Insignia IS- HDPLTV42 plasma

[joeseef]

I was looking at this tv at best buy and it looked pretty good next to the samsung it was beside. The associate at best buy said the insignia brand is there own lable and is made by LG electronics. Can anybody confirm this? This tv right now is $1000 less than the samsung. all help is appreicated.
thanks

[KBI]

[QUOTE=joeseef]I was looking at this tv at best buy and it looked pretty good next to the samsung it was beside. The associate at best buy said the insignia brand is there own lable and is made by LG electronics. Can anybody confirm this? This tv right now is $1000 less than the samsung. all help is appreicated.
thanks[/QUOTE]

I believe Insignia products are made by orion..2nd tier maker.. BB employees get Insignia stuff dirt cheap..

[joeseef]

I''ve gone to two other best buy's and a futureshop and they all told me the same thing. This is a rebaged LG.

Thanks

[Michael TLV]

Greetings

I've picked up one of these to play with out of curiosity. Will get it delivered on Friday. Will see if the LG service remote control works on this unit.

Regards

[tdavis21484]

Orion makes Insignia's CRT TVs, but LG makes most of their dvd players, recorders, portable DVDs, LCDs, and now, apparently, plasmas.

[icemanwpg]

If LG Electronics make the Insignia TV's (specifically plasma TV's) exclusively for Best Buy, then why is Future Shop selling the same brand: Insignia ?

[gotchaforce]

future shop and bestbuy = same company just different countries

and i would think 80% of plasmas out there will look better than the samsung next to it... i guess ill go check this out

i assume this thing has a 1024x768 reso?

[JohnnyG]

Hi Michael.

Did it??

[QUOTE=Michael TLV]Greetings

I've picked up one of these to play with out of curiosity. Will get it delivered on Friday. Will see if the LG service remote control works on this unit.

Regards[/QUOTE]

[JVries]

[QUOTE=Michael TLV]Greetings

I've picked up one of these to play with out of curiosity. Will get it delivered on Friday. Will see if the LG service remote control works on this unit.

Regards[/QUOTE]
Curious about your findings... I'm thinking of picking this up.

Edit: Found my answer in this thread (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=619918), but still curious if the LG remote codes worked?

[Michael TLV]

Greetings

no ... did not work.

I was able to track the menu system down to Norcent TV ...

A LCD flat Norcent 27" uses the same menu layout ...

Was only able to calibrate the TV through the Lumagen scaler. So far.

The TV is amazingly good for image quality ... although you can't do grayscale right now with out codes.

The other aspects of the set need work though ... stupid remote ... bad menu design ...

Regards

[kjohn]

Do you have the codes I just picked one of theses sets up I am very impressed with the picture but the grayscale seems a little off but over all the same things you mentioned are the way I feel but to me they are not that important.