LG DU-42PY10X User manual

he LG DU-42PY10 42-inch
Plasma TV gives you a bright
screen with excellent contrast
and a 16:9 widescreen aspect
ratio. To get the sharpest de-
tail and clearest picture, use
component video cable for
your DVD player; the TV will
work with composite or S-
Video connections.
Unpacking the television is easier than it
looks, but you'll need two people. The
TV and packaging weigh 101 pounds;
the TV is surprisingly heavy considering
its thin size. Lift the box cover straight
up. There are handholds on the back of
the TV toward the top, but we lifted by
the base instead. With one person at
each end, grab the base of the television,
lift it straight-up out of the box, and
place it on your TV stand.
LG doesn't include audio/video cables, so
you'll need to buy a set before hooking
up the DU-42PY10. If you're using com-
posite or S-Video, hookup is fairly simple.
Connect one end of the audio/video ca-
bles to your DVD player and connect the
other end to the back of the television in
the specially marked inputs.
For component video, connect the red
cable to your DVD player's output
marked "Pr" and plug the other end
into the rearmost input marked "Pr" on
the back of the TV. Connect the green
cable to the DVD player's "Y" port and
the other end to the TV’s matching
input. Finally, connect the blue cable to
the DVD player's "Pb" output and plug
the other end into the TV’s corre-
sponding input.
With component video inputs, use the
audio inputs to the left of the compo-
nent video inputs on the television. The
audio ports to the right, normally used
for composite or S-Video hookups, won’t
function with component video inputs
(they work only with the composite and
S-Video inputs). Plug one end of your
stereo audio cables into the TV's audio in-
puts immediately to the left of the com-
ponent video inputs you used, and plug
the other end of the audio cables into
your DVD player's outputs.
Press the Power button to turn on the
television. After booting up, the TV dis-
plays its scheduler. The remote has six
modes, indicated by the LCD at the top
of the remote control. Press the Mode
button until the TV indicator lights up;
use this mode to control the television.
Press Exit on the remote to close the
scheduler and watch TV. Press Light to
light the keys on the remote so you can
see them in a dark room.
Optimize The Display
Most TVs have myriad basic display ad-
justments, such as contrast, brightness,
and sharpness. The LG DU-42PY10 is no
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exception, but it includes a few more-
sophisticated controls, such as color
temperature and a series of display pre-
sets optimized for content (Daylight,
Normal, Night Time, Movie, Video
Game, and Sports).
To select a video preset, press Menu on
the remote while a TV program or DVD
is playing. Press Down on the control
pad to highlight Video and press Right
to open the submenu. Press Right again
to move the cursor to the top of the EZ
Picture menu. Press Up and Down on
the control pad to select a preset. You'll
see the DVD or TV program's picture
settings change with each preset, giving
you a preview of the display preset. Press
Exit to finish making your selection.
You can also customize the sound with
several audio presets. To choose one,
press Menu on the control pad and
press Down twice to highlight Audio.
Press Right and then Down to highlight
EZ Sound. Press Right again and choose
the preset from the list (Off, Normal,
Stadium, Theater, or Music) by pressing
Up and Down on the control pad. To
make your selection, press Exit.
If the LG DU-42PY10 is your first wide-
screen television, adjusting the aassppeecctt
rraattiioo(the measure of a television
screen's width to its height) for the max-
imum picture size takes practice. Here's
how it works: For regular TV content,
set a 4:3 aspect ratio. This creates gray
bars on the left and right of the screen,
but the picture has the correct propor-
tions. You can stretch the picture to fill
the screen if you'd like, but the image
will appear unnaturally squashed.
For watching widescreen DVDs, set the
TV's aspect ratio to 16:9. This gives you
the widest picture without stretching the
image. Compared to a regular TV, the
black bars that you normally see on the
top and bottom of the DVD's image are
smaller. This is the bonus you get for
buying a widescreen display. Don't forget
to check your DVD player's manual; you
might have to set the DVD player to de-
fault to 16:9, as well, as we did on our
Samsung test model. Otherwise the DVD
player will output 4:3, and then none of
the included aspect ratios in the LG DU-
42PY10 will look correct.
If your DVD player supports it, set the
DVD player to pprrooggrreessssiivveessccaann(525p;
all 525 lines of the image are redrawn si-
multaneously, reducing the flicker asso-
ciated with interlaced scans that redraw
one-half of an image at a time) mode.
This mode is available via the compo-
nent outputs only. With component
outputs, you'll see a higher-resolution,
more stable picture. Progressive Scan
works only with HDTVs. Make this ad-
justment now, unless you owned an
HDTV before the LG DU-42PY10.
BY JAMIE LENDINO
flat-panel tvs