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I bought the TV about 7 months ago as I was moving into a dorm for college and I needed a new TV. While it is way bigger than I need for a dorm room I figued why not spend the extra money for a bigger TV then spend 150-300 on a little 20inch when I'd be buying a larger TV later when I live in an apartment. At the time this was around 5 and was the best deal out there.
I was wary at first as there are many complants with these kind of systems. However, I have never had a problem with unit. I think it has been more than I expected. While it is a 720 and not 1080 I don't think there is much difference. While I am in a dorm I don't have a normal array of HD channels, but I do get your basic CBS/NBC channels in HD and they look completely crystal clear. I can't make a noticable difference from the 720 to 1080. The only time you can really tell the difference is if your in a store and a 720 is next to a 1080. Since it is a rear projection it is lamp lit and other complained of the lamp light flowing out from the vents in the back. I don't really notice this, even in with all the lights off. If you have it directing against a wall then you can see it, but it's not enough to be bothersome and if you wish can be easily blocked. Only con is the warm up and warm down as it is a bulb light, but it only takes a few seconds. I wouldn't turn it off and on rapidly or leave it on constantly as the bulb will burn out faster.
The HLT generation of Samsung DLP HDTVs are capable of displaying future 3D games, movies, and other programming via 3D compatible glasses and hardware.
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| Samsung's Cinema Smooth light engine create's images with a smoother, more film-like appearance. |
Next Generation DLP Chips from Texas Instruments
Samsung employs a Texas Instruments DLP chip that is comprised of millions of microscopic mirrors. The DLP chip is faster than any other HDTV technology, with the mirrors switching on & off 15,000 times a second to deliver a razor-sharp picture for fast moving images. When combined with Samsung’s new Cinema Smooth light engine, the result is a crisp, bright picture with deep, rich colors that’s closer to film.
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| SRS TruSurround offers a surround sound experience from only two speakers. |
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Great product but DirectTV doesn't have the knowledge base to support it. Got the receiver timely and set everything up by going through the manual and system set up. Didn't get reception of the majority of the HD channels. Direct TV was no help and finally agreed to send a tech. He determined after repeating everything I had done that this unit needed a B-Band connector. That fixed the problem but unnecessarily delayed enjoyment of the unit for more than a week. Information about the connector should have been provided.
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Well, just like everyone here, we do our own research before we decide on buying one of these expensive items.
For the features and the good price from amazon, this is a steal. In less than two weeks, this is my second TV from Amazon. The first one had a dead pixel out of the box. I called Amazon and as always with their excellent customer service, they sent me another and it arrived in a couple of days after I talked to them. I won't put a bad rating on the TV because of the dead pixel as it is something common on all display devices. The new TV is great and I've had for about 3 weeks now.
I will not talk here about the TV's sound or picture quality as others have stated many things about it. I am here to talk about the features the TV has to offer.
First, my network setup for those who want to do the same thing (and probably avoid buying the wireless stick from Samsung as it is not really worth it):
I basically have my WRT610N wireless router upstairs in the kids room. I had an old router I was about to throw out but I did some reading and I was able to DD-WRT it and used it as a client-bridge router downstairs in the living room. I saved myself more than 0 worth of wireless sticks for this TV and the TiVo Premiere which I got it discounted from Amazon when I got this TV. I get an excellent signal and performance from the DD-WRT build I flushed it with and I am connecting it to the 2.4GHz signal from my WRT610N router. So, if you want to use the internet app I would suggest buying a used router, flush it with a decent DD-WRT firmware and rock'n roll.
Now to the features:
1- DLNA: I don't use this feature a lot but rather couple of times. My Windows 7 Ultimate PC is upstairs connected via ethernet to the actual WRT610N router and I was able to stream a lot of .AVI and .MP4 and other formats which my PS3 could not play. It will basically show you every DLNA-enabled device on your network and will be able to play. I am not a big-fan or this feature because of other features available.
