LG 32LD450 LCD TV(Gamer's ορμάτε!)

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Console Gaming:

Gaming turned out to be excellent on this HDTV: the LG 32LD450 is yet another example of the perverse tradition of a company’s lower-end products being better for gaming than its more expensive screens. Lagging by just 16ms, we could effortlessly jump and blast our way around the environments in Halo: Reach without having to fight with the control pad. This excellent figure was measured with all of the 32LD450’s colour management and 10-point Greyscale correction enabled. If only the entire industry could manage this level of performance consistently, and give it to us on higher-end TVs!

Conclusion

The LG 32LD450 is a relatively inoffensive 32″ LCD TV. There’s enough to like about it, but its average black level is enough to stop it from getting a gleeful recommendation. For the same amount of money, Samsung offers the LE32C530 which features an SPVA panel (depending on where you live and which variant you get!) with much richer blacks, and consequently, a punchier image. It also has an extra HDMI input.


We could almost have predicted this result based on the “LG” branding, but scientific measurements have confirmed the situation: the company has, once again, produced a HDTV that can be calibrated within an inch of its life and produce highly accurate video, but still can’t achieve outright greatness. It’s a shame also that its lack of a “hands off” mode means that its pictures are very subtly more smeared (or more ringy, depending on your “Sharpness” setting) than the competition: there is no way to get a purely unadulterated image.

However, the LG 32LD450 has plenty of advantages to boast about: flawless Greyscale tracking resulting in completely neutral, tint-free video, no colour errors worth mentioning, and also no detectable input lag. These points won’t be enough to distract movie lovers from the slightly greyish blacks (assuming movie lovers would be considering a smaller screen like this one, anyway), but we imagine the LG 32LD450 will find favour with many gamers, as a result of its lightning-fast video processing, which results in console gaming feeling fluid and fun.

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