Total Satisfaction
This purchase was a most pleasant experience. The television has all the features I wanted (37" LED, 120hz, 1080p) and the picture quality is excellent. Also the delivery was without flaw. The price was right and resulted in a good value purchase. A most satisfying experience.

lg led-lcd hd tv
we wanted to upgrade our tv and went shopping in various electronic stores and costco - it was great to see the new lcd-led tv's in person, as the picture quality is amazing. however, we needed a specific size and could not find it in any of the stores we visited. amazon had a listing from an electronics shop we never heard of, but its postive reviews gave me confidence to order it. we are quite happy - the tv came in 2 days via free shipping. it wasn't too hard to set up and the picture and features are great.
we are happy with it!

What more do you want???!!!
I have never purchased a television online. I was pleased in ALL aspects of this purchase. My last TV was an HD 60Hz 27 inch. I was nowhere prepared for the picture that I would get from this HDTV. The 120HZ and the contrast make a picture that is almost creepy at how real it is! The setup was easy and I only needed to glance through the instruction manual. I hope LG continues to produce 37 inch HDTVs. I can only imagine what the picture will look like when the refresh goes up!! I would purchase this again without a second thought!

Very Pleased!
This is my first flatscreen TV. I bought the TV based on 4 specific features: 120Hz refresh rate, the LED backlight (and resulting power savings), the ability to play video files from USB, and 24P Real Cinema feature. I'm glad I made the purchase. Setup was easy, with only 8 screws to attach the stand to the TV. The unit is stable. I'm impressed by how thin the TV is. All the front lights can be turned off. The screen is a matte finish (no reflective cover). The TV doesn't have networking capability, but I wanted to buy the best TV I could afford and then use a Blu-ray player to provide the network interface.

I didn't know much about HDTVs a week ago and what I learned after about 8 hours of research and reviews is that the picture I actually see on the screen is heavily dependent on the source signal and the many different conversions the signal may go through (frame rate, aspect ratio change, deinterlacing, etc.) before it actually gets to the screen (the result of not feeding it a pure 1080p HDTV signal over an HDMI cable). I was really frustrated over looking at TVs in retail stores because doing comparisons side-by-side, I figured, was useless unless I knew what the original source video was and whether or not all the settings in the TV were set right. I ended up buying this TV because I figured it would give a great picture so long as I fed it with good source video. So far, that's true.

Right now, I only have a DVD player and a USB hard drive connected to it. My cheap little DVD player outputs in 480i or 480p. The 480i signal has less jaggies on this TV than 480p. My guess is that the deinterlacer in the DVD player is low quality, so the 480p signal fed to the TV is not so good. I'm confident a 480p signal will look better once it's coming from a decent upconverting DVD player or Blu-ray player. All my anamorphic widescreen (1.78, 1.85, and 2.35) DVDs display great with the TV set to 16x9. 4:3 TV stuff (like old X-Files videos) display properly too. DVDs are clear, crisp and smooth.

I'm really impressed by the ability to play videos from a USB drive. So far I've played .avi, .mkv, .vob and .divx files up to 720p quality and file sizes between 500 MB and 2.1 GB. (When I hit the Info button on the remote, it looks like most of my .avi and .mkv files are encoded as MP4 and H.264, if that helps.) Windows .wmv files do not play. Quality is beautiful! No stuttering or pixilation. One problem I've faced, however, is the audio and video getting out of sync on some videos after about 20 minutes of play (the video starts to lag behind). I've been able to re-sync it by pressing stop and play. (Maybe it'll get fixed with a firmware update? Or maybe it's a problem with my files?) By the way, USB videos can be resumed from where you left off if you press stop or if the video stops. Once in awhile, videos will just stop on their own, but I'm able to start them again and they'll pick up and play just fine where they left off. I don't know if that's an issue with the file, the USB drive, or the TV. Aspect ratio modes are limited in USB mode: I only get the option of "Original size" or "Full" (which expands the video to the entire TV). Haven't had any problem yet with the "Full" setting because all my video files appear to be encoded in widescreen formats.

The LED backlighting is adjustable, either by changing the AV mode (standard, cinema, sports, etc) or by setting the power saving feature to "Auto". At full strength, I see some LED light vignetting at the corners of the screen when there's just a black image being displayed. (I see the same thing on my LED PC monitors).