2- Content (Via USB port): this is the big deal. I had a 2008 LCD HDTV from Samsung (also got it from Amazon) and it had a USB input but it won't read/play videos but rather only pictures or music. I read somewhere on the internet about this TV that says it probably plays .MKV files and I was not sure nor excited.
Let's go back a little bit since I have my fat PS3 (2008 model) and I got a 500GB External HDD connected to it. As you may know, any drive or disk connected to the PS3 must be formatted to FAT32 otherwise it won't see it. The bad thing about FAT32 is that it has a maximum file size of 4GB meaning a single file can't be more than 4GB in size. I had to always find my videos from the internet only in certain formats and must be less than 4GB. I found out that .M2TS files are the best Blu-Ray ripped files for PS3 and this TV won't play such files straight using its USB port.
This TV basically reads both FAT32 and NTFS formats and will read .AVI, .MP4 and .MKV files. I did not test .WMV files but maybe others will confirm.
The real deal which I am excited about here is that .MKV files can't be played on the PS3 nor does FAT32 takes more than 4GB files... The solution with this TV is that now I don't care about HHD space or FAT32. I just download my BLU-RAY movies in .MKV (any file size onto my NTFS drive which takes any file size, no limit) and play them straight on the TV. IT IS STUNNING AND I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. I will certainly just buy the TV for just this feature. The PS3 limited my viewing experience. For those who don't know, .MKV files are mostly Blu-Ray rips and they're AMAZING on this TV...
3- Other internet applications like youtube, netflix or facebook. I use netflix alot on the TV and I am able to stream 100% HD movies because of full signal coming from the bridged router. Youtube in general is also good and has a good interface. Basically there is the app manager which allows you to manage your multiple accounts on youtube/facebook and others here.
4- iPhone App: Oh, this is a SAVER. I don't see why people complain about this free app. You must connect your iPhone and your TV to the same access point or router. In my case, they're and it detects the TV instantly. I may crash at once only at the beginning but it saves you a lot of time specially if you want to type something on the TV like searching for something on Youtube.
BTW, The Multi-language display support on this TV is amazing. From my iPhone, I just type in Arabic on Youtube search and it will show all non-Unicode characters correctly.
5- Game Mode: I play MW2 a lot on the PS3 (PS3 rocks) and I found my character is kinda slow and I experienced what appeared to be lagging. I check my signal and it is full and sometimes I am host and still experience it as well. My previous LCD was great with MW2 as I was used to it and all game settings were in optimal settings for my convenience. I did not change any settings on the game but I was playing really bad on this new TV.....
After reading the manual and a little reading on LED TVs and how the process picture/sound, I am now rocking and rolling with this TV. Basically switch the TV settings to Game Mode. Click on "Menu" then on "General" and then on Mode and set it to Game Mode. I forgot the exact location of this feature from the menu but if you downloaded the user manual for this TV from Samsung, please refer to page 23. It has the instructions there.
I hope this will help the savvies out there since now I've a first-hand experience with this bad boy!!!!!!!!!!
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I bought this a few weeks ago from the local big box (Amazon didnt offer it for sale yet). Did extensive comparisons with the Panasonic 3d TV but bought this one because it is thinner and I might want to eventually mount on a wall. I did notice that Aliens vs. Monsters does have some halo effect where sometime when something very light is next to something very dark it is like there is a smudge around the item (in the movie it most often occurs with the bleach blonde hair of Susan when she is in front of dark background, or around the moon at the beginning). This really bugged me. However, there is no other 3d source material to watch yet, and you cant even use the panasonic 3d demo as it wont work with the samsung tv, so I cant otherwise comment on this rare effect. It does not occur in 2d to 3d conversion or in 2d ever.
The screen has some glare when viewing dark material in daylight, but otherwise the TruBlack does a great job of reducing glare, and 3D glasses reduce glare by 50% as well. I rarely notice glare at all, which is surprising for a plasma.
