Look & Listen

You’ve been thinking of purchasing a big flat-screen HDTV for a while (and, who hasn’t?), but while you’re at it, you should also consider completing the home-theater package with a serious sound system. The combination of LG’s Scarlet 47LG60 LCD HDTV and LHT874 home-theater system is a great way to bring the home-theater experience to your living room.

Apart, both the LG Scarlet 47LG60 and the LHT874 home-theater system will greatly enhance your TV- and movie-viewing experience, but together these components can provide a powerful home-theater package. Experience the fall football games in crystalline HD but also feel the cheers of the crowd all around you, get up close with the opera singers on stage and hear every nuanced tone, see every bit of the action in a movie’s car chase—all while feeling immersed in the scene with surround sound.

The Basic Features

The LG Scarlet 47LG60’s basic features are plenty powerful. With a 47-inch screen, this HDTV offers a 1080p resolution and a viewing angle of 178 degrees, making the screen clearly visible from virtually any vantage point throughout the room. A large screen and wide viewing angle helps expand a room’s viewing capacity, so you can fit more people in the house to watch home movies of Junior while he’s away at college.

The LG Scarlet 47LG60 has an impressive 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and Pure Black Level, so your favorite movie superhero’s costume will look its best, even during dark night scenes when he fights crime. The HDTV also features a bevy of inputs, including four HDMI ports (three on the rear panel and one on the side) for you to connect a number of other audio/video devices such as a Blu-ray player or your HD cable or satellite box. The side of the LG Scarlet 47LG60 also features easy access to a USB 2.0 port that enables you to plug in a USB storage device, such as a flash drive or external hard drive, to display JPEG photos from your summer trip to Albuquerque or play MP3s of your favorite artists.

The Bonus Features

As tantalizing as the LG Scarlet 47LG60’s features may be, the HDTV also sports some impressive extras. The two-way, four-speaker audio setup is invisible to maintain the clean look of the HDTV and features Clear Voice technology, which enhances and amplifies the human voice to make it pop out from any background noise. The Intelligent Sensor function senses the HDTV’s surroundings and adjusts brightness, contrast, color, sharpness, and white balance automatically, providing you with the optimum picture quality for every scenario from broad daylight to dark and stormy nights. Using Intelligent Sensor can also save energy—up to 50% power consumption savings, depending on your room lighting conditions

To further maximize the visual experience, the LG Scarlet 47LG60 uses TruMotion 120Hz technology to provide a crisper picture during fast motion scenes; your movies and football games will appear smoother than ever. LG’s advanced 120Hz technology allows a fast video response time and less color shift and distortion, even at extremely wide viewing angles. Scarlet also has 24p Real Cinema to prevent the jags usually associated with HDTVs that run films at 30fps (frames per second) because it allows the HDTV to reproduce the native 24fps frame rate of film.

LG’s SimpLink Connectivity, a feature both the LG Scarlet 47LG60 and LHT874 home-theater system share, enables you to control multiple LG devices using the existing HDMI connection and an easy on-screen control menu from one remote.

All of these features are built in to an HDTV with simple, elegant looks that belie what’s inside. The front is a smooth, shiny piano black with a bright red rear panel that helps you see what you’re working on when you’re behind the HDTV. And at only 2.7 inches thick, it’ll barely take up any space on your wall or in your entertainment center.

Hear The Difference

There’s nothing like 5.1 surround sound to bring a home theater to life. Instead of just hearing the movie, TV show, or sporting event, you feel as though you’re right in the middle of it. And with 155 watts per channel, 255 watts pumping through the subwoofer, and XTS Pro (eXtreme True Sound Pro) technology producing high-quality output, the LG LHT874 home-theater system most certainly delivers.

The LG LHT874 home-theater system features a five-disc DVD changer with 1080p upscaling via a single HDMI cable. It supports just about any type of media you can throw at it, including DVDs, DVD±R/RWs, CDs, and CD-R/RWs. It even features 50 AM/FM radio presets. You can do more with this HTB than connecting it to your HDTV; with the USB 2.0 port, you can play MPEG-4, WMA, DivX, MP3, and MP3 VBR music and video formats.

The LG LHT874 HTB has plenty of ports, including an optical digital audio port, composite audio and video, HDMI, AM/FM radio antenna, and an iPod connector. The home-theater system includes an iPod cable and stand that lets you charge and control your iPod with playlists appearing on your TV. The home-theater system’s rear panel also features wireless rear speaker connectivity so you can avoid the need to run wires across your living room carpet to the back of the room.

Two Are Better Than One

Either the LG Scarlet 47LG60 HDTV or the LG LHT874 HTS would be a welcome to any home-theater setup, but together they provide a package that’ll make the Joneses have to keep up with you.