ViewSonic VT4210

ViewSonic VT4210 LED HDTV

The ViewSonic VT4210 LED HDTV is simple and unassuming, and it's a decent choice if you're shopping for a TV without all the frills common in today's sets. This 42-inch set sports an antiglare, antireflective TFT active-matrix LCD and 1080p image resolution, but it also has zero Web features, few input ports, and less-than-excellent speakers. The VT4210 (about $750 as of March 18, 2011) is surprisingly thin and light, however, so if it's a basic TV you're seeking, this may be the one. Designwise, the VT4210 is rather unremarkable. Surrounding the HDTV's LED screen is a thin, shiny black bezel with sharp, squared-off corners. The bezel has few embellishments save for the mirrored silver ViewSonic logo at the bottom and a small power light on the bottom left. You can wall-mount the HDTV (it weighs just 29.7 pounds) or place it on a sharply rectangular, shiny black stand. The stand weighs an additional 6.6 pounds and is fixed (it does not swivel). That is just as well, since the TV's off-axis viewing angles are mediocre. The VT4210 is surprisingly thin--1.4 inches at the thickest point, though the stand widens the footprint to 8.9 inches. That thinness, combined with the light weight of the set, means that you should seriously consider wall-mounting this model.