[bazk666]

Originally Posted by Dan201

Ive just got the 42" version of this set from Currys.

Could some of the owners that have changed their sets settings please post them? It would really help me out. Ive seen some on the first page of this thread but wondered if over time they have been improved upon? Ill be using mine for digital TV, Bluray and some PS3/wii gaming.

thank you.

Go here m8

Psiloc irRemote S60

by the way what TV have u got ?

[bazk666]

Originally Posted by Dan201

Ive just got the 42" version of this set from Currys.

Could some of the owners that have changed their sets settings please post them? It would really help me out. Ive seen some on the first page of this thread but wondered if over time they have been improved upon? Ill be using mine for digital TV, Bluray and some PS3/wii gaming.

thank you.

Try again, ok go here :-

Psiloc irRemote S60

By the way what TV have u got ?

[bazk666]

Dan201, just been trying to post some info. 4 u, but going to try again .. eerrgghh.

OK here is the link:-

Psiloc irRemote S60

& what TV have u got ?

[dazed808]

Had the TV a week or so now and thought I'd post the settings I've settled on:

HDMI 1 - V+ box set to 1080i

Aspect Ratio: Just Scan
Energy Saving: Off

Picture Mode: Expert1
Backlight: 45
Contrast: 94
Brightness: 53
H Sharpness: 50
V Sharpness: 50
Color:50
Tint: 0
Dynamic Contrast: Off
Noise Reduction: Off
DNR: Off
Black level: Low
Real Cinema: Off
Color Gamut: BT709
Edge Enhancer: Off
Color Temp: Warm
Gamma: 2.2
I've adjusted the Colour Temps and Colour management a little as there seemed to be a bit of a Magenta cast but that will be down to your personal preference.

HDMI 2 - PS3 (For gaming)
Aspect Ratio: Just Scan
Energy Saving: Off

Picture Mode: Game
Backlight: 45
Contrast: 93
Brightness: 52
Color:50
Tint: 0
Colour Temp: W28
Dynamic Contrast: Off
Dynamic Colour: Off
Clear White: Low
Skin Colour: 0
Noise Reduction: Off
DNR: Off
Black level: Low
Eye Care: Off
Real Cinema: Off
Color Gamut: Wide

HDMI 2 - PS3 (For Bluray/DVD watching)
I switch back to Expert 1 settings as per V+ box above

The backlight setting may well need to be adjusted depending on the lighting conditions in your room, though anything above 50 seems to degrade the PQ.

[Dan201]

Thanks for the info guys, really appreciate it.

I have the LG 42LD450 42" Full HD LCD TV found here;
LG 42LD450 42" Full HD LCD TV buy online | Currys

It was on sale last week

[julioa350]

Originally Posted by Dan201

Thanks for the info guys, really appreciate it.

I have the LG 42LD450 42" Full HD LCD TV found here;
LG 42LD450 42" Full HD LCD TV buy online | Currys

It was on sale last week

wow that's £180 more than I paid for mine, just over a week ago .

[Dan201]

u must have gotten a very good price. I paid 400 for the 42" model.

[julioa350]

Originally Posted by Dan201

u must have gotten a very good price. I paid 400 for the 42" model.

Originally I paid £379.95 for it from Amazon but the first TV was damaged in transit so had to request a replacement, only took 2 days, and I was rewarded with £30 money back plus and additional 'promotional £40 in my amazon account' that I haven't spent yet by the way.

[OldG Nitro]

I got one of the 42" models on Ebays offer of the day about 3 weeks back.

Bought from the Ebuyer outlet at a cost of £364.99

Not a bad price for a great tv

[Dan201]

I think £480 is a pretty decent price for the TV when u look at what other 42" models cost, even at entry level.

[bazk666]

Just been looking at the Options with irRemote, there are 5 "Tool Options" and many other stuff below the 5, I am not going to list them but the ones which look very interesting to me are:-
"Tool Option 3"
Wireless Ready = 0,
Bluetooth = 0,
DVR Ready = 0
"Tool Option 4"
THX Media Director = 0
THX = 0
"Tool Option 5"
Wifi = 0
USB Hub Count = 0
Skype = 0

The thing is do I want to changed these to = 1 ??? I pressume this will enable the ones which are have picked out, but is the hardware in the TV to enable these functions to work !!! I not to sure, what u think m8s ?

[julioa350]

Originally Posted by bazk666

Just been looking at the Options with irRemote, there are 5 "Tool Options" and many other stuff below the 5, I am not going to list them but the ones which look very interesting to me are:-
"Tool Option 3"
Wireless Ready = 0,
Bluetooth = 0,
DVR Ready = 0
"Tool Option 4"
THX Media Director = 0
THX = 0
"Tool Option 5"
Wifi = 0
USB Hub Count = 0
Skype = 0

The thing is do I want to changed these to = 1 ??? I pressume this will enable the ones which are have picked out, but is the hardware in the TV to enable these functions to work !!! I not to sure, what u think m8s ?