I don't have much to compare it to, but the remote works just fine for me. It took a little bit to figure out how to get to all the features (especially the 24P Cinema Mode, which is a couple menus deep).

Sound is just fine for my tastes. The volume runs from 0 to 100 and gets plenty loud enough to be too loud when sitting about 7 feet away. Sound quality is fine and actually has a pretty good frequency response range...it's not tinny or muffled. ClearVoice does add some crispness to voices.

TruMotion is kinda neat. It "interpolates" and inserts additional frames which really smooths out motion on any video I've fed it so far. Sometimes the results are desirable...sometimes not. On a "I am Legend" DVD, for example, setting the TruMotion to "Low" smooths out the video and adds to the quality in my opinion. It does add a little bit of the "Soap Opera Effect"--unnaturally clear and smooth video when compared to traditional 24-frame per second movies, so I just turn TruMotion off if I don't like the result. On some of my HD video from the USB drive, TruMotion makes motion more blurry, so I just turn it off. Again, the benefit seems to be dependent on the frame rate and quality of the original video signal.

The 120Hz refresh rate and the 24P Real Cinema mode are all about displaying film and video at their native frame rates without the need to do "pull down" frame rate coversions to the video signal which can cause judder (stuttering). I'm still learning about "judder" and "pull down" so I really don't have anything to compare good vs. bad video quality. I can say that I don't experience any stuttering no matter what DVDs I play.

I love the quality I'm getting out of this TV right now and it's only going to get better when I can actually feed it full 1080p signals. I will definitely look at LG LED-LcD TVs when it comes time to buy a bigger TV for the living room.

I learned a lot about this TV's features by reading the online manual at LG before I bought. I now have the CD manual which is 178 pages and goes into a lot more detail about what the TV can do. If you want a copy, send me an email at rgknowlton at hotmail dot com.

Overall performance of LG LCD 37LE5300
This LG HD LCD 27LE5300 this is an overall exceptional HD Television. The Qualify, Reliability, Performance and ease of use is the best TV performance I have experienced. I have a Samsung 52 inch HD TV and an Westinghouse 32 inch HD TV. Neither matches this LG HD TV model. The only drawback that it has is that LG does not include a paper User Manual. They provide a CD disc with the the User Manual. Since my LG is not even on the same floor as my TV, when I needed a particular answer for setup, I had to run downstairs and look it up and then run upstairs to try to apply what I looked up. This sometime didn't work and it was back to the computer. I ended up printing numerous pages to setup the TV correctly. I still give this TV 5 stars due to the mostly ease in setting up with out the manual.

Excellent TV for the price
I have owned this TV for a couple of months now and have enjoyed it immensely. I love the ability to stream Netflix and Vudu from the TV without an additional box involved and the wireless dongle has excellent signal pickup.The TV gives the user the ability to automatically adjust the picture quality for the ambient light conditions in the room and it also has a very robust set of color and sharpness controls. One down side is it only gives the blue color range, brightness and contrast, no red or green.
With multiple HDMI (4) inputs, composite connections, and a digital optical out, the TV has plenty of options for just about anyone.

What an Upgrade!
I saw this TV model in stores, and really was impressed with the picture quality.

I got on Amazon and was even more impressed with the price it was available at.

I'm now extremely pleased with my purchase. What an upgrade from a 27" 4:3 CRT television, even though I considered that CRT to be really good quality in the picture department. I'm using this TV in a room that gets a lot of daylight via a large patio door. Glare is not an issue, and so much better than with the old CRT.

Sound is pretty good through the built in speakers, although I spend most of the time watching with the sound run through a separate sound system.

The Internet "widgets" are just fluff to me, and I haven't used them. My other equipment already support Netflix and Pandora, which are the two things I ever want to use via my home theater. But I really don't feel like I paid extra for them being on the TV, as other TV's without them, but with comparable reviews to this model, were not significantly different in price.

I like to fiddle with settings, and have to say one thing I wish was better is documentation about all the picture settings available on this TV. There are many settings if you care to dig into them, but the manual does not explain all of them very well. There are also some settings that aren't always available (visible, but grayed out in the menu), but no explanation as to why is given in the manual. But there is a "Picture Wizard" tool built in to the TV, which got the picture pretty close to what I wanted, and I was able to get it the rest of the way on my own.

