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LG 50PG6000
Terrific design and black levels, but lacks full HD resolution
Sporting an ultra slim design, while the front of the panel is completely flat, the LG 50PG6000 looks every bit a high-end proposition.
But with a resolution of 1,365 x 768 pixels the panel can't claim a full HD badge, which means it can be found online for just a grand.
Some very attractive features
Chief among its techie attractions has to be its four HDMI inputs, which ensure you'll never have to swap your games console for your Blu-ray or upscaling DVD player
or buy a separate hi-definition switching box.
An added bonus is that all four inputs are compliant with v1.3, so you can indulge in LG's 'SimpLink' feature, which enables you to control certain functions on other LG kit in your system with the TV's remote.
The maker claims that the 50PG6000 can reach 20,000:1 contrast ratio is another plus, while a new internal cell structure forms part of a suite of picture processing called Dual XD Engine.
Useful connections
Meanwhile the 50PG6000's ability to import 24fps HD material from a Blu-ray player is largely wasted: its HD Ready resolution is too puny to display 1080p pictures.
Besides the inclusion of HDMI connections, the panel is well equipped to deal with all other sources. Sensibly, the side is home to one of the HDMI inputs, which is handy for attaching a PS3 or Xbox 360 Elite games console.
The USB port is located alongside and is great for those preferring an occasional blast of MP3 music or an impromptu slideshow. While the 50PG6000 can't handle DiVX video files, it can easily play a slideshow with music.
If digital TV's more your thing, the same side panel includes a Common Interface (CI) slot for adding subscription channels, such as Setanta Sports, to its built-in Freeview TV tuner.
Simple to set up
The remote control supplied with the 50PG6000 is a sleek affair with fewer buttons than most, and those that do feature are moulded so that your thumb can roll across them. This kind of attention to detail is rare and continues with the TV's menu system.
Eight huge, coloured squares, each with an instantly recognisable icon are displayed across the entire screen, making locating picture settings or toggling between inputs simple. It's even possible to re-name the various inputs with pre-selected titles such as 'DVD player', 'set-top box', 'Blu-ray' or 'HD DVD'.
Accessing content on a USB stick attached to the TV's side panel is a cinch, although it's disappointing that neither DiVX nor MPEG video files can be played. Slideshows with music can be set up, but it's not possible to adjust audio levels, so music is left sounding a tad harsher than the speakers are capable of.
Proper calibration can take as long as you want. There are endless tweaks possible and you could take all night configuring the exact tint of magenta or cyan.
Although the set does need some care and attention, there's no need to go too far - its complicated menus are designed for custom installers rather than consumers.
Impressive image quality
A blast of Sahara on HD DVD gives us the first glance of what ranks as one of the best HD Ready plasma pictures around.
A helicopter chase through the desert lets us see how well this panel deals with motion. It was always going to be more impressive than the frequent judder seen on LCD TVs - plasma technology has never had that problem - but it achieves a fluidity that's mighty impressive all the same.
Diagonal lines are smooth and well filtered; there's little stepping and the result is incredible realism with plenty of depth of field in the desert vistas.
Black levels, too, while not nearly as deep as some of the more expensive plasmas, are deep enough to please any movie fan.
Colours from another HD DVD test disc of Planet Earth are at their most accurate using a movie preset picture mode, though this can make blacks grey-over.
Minor picture issues
Close-ups of monkeys do look a touch soft, but for a HD Ready plasma it's a great performance and will delight anyone new to high definition. There's also some picture noise in backgrounds to contend with, but it never gets serious.
Noise reduction circuitry designed to deal with digital TV broadcasts doesn't do so well, and a DVD fed via Scart displays enough soft edges and mosquito noise to demonstrate that HD Ready TVs are rarely versatile.
If picture quality generally impresses, sound quality isn't too bad, either. Bass-heavy and precise with dialogue, the 50PG6000's TruSurround XT mode does achieve a wide soundstage, but it's at the cost of precision and the end result is a little muffled.
The best of HD Ready
This is the plasma screen to head for if you're looking for a large and stylish TV, and you're not that interested in having full HD resolution, even though you can easily hook up a Blu-ray player.
Despite the march of technology and the attention now being paid to full HD and beyond, it would appear that plasma's new sweet spot is 50in.
With good black levels, scaling and colour, the LG 50PG6000 is terrific eye candy.
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