I recently bought a LG LST 4600a HDTV receiver. It's made for Hotel purposes only, so it does not have any front display, buttons. It comes with a remote sensor but no remote control. Here is my experience about this unit.
Tuner Info:
It has a HDTV (OTA + clear QAM) + NTSC tuner. You can use it with cable to get SD + HD channels over QAM.
Remote Control:
As stated, it does not come with the remote control. Users are supposed to use a standard remote. I am using a GE universal remote. I found that 4600a takes a remote code for LG combo unit, usually TV+ VCR combo. You can find the code for LG combo unit for your universal code and use the VCR portion of it. I tried this with Phillips universal remote control and it worked their as well. Make sure that you assign the device on remote to Sat/Cable or set top box other than VCR. On Phillips remote control, when set to VCR, it was not sending the code for "Menu" button, so the menu was not coming on the receiver.
Tuner Quality:
I also have US Digital HD receiver that I use for OTA reception. When I did the channel scan first, LG pulled in only channel 4 HD. It did not pulled in other channels. I was surprised at that because it uses 4th gen tuner. I ran the channel search again and it pulled all the channels that USDTV box pulled in. The reception quality so far is very good, no voice drops etc. I get the voice drops on USDTV box but I am using the old firmware. This problem is resolved in the new firmware.
One difference with USDTV is about the program guide and time. USDTV shows nice program guide, LG lacks this feature. Also, on USDTV, you can set a channel to pull the time from. You don't need to set time.
Preferences:
Aspect ratio - default is set to "wide". This will expand a 4:3 picture to 16:9. I set it to "Normal" and it pillarboxed the 4:3 material nicely.
Video and other settings: To change the video output settings like 1080i, 720p, 480i/p and other settings etc, you will need the installers remote control. You will not be able to change the settings without that.
I did not find any user manuals at LG site, but found these at Link A quick reverse lookup showed that this site is registered under Zenithnet. These manuals are quite helpful.
That's the info so far. I think its a good quality and cheap receiver if you see the recent auctions. Make sure that it comes with the remote sensor though, cause without that, there is no way you can make it work.
Tuner Info:
It has a HDTV (OTA + clear QAM) + NTSC tuner. You can use it with cable to get SD + HD channels over QAM.
Remote Control:
As stated, it does not come with the remote control. Users are supposed to use a standard remote. I am using a GE universal remote. I found that 4600a takes a remote code for LG combo unit, usually TV+ VCR combo. You can find the code for LG combo unit for your universal code and use the VCR portion of it. I tried this with Phillips universal remote control and it worked their as well. Make sure that you assign the device on remote to Sat/Cable or set top box other than VCR. On Phillips remote control, when set to VCR, it was not sending the code for "Menu" button, so the menu was not coming on the receiver.
Tuner Quality:
I also have US Digital HD receiver that I use for OTA reception. When I did the channel scan first, LG pulled in only channel 4 HD. It did not pulled in other channels. I was surprised at that because it uses 4th gen tuner. I ran the channel search again and it pulled all the channels that USDTV box pulled in. The reception quality so far is very good, no voice drops etc. I get the voice drops on USDTV box but I am using the old firmware. This problem is resolved in the new firmware.
One difference with USDTV is about the program guide and time. USDTV shows nice program guide, LG lacks this feature. Also, on USDTV, you can set a channel to pull the time from. You don't need to set time.
Preferences:
Aspect ratio - default is set to "wide". This will expand a 4:3 picture to 16:9. I set it to "Normal" and it pillarboxed the 4:3 material nicely.
Video and other settings: To change the video output settings like 1080i, 720p, 480i/p and other settings etc, you will need the installers remote control. You will not be able to change the settings without that.
I did not find any user manuals at LG site, but found these at Link A quick reverse lookup showed that this site is registered under Zenithnet. These manuals are quite helpful.
That's the info so far. I think its a good quality and cheap receiver if you see the recent auctions. Make sure that it comes with the remote sensor though, cause without that, there is no way you can make it work.