LG Cinema 3D LW5700, LW6500 Owner's Thread

[skio]

@skio.. its not 74K, my mistake. It was 73K (because I took it on finance).. for all cash, he quoted 71K (PM Sent)

Definitely not bad..let me check on this side of bangalore... Croma jpnagar was quoting at 85k LW5700 and nothing less but kept on repeating magic motion remote we will give... i reminded him that the remote is bundled with the tv itself. sony ex720 was quoted at 80k.

The croma guy kept saying that new samsung panels are not so good and advised to take lg or sony. i guess each dealer on the basis of the margins received would push for a particular brand!!!

 

[sri072]

Definitely not bad..let me check on this side of bangalore... Croma jpnagar was quoting at 85k LW5700 and nothing less but kept on repeating magic motion remote we will give... i reminded him that the remote is bundled with the tv itself. sony ex720 was quoted at 80k.

The croma guy kept saying that new samsung panels are not so good and advised to take lg or sony. i guess each dealer on the basis of the margins received would push for a particular brand!!!

The magic motion remote is supposed to be bundled with the tv but they are not providing it (in India I guess)
But still it costs only 3-4k so 85k is too high a price

 

[amtush]

Everything is bundled if you are buying LW5700. I got Magic motion remote+4 3d glasses+6 months of hungama vouchers free .. all under 73K

 

[sri072]

Everything is bundled if you are buying LW5700. I got Magic motion remote+4 3d glasses+6 months of hungama vouchers free .. all under 73K

ohh that's great.
I did not get the magic motion remote in the bundle for my lw6500

 

[amtush]

Finally a guy came for demo and installation. Since I was looking for a table top (no wall mount), it was a little work. And the guy did not know anything. I asked him about local dimming, trumotion, setting up wireless and other stuff and he was clueless about everything. He did not know a single stuff. Finally he said that the main guy is in training, so he came for installation. In case of any issues, I can call him over and he will connect me to main demo guy... What a crap

I called up LG Customer care and asked them to send some knowledgeable guy. They said they will and waiting from 48 hours.

As of now, its default setting and its good. HD channels are just awesome and nothing to complain about.

Update: Today one guy from LG visited and gave the demo. He asked me to keep the default setting. I also find picture perfect, so keeping the same.

 

[sri072]

Finally a guy came for demo and installation. Since I was looking for a table top (no wall mount), it was a little work. And the guy did not know anything. I asked him about local dimming, trumotion, setting up wireless and other stuff and he was clueless about everything. He did not know a single stuff. Finally he said that the main guy is in training, so he came for installation. In case of any issues, I can call him over and he will connect me to main demo guy... What a crap

I called up LG Customer care and asked them to send some knowledgeable guy. They said they will and waiting from 48 hours.

As of now, its default setting and its good. HD channels are just awesome and nothing to complain about.

Update: Today one guy from LG visited and gave the demo. He asked me to keep the default setting. I also find picture perfect, so keeping the same.

With the default settings, the picture looks very artificial and colours are not accurate. The installation guy changed the settings and it looked better.
Later i have changed the settings to those mentioned here (I have increased the backlight to 60) and now it's much better. From the above link u can also see that the power consumption comes down to 80% after calibration

Try these settings. If u feel the default settings are better, u can revert back anytime

 

[cavallino]

What is the best price received on 42LW6500 ?

As mentioned by auseesuree, the best price on letsbuy is 84100 and he got a further discount of 1000 by using a coupon. I tired to find the best store price here and the best I got was 85000 for the tv alone. And 89000 for tv+magic remote+wifi dongle.

I went for the store route as lets buy does not offer onsite warranty (you need to pay extra 4000 or so for that.

So I got the whole pack for 88850. :yahoo:

 

[cavallino]

So I have been enjoying the 42LW6500 for two days now and I am quite satisfied with its performance.

Installed the wifi dongle without any hitch and it is working like a charm. As soon as I connected the tv updated itself to the latest software.

I have a couple of questions for other friends who own this line


1. What is AV mode? How is it different from the picture settings. For example there is 'cinema' choice in both of them.

2. The first day I connected, I could see the temperature for my city on the top drop down menu, but now it has disappeared. How can I get it back?

3. What exactly does the 200HZ mean, the info bar says 1080 at 60 HZ.

 

[sri072]

So I have been enjoying the 42LW6500 for two days now and I am quite satisfied with its performance.

Installed the wifi dongle without any hitch and it is working like a charm. As soon as I connected the tv updated itself to the latest software.