Other than the rare halo artifact (which is not visible on the Panasonic demo, but I havent seen Monsters vs. Aliens on the Panasonic tv) the tv is virtually flawless. Put in a quality blueray source and the picture is a knockout. Try King Kong, or Pirates of Caribean. Wow. I gaurantee you have never seen such a quality picture ever before. Then, as there isnt currrently any significant 3d source material, try the 2d to 3d conversion (not available on the Panasonic). Wow. It does not have quite as much depth as made in 3d, and sometimes the 3d is not absolutely perfect, but it is amazing. I just watch 2d to 3d all the time and cannot figure out how they do it. The only thing that is annoying with the 2d to 3d is when multiple lines of text are on the screen, each line of text will be given a different depth apparently randomly which is a little wierd, especially because usually it should all be in the same plane. People, scenery, sports, playstation games, etc. all look great--it just does a superb job of extrapolating the 2d into 3d. Love Call of Duty in 2d to 3d. It is like you are there.
I do think that when viewing in 3d you want to be closer to the tv than you would be ordinarily (and many others feel the same). You will also want a bigger screen than you would ordinarily want for 2d. Otherwise, it is like you are looking through a window at a 3d world. I have a home theater room with 100 inch screen and cant wait to get a 3d projector (not available yet in 1080p), but would recommend the largest 3d tv that you can afford, and 63 inches to me is only a half as large as I think is optimum.
Sony and LG are supposed to come out with 3d tvs this June in time for the ESPN 3D launch for World Cup Soccer. As they are LCD based systems they are inferior to the plasmas of Panasonic and Samsung because of the much lower refresh rates. The professional reviewers who saw them at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas commented that they were not as good as the Panasonic and Samsung.
Only things I dont like about the tv besides the occasional halo effect: The stylish remote will only control samsung components, and it annoyingly does that. For example, each time I turn on TV it turns on the samsung blueray player as well which automatically starts playing. I only wanted to watch TV. Rubbish. Plop down a few hundred extra dollars and get the Harmony One remote (but the other harmonies are all crap). Youll be glad you did.
Also avoid the Samsung receiver, it is known to have a lot of problems. Pioneer carries the only other HDMI 1.4 receivers at this time that I am aware of and it works fine for me, although not truly necessary unless you want to pipe the HDMI through the receiver on the way to the TV.
Overall this TV rocks. The 2d and 3d pictures are stunning. The glasses are more comfortable than the Panasonic's. The TV is only an inch thick compared to 4 inches for the panasonic which makes it look like it is from yesteryear. If you are going to wall mount for this reason alone get the Samsung. The LED tvs all suck compared to the plasmas for 3D (although the LEDs are reportedly a little lighter, brighter, lower energy, and better ambient light control all these advantages are slight and the difference in 3d picture quality is large).
Get this TV, you will be glad you did as it is the best of the currently available choices, unless you can wait a year for 3d 1080p projectors and have a dedicated dark room for the projector.
Yes, there is almost no 3d source material currently, but the 2D to 3D conversion alone makes it worth it.
One more note about the 3 channels coming for 3d (ESPN 3D, Discovery 3D, and the third I forget). All cable boxes currently in existance have HDMI 1.3. This wont carry enuf bandwith for 3D, so you can only view 720P picture in 3D as I understand it. I will update post in mid June when view these 720P 3D on ESPN 3D. So far, DishTV and Comcast have contracted to become carriers for ESPN 3D but noone else. Hopefully, 3D TIVO and cable boxes will come soon, as well as more movies besides just Monsters vs. Aliens. Mid summer is release of playstation 3D upgrade, and 3d games should shortly follow, but because of the HDMI 1.3 jack on PS3 these also in 720P only.
6/15/10 Update:
I still love the TV. World Cup Soccer on ESPN 3D is very nice in 3D, (but had to get new cable box from Comcast (have to have one that works with HDMI output, not coaxial output). Shows shot in 3d definately have more depth than 2d to 3d conversion. The 2d to 3d conversion has occasional problems, like in hockey it couldnt understand the ice and makes the ice as a backdrop with the players flying through the air. Works great most of the time, but frankly becomes a novelty after a while.
Almost all brands of receivers now out with HDMI 1.4.
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