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Take your television viewing to new heights with this LG 55-inch Smart television, which lets you enjoy both basic cable and streaming television services. Ultra Luminance technology offers complete control over brightness and contrast. With four times the resolution of regular full HD TVs this LG 55-inch Smart television immerses you in the action of sports and film.
 
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Great Tv; do your homework first though!
on May 13, 2016
Posted by: Christopher
I have to start by saying I appreciate Best Buy being one of the few merchants that still hires workers who can tell you about the products they sell. Awesome!
I replaced a 7 year old 47''LG, 1080p LCD TV with this new UHD model mainly for two reasons: To have better connectivity to the web without using roku or apple player and for the UHD clarity. I will start there.
The UHD picture is absolutely, stunningly gorgeous. It's vivid, sharp detail and rich colors are intoxicating. In fact, the UHD content is so enamoring that I re-watched the entire last season of 'Orange' because most content out there is not shot in UHD. I mean it, the picture quality is undeniably better on this tv than the one I replaced which gives it high marks there.
As for the internet connectivity, which makes it 'smart', I am equally pleased. To be fair, it's the usual culprit of apps like Hulu, Netflix, Youtube, and the like, but to get to them in just a click or two is so awesome. As well, toggling back and forth between those apps and live TV is wonderfully seamless so you never have to worry with commercials. Best part is it keeps you at the point in whatever program/app you were in. My daughter loves watching her cartoons on this TV as the colors always seems to transfix her for the time she's tuned in(she's one) We have it in a medium sized family room that is attached to a dining area and the sound seems to envelop the space nicely. This TV is also very slim, about half the thickness of the one it replaced so it would likely wall-mount very nicely and be semi flush with the wall. We have it on a stand currently.
So my biggest gripe -and this is why I said do your homework - is the number of input ports. The tv has two or three HDMI ports but only one set of connectors for other AV equipment. This means if you have say, a dvr, dvd, blue-ray, gaming console and any other AV equipment that isn't HDMI, you can only use them one at a time. It doesn't seem a big deal but having to get up and change the ports from DVR to Blue Ray or Blue Ray to PS4 every single time gets old really, really fast. With how careless kids sometimes are, I shudder to think of the parent whose child is back there tinkering with the tv on a semi-daily basis.
There really aren't very many other drawbacks, for one I would have hoped for a traditional base as opposed to the two legs the tv sits on. Haven't had a tipping problem yet but it's always in the back of my mind. Also, you should really spend 15-30 minutes in the store truly looking at the TV. The color is so rich that it can at times seem artificial until you've gotten used to it. My wife thought she hated it at first. Other than that, my family has been pleased as punch with this new TV and I believe most people would be too. However, if you know you will be attaching many other AV devices then be sure that this TV will serve you as dutifully as you need it to.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Take your television viewing to new heights with this LG 55-inch Smart television, which lets you enjoy both basic cable and streaming television services. Ultra Luminance technology offers complete control over brightness and contrast. With four times the resolution of regular full HD TVs this LG 55-inch Smart television immerses you in the action of sports and film.
 

Explain the entire built in wifi, it makes no sense to me. Do I have to buy a plan for it to have Internet?

The short answer is yes, you will need an internet subscription. The wifi works just like your roku player or apple tv. You will connect the tv to your wifi network and then you can watch the apps like Youtube, Hulu and Nextfilx. You do not need this to watch standard tv however.
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