I have a couple of questions for other friends who own this line


1. What is AV mode? How is it different from the picture settings. For example there is 'cinema' choice in both of them.

2. The first day I connected, I could see the temperature for my city on the top drop down menu, but now it has disappeared. How can I get it back?

3. What exactly does the 200HZ mean, the info bar says 1080 at 60 HZ.

1. I don't find any use with that

2. I am using the wifi dongle as well and i had setup my location. but i never saw temperature in the info bar( if that's what u meant) I only see it at the top of the screen in the premium screen.

3. What the info bar says is that the input signal is 60 hz(from ur pc i assume) The power supply in some countries is different from others(50hz vs 60hz). That's the reason we have 50/100/200hz tv's opposed to 60/120/240hz tv's in some countries like the US. Most 100/200hz tv's can also do 120/240hz when a 60hz signal is provided(i'm not sure whether it works the other way around. Our tv's can handle both pal/ntsc and 50/60hz signals while US one's only support ntsc)

So what happens here is when the tv gets a 50/60hz signal it adds extra frames in between to display 200/240hz. This helps in removing any judder in the picture resulting in smoother transition between frames. U can see the difference between a 50hz tv and a 100/200hz tv clearly during fast motion scenes or sports like soccer

I have a question for u.
I have set the time in the settings but after turning the tv on/off 2-3 times, i have noticed that it's not displaying the time the next day. I have tried another time but the same followed.
I have set the time for the third time just now. have to check tomorrow whether it stays.

have u had this problem?

 

[cavallino]

I have a question for u.
I have set the time in the settings but after turning the tv on/off 2-3 times, i have noticed that it's not displaying the time the next day. I have tried another time but the same followed.
I have set the time for the third time just now. have to check tomorrow whether it stays.

have u had this problem?

Yes I have. I guess the tv only retains time if it is powered on. If it is shut down completely (mains off) then it cannot retain the time setting. So to that extent the clock seems to be useless.


And thanks for the explanations on the 200 Hz thing. So I guess this obviates the need to upgrade my graphic card? And yes that 60 Hz is from PC input. And again you are right the temperature comes only on the premium screen, my bad!


In the meanwhile. Here is another update on my tinkering. I tried two-three other things

1. I connected a 1TB portable WD drive. It played all videos including mkv easily.
2. Tried video streaming from a networked windows 7 computer. Could not play the video when I sent instructions from the computer but when I used the tv to play files by using (input=DLNA) it play a avi file without problems.
Has anyone tried it with Win XP? . I did not have to use the bundled sofware with Win 7. I guess one would need to install the media server in WIN XP.)

These two (portable drive and streaming from the computer) put together, I guess, make my idea of buying WD Live HUB redundant (so 10000 bucks saved )

3. Only 2 USB slots is a downer. With wireless dongle and magic remote none are left free. Any way around this? I had to remove the magic remote to try the portable drive. Magic remote is not that good anyway (2000 rupees not so well utilized!), doesn't work half the time.

Now only if I could get a audio out to my existing analogue 5.1 HT, so that I don't need to use the TV speakers, I won't really need to buy a new HTPC just for optical link ). (I did try the Head phone out but the volume remains too low most probably the impedance is too low (16 ohms).

 

[sri072]

Yes I have. I guess the tv only retains time if it is powered on. If it is shut down completely (mains off) then it cannot retain the time setting. So to that extent the clock seems to be useless.


And thanks for the explanations on the 200 Hz thing. So I guess this obviates the need to upgrade my graphic card? And yes that 60 Hz is from PC input. And again you are right the temperature comes only on the premium screen, my bad!


In the meanwhile. Here is another update on my tinkering. I tried two-three other things

1. I connected a 1TB portable WD drive. It played all videos including mkv easily.
2. Tried video streaming from a networked windows 7 computer. Could not play the video when I sent instructions from the computer but when I used the tv to play files by using (input=DLNA) it play a avi file without problems.
Has anyone tried it with Win XP? . I did not have to use the bundled sofware with Win 7. I guess one would need to install the media server in WIN XP.)

These two (portable drive and streaming from the computer) put together, I guess, make my idea of buying WD Live HUB redundant (so 10000 bucks saved )

3. Only 2 USB slots is a downer. With wireless dongle and magic remote none are left free. Any way around this? I had to remove the magic remote to try the portable drive. Magic remote is not that good anyway (2000 rupees not so well utilized!), doesn't work half the time.

Now only if I could get a audio out to my existing analogue 5.1 HT, so that I don't need to use the TV speakers, I won't really need to buy a new HTPC just for optical link ). (I did try the Head phone out but the volume remains too low most probably the impedance is too low (16 ohms).

