For someone who is deeply immersed in technology professionally, I still shun things for as long as possible. It became apparent that I needed something to prevent me from taking long printouts of directions with me for business travel. This was on a great Cyber Monday sale, so I bought it. I didn’t do a lot of research, but many of my coworkers have a GPS, and I hear their complaints.

The number one thing commented on for this GPS – if you miss a turn or intentionally go a different direction, it does not constantly yell “recalculating” at you. It just makes adjustments.

Overall, I’m happy with it. It’s fairly easy to use, although the keyboard doesn’t always recognize what I press (and I don’t have fat fingers). Traffic is great for some cities – amazingly it didn’t work at all in Kansas City in March of 2011. And it doesn’t have much (if any) info on roads that are not state or interstate freeways. Some highways come through, depending on the state. And my frustration in traffic is so much less when i have an idea of how much I will be delayed. I get a lot less worried when I know I’m going to be about 5 minutes late instead of having no clue what was happening. The estimated time of arrival has been disturbingly accurate.

The map corrections and sharing is wonderful. Most of the errors I have found are in newly developed areas where roads haven’t yet been built, or places where there has been recent construction that changed things. Highway entrances seems to be a common error in Colorado (but we have a LOT happening in the Metro area with construction).

The most annoying thing I have discovered is that when you have had a dramatic change in location while the power is off (on a plane, or you turn it off on the way home from somewhere because you know where you are going), then it can take a LONG time to find a satellite. I’ve waited for 10 minutes before, and that’s after the update that TomTom provided to speed up the process.

Of note – getting a dashboard mount that is portable is difficult. The screen sits pretty low, so any bean bags often sit too high to allow you to mount the screen. And the suction on this device is not fond of cold weather. I’ve found that if it’s less than 40 degrees, a slight bump in the road will cause it to come off the mount.

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The LG LED TV does not have enhanced speed/refresh rates with the picture image. The picture refresh rate is the standard 60 MHz like just about every TV out there in marketland. This TV mumbo jumbo is for the purpose of misleading you into buying the set thinking it will have a four times sharper image. Wait, the picture clarity is fantastic, brilliant, vivid, excellently superb.
The 2D to 3D conversion is another overstatement. This TV may be able to convert 2D to 3D but the studios who make the DVD can not do it in this time frame. The LG can render 3D to 2D easily.

This LED is lighter than the older plasma and LCD TVs. This makes for easier installation. One needs a screw driver, not even a Philip’s if one is not around, a bed to attach the base to the screen. Voila! Just sit it on its on stand on something. Placing it on a wall is bad taste from a decorator’s perspective and eliminates the set’s mobility.

The tuner is excellent for gathering channels. The interface is pretty much simple and intuitive.

The 3D is excellent. And will continue to be even better with future releases of titles because the DVD makers will have had more experience with making 3D (exaggerated perspective) films. The passive glasses are the same you get at the cinema. So replacements are cheap. The picture quality of the passive 3D Glasses is about the same as shutter glasses with a slight nod to the shutter glasses.

Manual controls have been eliminated with this model which is stupidity and plain cheapness. They should have let the manual controls on the TV set but wanted to squeeze out every penny of profit, shortchanging the end consumer. If you loose the remote you may have a disabled TV for awhile till you find the remote granting is not broken or find a replacement at Radio Shack.

Yes, Virginia the old red/blue 3D glasses work almost as well.

The volume is pathetically weak/low. Don’t know if it is my particular set or the whole run. Returned a lot of stuff and I don’t want to wear my welcome out with amazon.com. If I didn’t return some big ticket items before I would have likely returned this LG LED 3D TV because I am a senior whose hearing is somewhat impaired.

The price by amazon.com is light years better than everyone else with free delivery.

Am not an employee of amazon.com. I know not a soul at amazon.com.

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I bought one on clearance for $600.

First the pros:

120Hz is fantastic. I love watching movies, and while I know a film’s FPS (24) isn’t as fluid, for some reason the “home video” fluid look that 120Hz is proving isn’t as off-putting as I had originally thought.

LED backlighting – saves 40~50% in energy costs compared to a CCFL-backlit LCD. And should last far longer.

