So much for the positive aspects. On the down side, in keeping with so many economy TVs, dark parts of images look a bit grey – even appearing to glow slightly in really extreme cases.

Watching the TV from much of an angle doesn't help, as beyond around 40º black levels and colour saturations drop off quite considerably.

Clean sound

The LG 32LG4000 is pretty run-of-the-mill sonically. Which is to say that while things sound clean and robust with relatively undemanding, 'daytime TV' material, if you push the set's speakers hard with a good movie action scene, the soundstage becomes rather muddy and even distorts slightly under duress.

The LG 32LG4000 might not be absolutely the best AV performer in the world, but with its built-in DVD deck it's more than good enough to justify its very modest cost and we expect it to sell like hot cakes.