According to the wiki changing unsupported values to 1 could potentially brick your telly. Then again I wouldn't know from experience as I haven't made the attempt.

[bazk666]

Yep thats what I thought, I am hitching to get more stuff enabled, but it would be wise to leave alone, jsut the Tool Option 3 DivX to = 1 is enough, being greedy lol. Thx julioa350, I will now leave it alone...

[shoestring25]

the SKY remote control code is 1206.

is this with a rev 6 remote or with a rev 8 one as i have a rev 6 one?

[gorfuc]

Is the plastic strip on the back mean't to be some kind of cable tidy? If so am i missing something because it's not even big enough to put the power supply cable through.

[marchowie]

Originally Posted by gorfuc

Is the plastic strip on the back mean't to be some kind of cable tidy? If so am i missing something because it's not even big enough to put the power supply cable through.

yes its a cable tidy but you have to pull it out to get cables through

[cickova]

Hey guys. First tnx for this forum, it was very helpful to me.

I bought 32LD450 about 2 weeks ago, to primary use it as PC monitor. But I have some problems when I connect tv with laptop through HDMI cable. I dont know how to explain it, so I took some pics :D (in attach). you can see that colors on HDMI are not that good as they should be, and there's no "sharpnes" (you can see on edges of icons, upper image). I also try to connect it with other cables, on other laptops, and the problem was the same. Then i thought that the problem was only on my tv, so i try it on my friends 37LD450, and it was the same. On VGA cable picture is wonderful, but I dont know why picture is so bad when connect it with HDMI.

Any ideas what should I do, or is that normal??

Tnx

[gorfuc]

Originally Posted by marchowie

yes its a cable tidy but you have to pull it out to get cables through

Cheers mate, i did think that but it would'nt budge and i did'nt want to break it, anyway after reading your reply i tried again and got it sorted.

Thanks very much.

[Raif Sevrence]

I just bought the 42" LD450 myself.

I should really have payed closer attention to the featured ports.

My 32" Element had a host of outputs and inputs.

It only had 1 HDMI and one DVI/VGA, but it had quite a few other ports that this tv does not have.

I cannot actually figure out any way to transfer audio from my pc to my tv, nor can I use my Turtle Beach X31's with this tv since it has no audio outputs.

Quite disappointing I must say.

Does anybody here know where I might find an idiot's guide for connecting a pc to this tv ?

I would be very grateful for any help you can give me.

[Vexxmania]

Originally Posted by Raif Sevrence

I cannot actually figure out any way to transfer audio from my pc to my tv, nor can I use my Turtle Beach X31's with this tv since it has no audio outputs.

There's an Audio In (RGB/DVI) plug at the back of the TV, this is where you can hook your PC's sound card to the TV - if you're hooking the TV up through VGA or through HDMI 2. As for the picture (I'm assuming your PC doesn't have an HDMI-out port), you'd have to use a DVI to HDMI adapter to be able to connect the TV to the PC through an HDMI cable. Note that when you connect an HDMI cable through HDMI 1, the TV cuts the sound to the Audio In plug, because the TV assumes the sound will be coming in through HDMI cable. You'd have to use HDMI 2 in order to avoid this. Once everything is set, change the aspect ratio on your TV to Just Scan mode and you're good to go.

As for your Turtle Beach, there's a headphone plug directly below HDMI 2 on the side of the TV

[Raif Sevrence]

Originally Posted by Vexxmania

There's an Audio In (RGB/DVI) plug at the back of the TV, this is where you can hook your PC's sound card to the TV - if you're hooking the TV up through VGA or through HDMI 2. As for the picture (I'm assuming your PC doesn't have an HDMI-out port), you'd have to use a DVI to HDMI adapter to be able to connect the TV to the PC through an HDMI cable. Note that when you connect an HDMI cable through HDMI 1, the TV cuts the sound to the Audio In plug, because the TV assumes the sound will be coming in through HDMI cable. You'd have to use HDMI 2 in order to avoid this. Once everything is set, change the aspect ratio on your TV to Just Scan mode and you're good to go.

As for your Turtle Beach, there's a headphone plug directly below HDMI 2 on the side of the TV

The headphone jack is for a standard headphone plug. The Turtle Beach X31's RF receiver uses RCA plugs, not a headphone jack.

My pc does not have an audio out besides the RCA jack in the back . Not that I am aware of anyways.
It has a CRT,S video, and a DVI plug attached directly to the gpu, but as far as I know, the sound card does not have any kind of external port.

I could be wrong. I don't know very much about computers.

