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LG Infinia 47LW6500 LED HDTV

24.09.2011
With a built-in Web browser and a second remote that works like a wireless mouse, the LG Infinia 47LW6500--successor to the that we reviewed earlier this year--rates as one today's better Internet-connected, 3d-supperting, LED-backlit LCD TVs. It also offers fine image and audio quality at a moderate price ($1900 list price; street prices in the range of $1400 to $1750 as of September 20), making it a very good deal for a 47-inch 1080p set with state-of-the-art capabilities.

We tested the Infinia 47L6500 in the same group as the , a 46-inch 1080p set that bundles similar features. In our juried image-quality tests; the Samsung edged out the LG overall, but it costs about $700 more. The 47LW6500 matched the Samsung's high marks for color/skin tones and details/sharpness. But judges found the LG's images on several test clips to be oversaturated; and on our motion benchmarks, it faltered slightly in its handling of a diagonal panning shot and on our "jaggies" test (jagged edges were visible on moving bars).

To help you adjust image quality to your liking, LG provides a very easy-to-use picture wizard--a calibration tool that lets you choose a target image for various qualities (color, tint, sharpness, and the like) and make adjustments to match it. You get a nice collection of presets, too.

Like most other LED-backlit sets, the Infinia 47LW6500 is quite energy-efficient, consuming no visible power when turned off and using 76.8 watts per hour (on average) while turned on. Its green score is 89 out of 100, which we consider to be very good.

The LCD is extremely thin--1.2 inches, not counting the stand. Ports are arranged in a squarish area on the left rear, with two USB and four HDMI ports facing sideways (and therefore readily accessible), and ethernet, PC video (VGA) and audio inputs, optical digital audio output, a cable/antenna coax port, and a jack for either a component video or a composite AV adapter cable all facing downward (making them tricky to access but usable with a wall-mounted set). Facing directly outward are an RS232C service port and one set each of conventional component and composite AV inputs, which you wouldn't be able to use with a wall-mounted set.

The set comes with an 802.11n USB Wi-Fi adapter that operates only in the 2.4GHz band, which isn't ideal for streaming media, especially in cities where your network's signals must compete with those of many other Wi-Fi networks. Support for the 5GHz version of 802.11n would have been nice, since it's less subject to interference.