LG 42PB4D 42-inch Plasma HDTV

The LG 42PB4D 42″ Plasma HDTV has it all: A beautiful screen plus a built-in way to capture that beauty and see it again. The built-in HD digital video recorder lets you record your favorite programming from cable or antenna to the 160GB hard drive. Then you can watch it again on the lucious, low glare screen complete with Clear Filter Pro for improved brightness and contrast, reduced reflection, and truer color reproduction. You also get enhanced audio with noise reduction, great special features like split screen and TV Guide On Screen. Not only that, but LG’s Image Sticking Minimization technology helps assure longer life to the premium experience of visual possibility: plasma.

Six distinct processes contribute to picture improvement. But whats important to know is that LG’s XD Engine takes the low resolution of analog signals to near HD levels by improving brightness, contrast, and detail. It also reduces signal noise, which is a common trouble-maker for image quality. Since this technology attacks both aspects of analog signal issues, the overall result is cinema-like high resolution images on your 1024 x 768p plasma screen.

DVR is one of the most popular components in home theater, and LG makes sure to give you the recording power and flexibility you need. The hard drive is 160GB, which means you get 15 hours of HD recording time and up to 66 hours of SD recording time. With CableCard, you can easily record cable broadcasting onto the DVR. You can also use an external HD source to record video, pause and rewind live TV, and utilize the convenient one-touch recording.

LG isn’t going to let ghost images burn onto your plasma screen that easily. That’s why they invented Image Sticking Minimization — it provides protective measures to minimize damage as a result of stationary images. That’s ten times fast so you can just sit back, relax, and let the TV take care of everything.

Of course, LG has included a Dolby Digital Decoder and SRS TruSurround XT so that your plasma sounds as great as it looks. You can also manually adjust the bass, balance and treble to tweak and fine-tune your audio experience to your specific liking. You can also choose between Mono, Stereo, and SAP. SAP is great because it allows you to hear audio in Spanish, which is perfect if you are in a bilingual home, or studying a Spanish as a second language (only applies to certain channels that broadcast for SAP).

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