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 Terrific HDTV May 9, 2008
Great image, easy to set up, well thought out inputs. Bought two. Amazon price excellent.
Great HDTV! May 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just purchased this HDTV 3 weeks ago and so far I have not been disappointed. Before this TV, I had a fifteen year old Toshiba and that was starting to go out. A few months ago, I started looking around for different Samsungs( I knew I wanted a Samsung because of their reputation for great HDTVs) Their were a few that I was looking at but wasn't thrilled with the prices. Finally, a couple months after my old TV started flickering, I started looking at HDTV sets again. I first found this set at Best Buy for 899. A couple days later I saw it at Circuit City for 799. After a few minutes of thinking, I ordered it online and picked it up. I have DirecTV(non HD, so far) and I also bought a DVD HD converter(also a Samsung). While the regular TV isn't perfect, it still looks really good. The DVD up converter is also really good. Very pleased with the TV and can't wait until I get more HD programming.
Beautiful Picture May 3, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
After much research, settled on this LCD tv. I was not disappointed! Took it of the box and just attached my coax from my satellite service and voila the most beautiful picture appeared. The colors are spectacular and the sound clear and crisp. The black enclosure with the speakers at the bottom make for a good looking tv.
Great TV May 3, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
All of the other reviews cover pretty much all of the other "pros" for this TV and I agree with them 100%. I wanted to mention its quality for gaming.
I knew before I bought a new tv that me and my roomate would be using it alot for gaming on the xbox 360. I tried a couple of others with an 8ms response time and they just weren't quick enough. When I decided I was going to need something with 6ms or better I assumed I would have to spend a great deal more. Then I found this tv.
We play a variety of different types of games and all of them look and flow great. From Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 to racing games, sports games, and even GTA IV that just came out. In my experience there has been no delay from the controller to the screen and I couldn't be happier.
Great deal. Buy it.
Excellent TV for a good price May 1, 2008
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Pros: Outstanding, crisp HD picture; excllent color contrast; solid response time
Cons: Slight pixelation with poor quality SD signal
"After doing a huge amount of research, I finally settled on this set. I was actually interested in the slightly lower-priced Toshiba Regza, but every store in my area was out. While shopping around, I noticed that this Samsung in particular seemed to have a top-notch picture. Finally I decided to take the plunge 3 days ago, and I have not been disappointed at all. In the past I have had several issues with LCD TVs, which is why I had been hesitating up to now. I know these issues are on many people's minds, and so I will address each one:
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Motion Response
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First, and most important, is response time with fast motion. I am driven absolutely nuts if the TV can't "hold" the motion (that is, if the image smears, or fractures, when high speed elements are zooming across the screen). The element you are looking for in an LCD monitor that tells you about this is "response time", and you want something 8ms or below. I believe this TV is 6ms (the specs say this on Sammy's website, but several stores have it listed as 8ms). In any case, this TV "holds" the motion of even fast images extremely well. In the store, it held motion best of all comparably priced models, including the Sony Bravias around $1k, and the Sharps around the same price. When I got it home, I tested it out with Star Wars ep. 1 and the battle sequence from Narnia. Both looked outstanding using a regular DVD player with HDMI upconvert to 720p. You will not see ghosting issues with high def images.
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Color and contrast
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Color fidelity and contrast are also important to me, and LCDs have been known to have issues producing deep blacks and bright whites. This is not a problem for this set. It produces excellent color, and did so right out of the box with the factory pre-sets. I have not had to fiddle with it at all. I did try switching to "Cinema" mode, which has some nice characteristics, but even without that, everything looked amazing.
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Standard Def rendition
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Another major issue with LCDTVs and monitors is that anything not displayed at the native resolution tends to look blurred or "fractured". I was very concerned about this because I have lots of old DVDs of shows like Seinfeld and the Simpsons, which I know were never broadcast in HD. Also many TV stations have not yet made the switch (though most have). Here the TV was about as good as I have seen, though it is not perfect. The good news is that upconverted SD sources like the Seinfeld DVDs look excellent -- every bit as good as on a regular TV, if not better. The bad news is that your VHS tapes are going to look blurry and pixelated on a set like this. I don't have a lot of VHS tapes left, and so this isn't a huge deal. Regular SD sources with this set vary in quality. For example, the SD version of Animal Planet had a special on the other night that almost looked HD. At the same time, flip channels to CNN, and it looks terrible. I suspect this is the broadcast quality and NOT the set... otherwise all channels would look awful in SD. So when you get a nice SD source being broadcast, it looks fine.
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I would highly recommend this set. After connecting my HD cable box today and watching things like CSI:Miami, Vegas, and Miss Congeniality, all in widescreen HD, I can say that I am totally blown away by this set's HD performance. I don't think you'll be able to find a better HD TV set for the price."
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