amazon and CEVA were awesome. TV was scheduled for the 29th and I got it Christmas Eve morning! CEVA was great with phone calls and the delivery guy was extremely courteous and timely. The TV? Superb... I'd put this TV up against any Sony or Samsung. Picture quality is stunning, especially through our new Sony Blu-ray player. Even our standard Dish channels look great on this TV. I was surprised as I had been told standard channels would look awful on an HD television. The control options built into the unit are very nice and easy to use. In my opinion the sound is also very nice for built-in speakers. The quality is crisp, clear, and the surround sound mode is impressive. I've only had this TV for 6 days, but so far I would recommend it to anyone. Great job LG, Amazon, and CEVA!

This is a beautiful TV. Anyone who said it looked "cheaply made" must be looking at another TV, because this one is gorgeous. The frame is absolutely the prettiest out there. The set up couldn't be easier and the picture is beautiful too. I also got an LG Blu Ray player and watched Master and Commander and Transformers the first day and refused - refused - to even consider returning this unit. The sound is good too. We have Home theatre and have not even bothered to turn it on most of the time, the sound from the TV is that good. If you want an over 40" with a matte screen, it is LG or Sony. the Sony was $500 more and absolutely not worth it. This LG has a better picture, plenty of connections, good sound and is much prettier to look at than the Sony.

this TV is a perfec for play on X360 or Ps3 the image is beautiful

The tv arrived into the city in which I live in 4 days prior to my picking it up. I received notification from the delivery company nearly 10 days after they received it. Had I waited for the delivery company to deliver it, it would have should up at my house at least two weeks after the delivery company received it which would have made it a week late from the date received from amazon. I realize it is a busy time, however, the delivery company needs to contact customers sooner and more effectively. A post card in the mail is not what I would call an effective notification method.

I am not a tv expert ,but I have not found anything to complain about on this product.

Freinds call me a gadget Guru because I attend every CES Show and constantly update to latest technologies. Like other reviewers, I spent time comparing all plasma, LCD and LED flat screens in the 46-47" category, 60Hz to 240hz, $700 to $3000. On January 31, 2010, I chose the LG 47LH40 at Frys and believe it still has the best picture of any under $2200 available today. Unfortunately, the audio sync problem is real.

Initially, everything worked perfectly with my connection to Cox Cable. I hooked audio to my Philips Home Theatre System with a digital audio cable connected through a convertor because my Philips HTS only has an Coax audio input. The convertor worked fine with my former Samsung DLP. After a few hours of TV watching, I started noticing that perfectly synced sound would start to slowly change until the sound from the TV became very different from Home Theatre System. Thinking it might be a problem with my Philips HTS or the digital/coax convertor, I changed the home theatre system to a Samsung with a digital audio input. Same sync problem persisted. I even tried changing digital cables.

After 2 weeks of frustation and no success with the annoying audio issues, I returned this TV.

I read reviews, visited a couple of electronic/appliance stores (to pick the minds of sales people), and talked to people who had purchased TV's prior to making my selection and am completly satisfied with my decision to purchase this product.(LG 47LH40 47Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV)

At first I was skeptical about the purchase of such a large electronic item on-line but Amazon.com took care of delivery and it worked fine when it was hooked up. Never had to make any adjustments, picture clarity was perfect, and the sound was better than expected. (Although my next purchase will be a theater suround system)

I have 2 daughters who are waiting for tax checks so they can but the same thing. Such a mesmerising picture I find myself only looking for HD channels to watch.

I did see some reviews that mentioned a lip synch issue (sound and picture not perfectly synched), but they were so few that I took a chance. THIS TV DOES HAVE A LIP SYNCH ISSUE. The difference between the picture and sound went from barely noticable to maybe .25 second delay of the sound. I hooked my Comcast cable box up to my home receiver via an optical audio cable and didn't have the issue when listening through my home theater system.

I called LG customer support and they acknowledged that this TV has a lip synch issue when using an HDMI cable. They put me in touch with a local technical service and they were at my house within 3 days to update the firmware on the TV. Now that the firmware is updated the issue is resolved.

Now that the issue is resolved I love this TV. The picture is great. When first powering the TV on, the picture looked kind of wierd. I had read reviews indicating that the "Tru Motion" can make the picture look strange. I turned that off and the picture looked better. I couldn't be happier with the picture on this TV - espescially for the price.

The sound of this TV is about what you would expect. Nothing special, but definitely adequate.

I also like the Matte finish of the screen. I have windows directly across from the TV and there is absolutely no glare.

I would recommend this TV to anyone with the disclaimer that they should expect to either run the audio through a home theater system or expect to work with Customer Service to get the firmware update to fix the lip synch issue.

I got this TV for my bedroom, mainly because I got the LG 55LH40 55-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV, Gloss Black for the living room, and it was awesome.

