LG Infinia 55LW5600 – GarageHP.com previously wrote articles about Sony Handycam NEX-VG10, HP Pavilion dv6t-6000, and HTC 7 Pro. Now we are talking about LG Infinia 55LW5600, The Smart TV Internet Portal. While passive 3D has its flaws, the LG LW5600′s 2D picture quality is very good for an edge-lit LED-based LCD TV, especially in bright rooms.
By now you may have heard all about passive 3D, how it might or might not be better than active, how LG/Vizio and Samsung/Sony/Panasonic are at each others’ throats trying to convince buyers to choose one over the other, and how 3D TV is here to stay. That’s all true, and documented exhaustively in our 3D TV FAQ, but in our experience few TV shoppers care about 3D in the least. If you’re one of the few, then you’ll want to know that overall we like the picture quality of active better than what we’ve seen of passive from the LG LW5600 series–although passive definitely has its advantages.
LG Infinia 55LW5600 Review
That said, we can forget about 3D and focus on what really matters: 2D picture quality, where the LG Infinia 55LW5600 is one of the best edge-lit LED TVs we’ve tested. The dimming backlight, despite its flaws, is an asset overall (and no, it’s not available on less expensive, 2D-only 2011 LGs) along with best-in-class color. Perhaps most importantly, LG Infinia 55LW5600 has a matte screen that performs better than glossy screens in bright rooms. We liked LG’s Internet features and even its funky remote this year, although buyers seeking a style statement will be disappointed. The LG LW5600 costs more than most LED-based LCD TVs, but it offers the complete package and deserves consideration from buyers in this price range regardless of how they feel about 3D.
Like Sony, LG’s remotes have a central Home button but no Menu key to lead directly to the TV’s picture and sound settings. The Home page consists of a live TV window with links below to inputs, TV settings, and favorite channels; a central section with five tiles you can customize and rearrange to link to any of the Premium services like Netflix and Amazon; an LG Apps section listing the three hottest and newest apps from LG’s app store; and a bottom strip with links to the app store, browser and two apps of your choice (we wish this strip offered the ability to tweak more than just two). The page’s proportions feel right, and we liked the big icons, especially since they made using the motion controller easier.
We called the wandlike motion controller a gimmick last year, but now that it can be used seamlessly across all menus and nearly every app (Netflix is the only exception we found–it prevents motion control, although the wand’s cursor buttons still work), many of which seem designed with motion control in mind, it’s much more appealing. Sure some things could be better–we wish the wand had a dedicated Return/Back button, response times occasionally lagged a bit and on occasion we had to give the wand a vigorous shake to get our cursor to return–but it was sometimes easier and faster than using the standard remote (especially after we changed pointer settings to Speed: Fast and Alignment: On in the Settings>Options menu).
Since the wand is radio-controlled, it doesn’t require line-of-sight to the TV. Another bonus is drag/drop, which we used to customize menus where available, drag a map in the Google maps app, and easily scroll down an AP news story by dragging a scroll bar, for example. Waving the wand at the screen to navigate menus and apps will take some getting used to for motion control novices, but it’s a cool and somewhat useful option to have. The biggest downside is that it means having an extra remote on your coffee table (at least until Harmony incorporates motion control).
The LW5600 is LG’s first TV with passive 3D capability, enabled by something called a Film Pattern Retarder. A polarizing film coating the TV screen allows each eye, when wearing special glasses, to view every other line to create the two images necessary for the 3D illusion.
LG Infinia 55LW5600 LED TV
LG, along with Vizio, is currently engaged in a low-volume “format war” with purveyors of active 3D TVs, namely Samsung, Panasonic and Sony. Both types of 3D TVs can handle any of the new 3D formats used by Blu-ray, TV broadcasts, and video games, and both require viewers to don 3D glasses, but each has its advantages and disadvantages. See our 3D TV FAQ for general information on active vs. passive and 3D in general, and the Performance section of this review for more the LW5600′s 3D picture quality.
The biggest market advantage of passive 3D is inexpensive glasses. LG packs four pair of passive specs in with the LW5600, and additional pairs cost $20. Less expensive compatible circular polarized glasses are available from online merchants, and if you swipe a pair of passive 3D glasses from your local theater, they should work too.
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