LG 60PF95

Posted by T3 Online on Mon 29 Oct 2007

Gorge your senses on LG's Chocolate TV.

LG has extended its �ber-swanky Chocolate range to encompass more than just its super-sexy mobile phones. Now, you can recline in your sofa, in front of a delicious Chocolate telly.

Finished in shiny black and controlled by a selection of touch-sensitive red buttons, just like the much-loved phone, this giant plasma certainly looks the part. Even when switched off, it dominates your lounge like Mohammed Ali at a sales conference for a Nantwich-based distributor of water-coolers.

Things get even better once you fire this baby up. It's 1080p compatible, so you can feed it any Hi-Def format you like and expect to see stunning results: Xbox 360 games and HD-DVDs become awe-inspiringly epic, with vast vistas of sharp and crisp detail. It's the colour range and black levels that are really impressive, though. Foggy scenes look smooth, without the contouring that plagues some plasma sets, while gloomy sequences in movies look black rather than washed-out grey. As an added bonus, it also displays video at 24 frames per second from Blu-Ray or HD-DVD hooked via HDMI.

Standard-def pictures via Sky HD or DVDs look fine, but blowing up ropey terrestrial images to 60 inches from the Freeview tuner is asking for trouble. Sound is a similarly mixed bag. While you get plenty of clarity and power with HD-DVD and games, softer dialogue can get a bit lost. Still, if you're going to spend £3.5K on a telly, you'd be daft not to invest in a surround sound system. The price-tag may be high, but this is the sort of screen that Hi-Def was made for.