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Date: 2005-04-21 samsung versus sony I owned the samsung 42" dlp before this unit. The samsung service was INCREDIBLY bad--it couldn't be any better than what is described in other reviews. I had innumerable problems with this TV, including service calls, washed out images, and total failure. I finally got them to give me "permission" to trade this in for the sony. This product is far superior. However, do yourself a favor and get a calibration disc. This will improve the picture immeasurably. If you are going to spend big bucks on a tv, pay the money to get the dark/light and color in focus. How can others complain about the "black," if they haven't had it professionally calibrated? Playing with the tv menu and complaining is like changing the stations on your car radio and saying your engine now runs rough. geez! My only complaint also concerns outputs which are limited as another person stated. However, if you hook up inputs correctly, the output problem becomes mute. I run a satellite receiver, DVD/VHS, 6 speakers (psb and paradigm) and audio receiver with this TV, so connections are a bit tricky. I also wish that they had included the computer input which many other hdtv's have--however the price of this tv is somewhat lower than other 50" so that trade-off seems understandable. For the money this is a great tv, and 50" is a wonderful size for a larger living room. Date: 2005-03-31 Great for HDTV but... I've had this TV for the last 2 weeks and am satisfied so far. However, as some of the others pointed out, this is best for HD channels and DVDs. Currently, we get about 10 HD channels on cable and the rest is regular broadcast as 480i and 4:3 aspect. These non-HD telecasts are not what you would expect them to be in terms of picture quality using this TV (probably any other large screen has the same problem). The cables are a rip-off so do not forget to account for its cost. Date: 2005-03-08 DO NOT BUY THIS TV! I bought this TV back in in mid-Nov '04. About a month and a half later, green and pink spots began appearing all over the television. I immediately called Sony to get it fixed. TWO MONTHS LATER, THE TV IS STILL NOT FIXED. Their repair companies have come to my house twice (I had to take time off of work) and have not fixed it. When I have tried to setup new appointments, my phone calls have not been returned. Sony's customer service is absolutely HORRIBLE. I cannot even get Sony supervisor's to return my phone calls. I will never buy a Sony product again. Spare yourself some major heartache and buy a different brand. Date: 2005-02-02 Ours broke in 6 days My wife and mother-in-law purchased our TV on the net. It stopped working after only 6 days. Sony sent a local repair shop to try to fix the set and he was unable to find out what was the problem. We asked the repairman how we should deal with the situation and the first thing he said was he wouldn't have bought a Sony in the first place, the repairman would have bought a Mitsubishi. We have contacted Sony and the internet retailer several time and we have not been able to have the problem resolved. Luckily our charge card company reversed the payment. The TV had good picture and sound until it broke but the customer service from Sony is the worst. Be careful buying large high ticket items off the Net that will be hard or impossible to return. The cross country freight for this TV is $250.00 Date: 2005-01-18 What does an LCD HD monitor look like without HD signals... I'd like to start this review with a disclaimer. I am very happy with the TV. It works exactly the way it's supposed to. Problem is, nobody who sells the thing tells you how it's SUPPOSED to work. When you are looking at these things in the store, notice that there is always a DVD playing, or they have the set turned to Discovery HD Theater. There is a reason for this. An LCD HD monitor that is showing a regular (I think analog) or even a digital signal will not show well. The picture quality is lower than that of a regular CRT TV in these cases due to the extreme pixelation of the image. However, if you position the TV correctly in your viewing space, some of this will be aleviated. For a 50 inch TV, you should sit back between 10-15 feet from the screen. From that far, you really won't see the pixels, so it won't bother you. (You can definitely tell the difference between HD and non-HD from this disctance still). This viewing disctance is what the manufacturers tell you to do. Do not buy this TV and sit 8 feet away and expect to be happy with it. I say all this not to harp on Sony. THEIR PRODUCT WORKS JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE'S LCD!!! You should know this because currenlty only 10-15 channels are broadcast in HD depending on your vendor and region. Therefore - if you have 150 channels, 90% will not be in HD, so the majority of your viewing will be pixelated. OK - all that said - it's a great TV. All the pro's have already been discussed - so I won't go there. * Price is subject to change. |
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