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I just bought one of these televisions (LG42LH40) and everything was fine until I plugged in the HDMI cable. Then the lip-sync problem started to annoy me like crazy. So I googled around and found the following little snippet of advice. It seems to have solved the issue, apart from a little tweaking to get the number set correctly for my particular set. Shame this doesn't show up more frequently on the net as there seem ot be a lot of people having problems getting this working. It also seems that LG tech support doesn't know how to do this either.

LG 42LH40 42-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV, Gloss Black 1) press and hold the menu button on the side of the TV then press and hold the menu button on the remote until the display says "Enter Password" 2) enter four zeros from the remote control to get past the password screen (you should now see an "IN START" menu with all kinds of information listed) 4) look at the lower left corner where there should be a numbered menu -- menu option 4 should say "System" 5) use the down arrow until the word "System" is highlighted (pressing the number '4' will not take you down the menu) and press the enter key (you should now be on the System menu near the middle of the screen) 6) press the down arrow to option 9 "Lip Sync Adjust" and then press the left arrow to adjust the value to zero (mine was set to 20 from the factory) 7) press the return key to get out of the menu and bingo, you're done!

I don't know about you, but I don't really like editing my blog posts in the default text area that comes with most blogging software. They provide a rich text interface through some clever javascript, but it doesn't really feel right. As a programmer I want to be able to use my editor of choice. That would of course be vi. However, as I can't be bothered to try and figure out the magic runes involved in getting vi integrated with my blog, I thought I would try out TextMate. It has a bundle all ready to go. You just need to configure the xmlrpc location of your blog and fire up a new window. For those that need a little help getting started, there is a nice screencast on the TextMate blog. Once you have a new window open, you just write your post and upload it to your server. At least I hope so. Did this make it to your feed reader :-)?

I think this is a brilliant ad. Not sure I want to buy bottled water, but this made me think about it :-) http://www.youtube.com/v/7-ZAmVF6crE&hl=en