I think i have a very decent graphic card and still it outputs 60hz only( i believe it will be the same however high end the graphic card is)
U only need one if u want to play demanding games, or any game in 3d, or play 3d blurays. To play SBS files any mid range one should be enough.

Only problem with playing movies from HDD through USB or DLNA is that the tv doesn't decode DTS audio and most of the HQ bluray rips I have (including 3D SBS movies) have DTS audio. So I use my pc to play movies. For playing HD movies with dolby digital and SD content like dvdrips it should be adequate.
I have used the bundled software on xp and tried nothing else

I didn't buy the magic remote as i thought it was unnecessary. Anyway I can operate the tv using the lg remote app on my android.
If u have an iphine/ipod touch or android u can try it out. It's cool

 

[ahassouna]

Hi all,

just applied to purchase a new LG 42" LW5700 here in Egypt.

it comes with 8 x 3D Glasses, Original Free 3D cartoon Movie and a flash memory that has like 10 movies on it.

the thing is i do not know if it has the Magic remote inside, does it usually include that?

will receive it next week

 

[gappa]

I appreciate the product since it launched ,but for me i felt the prices are high since i was looking for 47 or 55 inches screen. I tried new Samsung product but they are good in 2d but 3d part is very bad. Their active glasses are also not suited to me.

When i worked out the prices i found that the prices are much cheaper in bangkok as compared to india.

ex . 47 LW 5700 india 104000 bangkok 60000 Rs
55LW 5700 india 131000 bangkok 78000 rs
47 LW 6500 india 116000 bangkok 65000
55LW 6500 india 168000 bangkok 105000

all prices are in indian currencies, comparison prices taken from compareindia.com,custom duties not included, setvat not included Lowest bangkok deal i found in makemy trip ( 25000) all inclusive.

I have seen many sites /web pages on the net and these are the lowest .

If any of you have visited bangkok please forward me web address , shop address, emails and their experiences on [email protected]
your help will be highlly appriciated

 

[vikramsamal]

Guys please help me out..Seriously confused between LW6500 and LW5700..Lw 6500 boasts of a higher DCR and a trumotion of 200 when compared to trumotion of 100 of LW 5700 and is around 8k costlier..So my question is does that extra cost justify the features and does the extra features mean a better 2d and 3d viewing??Please help me out..

 

[cavallino]

Guys please help me out..Seriously confused between LW6500 and LW5700..Lw 6500 boasts of a higher DCR and a trumotion of 200 when compared to trumotion of 100 of LW 5700 and is around 8k costlier..So my question is does that extra cost justify the features and does the extra features mean a better 2d and 3d viewing??Please help me out..

Short ans yes its worth the price difference.
If the difference is only 8k then 6500 is totally worth it. But I think the difference should be more. What are the prices you are getting?

 

[vikramsamal]

Short ans yes its worth the price difference.
If the difference is only 8k then 6500 is totally worth it. But I think the difference should be more. What are the prices you are getting?

42LW5700 for Rs.73k.

42LW6500 for Rs.81k.

Prices are at my local store in Cuttack,Orissa.

And thanks for the reply..

 

[cavallino]

42LW5700 for Rs.73k.

42LW6500 for Rs.81k.

Prices are at my local store in Cuttack,Orissa.

And thanks for the reply..

73000 sounds about right for 42LW5700
81k is a very good price for 42LW6500, here in delhi I paid 85000 last week, the best internet price was around 83000, i think you should go for 6500 model.

 

[cavallino]

Just to confirm - the USB does not play AC3 ? Only audio that USB can handle is MP3? - At least that is what I got from the manual (and my experience with a mkv with AC3 audio).

 

[cavallino]

continuing with my explorations, another nugget which may be useful for HTPC enthusiasts, I tried the ARC (audio reverse channel) between LW6500 and my pc using the HDMI to HDMI today and it worked!! :yahoo:

Just to make it clear I don't have any digital speakers and just analogue 5.1 (logitech z506) attached to my computer and its working, which means that I can also attached my older analogue home theater to my pc and I could get quality sound without getting a new Home theater (which I was being forced to consider since the older one does not have any digital inputs). Now I guess that can be postponed for some time.

 

[sri072]

Just to confirm - the USB does not play AC3 ? Only audio that USB can handle is MP3? - At least that is what I got from the manual (and my experience with a mkv with AC3 audio).

It handles ac3 or dd perfectly well.
DTS audio is the only problem