Let’s start off by saying this is a big TV and does come in a Big box, surprisingly the old man delivering it carried it out the van and down the path as if the box was empty, well done sir.

This TV is 47 inches, 1080p resolution, has true motion 100hz, an 80,000:1 contrast ratio, 60,000 hour lifespan, xD engine and 3ms response time. 3 hdmi imputs, 1 component, 1 composite, 2 scarts and a PC VGA connector. The TV also has a usb slot for use with card readers and an intelligent sensor but more on that later. Built in freeview is standard with a 7 day EPG. the TV weighs in at 19.6kgs and 22.2 with the stand. Power consumption comes in at 280 watts. Dimensions are ” WxHxD (mm)” 1153.2 x 719 x 99.8 without stand and 1153.2 x 791.5 x 337.4 with the stand.

Now less of the boring jambo and onto the important stuff.

Assembly was straight forward, slot the LCD onto the plate mount and screw the screws into the back tightening everything up.

Now initial impressions… wow its big, its shiny. The LCD panel looks amazingly good quality, and that’s without even having turned the TV on yet.

Time to connect everything up. Xbox360 via component “check”, Ps3 via hdmi “check”, Ps2 via composite “check” Antenna”check”.

Turning the TV on your notice the red light dim then glow like some battlestar galactica cyclon “very nice”, I immediately pressed input on the remote and selected antenna from the menu, the TV scans for channels and then stores them automatically. First impressions of its digital TV with factory settings was “I cant see digital TV looking any better” That’s not a bad thing either, it actually surprised me, good colors, good blacks, sharp and not very blocky either. changing channels and using the EPG is more or less instant, no leg when going through it at all.

I changed some of the settings, contrast, backlight etc to get the picture how I like it. The next thing I noticed was truemotion. The best way I can describe truemotion is that it makes the picture look like its been filmed with a cheap camcorder “that 60 frames per second look” Hence TRUEmotion. I hate it, and on top of that it doesn’t seam to be able to do truemotion all the time either, you get a second of normal motion mixed in with spurts of truemotion, lucky there is 3 options in the menu for truemotion, low, high and off. I turned it off.

Now onto the ps3 in 1080p. I tweaked the settings and Again wow, very sharp, GREAT colours but i noticed something. A quick go on a few games, and a test of an HD mkv over tversity i noticed everything appeared a little dark, dark scenes were extremely dark. I looked deeper into the menu settings and noticed a “black level” setting. At default this is set to low which gives really dark blacks, but Ive found this to be too dark for games and movies. I decided to get my calibration file on the play and this confirmed it. It displayed non of the strips. Changing the level to high, viola! calibration file displays perfect, although you seem to lose some color, I turned the color settings up by 10 to counter this. Again i did test trumotion and this caused the same problems in movies AND blue-ray, It also caused some weird tearing in games.

A defo thumbs up for ps3 and blue-ray playback, great range of contrast and color. Edge enhancer setting was turned to low to reduce the granular effect on blue-rays, and dynamic contrast was set to off too, i will talk more about this later on.

Onto the Xbox 360. Exactly the same problems as ps3 with the blacks, so again I adjusted the settings and got them perfect, main settings being this low/high black level option. I noticed that setting the Xbox360 to 1080p mode caused tearing on games, where as using 1080i option eliminated this problem, strange?. If anyone knows why this is please let me know.

Ps2, Basically the same as above, the picture was as good as its ever going to be on a 47 inch via composite.

PC connection I didn’t get chance to test because I didn’t have a big enough lead, Also didn’t get chance to check the usb port and image viewing options.  Sorry guys.

I now want to talk about things im not impressed with, First being dynamic contrast. when watching digital TV, when the scene changes you will notice the picture either dim slightly, or brighten slightly, this happens very fast, at first i wasn’t even sure it was the TV but my eyes!. Its a horrible effect that plagued my Eastenders viewing. Turning this off will stop the effect and you can get the nice contrast back with some adjustments to the gamma settings. By the way, this dimming and brightening effect plagued anything that had an instant scene change, movies, blue-ray and games.

My next gripe is the default image settings, especially the expert modes, all im going to say is are they blind?.. yes yes i know the image quality is relative to ones eyes, but trust me the settings are useless.

Next gripe is with the intelligent sensor. Yes it works, but again it dims the TV so much you just don’t feel you’re  viewing the TV at its best. you don’t have to use this option, which is a good thing.

You WILL need to tinker with the settings to get this TV looking good, but when you do get those settings you want I cant see you being unsatisfied with this TV. It has an excellent image, great contrast and color,  NO blurring or ghosting at all and decent black levels. At Sub £900 an absolute bargain for a 1080p 47 inch LCD.