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hello I'm David Katz Meyer with seen it and I'm sitting with the LG LM 6700 this is a 55 inch LCD TV there's also a 47 inch member of the series this review will apply to both this is a mid-range TV in LG's 2012 lineup it's actually the least expensive to include it's LED plus local dimming which should improve black levels but we'll get to that in a little bit the other nice thing about this TV is it's also the least expensive with it's really thin bezel so if you look at the edge of this TV it's about five millimeters from the edge of the picture to the edge of the frame the frame itself is wrapped in this sort of silver ribbon and along the bottom the silver gets quite a bit wider where you can see the LG logo here another unique part of this TV design is the silver ribbons stand along the bottom here this actually keeps the TV suspended sort of floating above the surface that it's on the stand also swivels so all told this is one of the sleeker looking and more unique looking TVs we've seen in a long time another feature unique to LG is this magic motion remote sort of like a Nintendo Wiimote LG doesn't include a standard remote you only get the magic motion but it does work very well I kind of summons the cursor as soon as you pick it up and you can go to the home menu very quickly and as you can see the menu system takes full advantage of the magic motion to actually found really precise and easy to navigate this new menu system so the response time is really good again we were pretty impressed by this remote on the downside this remote doesn't control all the devices like cable boxes so you're gonna have to make a decision if you're used to using a single universal remote LG Smart TV system has pretty solid content for audio and video although it lacks Amazon Instant as well as Pandora we appreciated there's a 3d world app that includes a few of pieces of demo content nothing you've heard of however there's also an app store generally that's pretty bad the selection of apps is a little bit less than quality we've seen on Panasonic and Samsung for example there's also a web browser which actually worked better than any other TV but based web browsers we've seen although it's of course worse than the one in your tablet or smartphone so we doubt most people will use it on the connectivity front this set does include built-in Wi-Fi which is a nice touch around back you'll find four HDMI as well as a PC input for VGA sources there's also a single analog input that can accept either component or composite video via breakout cable on the picture quality front it was a little bit pointing with the performance of this LG compared to last year's model it's black levels are relatively light and it's shadow detail not quite as good it also has a relatively reflective screen so again unlike last year's models that were matte it does tend to reflect in room lighting relatively brightly on the plus side it does have a pretty accurate color there's plenty of controls oh they didn't work quite as well as they did last year so all told the 2d performance of this TV isn't quite we expected for the price level there's also a 3d capability on this TV that actually performed very well in terms of crosstalk we did see some artifacts caused by that passive 3d but you have to look pretty close and or sit pretty close to see most of them the set also includes six pairs of 3d glasses which is one of the benefits of having a passive 3d system of course your whole family can enjoy 3d whereas with active sets you got to spend a lot of money on 3d glasses that's a quick look at LG's LM 6700 series I'm Dave cafmeyer