LG 32LH40 32-Inch 1080p 120 Hz LCD HDTV, Gloss Black

This is a better than average TV. It's much better than my last LCD TV. It has a nice matte finish for the viewing area and a glossy black border with a clear accent.

Pros
* Good contrast ratio and brightness for an LCD TV.
* 1080p resolution. The best you can get for HD TV.
* 120Hz TruMotion minimizes blur, which you mainly notice on scrolling text on sports or news shows.
* Better than average low shimmer and background noise on areas of similar colors, like the sky or walls with slightly different lighting.
* Minimal digital artifacts (jaggies) for fast moving pictures, like ocean waves and car races.
* Energy saving mode.
* The standby and power on lights can be configured to be off when the TV is in either mode.
* The TV can easily swivel on its base a few degrees either direction.
* The speakers point downward instead of the front, which is good for confined spaces.
* It has a screw hole in the back of the...Read more

This is a good size for a bedroom (where we have it), den, home office, computer monitor - but would be small for a main TV. Before we purchased we had the opportunity to see this LG side-by-side with Sony's 32XBR9. Having done our research we were expecting to love the Sony. Wrong. The color is better on this LG (its 80,000:1 contrast is better than Sony's) and the LG has less artifacts with fast action scenes; both the LG and Sony are 120hz but LG's application seems to work better. Both are full 1080p. The bezel/frame is a bit shiner on the LG (Sony is more matte and nicer in my opinion), but the picture is the thing and we went with the LG. Better picture than the Sony, nice menu features, and even cheaper than the Sony!

This TV was great. The picture quality was perfect. I wasn't thrilled with the whole "smooth motion" setting since it made TV look like live action theater... but you can easily turn it off. My big problem was the audio wasn't synced with the picture when it played through HDMI from my cable box. The two were about a half second off each other, so it was like watching a poorly dubbed movie. If we ran the audio from the cable box to speakers, it was synced fine. Unfortunately we didn't plan on keeping this TV hooked up to our home theater. LG said they were working on a firmware update to take care of this, but with no guarantees I returned the TV. Too bad. I really liked it other than the audio problem.