LG 42PQ30 42-Inch 720p Plasma HDTV

by LG

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.4 x 40.9 x 26.7 inches ; 53.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 64 pounds
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• ASIN: B001TH2R6I
• Item model number: 42PQ30
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,809 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

What do you want in an HDTV? Do you want your sports events to look like you're watching from the good seats? Your action heroes to look like they might jump off the screen? If that's what you're looking for, and who isn't, this TV delivers. With a 600Hz refresh rate, it's perfect for fast action. With 2,000,000:1 Mega Contrast, bright colors and dark scenes are brought to life. This is a television you'll have to see to believe.

Innovative Technologies Capture Every Moment See sports, fast action and video games like never before. The 600Hz refresh rate displays rapid motion in crystal clarity. (Learn more) You Won't Believe Your Eyes 2,000,000:1 Mega Contrast lets you see colors in every beautiful shade and dark scenes with greater picture detail. (Learn more) View It in the Right Light Every room has different colors and lighting. Intelligent Sensor automatically optimizes the picture to your room's unique conditions. (Learn more) Core Technologies Audio Should Be Heard, Not Seen The slim-silhouette Invisible Speaker System delivers a look and audio that are equal parts clean and polished. (Learn more) Hear Every Whisper Hear audio the way it was meant to be heard. Clear Voice II enhances and amplifies the frequency range of the human voice to help keep dialogue audible when background noise swells. (Learn more) The Perfect Fit Sports, cinema and video games can all be heard and seen as they were meant to be with AV Mode II. (Learn more) Other Features Smart Energy Conserve money and energy. With an Energy Star 3.0 rating, you can be green and save green. (Learn more) Watch Like a Pro It's ISFccc Ready for professional calibration. A more personalized viewing experience awaits, if you're so inclined. (Learn more) Memories Brought to Life View family photos and listen to MP3 files right in the comfort of your living room with USB 2.0. (Learn more) Connected with Crystal Clear Color. Hook up your HD devices and get the Full HD experience. 3 HDMI V.1.3. Deep Color inputs give you the rich hues and HD picture you want. (Learn more) All In One Having a hard time keeping track of your remotes? With SimpLink™, all your LG devices can be controlled with just one remote. (Learn more) A Real Stunner Plasma televisions come in larger sizes, deliver a beautiful picture and are perfect for viewing sports and fast-paced action. (Learn more)

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600Hz Sub Field Driving Sports. Action movies. Video games. Nothing is too fast for LG. 600Hz virtually eliminates flicker and blur. See realistic movement like never before.

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Intelligent Sensor Automatically examines and optimizes the picture to the lighting and color conditions in the room for a more enjoyable viewing experience — and can also save energy and money.

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Invisible Speaker System You won't believe what you're hearing. Fine-tuned by renowned audio expert Mr. Mark Levinson, LG TVs utilize a unique, hidden speaker system that delivers a clean, polished look with a wider sound field. Where some sound systems and speakers only project their best audio towards the center of a room, the Invisible Speaker System projects great sound throughout.

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Clear Voice II Automatically enhances and amplifies the sound of the human voice frequency range to help keep dialogue audible when background noise swells. Can also be personalized with a new 12-step adjustment level — putting you in control.

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AV Mode II Quickly and easily select from one of three AV modes for "Cinema," "Sports," or "Games" to enjoy optimized HDTV picture and audio quality easily set with a convenient button on the remote control.

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Smart Energy Saving In addition to adhering to the new Energy Star 3.0 guidelines, LG HDTVs have energy-saving options like the ability to choose settings for different types of programming, "video mute" or engaging exclusive Intelligent Sensor Technology that automatically dims the backlight when lighting conditions are reduced. Now you can save the world from the comfort of your couch.

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ISFccc Ready LG's ISFccc Ready HDTVs contain the detailed standards necessary for professional calibration of brightness, contrast, tint, sharpness, color levels and much more to meet local lighting conditions for both day and nighttime viewing. Settings are added to preset modes for easy access from your LG remote.

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USB 2.0 Now reliving that fantastic family vacation can happen in the comfort of your living room. Easily connect your external USB devices to enjoy JPEG photos and listen to MP3 files—all at the same time if you want.

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HDMI V.1.3 with Deep Color Make installation of any enabled device a snap. Get 10.2Gbps of bandwidth for deeper colors and more to take advantage of the best Full HD experience. HDMI V.1.3 connectivity lets you prepare yourself for tomorrow's technology today.

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Simplink Are your remote controls taking over the living room? Now with SimpLink™, you can easily set up and control all of your HDMI™ connected LG devices with just one remote.