Overall, I don't think one can go wrong with this television. For the price point, I think it's a winner.

Worth Every Penny
I have had this TV for almost a week now and I have to say that it was worth every penny when I bought it and it looks amazing with an HDMI cable hooked up to it. I mainly use for playing video games and whenever I get my computer put together as well and the wireless on it is really nice as well. I enjoy watching walkthrough of games on youtube and I had to do it on my computer but now that my TV has it, it is very nice. The sound quality for it is pretty good too, its not a really big deal to me about the sound because as long as I can hear it well, thats all that matter to me. Overall, I would recommend this TV to anyone looking for a good size TV and at a good deal, this one is too good of a deal to pass up!

just pure Beauty
Great TV, Great Quality, no problems in shipping and paying only 0 i felt like a thief ... only tiny tiny tiny, insignificant detail is that on the stand that comes with the TV it is a little wobbly. but thats due to the epic size and beauty, haha just put it some place you wont bump into.

Very Happy
The ease of use, quality of pix and decent sound make this a winner. A simple dongle is all that"s needed to make it a wireless wonder. No need to have an extra box top to receive netcasts. Love it.

Great TV
I resisted ditching my 32 inch tube Panasonic for a flat screen because I didn't see the price/performance benefit. That is until I saw this TV on display at the local electronics store. The picture was amazing and price was very affordable. I broke down and bought the LG. I've had it for 7 months now and my wife, 2 teenage boys and I are very happy. It took awhile to get use to the very realistic picture. Everything looked like a live performance! But over time and with the easy adjustment available (AV modes) for the picture we have been able to adjust the picture properly for the content being viewed. The sound is a bit disappointing as even at the highest level it is still not very loud. Decent but not what you would expect. I don't have a home theater hook up so we depend on the TV speakers for sound. Everything else exceeded expectations. The external hookups are plentiful. Even though the TV does not have a wireless connection we connected the Ethernet to a wireless hub and that works just fine. We love streaming Netflix right to the TV! We have a WII connected directly and that works perfectly also. LG as an extremely inexpensive extended warranty that gave us a total of 4 years of coverage. I couldn't match that anywhere. No regrets from my family in finally taking the LCD plunge with this TV.

Great features, good picture, HORRIBLE sound
I won't bore you by parroting the other good reviews, other than just to say I mostly agree with them.

My 2 cents:
- Netflix woks great with a hardwired connection all the way to your cable/DSL modem. I originally had the TV on wireless (plugged into bridged wireless router) and while it worked, the connection would occasionally drop, as wireless connections do, which meant the stream would break and have to rebuffer. Fortunately it never meant I couldn't get HD, if available. I dropped a network cable from the router that is connected to my cable modem and it was smooth sailing from then on.

- Never used Vudu since it's over priced, but the trailers are cool

- YouTube is... YouTube. It's "neat" and you aren't subjected to the IQ-reducing comments.

- The picture is as good as it should be, no better, no worse. The anti-reflective, semi-gloss screen IS actually kind of impressive: not as sharp as a good plasma, but not as soft as a matte LCD. Nice work, LG.

- LOTS of controls for OCD home theater peeps, especially for the price. On a related note, I am not a fan of the 60/120/240Hz hype. I don't care for the, uh, weird, artificially overly smoothed video game-like motion. Sure, I don't like motion blur and tearing, but that was only ever an issue on early and/or cheap displays. It's 99% artificial sweetener so they can charge more. Period.

OK, now the catch: THE SOUND SUCKS!

It just is plain horrid. LG should be ashamed and issue an apology.

Not everyone wants to use surround sound to watch TiVo'd Daily Shows or have an immersive aural experience when their kid just wants to watch Shawn the Sheep. If I spend hundreds of dollars on a TV, I should be able to just turn it on and watch it without wondering why it sounds worse than my 10 year old 13 in. tube.

Seriously, the volume goes to something like 80 or 100 (?) and if a show with low volume (the aforementioned Daily Show is notorious for this), you try turning it up and it's like nothing really improves after maybe 40. I kid you not it's really, REALLY bad.

I came so close to returning this unit just because the sound is that bad. It managed to JUST be livable enough though.

