The LA-40A650 is a 40-inch LCD display and looks neat. The entire back is plastic and matte black. The front bezel is piano-finished in black and is translucent. This bezel has red implants all through it and this gives it a reddish tinge in certain areas and since the amount of red varies so does the colour tone. Weirdly there are no buttons on the body of the display but the remote unit looks very neat and has a good range; buttons also work well and we didn’t have the sporadic issues with keys not working when being pressed that plagued some of the other remote units. This unit has all the important connects and even the cable port had RCA ports for outputting to auxiliary speakers.

Post calibration we ran into issues under Display Mate first; this display totally missed out on the three highest intensities and all three bands looked identical. This problem also cropped up during the movie tests. We found places where there were smudges of red instead of smooth transitions in the colours intensity that are expected. Although this isn’t serious enough of an issue to ruin the experience of watching movies we found it a little annoying. Other than that this display gave good performance with contrast and colouring throughout the movie

tests and works with lower resolution content quite well. Text rendition is sharp and this display will satisfy even if it’s being used as substitute monitor.

Priced at Rs 1,05,000 the LA-40A650 is expensive – especially when you consider that other 42-inch displays are available at much lower prices. We can’t recommend paying more for less, so don’t bust your wallet here.

The LA-40A650 is a 40-inch LCD display and looks neat. The entire back is plastic and matte black. The front bezel is piano-finished in black and is translucent. This...