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LG Scarlet 42" LCD TV
By: Siddharth Bhatia   |   Jun 27, 2008
  • 3.5
Slim and good-looking
Good color reproduction
Detail and motion scenes are not up to the mark

We started off, hoping the performance would live up to the ritzy exterior. First up came calibration and fiddling around. Which brings me to the topic of AV modes that the TV offers. Cinema, Sport and Game are the presets, while you have an intelligent sensor setting here too. This sensor works very well; it’s not a gimmick. Well, not quite a gimmick; as I still think going to the user section and setting the menu to one's liking yields best results.

 

Blacker than black levels were nowhere in sight, though brightness and contrast was fine-tuned at a little above the half point on the menu, say, about 65-70 (our test room is dark). There is a good backlight control available; a continuous one that allows fine-tuning. As always keep it low!

Colors were spectacular; they exuded a lot of liveliness and bloom. It was easy to make the image scream out with a little fiddling in the menu, but I wouldn't recommend this. The overall brightness and contrast are, though, not as spectacular as the color.

As for motion images, this is a 100Hz set, like others these days, but we still encountered a little blur and motion artifacts. This was while checking our DVE test disc. Next we saw HD footage through our PC, connected via DVI, and this looked better, as the TV wasn’t 'upscaling' anything. The sound from the invisible speaker was ordinary to say the least, though it is a bit louder than older models. It cannot replace a dedicated audio system yet though.

We saw some trailers and snippets of films like 300 in high-def, which yielded similar results: better than average blacks, and satisfactory brightness/contrast depiction. However, fast-action scenes and intricate images like skylines and roadways showed up some jaggies and moirre patterns, detail suffers quite a bit on close inspection.

Conclusion

The TV costs Rs 1,09,000, which is reasonable for the kind of quality on offer. I expected a heftier price tag, what with the red souping-up and all. But then, other companies' mid-range models that cost around the same score lower in performance, especially in terms of color and contrast. So the LG Scarlet does have its USP.


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plz review lg jazz
raghav bhalla @ Oct 15, 2008
hey
i was looking at the LG scarlett and samsung A550 in 46" flavour...
iv heard plenty in the favour of samsung but i quite liked the Scarlett...
Is the 47" version 100hz? is the contrast ratio real?
current price offered : LG Scarlett - Rs 88,000 Samsung - Rs 80000
What do u guys think?
Ali @ Aug 21, 2008
Hi Sidharth,
Can you pl. make a comparision between the recently launched sony bravia 2 (W) series, samsung Series 6 & LG Scarlet Series (40/46/52" size) on regular parameters of brightness, contrast ratio, response time etc., in addition to to the various prorietory technologies and your overall feedback. I have been scouting to all these brand show rooms unable to make any final decision so far.

A comparative & comprehensive review would be helpful to me as well as the festive buyers in next 2-3 months time.

Further need a clarification on contrast and dynamic contrast of lcd screens, specified by various manufacturers. what do they mean and which one of them is more important.
br mallick @ Aug 19, 2008
is it worth buying
prasad @ Jul 26, 2008
The hole in the middle is the power "hole". Touch the metal border of the hole to turn it offf or on!
SASSY @ Jul 19, 2008
santiago quintero, i will quote bhathia (the author) "There is a large ring carved out in the center of this thickish bottom part, which is again quite innovative. It glows red (scarlet?) while in standby, and white when the TV is on." basically, it is the marketing and identifying mark of the scarlet series. basically, just a marketing hype
james anabo @ Jul 16, 2008
what is that hole in the middle, i wanna know
Santiago Quintero @ Jul 15, 2008
Oops, my bad...
Apologies to the writer.
Testedchip @ Jun 29, 2008
tested chip you are wrong and the writer is correct, full HD means 1080 horizontal lines.please check your facts before posting and embarassing yourself
shekhar @ Jun 28, 2008
Full HD means 1080 Vertical lines and not 1080 Horizontal lines as stated in the article. The actual Full HD resolution is 1920×1080.
Testedchip @ Jun 28, 2008
Actually it is 50 Hz and LG Scarlet LCD TVs above 46" are 100 Hz. Actually, in the showroom, on Tata Sky, its performance was better than Samsung Series 5. The only catch is that it is dull and one should not use on factory settings ( i.e. cinema, standard, vivid etc ) but rather have a user setting with brightness at 100 level.
Rakesh Goyal @ Jun 28, 2008
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