Customer Reviews

LG 26LH20 26-Inch 720p LCD HDTV, Gloss Black

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

We bought this unit bec we saw it in the store and the picture was outstandingly beautiful. What we could not have known was that there would be an extremely annoying mismatch of picture and audio in the HD mode using our Comcast Motorola HD cable box. After realizing this problem, we Googled it and found multiple, similar complaints. Then we used the Contact Us feature in the LG website, and a tech offered to send us a firmware update. We declined bec we knew from other complaints found in Google that the LG "fix" -- a firmware update they offered -- did not help. Plus, it would take a few weeks to arrive. That would put us beyond the return deadline. So we returned the unit and paid $100 more for a 26" Sony Bravia 5000 which we love and does not seem to have this problem.

We purchased this television a few months ago for our bedroom and have really liked it. Very clean and sharp image quality. We like the sound quality as well. We have this television connected to a DVD player and our cable box and haven't had any issues. When we purchase our next television we'll buy from LG. The only complaint I have is we purchased it at a best buy and it is cheaper here at Amazon.

I bought this set about 4 months ago and have had no problems. I normally use it connected to my DirecTV box but I've also connected it to my laptop to access wireless as well as wired Internet Netflix. No problems whatsoever. The user interface is friendly. I most appreciate the energy savings feature! Thanks LG :)

I've been looking for the right TV for almost a year. I read reviews, visted displays and compared specs. I waited until the 2009 models were released since I learned that they would be technically superior to prior year models. The LG is by far the best in its size, class and price point. In fact, if there is a better picture I'd like to see it because it would truly be incredible. The picture clariry is superb and you can detect actors' skin flaws and excessive make-up. Truly amazing! The sports mode is great. Its like being in the stadium. I should mention that I don't have cable so I rely on over the air broadcasts.

The remote control is easy to use and intuitive and the on screen menu is uncomplicated and straight forward. The sound quality is pretty good. Overall the perfect choice for the home office. The set worked perfectly out of the box. I've had the set for almost two months and look forward to continued good performance.

One small flaw however. On occassion, the voice #sound# is out of sync with the picture. A small intermittent annoyance. I checked the web and it turns out that
the problem could be caused by a factory setting. Reportedly, there is a way to change the setting which I have not tried because the problem isn't that annoying and I'm not sure if its the TV or the broadcast station. At this stage the juice ain't worth the squeeze.

Great picture on strong over the air tv signal but will not pick up weak signals that other digital tuners I have do easily. It has a large selection of inputs (including 2 HDMI, male and female vga and component) for an entry level LCD. Unfortunately I have not been able to get a decent picture in component input mode even though the picture is fine on over the air tv. In component mode the color is way off (totally magenta) and does not want to change despite attempts to correct using menus and tint and color intensity controls.

This is not a slim LCD (its over 3" thick) by any strech of the imagination nor can it be mounted snuggly to the wall because the connectors on the back, including the power connector, stick out about 2 inches past the back of the cabinet -a really poor design! For contrast check out the Coby on which the connectors are in a recess and pointed down, inset into and in parallel with the back panel. With the LG, if you use a thin wall mount you will need to space it about 2" out from the TV back to allow room for those connnectors to clear the wall. There are much better choices out there and I regret making this one.

We bought this TV to place in our kitchen. We had no problems mounting it to the wall. Remote is easy to use.

Unit was able to detect analog and digitial cable feeds right out of the box. Picture is decent when looking at analog cable. But this unit really shines when it comes to a digital hidef channel. Picture is ultra crisp and rivals my 42 inch plasma in the family room. Sound is pretty good considering the our particular application in the kitchen.

I would give this 5 stars if it had a real user manual. The file provided on a disk is only a color version of the B&W manual. The set has a lot of potential custom-setup options and few are documented. I'm quite experienced and managed to figure out most of them, but would have appreciated more information. I bought this for my 80 year old mother and she'll never figure out what to do if anything goes wrong, because the company provides no useful information for the average consumer who isn't an AV expert.
Finally, I saw good reviews for the sound, but I don't agree. The speakers are hidden and sound like it- very honky and stressed sounding. You can fiddle with the audio options but I found the synthetic audio modes to be very unnatural and phasy, indistinct and muddy. The best option to my taste was to disable all processing, but it still doesn't produce sound that matches the beautiful picture. It's really too bad that smallish sets like this don't offer better audio, because it kind of defeats the whole idea of the elegant package if you need to add amplifiers and speakers.

I purchased this TV based on the fact that I love my older 37 inch LG LCD tv. However I have found that while this is a good tv, its not great. The viewing angle is not as good as my older LG. As you move left or right the color fades (in HD or SD) especially with live tv (ie sports). Head-on the picture is pretty good with a variety of color/picture settings to fine-tune it. I have also found that you do have to crank the volume pretty high to hear the tv as well. If you are looking for a small TV to put in a bedroom where you will always be watching it head-on, for the money, its a pretty good choice. In my case, I do have it in the bedroom, but I have it mounted on the wall with a full-motion mount so I can turn it if I am not watching head-on.

I bought this locally in Dec 2009 and naïvely assumed it had SOME sort of analog output (for external speakers or headphones). It doesn't; the only audio output is optical/TOSlink, which is a real disappointment for me.

VIDEO
Unless you will use it as a computer monitor, the 720p resolution is fine; with smaller televisions (under 32", for sure), there is little difference between 720p and the more expensive 1080p (which is hard to find in small televisions, anyway). Anything you use as a computer monitor should be 1080p, though. I actually feed it UHF (analog) over coax from a distant two-tuner Dish Network receiver, and the picture, while not HD, is much better than I expected, and this means I don't have to rewire my house for a 3rd satellite receiver. We watch this in the bedroom - usually news or a documentary and not movies, so it's all good. Oh, one more thing: s-video is increasingly rare on new televisions, and this model does NOT have an s-video input (2 HDMI, 1 composite only).

AUDIO
The sound quality, like that of pretty much any small television, is dismal. I ended up buying Behringer MS40 external speakers (which I reviewed here on Amazon) because they had TOSlink (optical) inputs. They were expensive and not that great.

So, if you will be closer to the television than 10' or more, or have excellent hearing in a quiet environment, this is a fine set; if you are more discerning on the audio side, will be in a less-than-silent environment, or don't have ideal hearing, you might want to think twice and look at units with analog outputs which will enable you to use an inexpensive pair of self-powered computer speakers.

This is a very nice TV for the bedroom. Great picture and sound. SD channels even look good. I use it for both OTA and satellite reception. Setup was very easy for me. Wish it had more than one each of component and composite inputs, but overall I still give it a five. Ordered from Amazon with free shipping and it arrived in 3 days.