LG 47LH90 47-Inch 1080p 240Hz LED Backlit LCD HDTV, Glossy Black/Infused Blue

LG 47LH90 47-Inch 1080p 240Hz LED Backlit LCD HDTV, Glossy Black/Infused Blue Review

This is a really nice TV. I love the crisp, clean picture quality that the matte screen provides. The TV is also quite attractive and classy looking when off. In spite of buying the MediaBridge high speed HDMI cables (v. 1.3b), here on Amazon, we still noticed some lip sync issues when watching TV from our Dish Network programming. Some channels were worse than others (HGTV seemed quite noticeable as well as SYFY). DVD's on blue ray player were fine. Thanks to a CNet user review by PB G4 dated December 1, 2009, I had a clue where to go looking to resolve my lip sync issue. We have a Dish Network HD VIP222k receiver.

Here's what worked for us: Using the Dish receiver remote, press

, , . Mine was set to "Dolby Digital/PCM". Change it to "PCM ONLY". (I left it at RF mode). Then press , to exit. Thats it- no more lip sync issues! The problem was with the TV programming provider NOT the beautiful LG TV itself. By the way, I too did not like the phony movement (kind of looked like slow motion, blurred effect) of the dejudder effect. Picture movement was much better with it turned off. To do this, use your LG TV remote press MENU, go to PICTURE, go to your selected display mode and scroll down until you get to ADVANCED CONTROL, press select. In ADVANCED CONTROL scroll over and down to TRUMOTION 240HZ. Select it and turn it OFF. This will give more natural looking movement. We're still tweeking our settings but little-by-little the tv gets better and better with the already great picture.

By the way, apparently LG is no longer making this TV and will be coming out with newer models. Its a great TV and I wouldn't hesitate to get one while you can. It will probably get hard to find a fully backlit LED with local-dimming since most are going to the thin side-lit LED screens. I've seen the best price in-house at Fry's Electronics (California/Bay Area/Sacramento) for ,199 and the 55LH90 as low as ,799. However, the price doesn't go this low on their website. I actually bought mine from a local video store (VIDEO ONLY- great store and customer service) who has a price-beating policy. At that great price, they could only beat it by a few bucks, but I wanted to give business to the smaller, local guy.) They no longer have any in stock since the model is discontinued, but you can still get some at some FRY's locations. This week the 47LH90 is back on sale for ,199 if you can find them in stock.

Also, FYI, we did call LG customer support on a couple of occasions. They did answer the phone, spoke English fine (seemed to be in the US), and tried to help. In one instance we had a tech come out within 24 hrs. Pretty impressive quick response. He also commented that of the various brands he services, LG provides the best customer service and seems the most committed to ensuring the customer issue gets resolved. While not perfect, LGs service may be the best out there (surprisingly to me, there were some not so good reports about SONY).

Hope this is useful information and thanks to all of you that leave useful information as well.

LG 47LH90 47-Inch 1080p 240Hz LED Backlit LCD HDTV, Glossy Black/Infused Blue Feature

• LED Technology uses a full array of LED backlights which control the level of brightness for amazing clarity and color detail
• 240Hz TruMotion Technolgy virtually eliminates motion blur for fast motion clarity
• Intelligent Sensor automatically optimizes the picture to the lighting conditions of the room for an enjoyable viewing experience
• Full HD 1080p resolution fro enhanced picture quality
• Mega contrast ratio of 2 million to 1 provides sharper image quality

LG 47LH90 47-Inch 1080p 240Hz LED Backlit LCD HDTV, Glossy Black/Infused Blue Overview

47" LED LCD HDTV, 1920 x 1080 Resolution, 240 Hz, 2,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio, ATSC/NTSC/Clear QAM - 1 Tuner, SRS TruSurround XT, 4 HDMI input

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