Westinghouse LVM-42W2 42" LCD Monitor Review

My review on this great value 1080p LCD Monitor that i've owned for a bit of time. Despite some hardships in the past, the latest firmware revision (1.03) fixes the major problems in the set

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• LCD
• TV
• Review
• 42
• HDTV
• Xbox
• 360
• PS3
• Bluray
• Blu-ray

[CorruptionDee]

Hey Disciprine, I just thought I'd give the viewers an update: I have the 42w2, and could never get the PS3 to work on the HDMI input while running at 1080p. However, after Sony released the 1.80 firmware, it works fine. So even with Westy's 1.00 firware, 1080p on HDMI is fully functional! No need to RMA the set.

[disciprine]

@CorruptionDee

That's actually interesting to know hah.

Ditched this tv a year ago tho for the samsung A750

[adamcbowen1]

Nice Tv man I just got the same one. But mine is 1.00 everythings amazing except one problem I had. Playstation 3 through HDMI would flash on and off so I went from HDMI to DVI2 that fixed everything.

[disciprine]

yeah, if you want to use HDMI with the PS3 you have to get the 1.03 firmware update.

[CorruptionDee]

Zoglog, is that you? I recognize your setup. As for the Westy, I have it and love it as well. My set is great, it just suffers from minor banding that's not really noticeable unless you're viewing a grey image, or a camera during a baseball game is panning over the field. I'm using FW 1.00, and don't have a problem with the PS3 since I use a DVI to HDMI converter. Is your 1.03 set free of banding?

[disciprine]

banding is random like dead pixels. No firmware will fix banding if you have it. It's caused by a manufacturing issue. I actually never have much problem with banding, but I'm not as picky as some Videophiles. I do notice the so called banding but only if the screen is all very bright white, which almost never happens.

[ThePunisherNWO]

nice TV and review, just wondering, what was the movie playing? the army movie :)?

[miguelde29]

just browse alittle bit ,type westinghouse problems,or westinghouse tv...it is with no doubt the worse product out there.me,just like everybody else that bought westinghouse,only experienced very poor product quality,with breakdowns every year and no customer service.my 32 inch broke after a year,no pieces to fix,no customer service,they won't honor the warranty because limitations like"we no longer sell this model". do not buy westinghouse,do some research first.

[CorruptionDee]

I ditched mine as well back in February of 2009. I replaced it with a Pioneer Kuro 5020, and never looked back. With that said, I got two years of quality use out if the Westy and I miss it in some small way because of how beautiful PC images looked on it.

[master1820461]

Westinghouse sucks man i hate my 26inchWestinghouse

[denosplace]

I have the TX-42F430S with the PS3 connected with HDMI at 1080p. The MOVIE mode setting on the tv has a default picture setting of BRIGHTNESS 42, CONTRAST 58, SATURATION 68, HUE 49. Which makes the blacks too black and colors exploded. I used the DVE dvd with the color bars and THX blue filter glasses, and found out that the movie mode was way wrong. The pitcher setting should be at 50% color temp warm. My question is what is your default movie picture settings.

[stankwho]

THere is really no noticable difference between a 1080p and 720p. I have both and i cant tell the difference.

[Zwikster]

im gonna get the W4207, its 720p, but still darn nice and a steal of a deal if you buy it through Dell.

[Tecreatta]

i have this monitor but it has heavy vertical banding on right side westinghouse support didn't help me

[adamcbowen1]

Hello just responding back I have recently got the latest PS3 update and now everything is great through HDMI. So if anyone else has had this problem get the latest PS3 update, it fixes everything.