Thanks for the reply though .

I am probably just going to go out and get an a/v receiver in a little bit and route my XBOX and pc sound through that.

I want to get a pair of TB X41's which come with an optical digital input , but I don't know if this tv will allow me to get sound from all the input devices on just that one output.

I somehow doubt it since they split all the input ports into their own separate signals.

I really should have spent a couple hundred more dollars and bought a better tv .

[Daemon]

I was considering this TV for a long time but in the end went for a Samsung C530 instead because it was supposed to be faster. Seems that wasn't true.

http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/y...lg_32LD450.jpg
LG 32LD450 15-32ms (Samsung 32C530 tested by the same guy -> 15-47ms)

[Raif Sevrence]

Originally Posted by cickova

Hey guys. First tnx for this forum, it was very helpful to me.

I bought 32LD450 about 2 weeks ago, to primary use it as PC monitor. But I have some problems when I connect tv with laptop through HDMI cable. I dont know how to explain it, so I took some pics :D (in attach). you can see that colors on HDMI are not that good as they should be, and there's no "sharpnes" (you can see on edges of icons, upper image). I also try to connect it with other cables, on other laptops, and the problem was the same. Then i thought that the problem was only on my tv, so i try it on my friends 37LD450, and it was the same. On VGA cable picture is wonderful, but I dont know why picture is so bad when connect it with HDMI.

Any ideas what should I do, or is that normal??

Tnx

My pc looks a bit less crisp when I connected it with a DVI-HDMI converter cable.
For whatever reason it supports the full 1920x1080 on the HDMI, but not on the RGB/VGA port.

Not that it seems to matter anyways. This tv looks terrible at 1920x1080.

This really is kind of a crappy tv.
Especially when I compare it to my old Element 32" 720p. It had a much lower resolution (1280x768), but it had a 85 hz. refresh rate and it looked amazing ! It might just be my gpu...I dunno..

I just set this tv to 1280x800 and it looks a LOT better then it does @ max resolution. Go figure.....

[Hawkins85]

The manual distinguishes between a HDMI-PC and HDMI-DTV mode, this sharpness issue may be because the TV defaults to the latter mode thus applying undefeatable edge enhancement and any other related processing tomfoolery. The HDMI-PC mode is supposed to disable the sharpness controls and presumably pass on an untainted image much as described with a VGA source. I'm currently trying to figure out how to get HDMI-PC mode on.

[Hawkins85]

Okay, I have labelled the input to PC to enable that, it took away the sharpness controls but it still left behind an image with that slightly over-sharpened look. Probably as good as it will get...

[cickova]

i took TV for repair, and if they don't fix it, I want my money back!!! I try it on SAMSUNG TV (c530 i think) and pic is beautiful.. i'm disappointed LG!!!

[Hawkins85]

Further probing has led me to discover that you need to use a DVI-HDMI cable going from PC to TV. Some A-B comparing cloned output from straight HDMI and DVI-HDMI cable together from my PC shows just how a straight HDMI source is being bleached. The DVI source is more accurate. Unfortunately it's still tainted by a residual halo-ing effect and dampening of colours (blue text turned to black) from inherent over-sharpening though. I recently compared LG and Samsung plasmas, whereas the LG was reminiscent of a horrifically edge-enhanced and contrast boosted Blu Ray transfer, the Samsung displayed a fine, natural preservation. It would almost seem as though LG are intent on forcing this warped ideology of picture enhancement on the consumer within their displays...

[dtaso]

Hi guys, just got the 42ld450 and before returning/replacing I'd like to ask anyone who has connected it using a vga cable and 1920x1080 resolution if they have experience any ghosting effect (appears mostly on the right side) on text, mouse, desktop icons and especially on the white icons on the bottom right windows (7) taskbar. I have tried 2 different vga cable and still the same problem. I have to mention that my old 32" toshiba 720p never had this issue (using a vga cable). Any help/advice would be great

[nkaine]

i m going to get a 32LD450 soon.
Do you know the input lag for this TV?
I have read that it is 16-32 ms in a photo, but i wanna be sure before purchasing it.
Can you use 1920x1080 mode when you connect this LCD by VGA?
I have read that no, any comments?
Thx

[cickova]

Originally Posted by Daelas

Hi guys, just got the 42ld450 and before returning/replacing I'd like to ask anyone who has connected it using a vga cable and 1920x1080 resolution if they have experience any ghosting effect (appears mostly on the right side) on text, mouse, desktop icons and especially on the white icons on the bottom right windows (7) taskbar. I have tried 2 different vga cable and still the same problem. I have to mention that my old 32" toshiba 720p never had this issue (using a vga cable). Any help/advice would be great

i ve had a problems with this model (see above), and i ve returned it and replace it with samsung 32c530. never LG again!!!