LG HT902TB
06 NOV 2007
Launch price
£270.00
Stuff says
A bargain of quite stupendous proportions – only the picture quality gives away that this is a budget home cinema system
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Occasionally a product comes
along where we just can’t figure out how it’s been made for the
price it’s being offered at. The LG HT902TB is one such system.
We find ourselves sat in the
middle of a genuinely towering set of speakers belonging to a full 5.1-channel
home cinema all-in-one system – complete with DVD deck –that’s
yours for just £270. Amazing.
Grand designs
The four 1.2m ‘tallboy’
speakers enjoy a glossy finish and cute, semi-circular rear end, the
centre speaker harmonises perfectly with most of today’s flat TVs,
and the main DVD unit is every bit as attractive as LG’s pretty standalone
DVD decks.
The only clunker is the subwoofer,
which is effectively just an uninspiring big black box.
For such a potentially cumbersome
system the HT902TB is a doddle to set up, with colour-coded speaker
cabling and effortless-to-navigate onscreen menus.
A peek at the DVD section’s
rear panel reveals three things we would not have taken as givens for
£270: an HDMI output, a USB port and a digital audio input. As we’d
hoped, the HDMI is there because the DVD section includes HD upscaling
of DVDs to 720p or 1080i (though not 1080p).
The USB, meanwhile, allows
direct playback from USB storage devices of music, JPEG and DivX files,
while the digital audio input allows sources with digital audio outputs,
like Sky+ and Sky HD receivers, to employ the HT902TB’s surround sound
talents.