Excellent picture, clear, well-defined with good color, easy menu controls, good sound features. Viewing at an angle, the picture still looks very good. I know contrast ratio on some of the new Panasonics has skyrocketed, so I would not get too hung up with that, because on this TV, at 80,000:1, the contrast ratio is very good. Menu adjustments for picture and sound are vey simple. For my taste the color is already very good out of the box. For sound, there is a feature to adjust the overall sound level (6 levels), with each higher level representing a new higher range of volume for the +/- adjustment on the remote. Too, you can adjust the treble and bass, and the end result can be very, very nice.

Regular dvd movies look great on it, and that was something I was concerned about because of the bigger screen–definition is so good, I don’t even need to consider Blue Ray. One concern was whether the HD would make DVD movies have the look of daytime soap operas, that is, staged, as though in a theatrical play and not actually filmed or having the look of cinema, and the HD does give it that kind of staged, unreal look–but thankfully, it’s an easy fix. Thanks to an earlier reviewer for pointing it out, in the menu picture settings you have to go to advanced controls, turn off the TruMotion 240Hz feature, then make sure have the Real Cinema feature turned on. Bottom Line: I would highly recommend LG televisions.

I should mention the source of the signal for my TV was not cable or satellite, but a Terk indoor HD TV antenna that picks up all the local San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose channels very well (excellent HD at zero cost per month!), given distance of about 10 mi from Oakland, 20 mi from San Francisco, and 30 mi from San Jose.

Hope this was of some help to someone.
Rating: 5 / 5

UPDATE: LG did send a guy out to fix the unit (replaced the back light power supply) so it does now work – does look awesome. Still deleting a star for annoyance factor.
Rating: 3 / 5

For those who have a bad hum in their home theatre audio and don’t know what to do, note that the coaxial cable connection to TV is the usual culprit in this situation. Put this filter (isolator) in series with the coaxial cable into your TV and the hum should be eliminated.
Rating: 5 / 5

Also, my cable Internet seems to be unaffected by the addition of this filter. I do have a Y adapter, one branch of which goes to my cable modem and the other branch of which goes to my cable DVR box, and I did take the precaution of inserting the filter only on the branch that goes to the cable DVR box, so it is possible that there would have been an issue had I not connected it in that manner, but that might have worked fine, as well.

Note that since my Y connector has a female output and the filter has two female outputs, I had to buy a female to female F-adapter from eek technology, which just arrived and seems to work fine. Without the Y adapter that was already part of my system, I would not have needed the F-adapter.
Rating: 5 / 5