Archive for the '$2000 - $2500' Category
LG 47LB5D HDTV Review
Saturday, August 11th, 2007Like its cross-peninsula rival Samsung, LG dips its toes in both the plasma and the LCD flat-panel pool. We’ve had some issues with a couple of previous LG HDTVs we’ve reviewed, including the DVR-equipped 42LB1DR LCD, which had poorer-than-expected image quality. The DVR-free, 47-inch 47LB5D improves upon those efforts, to be sure, and offers a [...]
HP LC4776N HDTV Review
Friday, June 29th, 2007The HP LC4776N, the company’s most expensive flat-panel HDTV to be released so far in 2007, illustrates just how widely performance can vary among televisions today. Given the company’s solid track record with plasma and DLP-based rear-projection sets–and the fact that it has borrowed heavily from Sharp for past LCD designs–frankly, we expected its picture [...]
JVC HD-58S998 TV Reviews
Monday, April 30th, 2007It doesn’t take a genius to realize that, all things considered, most TV shoppers would rather have a flat-panel television than one that takes up more than a few inches in the depth dimension. That simple fact will probably lead to the eventual extinction of rear-projection HDTVs, but for now big-screen flat-panel televisions still cost [...]
JVC HD-56FN97 Review
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006JVC’s 2006 lineup of rear-projection HDTVs includes several 1080p models, all of which use the company’s HD-ILA technology, a variant of LCoS. The least-expensive example is the HD-56FN97, a 56-inch HDTV that has much to recommend it in terms of picture performance. That said, its picture quality isn’t quite as good as some of the [...]
LG 42LB1DRA Review
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006LG is one of the few companies that combines a DVR with an HDTV, and on the outside, the 42LB1DR, one of its 2006 efforts, looks just like other flat-panel TVs out there today. This 42-inch LCD works perfectly well as a normal HDTV, but its real strength is its self-contained design. If you’ve always [...]
