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Date: 2006-04-15 Go Ahead, Buy It!!! I won't waste your time telling you how great this TV is, the other reviewers have covered that and I agree.What I will say is,if you're having doubts about buying a big screen on line, let me ease your mind. First of all, the price is excellent. Best Buy sells this for $2699.00. Plus, you'll pay tax and probably pay for delivery too. Amazons listed price is ALL you'll pay. As for shipping,it took about 10 days and was delivered by a moving company who brought it in the house, set it up and even took the box and packing materials with them. Fifteen minutes after the truck pulled in my driveway I was watching TV, no exaggeration. Did I mention that the picture is incredible? Anyway, go ahead, buy this from Amazon right now! Date: 2006-04-10 Great TV I got my TV about a mounth ago A+ Great TV easy to set up to work and great to watch Date: 2006-04-08 Great Investment I finally decided to upgrade from my 27" tube and go with a big HDTV. I purchased this tv last weekend (03-31-06) from a local Circuit City store. They had it delivered the very next day, unboxed it, conntected it, and made sure it worked. The picture quality is incredible. I also purchased a Samsung progressive scan HD-convert DVD player with this TV. I don't think I will ever go to the movie theater again. The sound quality from the built in speakers is decent. I have the TV hooked up to my HTS so I only use the TV's speakers when I watch regular tv. I hooked up my Xbox to this TV using the component cables and the graphics are incredible. Be sure to go into your Xbox settings (from the dashboard) and enable 480p, 720p, 1080i, and widescreen. I didn't do that at first and was very disappointed with the graphics and got nausea from the stretched and blocky image. Once I enabled those settings it made a HUGE difference. Also, the menu and setup for the tv is extremely user-friendly. It is very straight forward and self explanatory. My complaints about this tv are the TV Guide feature, the included (universal) tv remote included, and the "rainbow effect". As far as the TV Guide, it does not work for me at all. I've keyed in all our local settings and it is not providing us with any listings. Everything is showing "not available". As far as the tv remote, it's a universal remote which allows you to program and control a DVD player, VCR, and Cable box. Like I said, I purchased a Samsung DVD player along with this tv and am only able to control "play" and "stop" from the tv remote. I am unable to scroll through the DVD menu, needless to say make any selections. Good thing I purchased a separate universal remote from CC at the time of this purchase. The "rainbow effect" was only something I had read about in regards to DLP's but never actually seen it. Yesterday, however, I started noticing it while watching a DVD (24 season 3). It only occurs in certain scenes, and like I said, I only noticed it for the first time yesterday, so it's only on certain DVD's. Someone had mentioned a loud fan. If you are watching tv on mute you will hear the fan, but I sure don't. You will only hear the fan after you turn off your TV. The fan will stay on for about a minute to cool down the bulb. Not a problem for me. Overall, the picture quality is incredible. Watching anything in HD makes up for the negative. If you plan on using HDMI I'd recommend buying the HDMI cable from Walmart for about $25. The least expensive HDMI cable Circuit City had was selling for an outrageous $100. I did purchase a Monster Surge Protector (stage 1) for a little over $100. I would highly recommend it. If I could do it again I probably would have invested in a stage 2 or 3 surge protector and paid the extra $200-$300. I did not opt for their extended warranty. PS. Our living room looks so much nicer with this TV, it's not only a great piece of electronic, but also a great piece of furniture. Date: 2006-03-24 Great TV Can't be beat for the price. No lag problems playing PS2 games. Awesome for watching DVDs. Date: 2006-03-22 Great TV! After watching a few football games on my buddies 50" Samsung DLP. I knew it was time for me to get mine! After a couple of months of researching the pro's and con's of DLP vs. LCD vs. Plasma I finally went with the 56" Samsung just for the fact that my friend had his for 6 months at that point and had no problem. Now where to order it from? It made no sense to pay the extra cash that the big box stores were advertising the same TV from anywhere from $500 to $2500 more then some on line stores. Now the question became who to choose as my on line store. So once again the research began, pro's and con's to alot of stores, even some bad reviews of Amazon.Com. I decided to go with Amazon, because I had used them in the past for some smaller item purchases and never had any issues. I am glad I went with Amazon.Com as I believe I got the best price at the time for the same TV then several other on line store. Ended up paying right at 1999.99 for this TV. Actually only $200 more then my friends 50"! The only issue that I had with Amazon.Com was when I initially ordered the TV on a Thurs. the web site said it shipped in 24 hrs and was in stock. Well it was in stock but what happened was that as a security measure from my credit card company, they put a hold on the purchase until verification was given that I was ordering the TV. The problem was that Amazon sent me the confirmation that the order had been received but had not been processed yet and that they would send me another email when the transaction processed. Now it's Friday and I still never receive another email stating the transaction went through. So I call Amazon's customer service, which by the way, was very good! Despite reading some negative reviews. I had no problem contacting them. As a matter of fact they have a cool on line contacting system where you tell them to call you either immediately or in increments of 5 or 10 min. You give them a number to call and BAM your phone rings! I suppose you just need to know how to navigate their site. I had no problem with it. Anyway, when I did talk to them they said they werent sure why it hadnt processed but was sure it would be ok by 5pm. Sat morning, still no confirmation! So I decided to call the credit card company on my own just to verify that the transaction had even hit their system. It did, but were waiting on verification from me the the order was valid. So I clear that up and they process the order right then. That was the only real heart burn that I had with Amazon, they should have been able to tell me that the CC company needed to be contacted vs. me doing it myself. So now it's Sun, 3 days after my initial order. Get the confirmation email from Amazon saying it will ship on Mon as they don't ship on Sun. Mon morning rolled around and I get the email stating it was shipped out with at tracking number. Well the tracking # didn't work when I went to check it and again I called Amazon customer service and again very good service from the people I talked to. They gave me the name of the shipping company and number and said if I had any additional issue to call them back. I didn't, with the exception of getting the first available date of delivery to my house, which wasn't amazon's fault. So in total it ended up being 10 days before I got my TV. Once it was finally delivered to the house the guys came in unpacked it and set it up. Right out of the box the picture was great! I had read many reviews that a lot of work had to be done to get the pic right. Not in my case. I was waiting on my DirecTV HD box so I just had standard cable but even that looked great running it through my S-Video cable. DVD's spectacular! Once I got the HD TV up and running a few days later and surround sound going it has been the best investment that I have made in awhile. The picture is stellar, no pixallization (sp?) and a lot of local channels are broadcasting in HD now. I acuatlly have had more problems with the satellite feed then the TV itself. If you looking at this TV it is worth the money. Just don't have that new TV fever thinking you will have it in a few days. The anticipation will drive you nuts! * Price is subject to change. |
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