Great Home Investment
This TV has really turned up the entertainment level of our home! We replaced an aging 27-inch analog television with this for "over-the-air" television broadcasts. A few months ago, we kicked our monthly Dish Network subscription to the curb by purchasing Dish Network's DTVPal DVR. We currently connect the DVR to the LG 42LH50 using an HDMI cable, but we can also connect with the multitude of other options listed in the product description.

The remote for the LG has functions that can not be duplicated on most Universal Remotes, and the LG remote is not a Universal Remote for controlling other devices. That's a shame. Now I *must* keep at least two (2) remotes out at all times: One for the device I am using, and one to access the LG Netcast features. There seems to be no other way to activate the Netcast features other than using the supplied remote. If the LG remote gets lost or damaged, we are S.O.L.

Pros:
Intelligent Sensor Mode LG's Smart Energy Saving Technology (when enabled) will reduce the screen brightness if you watch it in a dark room or increase the brightness if you watch it during the day with the sunlight shining in. Great feature if you can use it (see "cons" below).

Several aspect ratios to pick from, from Auto, 4:3, 16:9, Cinema 1-6, etc. Taylor any video to fit the way you want or leave it on the Auto setting.

Never have to watch some stale old program on TV again with shows from your Netflix account's Instant queue, when it works (see "cons" below).

Plug in external USB drive into side port to watch movies you've burned (only tested with VOB, WMV and mpeg). As soon as drive is inserted, a menu pops up on screen asking if you want to view photos, listen to music or play movies. Very easy!

Input Source selection is very nice! Press the Input selector and input sources that are currently powered on and available show up first. Other input selections are still there, but they are grayed out - usually (see "cons" below).

Vudu "Pay Per View" and free movie trailers are a nice touch.

Cons:
Intelligent Sensor Mode: LG's Smart Energy Saving Technology interferes with DTVPal DVR remote (may affect others). Disable Energy Saving Technology in LG menu fixed this problem.

Netflix is not always able to retrieve titles from our Instant Queue through our network connection. Sometimes, we can "auto reset" the Network's IP settings, sometimes we can surf out to You Tube, then go back to Netflix - and it works! I don't know what the problem is. Anyone have an idea?

Netflix, part 2: Netflix movies have to be loaded into your "Instant" queue first, or you will see no movies available. To do this, you must go to Netflix on your PC and add movies to your Instant queue.

You Tube: There isn't an organized method of locating information on You Tube or adding something to a queue (that I've found). You are limited to what someone has named their videos.

LG Inputs: We have our DVD player connected on HDMI2. If we turn on the LG 42LH50 *after* having watched a show on the DVD player and the DVD player is off, the video input selector seems to be buried 10 items deep. I would find it more convenient if the video input would default to the first available when input sources are not available.

Yahoo! Widgets: These appear to be useless as far as I can tell. The Yahoo! Videos are only for previews (there are only about 10 to scroll through), Yahoo! Weather just shows sunshine or a rain cloud along with the temperature (I can tell this by walking outside), etc. I'd like to replace the Yahoo! Widgets with a radar loop from [...]! That would actually be useful!

Vudu: Vudu accounts have to be secured with your credit card and are - , depending on popularity and quality (SD, HD, HDx). I can't link my Vudu account to a credit card because there is no way to stop the baby sitter from racking up a 0 bill while my wife and I go to dinner.

Closed Captions: The LG tuner supports closed captions, but the captions option seems to be grayed out (unavailable) unless the input is set to the TV source. Our Dish Network DVR on HDMI1 can be set to display captions, but the LG will not display captions from it. There seems to be no way to display captions for any of the Netcast features either.

In summary: I like this TV because of all the Internet capabilities it brings to the table that other televisions do not offer. As the Devil's Advocate, I will admit that if I had a Media PC plugged into the back of this device, I probably would not need these features. A Media PC would be a more complete solution, but this is good for what it does.

I hope that helps you make a decision!

Broken TV Shipped: Not the only one
The TV looked impressive until it started freezing, restarting several times on its own, and finally stopped working altogether. Repairman told me this is common with this tv and is repairing. They will not replace the TV, so I am stuck with an expensive TV with band aid parts (assuming it can be fixed) that will likely fail quickly after warranty expires. I did some internet browsing and found other consumers reporting this problem. You buy at your own risk. LG customer service lost contact with me and did not call back.

