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Now don't get me wrong, I haven't really got any problems with the way this telly performs in the picture or sound departments (to be honest, I never thought I'd be able to afford a flat-screen TV quite so soon, so I can't complain too much) but after owning it for nearly a year, I do have a small list of niggles (including one quite major niggle, actually) that I feel duty-bound to share. Getting the major niggle out of the way first, I've found that occasionally when I switch the set on, I don't get a picture - at all - although I hear the sound loud and clear. The first time this happened was about a month into ownership and I nearly died. I subsequently found that turning the set off for a few seconds and then back on again 'cured' the problem but this is surely not 'normal' behaviour for a TV? The most obvious thing to think would be that I have a dodgy set but when I contacted LG about it they said it couldn't be classified as a 'fault' because it would be very difficult to re-create in their testing lab. Which is fair enough, I suppose, as it does very seldom do it. Nevertheless, when you've spent this kind of money on a TV, the very least you expect is for the picture to come on - every time! I guess there can't be anything fundamentally wrong with the set's inner workings 'cause it's still going fine and 95% of the time I don't get the problem but when I do, it's both annoying and a worry. The other problems I have are with the Electronic Programme Guide, which quite often functions painfully slowly and goes 'corrupted'. I've also had this problem with teletext, so maybe it's a signal issue and not a TV one, although my DVD recorder has a digital tuner but suffers no such issues. It's very hard to tell with this sort of problem what is at fault - the signal or the hardware. My last gripe about the 32LC2D is the sound it makes when switching off, which I can only liken to a lightbulb popping - very ungraceful and a detraction from it's stonking looks. This may sound a trivial complaint but it's the sort of sound you might hear if something had just gone 'kaput' inside the set, making you a bit nervous about switching it on next time. A nice 'click' - like my hi-fi does - would be better. Maybe I'm just too 'precious' about my consumer electronics but can you blame me? This set cost £600! So there you have it - the four stars are for it's picture and sound performance, which are perfectly adequate for my needs, not being particularly tech-savvy. I just hope the issues I've described are all totally innocent and don't worsen in any way. If anyone reading this has had similar experiences with either this or other LCD pieces of kit, I'd be interested to hear of them.