So, here’s the deal. I don’t know who of you go black Friday shopping, but I go every year and every year my mom hints at getting a new TV. So, this year that was my goal – a new sleek TV. I don’t know much about TV’s, mine is about a three year ancient Emerson I got for my birthday, it’s "flat screen", but is still one of the box TV’s I guess? I don’t know it has a built in DVD player and it is silver. The TV we have had in our house all the time we got when my mom worked at a repo agency YEARS ago.. maybe 10+ and it was a "huge screen" TV and it was Zenith. Needless to say it finally died. Unknowing of anything except that we didn’t want a plasma, I headed out to hhgregg to buy this 40in 1080p Toshiba they had on sale on black Friday. I chose Toshiba because I have heard excellent things about them from various people and because my Toshiba laptop has never failed me. AFTER they rang me out for my TV and I was waiting for it to be loaded in my car, they informed they didn’t have it. Never did. So, they replaced with the 42LG30. I said okay, thinking I know LG, that’s a larger screen, and I like the way it looks (they showed me the show). Got it home and the faces of the people are pixelated looking. Like I said, I don’t know much, but this looked DREADFUL. Read the manual a couple hundred times, changed a bunch of settings, reset the settings, changed them again. Nothing worked. Then bars of missing pixels would come across the screen. So, I went back to hhgregg. They told me to drop my cable, plug in this fancy 80 dollar antenna and all will be well. Nope, it was WAAAY worse, with less channels. I plugged the cable back in and have been contemplating going back and saying give me something else, this isn’t working. I know this TV is 720p and the other was 1080p, but I must tell you I have read about this online and read that the differences between the two aren’t huge enough to spend the extra money (mind you I was after a 1080p in the first place) and that until you go huge, like 50+, you really can’t tell.Also, we don’t have HD, probably never will. All I can say is my Emerson looks a whole lot better than this LG. So, my question is did I get ripped off my taking the LG? Should I insist on getting what I was originally after? More importantly does anyone else have problems with LG LCD TVs? We are not gamers or movie buffs, we just want a excellent quality TV to watch cable on. One where people look like people, not people in a picture that was from a crappy digital camera and then zoomed in on a couple or few times.

They should have known that they were out of the TV before they charged you for it. If they (as you said) said they never had it then what they did is called a "bait and switch". Where they advertise a product to lure you in when they know they don’t have it, and then they try to sell you something else.

I bought a 46" LCD, 1080i, Sanyo a few months back. I also noticed the people looked weird and it’s because not much is broad cast in HD, even over cable. I watched Lord of the Rings on TNN, then popped the same movie DVD in and the DVD looked much much better. So the people looking not as sharp is normal.

If I were you I’d return the TV and go to Wal Mart and never do business with that company again.