This displays main claim to designer fame is the fact that it is only 1.5-inches thick. We measured this advertised feature and it is accurate. Although the display is not lighter than others in the same size category the drastically slimmer design mean that it is often less than 50% of the thickness of other 42-inch displays. The bezel is also very slim and a translucent, glossy-black. The silver stand is also pretty compact and these two colours interact to create a starkly attractive look.

The colours on this display are realistic without being oversaturated and unrealistically vibrant. The contrast is a little deficient. This is noticeable in certain scenes involving a lot of intensity-variation in the same colour, for example clouds with varying intensities of white, or the sky. In such images slight banding is noticeable. There is also noticeable artifacting that happens with certain non-native resolution videos. In fact this display did very poorly in the grey-scale check that is a good indication of the contrast ratio of a display. Even the Spyder showed this displays true contrast ratio to be in the region of 400:1 – this is not good enough. One saving grace was the fact that it did very well with text and fonts appear very clear and crisp. At Rs 1,35,00 the UT42-MX700A does not present a strong enough case for itself to warrant a recommendation from us.