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This 47-inch LCD’s high-tech, glossy-black case and Photoshop-quality menus ooze so much in-crowd style, you’ll have to upgrade the rest of your apartment just to keep up with its sexy accruements. Picture doesn’t really disappoint either: a bright—but not oversaturated—image brought out the details of our Blu-ray test movie while maintaining a very natural look throughout. The LG did stumble though when de-interlacing some 24 FPS video sources, creating jaggies and moiré. And its noise reduction left us wishing the studio had picked a better print to transfer to Blu-ray. In last year’s market, this TV would’ve killed. But considering the tumbling prices of 2007, we expect nothing short of perfection at this dollar-to-inch ratio. —C.C.
WIRED Shiny black cases never go out of style. Full-resolution 1080p. Independent picture settings for each source input mean no more tweaking every time you switch from Playstation 3 to HD-DVD. Three HDMI ports save you from shelling out extra bucks for an external switch.
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TIRED__ Picture is noisy, and noise reduction isn’t adjustable. Color required some tweaking, but looked good after we dialed it in. Spendy considering its performance.
$2,300, lg.com