Both TVs have a beautiful picture, and the sound is fine (to me) without attaching a surround sound system. I think I'm going with LG products on TV's and Blu-ray players for the foreseeable future, as the quality appears to excellent. Hopefully, they won't become like Sony and after many years let everything go to pot. I can't bring myself to buy anything Sony anymore, with all the products that I've had by them more recently that fell apart far too soon.

Just a word about the delivery if bought through Amazon -- it was a wonderful experience with the first one, the 55 inch. I was able to schedule a delivery time range, and when they brought it, they took everything out of the box, set it up, and took all the trash away, so no TV box out for trash pickup advertising to everyone what we got. However, on the 47 inch, it was a one-man job through a different delivery service, Pilot, and it was not white-glove -- he just left it with us inside the door. Regardless, I would buy a TV from Amazon again in a heartbeat, if I need one. The savings is too good, with prices better than local and no tax usually.

I would also suggest the LG BD 370 Network Blu-ray Disc Player for those in the market for a Blu-ray player, especially with Netflix streaming.

To begin with, though I'm an ardent film collector, this LG television is my first foray into the HDTV market. It's replacing a 27" RCA CRT, a six year old television that still functions perfectly. However, after finally aquiring a PS3 Slim and attempting to get into gaming, I found my poor CRT was simply out of its league. Also, now that many Blu-Ray prices are dropping (particularly on older titles), I thought it'd be great to have a system capable of handling proper Blu-Ray transfers of favorite films like "The Road Warrior", "Outland", and "Barry Lyndon" (all of which never had a proper restoration on DVD, and two of which are sadly still unavailable on Blu).

For those who have no idea where to begin understanding what to look for in a HDTV, CNET is an invaluable research resource. Their in-depth reviews of various models are some of the most helpful out there (though they do not have one for this particular unit). Also of interest are their articles that explain in detail what difference certain features make and what HDMI cable you should buy (seriously, don't spend more than $10). After doing my due diligence, I decided this LG model struck the absolute best balance between low price, huge screen size, and abundance of higher-end specs.

I ordered mine directly from Amazon on a Tuesday, and it shipped the next day via freight (CEVA shipped mine, though I'm sure the carrier varies depending upon where you live). Amazon stated it was 'guaranteed' to be delivered the next Tuesday, but the carrier a few days later and offered to deliver it a day earlier. I asked them to delay it until Tuesday (I was off work that day). The carrier was great to deal with and even, upon inquiring, offered a timeframe of between 10 and 2 for delivery. At the time of this writing, it doesn't appear to be available anymore directly from Amazon, so I'm sure the experience will vary.

Setup was a breeze, all that's required is a screwdriver to screw in the included base. Then it's just a simple matter of plug-and-play. There's also a cover for the bottom stand hole in case it's going to be wall-mounted. The menus are very user-friendly and easy to navigate, there's even most of the manual included directly on the TV. There's a small setup guide included, but the bulk of the manual is on an Abobe Acrobat file in the included CD-ROM.

A fatal error many frugal yet selective television consumers make is buying a cheaper entry-level HDTV like this and expecting it to somehow perform like a $3500 plasma unit. It's just not going to happen. However, considering the gorgeous picture on this model and the relatively low price tag, it's difficult to justify paying more for a "better" LCD or a potentially problematic plasma. For instance, I considered some of the new LED LCD models, many of which offer a refresh rate of 240. But I simply couldn't make a discernable distinction when compared to this model (which has a rate of 120), and the image simply wasn't impressive enough to warrant the massive price tag.

I'm also happy to report that almost every recent film I already own, released in the past ten years or so, looks so outstanding on DVD the Blu-Ray upgrade simply isn't necessary (though it probably helps somewhat having an "upconvert" DVD player). Needless to say, the Blu-Rays I did test ("Quantum of Solace", "The Phantom", and "Glory") all looked - in a word - incredible. The sheen of clarity on each print was jaw-dropping (though "Glory" has a good deal of grain still present).

My wife and I spent an entire Saturday going through the extended edition DVDs of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy on this model, and I simply have no complaints to report. The screen is large enough to provide a cinematic effect (especially in a bedroom), the movement onscreen was fluid, and the colors leaped off the screen. Even a series like "Battlestar Galactica", where the picture was intentionally degraded to give it a 'grittier' feel, looks gorgeous on plain-jane DVD.

As previous reviewers have stated, I truly don't feel as if I bought an "entry level" television. Also, I've watched hours of cable in addition to multiple DVD and Blu-Rays, and I haven't had a single "lip synch" issue. My model was manufactured in February 2010, so it's possible they've updated the firmware on the latest models. I really can't find any serious faults with this model, it's as if this unit was made specifically for my needs. For now, it's five well-earned stars, I'll update later if any issues arise.

This is my first LCD Tv but I have owned a Sony Vega HD for several years. This one is mounted over the fireplace and I could not ask for a better picture. Yes you get a little edge issue when the room is completely dark but that was expected due to the reviews that I had read. It is a must to turn off the Motion technolgy. Great buy!