LG INFINIA 55LE8500 Review

Date: 2010.12.06 | Category: LG | Tags: 55-inch hdtv,full led hdtv,lcd hdtv,lcd tv,led hdtv,led tv,lg hdtv,lg tv

LG 55LE8500 Infinia is a 55-inch widescreen panel. Without the stand, the panel is 50.8 inches x 1.4 inches x 31.6 inches and weighs 78.9 pounds. With the stand, the panel is 50.8 inches x 12.3 cm x 34.4 cm and weighs 96.6 pounds. LCD refresh rate of 240 Hz, the display format is 1080p, response time of 1 ms, image aspect ratio of 16:9. Viewing angle (horizontal/vertical) 178 degree, wide-screen modes include Conventional 4:3, Zoom, 16:9 and Cinema. Picture Control options include sports, games and movies. Other features include XD Engine and sleep timer. Video Interface options include HDMI, composite and component. Input Video Formats 1080p, 1080i and 720p.

The speakers are 2 x left/right channel speakers with an output of 10 watts. The total output is 20 watts. Connectors include headphones (mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm), Audio line-in (mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm), 3 x HDMI (19 pin HDMI Type A), VGA input (15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15)) HDMI (19 pin HDMI Type A), Hi-speed USB (4 pin USB Type A), composite video/audio input (RCA phono x 3), Digital audio output ( optical) (TOS Link)

Functions include digital video playback, digital photo playback and digital audio playback. Supported video formats are DivX HD and DivX. Supported image format is JPEG. MP3 audio is supported.

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This TV is part of the Infinia line of LG TV and the means of television, as well as other boards in the family, have a thin body and sweet face. But in contrast to the more expensive LE9500 family, it does not have the thin frame. Overall, television is not the thinnest we have ever seen in our labs, but it is still going smooth and good will with the interior. The inflorescence stalk is squared instead of the usual cylindrical design, and this quickly over the attention.

For this year, get ready for by TV concepts that confuse you hear about most TV: 3D and LED backlight. This TV does not have 3-D feature, LG is dedicated to step up to 9500 models, but this board has LED backlighting. More important than that is the fact that these are LED-backlit option also for local dimming. This means tons of independent cells to brighten or dim, to give superior image quality. We are here because of this there are many out there LED TVs that do not have local dimming, and thus the LED technology is not exploited to its fullest worth. Or some times they imitate the dimming of a full array of edge lit configuration zones. This does not have much impact on image quality.

LG Infinia 55LE8500 the image quality has a bug that will be definite heart breaker for videophiles: the screen is not uneven uniformity. On the bright side, this disc has to have good color accuracy and black level reached a new level. We will recommend this TV if you do not have to pay maintenance and 3D are ready for an extra LCD.

LG Infinia 55LE8500 comes with a revised remote control and the buttons are easy to tell apart from feeling. They have rubberized grip that feels comfortable to press. There is a bulge in the middle, the remote control and ergonomically comfortable on the index finger of the bottom makes it a convenient notch that corresponds well to the bulge. This remote can not control other devices via infrared. The menus are pretty easy and getting around is easy. We liked the quick menu shortcut key. There are many advanced features, and we would have desired text explanations for it.

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In testing, we thought that the LG Infinia 55LE8500 one of the best features in TVs this year, even if it does not have fancy 3D or remote control. The big highlight of this panel is the local dimming LED elements. We also saw this on other high-end TVs like Samsung and LG 8500 LH90. LG reps said that dimmed this field with 240, is independent zones. The 47 inch panel in the same series has 216th Samsung, on the other hand, does not disclose the number of zones.

Other features that need to be mentioned here, are the LG Wireless media box, which you can connect to connect HDMI and other such devices wirelessly. LG has many Internet options and built in Wi-Fi would have been better, but you have to make peace with a dongle or a third party wireless bridge. Dongle worked fine for this TV but we do not have the media box test for this review.

LG was the first player in 2009 but now Netflix is all manufacturers have jumped on the train. They do not get Pandora or Slacker Radio but apart from these, there is nothing missing on this TV. We did not not write USB streaming for this record. When we first this TV from LG for the review, the Ethernet was not working on it. We asked LG about this and sent them to find another unit in our labs, in which the Ethernet was working. The company told us that there were problems with the firmware. Next, we tested Vudu and Netflix streaming on LG Infinia 55LE8500 and the video quality has exceeded our expectations both by the Wi-Fi and Ethernet.

There are tons of Internet streaming capabilities, but that’s not all on the LG Infinia 55LE8500. Apart from Picasa, all of Yahoo Widgets. If we were to write this review, we have access to only ten widgets. We liked the platform here, the better answers faster and faster loading widgets. But there is still room for improvement in terms of speed, the main widget tray takes about 20 seconds to load and this can be quite frustrating if you lack patience.

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