LG XXPZ550 - 3D 1080P Plasma TV's with Netcast

I've ordered the 60PZ550 and its scheduled to be delivered today. I'm psyched!

It looks like the new 3D glasses for this tv are just entering the retail pipeline now. I'm going to hold out a bit until there is a reduction in pricing though. If they can discount the price of the tv that much I feel the glasses will be discounted also at some point. I'm just thrifty like that. :-)

Hello. I'm not really the type to get into anything really "long-winded" but I received the tv and have it up and running. No problems with anything and the picture looks pretty decent right out of the box.

I've been watching some HD movies on cable and using the Cinema Mode setting. Also have watched a little SD stuff. That even looks better than my previous tv, but I'm an HD "snob" for sure.

I hooked it up via wired connection on my network and the tv quickly linked up automatically. I explored the Netflix, VuDu, Picassa, You Tube, and Cinema Now applications. Everything appears to work well and the 1080p stuff from Vudu looks great.

As everyone researching this tv should already know, the screen is very shiny. In my room its not a problem but I can see how it might be an issue for some.

At this point I'm very satisfied with my purchase.

About the glasses... I saw that retailer had them but I'm going to wait as I stated before in the Plasma area. The 3D was not the primary reason for this tv purchase but now that I've got it, I'm anxious to see it. I CAN be patient though when absolutely needed.

If I have any issues in the future I will report back here.

Good luck!

P.S. I've decided I'm going to break in the tv by watching it in mostly a normal way. Don't overly linger on screens with bars and logo's... that type of thing I will avoid for the first couple of weeks and then I'm not going to worry about it. I'm just saying.

For those interested, buydig.com has the AG-S250 glasses in stock for a decent price. Don't forget to search for a coupon to save a few.

Peace.

Cool about your tv showing up soon... I hope you like it as much as my wife and I do.

After I had the tv operating for a few hours I used the built-in Picture Wizard to do some adjustments and it definitely improved things. Be sure to check that out when you get the chance.

Yeah... I bought 2 pair of the glasses and they are scheduled to be delivered this coming Wednesday. I've never seen a 3D tv in action before so I won't be able to compare it to much. I will come back later in the week and share my initial impressions.

I'm interested to hear what you think about the tv. Drop a few thoughts here when the time is right.

Randy

I just purchased the 60pz550 at hhgregg for a fairly rocking deal. The took good care of me...the bundled the ag-s110 with it which I denied the unit with in the store. The 3d appeared to be working. Is there any official documentation that specifies the glasses compatibility?

In the users manual it specifies the AG-S250, and not the AG-S110, as an accessory for this tv.

I also emailed LG customer support and they told me the older glasses are not compatible because they use IR and the new ones use RF.

That's all I know.

While I await the 3D glasses so I can check that out, I've been messing with the DLNA aspect of my 60PZ550.

I have a wired connection to the tv and its now a part of my home network. I installed a 30 day trial of Mezzmo Media Server on my PC and it found and linked up with the tv immediately. No muss, no fuss!

I then proceeded to stream Avatar 3D to the tv. At first it said it was an incompatible file but I had previously played the file via the USB input (both USB1 and USB2) connector and knew it worked. I checked Mezzmo and it was transcoding the file. When I turned this function off the movie streamed flawlessly. It was side by side and I used the tv's 3D to 2D function and it combined the 3D stream into a 2D picture and it was beautiful. I had no intention of watching the movie again but the picture was just so good I couldn't stop watching. No joke. Trust me, I'm not one to over hype something... just calling it like I see it.

I continue to be impressed by this tv and thought I would share.

Peace.

Just set up my new 60pz550. Everything was great until I shut it off for the first time. When I turned it back on, I was greeted with a screen that now flickers and jumps all over the place. I've tried different HDMI, cable from the wall, and the internal internet features which all are affected. This was replacing my samsung 6400 with horible backlight issues and now this tv is acting like this. Does anyone know how to hard reset the LG?

In theory I think wireless would work just fine but... I have read some unfavorable comments concerning the LG wireless adapter so I just decided to forgo that option. I think the adapter can be had for $40 or thereabouts so if wired was not possible for me, I certainly would have given it a try. If you go for it, be sure to let us know how well it works.

The file I used was a 15GB MKV with DD 5.1 audio. I also streamed some AVI files. I'm awaiting an optical cable to run from tv to receiver so for now I am only using tv sound. By the end of the week, I will have that rectified.

Glasses should be here tomorrow... that should be interesting. :-)

Sorry to hear about this, man. I don't know how to reset it but I know I would be on the phone first thing in the morning talking to somebody!

