Samsung UE40B7020 LED TV Review From The Experts

Super-slim good looks; fine specification; effective LED backlighting; composed, absorbing pictures from all sources

clipped from whathifi.com Samsung UE40B7020 LED backlighting impresses TV pictures enjoy great stability, generally low noise and notable depth of field. Motion is mostly smooth, colours are of the rich-but-not-too-vivid variety and black levels are impressive. The LED backlighting makes for a pitch-black screen when idling, with strong and convincing contrasts when not. Up the quality to DVD and the good news keeps coming. Picture noise is suppressed mercilessly, colours – skin-tones especially – are agreeable and levels of black detail are a match for the best screens in this sector. Motion, too, is smooth and credible. t's not without flaws: sound is no great shakes, being as it is fairly captive and predictably lightweight, and poorer-quality TV broadcasts are done no favours at all by the '7020. But overall this is a hugely impressive TV, doubly so considering it hardly exists in the third dimension at all.

Many shoppers are choosing less expensive TV models and value brands

clipped from www.latimes.com LCD and plasma TV sales brighten retail picture Shelling out hundreds of dollars on a television is hardly wallet-friendly, but LCD and plasma sets have been flying off the shelves all year, with some retailers saying TV sales are better now than they were during the holiday season. But there's also a recession twist: Some industry watchers say that people are upgrading their TVs because they're spending more time at home during the economic downturn. "Consumers are increasingly using the home as a place to look for entertainment," said Riddhi Patel, an analyst at research firm ISuppli Corp. "And TV becomes the main medium. . . . People are saying instead of taking trips during the summer, they may as well stay at home and buy a TV." Tight competition among retailers, both brick-and-mortar and online, has driven prices for some TV sets down sharply. Patel said flat-panel television prices in the first quarter were 23% lower on average compared with the same period last year.

Review LG 22LU5000 22inch LCD Television

This is a full high definition LCD television compact at only 22 Inches, but this level of definition may be wasted on such a small screen.

clipped from www.trustedreviews.com LG 22LU5000 22in LCD TV Review What's particularly great about the 22LU5000, though, is that it thoughtfully provides a high-tech excuse for a man to like it, in the form of a Full HD resolution. Yes, despite only having a 22in screen, LG has managed to squeeze 1,920 x 1,080 pixels into the 22LU5000, giving it a leg up over the 22LU4000 I looked at a couple of weeks ago, and making it the smallest Full HD screen I've seen. Wowza. Awesome though this sounds on paper, I guess there's a pretty good argument to be made that having a Full HD resolution in a 22in screen is just an almighty waste of time. I mean, some 26in TVs struggle to convincingly show the relatively straightforward difference between HD and standard definition, so it's hard to believe that a 22in TV will be able to show the much finer difference between an HD Ready and Full HD picture.