LG 32LD690 32-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p 100Hz LCD TV with Freeview HD

We have just moved from a 28" Philips silver "monolith" which sat brooding like an ugly monster in the corner of the room to this slim, stylish LG LCD tv which is much nicer to look at and doesn't dominate the room like the old TV. I spent quite some time looking into which LCD to buy. LED would have been nice but is still too pricey and plasma options at 32" are very limited (i.e. almost none!). In the end I went to a Curry's to see some in action and came away rather worried about the ability of ANY LCD tv to give a decent non-HD picture. All of them look amazing when viewing in HD but a bit rubbish on normal. For us, 100% of the viewing will be in normal non-HD until Freeview HD gets rolled out so getting a tv that showed normal TV a clearly as possible was important. So, I went for this LG for several reasons in the end: 1) It's 100Hz which gives a better picture in non-hd mode (supposedly) 2) It had Freeview HD built in 3) It had the ability to be linked up to my PC either by cable or by getting a separate wireless dongle. 4) Full HD not HD ready. 5) The price seemed very reasonable to me. When I unpacked it last night, setup was very easy. Just needed a philips screwdriver to attach the base. On switching on I was presented with the setup menu which was child's play to follow. Auto detection of freeview channels was seamless and within 10 mins I was up and running. Picture quality was superb straight out of the box! For the tweakers out there, there is ample fine tuning of colour and sound to be done if you wish. Only slight criticism is that when it's set to automatically adjust the picture quality according to the room light levels, the picture was a little dark. Sound is perfectly fine as far as I'm concerned. A couple of things to note: 1) I really hadn't considered Freeview HD and the fact that some TV's have a freeview HD receiver built and others don't. When I was alerted to this though, it made sense though to get it built in now rather than having to buy a separate box when it comes out next year (in our area anyway). 2) The TV doesn't come with a wireless dongle. You need to buy that separately and it has to be a specific LG dongle apparently. I haven't managed to find one yet but as an alternative I'm considering going wired using those network adaptors that use the house electrical wiring.

Excellent delivery earlier than advised by almost 2 days, well packed and easy to unpack / fit stand. Picture quality streets ahead of the 28 inch CRT JVC it replaced. Easy to tune in to Freeview and Freeview HD, we live 2 miles from the transmitter which is also broadcasting HD signals and is in line of sight. Niggles few but Intelligent Sensor great in sunlight but does not adjust well to fading light and needs reset to user settings, other than that quite happy. Not tried running DVDs,WiFi,Bluetooth or Laptop connections yet but USBs useful and also allows use of card reader so direct input from camera card possible. There are so many "not TV" features that it will take me some time to explore(and master) them all. Biggest niggle....too easy to hit "Guide" button when using the down arrow key on the central control. Manual on CD is very cumbersome and far too big to print out. Overall very happy with the LG32LD690 but when are Channel 5 going to get into the act and put HD on Freeview ?

This is a great TV. We have had an 8 year old Sony tube type TV for years and thought it was good, until we saw this. In HD format the picture is stunning. I wholly recommend it, plus you can plug in USB sticks or external hard drives and play videos, images and music - fantastic and should be great for the future.

I don't have freeview HD yet, I bought this TV in order to future proof my purchase. However in normal freeview the picture quality is stunning everything I'd hoped for and more, when HD becomes available it should be truly amazing. Using the TV is easy, top marks for the way it operates with a vast array of options that are easily selected. The only thing that stops me giving it the 5 stars is the sound quality. My old LG had side mounted forward facing speakers which had amazing quality. The bottom mounted downward facing speakers of this set are just not as good. It may be that the lack of sound quality may afflict all TV's with this configeration, something I don't know. I may decide to connect alternative speakers to improve the sound quality. Would I still buy this TV knowing what I do now, the answer is definetely yes. The picture which you can't change is perfection, the sound can be inproved and at Amazons price you can't go wrong - buy it.

I have recently purchased this product, very easy to set up, great picture and sound quality for the money. I have not managed to experiance the HD freeview yet, sadly I will have to wait until it is available in my area before commenting. One issue I have is that LG web site and Amazon both state 100 x 100mm Vesa fitting for the TV, I purchased this size bracket in anticipation of fitting the TV up on the wall following delivery only to find the Vesa fitting measures 100 x 200mm. The CD manual provided to you with the TV states 100 x 200mm - correct. I have advise LG of this and they ensure me they will remedy the problem. This aside great TV for the money full of functions and packed with technology to keep you busy for hours. Definitely recommend this set. LG 32LD690 32-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p 100Hz LCD TV with Freeview HD

Firstly, the Freeview HD picture is as good as I have ever seen. A friend of mine has a 42" Sony which cost a few hundred pounds more than this - but is certainly no better to look at in terms of picture quality. Watching the World Cup footie on BBC-HD or ITV-HD, images are sharp and fast, with absolutely no noticeable ghosting. Colours are generally very natural - the only thing that isn't perfect is the red colour, which I understand is an inherent problem with LCD technology. Reds are just a tiny bit garish, but it's nothing serious, especially at the price. Upon playing around with this brilliant TV for a while, I was pleasantly surprised by the addition of what is effectively a built-in media player. Each of its 2 USB ports will take either a USB flash stick or an external hard drive up to 1TB (FAT32 format), and the TV will play a whole range of movie file formats (avi, divx, mkv, mov, wmv, mp4, m4v, to name but a few). The only restriction is that a single folder cannot contain more than 1000 objects (files or other folders) - which shouldn't be a problem for most. I have found that it won't play absolutely every movie file thrown at it - for some reason it doesn't seem to like 720x304 XviD/avi films (standard def 2.35:1 ratio). Again, this should hardly be a problem for most - in my case I just need to re-rip some of my films to a more compatible format. But it does seem a bit strange that it won't play these, and yet it will play a whole range of other resolutions from lower res XviD material right up to 720p and 1080p HD material (in wmv, mkv and other HD formats). It also supports external subtitles (srt and other sub formats). This is great for those, like me, who download lots of foreign language films. It will also play slideshows of jpeg images, and music files. Unfortunately the music format is limited to mp3 (up to 320 kbps). I would have like to have seen some lossless support (e.g. FLAC, APE, WV)as all my music is stored in lossless formats, but maybe this will come in a future firmware upgrade, who knows. Sound quality for general viewing is absolutely fine. I found I had to adjust the bass up a little from the factory setting to make it more agreeable to my ears. Obviously for the serious Hollywood film fan you'll want to hook this up to an external audio system with earth-shaking bass, but for those like me who enjoy more art-house type films and documentaries, etc, the sound is perfectly acceptable. So for an HDTV with high contrast ratio (70,000:1), 100hz refresh rate, genuine Freeview HD, and multimedia support, the LG 32LD690 is certainly worth considering in this price range.

This is an excellent TV. 1st class picture - good sound - plenty of extras - i.e. internet TV, wi fi,energy saving. Not tested Freeview hd yet as it does not arrive in my area until 2011 - but this TV shows a lot of promise. 100 hertz is usefull on sports channels and action movies - colour is excellent.Very user friendly. Only slight niggle - power off switch only places TV in standbye - needs to be switched off at plug. Would definately recommend this TV. Bought my TV off Electrical Experience - but would not recommend them as Customer Support disappointing. Should have stuck with Amazon.