LG LCD-televisio LT75 (32",42")

Do you fear 'going digital'? If so, the LG 42LT75 really is a great way to upgrade ahead of the great analogue switch off. This LCD TV boasts Freeview Playback, allowing you to pause and record your shows. With great image processing and an affordable pri...

Freeview Playback functionality works well; great operating system; price, picture quality

Signal weakens en route to the second digital tuner; picture deteriorates if watched from much of an angle

It turns out that Freeview Playback is a really substantial addition to the terrestrial digital tuner proposition, so much so that it almost elevates the 42LT75 to somewhere around the top of any Freeview TV audition list. It also produces LG's finest LCD...

The LG 32LT75 is a very well thought-out product. It's both elegant and simple in styling and provides a solution to the problem of finding a simple way of recording TV programmes without paying for an external PVR. It's a fantastic way of simplifying you...

Picture quality; menu systems; built-in PVR; styling; remote; sensible price

Sound is a little weak

The LG 32LT75 is a superb way of reducing clutter in your lounge without losing the ability to record your favourite TV channels. Nothing about this TV disappoints apart from the slightly weedy sound

The 37LT75 renders HD with impressive precision and detailing for a non-full HD screen

Impressive recording; Good price; Easy to use

Average black levels; Poor 1080p/24fps handling

Lastly, the set's audio is perfectly adequate, given how small its speakers are

The 42LT75 is a very accomplished HD performer

Freeview Playback works superbly; Good value; Good pictures; Nice set of features

Second digital tuner weakens signal; Limited viewing angle

It's hard to imagine how all the recording/pausing/rewinding/forwarding/series link functions of this Freeview Playback TV could have been integrated any better. Even die-hard technophobes should be recording away to their heart's content within minutes.

It's LG's second Freeview Playback LCD TV, but is it as accomplished as its first?

While LG's second Freeview Playback TV perhaps inevitably hasn't caused as much of a stir around the TrustedReviews offices as the first one did, the 37LT75 is still a very accomplished, feature laden and easy to use little number that simply cries out to...

For the past few years digital TV has been a hare and tortoise race between Sky and Freeview.Sky, of course, is the hare. It has raced ahead with innovation after innovation, with both life-changing hardware like the Sky+ and Sky HD boxes, and forward-thi...

Freeview Playback system works well, Good 720p image

Black levels could be better, Limited viewing angle, Can't record two digital channels

A fairly good flatscreen overall, but it's the Freeview Playback that really sets it apart from the pack

The first Freeview Playback enabled TV heralds a triumph for LG.

LG is to be heartily congratulated on the 42LT75. The Freeview Playback system turns out to be a triumph, even in this, its debut TV incarnation. And thankfully LG has really thrown its support behind the new technology by doing a much better job showing

SATISFACTORY

The selection of the 42-inch class TVs at large. The LG? 42LT75? sticks with a built-in hard disk recorder but from the crowd. In the test, he had to prove whether he is otherwise the competition ausstechen.

This TV/digital recorder offers nice images but blacks are too grayish. Rescaling of SD sources isn't excellent and we prefer leaving this job up to the DVD player.

- Integrated digital player (160 GB hard drive), - Very good colors, - Integrated TNT Tuner (although SD and not HD)

- Contrast and depth of black are too low (a recurrent defect on IPS panels), - Rescaling of SD sources slightly lacks sharpness (DVDs, etc.), - Narrow viewing angles