LG SL8000 (42SL8000) Reviews

The 42-inch, 1080p, LED-edge-lit 42SL9000 is a mighty handsome LCD TV, with an astonishingly slender profile. It also offers tonnes of features, good picture quality and an extremely attractive user interface. Overall, it's an admirable attempt at ...

Gorgeous and remarkably slim design ; good pictures ; loads of features ; excellent operating system

One or two colour problems ; black levels are nothing special by LED standards ; motion isn&apos ; t particularly well handled

The LG 42SL9000 looks great and offers a solid feature set, but its performance falls a notch or two short of the best that the LED TV world currently has to offer. As a result, its price looks rather steep

The strikingly slim, 42-inch, 1080p 42SL8000 is the best LG LCD TV we've seen so far. It's packed to bursting point with features and connections, its pictures are great 99 per cent of the time, and it looks beautiful. For the price, it's also ...

Sumptuous design; excellent pictures; features and connections galore; great value for money

Limited viewing angle; getting the best picture can be a rather labour-intensive process

LG has long been doing very well indeed in the UK TV market, thanks to some ultra-aggressive pricing. With the 42SL8000, the company has finally proven definitively that it's not only a budget brand, but one that's capable of producing LCD pictures to ...