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Why Plasma?
Plasma displays generate their own light to produce a stunning contrast ratio and smoother, crisper, high-motion video. This is one reason why some consumers prefer plasma displays to LCDs for watching sports and action movies. Plasma displays are also known for their deep, rich blacks, and incredibly precise colors, making them ideal for watching movies—where dark scenes are more common.

What's in the Box
LG PQ30 Plasma HDTV, Remote control, Owner's manual

Product Description

600Hz refresh rate, HD performance and Mega Contrast 42" PDP HDTV, 1024 x 768 Resolution, 20,000:1 Contrast Ratio, 1,500:1 cd/m2 Brightness, ATSC/NTSC/Clear QAM - 1 Tuner, SRS TruSurroundXT, 3 HDMI input. USB 2.0.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT VALUE IN A FLAT PANEL, April 16, 2009

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John Rivera (brooklyn, ny) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LG 42PQ30 42-Inch 720p Plasma HDTV (Electronics)

Just replaced my 2 year old Panasonic Plasma with the 42pq30 from LG. The LG delivers a fantastic picture, the 600 mhz fluid motion effect works beautifully for sports and action movies. The ultra high contrast ratio of 2,000,000:1 really brings out the dark backgrounds when fitting. Oddly enough it performed especially well while I was watching Charlie Rose. That black back-drop he uses really creates a personal proximity between him and his guests. The classic mahogany table is equally appealing on the set creating the ultimate prop for shared space and time.
I would highly recommend this TV for anyone not looking to spend a fortune on a good quality flat panel television.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this plasma television (update after a year of use), November 20, 2009

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Khanh TX (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LG 42PQ30 42-Inch 720p Plasma HDTV (Electronics)

I've had the LG 42PQ30 plasma tv for about 2 months now and I'm still learning how to use more of its features.
The other day I upconverted my dvds to 1080p and noticed the TV picked up the signal as 1080/60p. Then i figured wow I got a 1080p television at a 720p plasma tv price. What a nice tv, I was able to display 1920 by 1080 resolution from my pc vga output even though the picture is a little washed out because of vga resolution limitations. I will try to go DVI out to HDMI and see if there's a difference in picture quality. The picture on 480p, 720p, and 1080i were all great. I guess when you have a 42inch television standard definition doesn't get dragged out and blurred like the larger 50 plus inch television. This tv displays everything I threw at it greatly. I looked at my friend's Samsung LN40B650 with 120 hz and noticed my LG 42" plasma displays football games alot better with no blurs. One caveat is that this LG plasma has one of the best hdtv tuners that I've seen. It picks up all the digital channels in my area with no artifacts and i'm only using old rabbit ears antenna that I bought for $10 ten years ago. Nevertheless, this TV is a plasma so lights need to be minimized to eliminate the glare.

Update: After a year of having owned and played with this tv, it has been a pleasure. No burn in, no IR, even though i thought there was one when I first had the tv. Now i can have anything on the plasma and don't even worry about IR. Sometimes i have the tv on pc input without screensaver for an hour and no IR. The tv just automatically shifts the picture every 10 minutes to eliminate IR. Everyone that comes to the house to visit compliments how the picture looks on the tv. They were absolutely stunned when I said i bought it for less than $600. Finally, i found that the max native resolution for the LG 42pq30 is 1366 by 768 (720p per say) not the foolish 1080p i thought when I first got the tv. When you plug a pc input to tv, the computer foolishly recognizes it as a 42 inch plasma 1080p. The best part about this plasma tv is when i rent a nice action movie and turn off all the lights and turn on surround sound. Wow, its better than being at the movie theatre. I did not get that feeling when i went to my sister in law's house when she first bought the expensive Samsung UN55B7000 LED tv. In the dark there's little white freckles in dark scenes that irritated me. Funny my wife hasn't even talked about replacing the tv, even though everything else in the house has changed in the past year !!!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Happy with purchase!, August 5, 2009

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Debra Koch (Missouri Ozarks) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LG 42PQ30 42-Inch 720p Plasma HDTV (Electronics)

I waited for over a month before leaving a review, I'm still happy with product. Color is great, movement flow is great. Love how it recognizes different products when plugged into it. I bought it so I could watch the border collie trials in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales that I normally play on my computer. The trials look beautiful on this lg plasma screen. Sound and video worked flawlessly hooked up by one hdmi cable. Maybe 1080p would be better but not hundreds of dollars better, at least not to me. I took it off the energy saving mode that it is set to by default and image quality is vastly improved. I still have not played around with the usb features but I am glad that the feature is there. I hope the reliability factor is there but only time will tell. Terrific value for money.