Best Cheap Television Of The Year?

Posted on | November 19, 2009 | No Comments

2009 is coming to an end and cheap televisions keeps seeing numerous sites doing their “best of the year” awards. So we thought we’d join the party and have a best cheap television of the year award type thing. It would be easy to choose something very cheap but we wanted something that performs and offers a lot of value and features. So what is Cheap Televisions best value TV of the year? Well its not a cheap lcd tv instead we went for big screen, big on features, with a small price tag to finance it and picked a 50 inch plasma TV. Yup the cheap televisions best value TV of the year goes to the LG 50PS7000.

The LG 50PS7000 plasma television can be brought for around £880 and I know its HD ready brothers like the 50PQ6000 are much cheaper but this is about value. The LG 50PS7000 has many options and calibration controls to play around with. Full HD playback for Sky HD and Blu-ray DVD movies. And well its just gorgeous to look at.

Performance wise you can get better but like most things in life you have to pay to get it. For example the Pioneer PDPLX5090 which are considered one of the best 50 inch plasma televisions money can buy will easily set you back around £2,000. That’s more than double the price and the picture on the LG 50PS7000 isn’t exactly twice as bad as the Pioneers. It would be nice if the LG black levels were closer to the Pioneer but this is a cheap television and can easily be forgiven for its one flaw.

The sound quality of the LG 50PS7000 plasma television is also right up there. I love the invisible speakers that all the LG plasma models have and the performance is top notch. Yes a home cinema surround sound system always sounds better for movies but not all of us can have our televisions at those kind of levels.

I personally thought LG would at least sell one 32 inch plasma television in the UK but I am mistaken. Still sure they do make one or used to. The most popular size plasma screens they make are 50 with 6 models. Probably also worth noting they dont make any full HD 42 inch plasma TVs and no HD Ready 60 inch monsters. The plasma televisions made by LG are:

42 inch: 42PQ3000 – 42PQ6000
50 inch: 50PQ3000 – 50PQ6000 – 50PS3000 – 50PS6000 – 50PS7000 – 50PS8000
60 inch: 60PS7000 – 60PS8000

Anyway enough rambling and a congratulations to LG electronics and the LG 50PS7000 50 inch plasma TV for being cheap televisions best value TV of the year. If you own one why not give us your opinion of review in the comments box below?

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