Be sure to let us know how things work out for you.

Tv is boxed back up and now I have two tvs ready to be returned tomorrow. WTF, would've been better to just get a vizio. Two top brands in two weeks have been nothing but let downs. By the way LG cs said it needed to be serviced. An hour old tv needs to be serviced, no thanks.

Update: Returned the samsuck, and exhanged the LG. Of course they didnt have any left so I told them I would take the display as it had only been on the shelf since friday last week. They gave me the display for another $50 off, so in total it was about 23% off of retail. I have not plugged it in at the house as Im waiting for another set of hands to help move it. However it did work well in the store so I have hope for this one. By the way, they hooked up my returned Tv and as it warmed up, it was very close to losing all picture functionality.

Ended up ordering one of these yesterday to replace a ho-hum 50" Panasonic from 4 years ago. I was going to go for the pk550, but for about 10% more this made sense.

Hopefully I don't end up with a lemon like Fsuhammond did. I've usually put LG in the vizio-Westinghouse range of electronics - in other words, best to be avoided.

The first one was a super sour lemon to say the least, but thats another reason I opted for the display as I knew it worked.

Does anyone know if this tv supports ARC? Cant seem to find it listed on LG's site. Thanks in advance.

I hear ya. Reviews have been decent for LG products of late. It's made me a little more comfortable with the purchase.

Here's hoping they've worked on black levels! I'm in the "3D's a fad" camp so I was just hoping for a pk550 with a slightly improved picture.

UPDATE 3/10/11 11:50
I want to set the record straight on the problem I reported earlier. It happened again after the box was actually working for short while. The problem was NOT the 60PZ550. It was in fact a bad FIOS box. I did not suspect the FIOS box as I took the HDMI cable out of the old TV and put it into the new TV. This was a working FIOS box for the past 8 months. Anyway, the upstairs box works perfectly when hooked up to the new TV and picture looks great. Just as good if not better. I just figured it out so I have not made any picture adjustments yet. But it is obvious to me that the bad picture I reported was due to the bad FIOS box, not the TV. The bad box produced the same results on the upstairs TV....shows "No Signal" for any HDMI port. So the picture quality must have been degrading until the HDMI out just crapped out altogether.

Just wanted to make sure to provide accurate info for any potential TV buyers.

My original post....

Electronic Expo has these for $72.

Good info, thanks. Any calibration done on either plasma? Had a chance to test the 1080p/24 mode?

Hopefully some peeps will start posting their calibrated settings. I know each panel can vary a little coming off the line, but it's still probably an improvement over factory settings.

JackOften...wanted to make sure you saw this info.....

UPDATE 3/10/11 11:50
I want to set the record straight on the problem I reported earlier. It happened again after the box was actually working for short while. The problem was NOT the 60PZ550. It was in fact a bad FIOS box. I did not suspect the FIOS box as I took the HDMI cable out of the old TV and put it into the new TV. This was a working FIOS box for the past 8 months. Anyway, the upstairs box works perfectly when hooked up to the new TV and picture looks great. Just as good if not better. I just figured it out so I have not made any picture adjustments yet. But it is obvious to me that the bad picture I reported was due to the bad FIOS box, not the TV. The bad box produced the same results on the upstairs TV....shows "No Signal" for any HDMI port. So the picture quality must have been degrading until the HDMI out just crapped out altogether.

Wanted to make sure to provide accurate info for any potential TV buyers.

Big thanks 60PK550buy!

My glasses are losing sync also. Really sucks when you are playing a game. Looks like these new glasses might not be quite ready for prime time.

Is anyone else having HDMI handshake issues with an Xbox 360 being run through a AVR? Three components into my AVR, then 1 HDMI out to TV. The cable box and BluRay work great, but the xbox will not work without doing a 20 series of unplugging, plugging and input switches on the tv. I can cycle through the other two components without a hitch, but the xbox is a problem. I know it has something to do with the TV, as I've been running this setup for 8 months on my panny S1 and a week on the returned samsuck. Here is the really odd part, if I connect the xbox hdmi straight to the TV, all is well, but I dont get 5.1 sound via optical out on the tv. For now I've just moved the Xbox to the panny for the kids, but this crap is getting irritating. Thanks in advance for any help or ideas.

Which AVR? Onkyo's can be problematic in this area.

Sounds like it may be an avr issue since it works fine directly. If you have an extra HDMI input on the AVR (or exchange ports with another component) it might not be as fussy.