[/caption]LG Infinia 42LV5500 offers LED picture quality along with a whole lot more. And You can tap directly into instant entertainment with SmartTV and with TruMotion 120Hz refresh rate, sports and action movies never looked better.
LG Infinia 42LV5500 Feature:
- LG Smart TV: Make you easy to access limitless content, thousands of movies, customizable apps, videos and browse the web all organized in a simple to use interface
- TruMotion 120Hz technology: You can see video games and high-speed action with virtually no motion blur.
- WiFi Ready:
- Full HD 1080p: with this feature, You’ll see details and colors like never before.
- DLNA Certified
- ENERGY STAR qualified TVs
What People Saying About LG Infinia 42LV5500:
Picture quality is great. This is a matt screen and that's a big plus for me. Speakers/audio is acceptable. That's where it stops. The Smart TV and other features which were the main draw for me, are unsatisfactory and poorly executed.
The "Intelligent Sensor" to adjust pic brightness is a bit of a joke - it merely reduces it to the lowest level possible; nothing intelligent about that.
The Netflix streaming app works fine, and is pretty much the only one that works as expected; although it would be nice if LG had streamlined and standardized the menu choices for adjusting picture aspect ratio and video brightness presets (not available from within the app).
The YouTube app is complete garbage.
Hulu: I saw "Hulu" in a lot of the advertising materials but there is no app for it. You can access it via the Plex media server app, (which requires you to have the server running on your connected computer), but the menu steps you have to go thru to get to the show you want are so tedious I gave up, and continue to watch Hulu shows on my laptop. Much simpler. Which brings me to:
The BIG negative! The built in browser is useless without Flash. The LG brochure clearly indicates it does not support Flash Player 10 which is fine. That suggests it comes with an older version of Flash. It appears to come with Flash 9.x according to multiple version-check sites, but I haven't been able to get it to work, Even on LG or Adobe's site.
The menus for setting favorite channels are also tedious and not intuitive at all. There is an Add/Delete button on the Quick Menu - I haven't been able to figure out what it is supposed to do. There are LG "apps" (horoscopes was the latest addition) but their purpose seems mainly to allow LG to brag it has this and that feature without being called out for false advertising.
Overall, I think I paid a premium for nothing special. Since the bells and whistles don't work, or are so poorly designed as to be useless, the proper comparison is with a regular 42" plus the cost of a Rokio or other Netflix device. If you can get this TV for a price that is comparable to that combo, this model is worth it, but not otherwise.
LG's Answers forum (questions answered by LG) - four/five days since I asked how to fix the browser Flash issue, and my question hasn't gone live, much less answered. Which is what promoted me to post this review here on Amazon. Reviews by dingbat
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