hi there, just bought a lg 37lc46 hd lcd was wondering how good a tv this is compared to other brands,thanks ian
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Hi there,i paid £499 for the tv and was happy with my purchase and just wanted to know if i made a good choice in my selection,
thanks
excellent choice
I was frankly bitterly disappointed at the terrible picture quality on this set. Everything I did with the settings only had the capacity to make it worse - mushy, blurry, finged edges, etc. etc.
I WAS going to send it back but then as a last ditch rescue I tried buying an HDMI-upscaling DVD Recorder from Philips with Freeview and using THAT to upscale to 1080i and bingo - the picture quality that I was expecting.
It appears the problem with the 37LC46 is that its 'native' resolution is 480i - meaning that a standard UK television picture is not getting UPSCALED by the on-board video processor, but DOWNSCALED - i.e. to a 'proto-NTSC' 525-line analogue equivalent picture (and at 60Hz too which makes movement look jerky). In fact, when I switch the Philips DVDR to 480i I get exactly the same picture on the 37LC46 that it gives on its built-in DVB-T tuner or directly from SCART inputs, and indeed it goes back to 480i if I ever power-cycle the DVDR because that's the 'resolution negotation' that gets sent over the HDMI. I can't send it back because it's not 'faulty' as such, but if I'd known I'd have to spend another £150 on another device to get it to show a decent picture, I wouldn't have bought it.

