>> Hi, I'm Mathew Moskoviciak, associate editor at
cnet.com and this is the JVC LT 47X788. This is a
47-inch 1080 P flat panel LCD TV, and it's one of the
more inexpensive sets we've looked at this year.
Styling is one of the strong points for this set. It
has a glossy black bessel [Phonetic] with a little bit
of silver trim to accentuate the bottom half of the
unit. The remote is also pretty good, but one thing we
didn't appreciate was the unorthodox horizontally placed
channel and volume buttons. It just feels a little
weird in our hands. Moving on to features. The feature
pack is decent, but it's a little bit less than some of
the competitors. If you look around the back there are
two HDMI inputs while some competitors offer three, and
there are also two component video inputs. Moving on to
performance, JVC certainly has an acceptable image, but
it does not stack up to some of the top performing LCDs
that we've looked at this year. One of the big issues
we had with this TV was its black level performance,
which was not as dark as you find on top-performing LCDs
and on top-performing plasmas. Another problem with the
black levels is the blacks tended to look a little bit
red, especially in very dark scenes. And this is
definitely distracting, especially if you're watching a
movie with letter box bars. Another thing that was an
issue was screen uniformity, as the screen did not look
perfectly bright from left to right. The left and the
right sides looks much brighter than the center, and
this effect is also known as pillaring. All together,
the JVC offers a pretty good value for the money, but
discriminating viewers will be able to find better
performance and features for a similar price. I'm
Mathew Moskoviciak, associate editor at cnet.com and
this is the JVC LT 47X788. [ Music ]
