LG 60PV450 60 inch Plasma TV Review and Comparison

LG 60PV450 is Great TV for a Great Price

LG 60PV450 60  inch plasma tv  is completely silent, cool running, amazing picture (after adjusting the settings properly) and had all of the features for a price point that couldn't be passed up. LG 60PV450 picture is crisp, clear, vibrant, and just looks uttlerly amazing. Plasma TVis always made movies look better, and plasmas are favorites by most people who watch a lot of movies. The 16x9 black bars you see on most films with not be pitch black, they are VERY close but no matter what ya you do they will be a few shades off.
They are even in color and it doesn't bother me compared to the LCD/LED ones that are black in the middle and grey on the ends. Also this tv has some sort of Fluid motion tech built into it, much like 120 hz Lcds have it makes the motion more fluid. No plasmas don't need this because they work differently, but LG must think people want movies to look more life like, but the fluid motion ruins movies and makes them look cheap and make the motions look too fast for their own good. The image colors are rich and sharp and if you tweak them you will find what your looking for.

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Great Features LG 60PV450 60  inch plasma tv :

• Full HD 1080p gives it superior picture quality over standard HDTV
• Incredibly high contrast ratio of 3,000,000:1 delivers incredibly vibrant colors and deeper and darker blacks
• Energy Star qualified so your entertainment experience uses less energy
• 60-inch Plasma HDTV panel with Full HD 1080p resolution and 3,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio
• 600Hz Sub Field Driving virtually eliminates motion blur, for crystal-clear motion video in sports, games, etc.
• Easy self-calibration for key picture quality elements such as black level, color, tint, sharpness, and back-light levels
• Enjoy media from connected USB devices with support for a wide range of video, music, and image files
• Intelligent Sensor automatically optimizes the picture for the lighting and color conditions in the viewing room

LG 60PV450 60  inch plasma tv Pros and Cons :

LG 60PV450 Pros:
* 3 HDMI ports
* Silent even with my ear right next to the set
* Rotatable stand (my wife hates being off center but her chair is far to the left so she can rotate it to face her)
* Decent speakers (get loud enough but nothing mind blowing but not bad either)
* NO BLUE LEDs, infact when the set is on NO LEDs are on at all. Just a small red one for standby which turns off when the set turns on
* Loads of advanced settings available without having to enter into locked service menus.
* Picture is bright in my opinion (not LED TV bright but more than enough for my needs)
* Price (paid 6 c-notes during Fry's easter deal)
* Super fast response time (no lag at all in any games)
* No real burn-in issues even with games being played (after the first 100hr burn-in time where static images were avoided).
* After calibration great rich blacks.

Neither here nor there:
* Touch sensitive buttons on front panel (cool as hell but can be a bit annoying trying to hit a button in the dark).
* USB video and pictures (don't really use this at all)


LG 60PV450 Cons:
* No bells and whistles (not a con for me but maybe for others).
* Like any shiny TV glare is an issue.
* Settings out of the box leave something to be desired at best.
* Not 3D (for others this maybe a con).

Settings used for Best Result LG 60PV450 60 inch Plasma TV :

• Aspect Ratio: 16:9
• Energy Saving: Off
• Picture Mode: Expert 1 (Expert 2 is fine as well, these are just 2 slots to store an advanced profile and access the advanced settings)
• Contrast: 77 (will likely change after Picture Wizard but this is a good starting point)
• Brightness: 53 (will likely change after Picture Wizard but this is a good starting point)
• H. Sharp: 39 (will likely change after Picture Wizard but this is a good starting point)
• V. Sharp: 50
• Color: 50
• Tint: 0
• Color Temp: W30 (This setting is hidden to find it, click on tint-->you will get the gray bar at the bottom of the screen to adjust tint-->press the down arrow and there it appears

Now select Expert control LG 60PV450 60 inch Plasma TV :

• Dynamic Contrast: Off
• Noise Reduction: Off
• Gamma: Medium
• Black Level: Low
• Film Mode: On
• Color Gamut: Standard
• Edge Enhancement: Off
• White Balance: Warm
• Method: 20 Point IRE
• Pattern: Outer

Now comes the IRE part of LG 60PV450 60 inch Plasma TV . 
This part is a bit confusing in how it is implemented. Basically, each time you select an IRE value treat the values below it as a new set of values. Why they did it this way I have no clue. Anyways here are the values (as you will see some are REALLY far off):
Also incase you can't figure it out r=red g=green b=blue.
5 ire r=0 g=0 b=0
10 ire r=-16 g=0 b=-36
15 ire r=0 g=0 b=0
20 ire r=-17 g=-13 b=-34
25 ire r=-9 g=0 b=-37
30 ire r=-6 g=9 b=-29
35 ire r=0 g=0 b=-13
40 ire r=9 g=17 b=-25
45 ire r=0 g=0 b=0
50 ire r=-10 g=0 b=-42
55 ire r=-18 g=0 b=-10
60 ire r=15 g=20 b=-37
65 ire r=-18 g=0 b=0
70 ire r=5 g=30 b=-31
75 ire r=-9 g=9 b=-29
80 ire r=-6 g=19 b=-50
85 ire r=0 g=0 b=0
90 ire r=-8 g=16 b=-9
95 ire r=0 g=0 b=0
100ire r=-5 g=0 b=-24

Red color 0
Red tint -1
Green color -6
Green tint 0
Blue color -8
Blue tint 0
Yellow color -5
Yellow tint 11
Cyan color -2
Cyan tint -2
Magenta color -3
Magenta tint -10

There we go. As you can see it will take some work to enter these in. Don't forget after entering these to run the picture wizard to tweak the brightness and contrast and stuff. After all of this you will have an AMAZING lifelike set.

PS: All TVs should have this done because even the best TV makers design their presets to sell the TVs not to have the most natural look (vivid sells in the store but looks like crap at home).

EDIT: In response to a question to this review: Film Mode will only be available if the source material is 1080p or 1080i. Any other resolution will cause the Film Mode option to be blurred out. So in that case just ignore it.

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