Detail – images are crisp and a number of settings can smooth jagged edges (QuadPixel), add sharpness, clear up DVD compression artifacting (“noise reduction”) to an extent, etc.

Weight – for being 40″, this weighs less than my 32″ CCFL set.

Price. I wouldn’t pay $1200 for this model, not when one gets stuck pixels out of the box. (But no dead pixels were found, and those typically can’t be fixed.)

digital audio pass-through, to make connecting a Blu-ray player’s own digital output port unnecessary. Especially when one has 3 HDMI devices that would make use of the external Dolby 5.1 receiver!

Cons:

Unlike the composite, VGA, and other inputs, the HDMI ports are put on the left side – making cable organization more difficult, and with cables sticking out beyond the front edge, L-shaped adapters would be needed for ideal organization… unless you like seeing cables everywhere…

Once color is calibrated, everything looks great. Out of the box, depending on mode, there’s a blue tint or a yellow tint. I also found that disabling ‘extended color’ yields a more accurate color gamut, though I won’t deny enabling the extended mode really adds vibrancy to outdoor settings. Skin tones do end up being a tad oversaturated with it enabled, though.

The integrated speakers produce a good range (bass/treble/midtones), but even at top volume it’s fairly quiet.

For an-originally $1200 set, there should be no pixels. Why no QC from the manufacturer? As a customer, I feel less than cozy about this trend.

Angled viewing – straight-on is good, but at steep angles (e.g. 45 degrees) there’s some color fading, but no color-shift is noted. The panel used is probably a VA panel. IPS is best, but I’ve read companies that use TN panels. Definitely wouldn’t pay even $300 for one of those.)

Sadly the unit I bought was the last model available and contains 2 stuck pixels (white, blue-white), for which I am looking at possible options without having to return it as I really do like this model. But only when I use the TV as a monitor do these pixels stand out, and that’s only if I have a dark background. (If companies did their own QC, imagine how much time customers AND stores would save due to less processing costs and time…)

Uneven backlighting – this is inevitable for any TV or monitor, but once you see it, you can’t un-see it. I can handle edge bleed, but the unit I set up has a couple of rounded lit areas toward the left/middle that should remain dark. It’s only noticeable in movies involving outer space or totally dark rooms, but still – the lack of QC at the factory is pretty depressing, and that’s the ultimate point to my gripes about backlighting and stuck pixels. If the company does a good job, the store and customers don’t have to go through extra rigamarole and hassle.

All in all, it’s a good buy for $650 – the competition doesn’t really compare; the features in this model make it too good a value. Just spend time to calibrate it, and if you do see dead pixels or find too much unevenness to the backlighting, weigh the pros and cons of getting an exchange.

Will I buy Sharp again? Probably. Worse brands to exist, but the lack of QC is worrisome.

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Got my TomTom XXL 540 LMT yesterday. Till now, better than what I expected at this price! Recommended!

Delivery: I choose 2 day shipping and it actually came the very next day!

In the box: everything you need EXCEPT the case

All I did: read the manual, Switch on the device, plug the USB, Install TomTom Home, create TomTom account,Install updates(map,gpsfix,security camera etc), disconnect USB(USING THE DISCONNECT OPTION in TomTom Home), reconnect device and open TomTom Home, Activate promotion/activation code, disconnect USB again, set preferences, set current time, set home address and that’s it…ready to go.

All I didn’t: I didn’t face any issue! I didn’t regret that I didn’t get a garmin. I didn’t do anything like delete stuff or anything funny with the memory card, didn’t fiddle with the USB cable while it is connected to PC, didn’t try any weird stuff to test the limit of the device…all i did was plug in the USB and follow simple instructions!

Features: Loads of it! IQ, Help, lane assist, clear vocal instructions,easy-to-use, good display….even shows your car speed vs speed limit along with the obvious things like time/distance to destination etc!

Mount: You can fix it both on windshield and dashboard. The suction cup is way better than the stock suction cup I have seen some people use with other GPS devices.

Touchscreen: At par with any other touchscreen I used.

Experience: Gave it a test drive ….doing exactly what it is supposed to do:show you the way with proper lane directions. QC passed!

Appreciate your patience!

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