Great TV--but can it make regular TV look near HDTV quality? NO...

What a deal!!! | JVC LT-42X688 42" 1080p LCD HDTV

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	• JVC LT-42X688 42" 1080p LCD HDTV JVC JVC average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Brevity for the non-technogeek

When researching this product for purchase, I found many of the reviews too technical for my non-tech brain. However, I gleaned enough to know that this HDTV was probably a good bet. It has truly surpassed all of my expectations for quality and realism of picture as well as pretty decent audio. My price comparisons showed this one to be the deal. Repeating the purchase process, I would only have purchased the same item sooner.

Great TV--but can it make regular TV look near HDTV quality? NO...

JVC makes GREAT products, plain and simple. We purchased our JVC 42 LCD HDTV about 2 weeks ago and for some odd reason, and I don't know why I hadn't read about this before and why it came as a surprise to me, but when you watch regular television on an HDTV monitor, the picture quality comes out less than perfect...in fact it comes out dang-near blurry. The so-called technology that makes regular TV *look* almost HDTV quality...? Now THAT is a joke.

If you buy this TV to view Blu Ray and/or HD DVD's or HD quality programming, you will be THRILLED I assure you. The quality is absolutely wonderful and I find it hard to believe picture quality better than this is commercially available (at least as I write this...) but again, if you plan to watch regular television and/or DVD's/Video's that are NOT High Def quality, BE PREPARED to be a little disappointed (if not a LOT).

Keep that in mind before you buy and you won't be surprised like I was. Hope my review helps.

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What a deal!!!

I've had this set for about a month now and have nothing but high praise for the functionality and appearance of it. The universal remote has easy to use buttons to access whatever input you desire, the set has a beautiful picture with true colors and a crisp display, and I love the sound quality. The set itself is very attractive and extremely easy to set up and use. That being said, the main reason I purchased this set was because I was never satisfied with the blurring associated with sets that have the 8mm response time. This set has a 5mm response time, and that 3mm difference seems to have made all the difference in the world. Great tv at a great price and on time, quality delivery. Super Bowl looked great!

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Great TV steal it from here

Great TV 1080p 42" HD. I have owned JVC products without problems. I screwed cable in to back of TV, no box, no hd, nothing and picture looks great. Wall mount and TV hundreds less than circuit city. They wanted $1899+tax for TV alone.

Very happy with this TV

Provided that you don't over pay for this tv, you will love it. Not to say that the JVC 42x688 is inferior to the big name sets, it most certainly is not. The high def picture on this set is incredible, with deep colors not to be found on the bargain hd tv's and it also does pretty well with regular broadcasting. The design of this tv (hdmi ports, motion speed, remote functions, speakers, etc.) is also excellent and appeared to me to be the best compromise of price vs. function. With the price I found through Amazon, this was the best tv out there for the buck. The prices for hd tv's however can fluctuate weekly, by hundreds of dollars in some cases. But since you are looking here, you are on the right track.

Like others who have reviewed this tv, I tried to do a little homework about the nuts and bolts of hd tv's so I could get the most for my money. I found what I thought to be very good information in Consumer Reports about what to consider when buying an hd tv.

Armed with that information, I began to window shop at the major stores; Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. It was then that I discovered the prices for hd tv's can go up and down weekly by large amounts, as well as seeing a difference between an in-store price and the same store's dot-com price. Eventually I looked on Amazon and found this tv for a price in the normal range of 37"-40" 720p tv. Even though a chain store advertised this tv as an internet special only, the local store had them in stock, so I was able to see the tv up close and compare it to others. I found this tv compares with any on the market and the price on Amazon blew away the chain store's price by hundreds.

My only concern of course was making this large of a purchase over the internet. The seller in my case was Electronic Express. Because everything went smoothly; the tv arrived by Fed-Ex and was well treated, brand new and in the unopened factory box (as advertised it would by Electronic Express), I can't attest to how they handle complaints or problems should there be any. I can only tell you that I saved $$$ buying this tv on Amazon and was completely satisfied.

The closest thing I have to a complaint is this. I found the owner's manual a bit challenging when combined with trying to figure out my new home theatre in a box (samsung)and digital cable from Time Warner at the same time. However, when I called the JVC customer service number they were most helpful, with no apparent language barriers to further complicate matters. Good luck!

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JVC offers the 688 series 42-inch LT-42X688 LCD TV in a new black cabinet. To ensure the best possible picture, this set features JVC's Genessa chip, a 32-bit CPU processor that combines all image processing, noise reduction and color management technologies together onto a single chip for more efficient communication, and thus better performance. Genessa includes JVC's Motion Adaptive Dynamic Gamma control, an algorithm that preserves tonal details and gradations in dark areas so that the image doesn't appear muddy.Genessa also includes Digital Video Noise Reduction that reduces the graininess for both analog and digital video sources, a Block Noise Suppressor that detects and eliminates "block noise", a Mosquito Noise Suppressor that eliminates noise in low bit-rate signals without degrading the image, and a 3D Y/C comb filter with DTV Cross Color Eliminator that uses an advanced 10-bit 3D Y/C separation process to eliminate cross color and dot interference that is imbedded in older source material.Standard definition signals are improved through new Natural Progressive IP conversion, improved scaler performance and a new PLL (phase lock loop) system that improves the performance of a composite signal.

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