Very pleased with this purchase
This was purchased for the den, which is where my internet router sits. This made it possible to directly connect the TV to the internet for high-quality Netflix streaming, which works beautifully and reliably. The TV does not support a wireless connection.

Besides Netflix, the TV is used to watch HD/SD cable programs and for playing Xbox 360 games.

The TV has a beautiful picture, once you adjust the settings to suit you. There are built-in wizards to help you adjust the picture quality. I suggest turning off the "TruMotion" option, because it tends to make film look strange during panning shots, as if the show were on video rather than on film.

The sound is ok, better than average but with very little bass or depth, at least in our den environment.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SOUND OPTIONS: There are no RCA audio-out jacks. The only audio-out option is the digital optical output port. I wasn't aware of this - I never thought to check, as all other TV's I've had provide the RCA ports. Because of this limitation, I wasn't able to use the external speakers that I had planned to use. However, I was able to buy an inexpensive (< 0) Philips home theater system that did the job just fine.

Overall, I'm extremely happy with this TV and would highly recommend it.

Awesome Monitor
This monitor is awesome! Just finished playing Bethesda's Fallout 3 with all add-ons and am starting Borderlands. Smooth motion, no blurring - even in the most intense firefights! Stylish case, cool power indicator, plenty of miscellaneous inputs and a multitude of functions and features. Works great for playing hd videos from my Flip Mino HD! I'm even impressive with the sound!

oh yea, works great as a tv also! ;o)

Couldn't be happier
This is my first "HD" TV. After doing a fair amount of research, I decided to go with this one (To my surprise, I was expecting to end up with a more well known brand name for best value).

I purchased this TV mainly to play video games on. I play Xbox 360 games (Mainly FPS and Fighting Games) and picture quality along with having no "motion blur" was very important to me. The 120hz is more then enough to eliminate any blur you may be afraid of, the TV displays fast moving action perfectly.

The picture is also perfect, I feel like I have an advantage over others online that don't have a TV as nice, I can see anyone from across the map - I love this TV.

I also watch a good amount of movies on this TV, and the pre-installed "Cinema" settings are WONDERFUL! The screen looks exactly like a movie screen (Just not as big). The true motion, the frame rate change, everything just "works" to create a great movie experience.

I tend to hook up my laptop to this TV via HDMI a good amount to watch TV shows/movies/anime and I've had no problem with that either. This TV functions great as a second monitor for a PC.

Although I barely use the sound, When I do it sounds great. Of course it can't compare to a sound system, but as far as TV speakers go they are the best I've come across. The TV is fairly light (nice when moving it) and has a nice little device in the back for organizing your cables. It looks great, performs great, is well built - I'm very happy with this purchase. At this price, this TV is a must buy if you are looking for a 32 inch HD TV.

Great TV for the price!!
I have always been a fan of LG and their LCD televisions. This TV reinforces my appreciation for the quality LG provides in their products.

Wisconsin Reviwer
Pros - Its a beautiful picture. I love how easy it is to use. I love the energy saving option it gives you. Its a little dark at night with the sensor but in the morning its fine. The speakers are fine. No problems there. HD is BEAUTIFUL!

Cons - Sometimes, even if its on its full 120Hz, it still can motion blur. But not with everything moving fast. I STRONGLY dislke that when I press mute on my CABLE remote, it will not mute. I was told its a LG thing. Instead the stereo menu pops up. So, dont loose the TV remote! Lol... that or just press volume down until its quiet. Like I said, when its on the intelligent sensor options, it is pretty dark at night. Oh, and there is ONLY a power button on this TV. No other buttons (volume, input, ect) ... just the power button. thats fine with me but some people who like buttons on there TV, it ONLY has the power button. It takes a few secons to start up, but once it does, its pretty! :-D

Awesome HD LCD
This LCD is awesome. I'm by no means an expert in LCD, but I have a Samsung 22" (doubles as my pc monitor), both my daughters have 22" Sharp Aquos in thier rooms, I believe all of these are supposed to be a "higher" quality LCD brand than the LG, but this LG definitely is as good, it has an amazing picture. I have it connected to HD Directv and I can not see any flaws in this picture. I've watched March Madness (basketball), HD channels on the sattelite, Blueray Movies on it and saw no 'jittering' no 'ghosting' whatsoever. Worked right out of the box... I'm very pleased, espicially with the low price I paid for it ([...])