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Date: 2008-05-27 Wonderful Picture The picture looks great, Planet Earth in 1080P is a sight everybody needs to see. The only problem I have is that the screen's weight will create a small bow effect. Straight lines on the screen have a slight curve, but it doesn't make the picture any worse and the bow is so slight that it isn't noticeable unless you are looking for it. This is a wonderful HDTV with a wonderful picture that I can't stop recommending to all my friends and family. Date: 2008-05-14 Awesome TV and Great Price So this was my first purchase on Amazon and they were great! This TV is a great tv. The picture is amazing. I was reading about this tv and some people were saying the sound isn't that good. At first it really isn't that good, but if you go into settings you can adjust it and allow some time to burn in make it sound pretty good. If you are going to get this tv you really should have a surround sound setup though. One issue I have with the tv is that the screen is really flexible and can distort the picture if the tv isn't perfectly level. All I had to do to correct the issue was apply just a small amount of pressure on the very top of the tv and the screen reset itself to reveal a perfect picture. Overall it has been a great set and I would buy it again if I needed to. Date: 2008-05-06 Great product The reason I bought this television is because i originally wanted it since 2006 but couldn't afford it. I went on and bought a Phillips because they were couple hundred dollars cheaper. Now that it was affordable we bought the tv and couldn't be happier. I read the reviews after buying the tv and they kind of freaked me out but I am glad I bought it. I don't have any problems with it and it was in its original box well presented and works well. LOOKS GOOD. Date: 2008-04-29 Great TV w/ a slight curve This is a great TV with great quality. One of its flaws is that the housing of the lights in a DLP TV cause the runners on the bottom of the TV to "smile" at you, but just a little. Not noticeable unless you have a ticker running. Only has 2 AV inputs, I wish it had a couple more. Great TV otherwise. Date: 2008-04-14 Problems? WHAT Problems...Mine's Perfect After about a month of researching and waffling, my wife and I went to Circuit City and saw the Samsung HLT6176S DLP HDTV in person. In a row with other projection sets by Sony, Mitsubishi and Hitachi, this 61" screen stood out, even in the bright store lights. So, we logged on to Amazon and ordered it for about 33 percent less than the SRP, with white glove delivery to boot. I was worried because some o the reviews of this model mentioned a curvature of the screen that was really obvious. My picture lays flat, is very bright and detailed. The controls, for such a complex appliance, are amazingly intuitive. There are no artifacts on the image, no ladders and scaling, no halos, shadows or rainbow effects. There is a cooling fan for the lamp but I have yet to hear it. The set is utterly quiet. I am having so much fun with it, it's almost freaky. I was really delighted to find that a $45 progressive scan Toshiba DVD player delivers a crisp near-HD picture to the Samsung. I've dropped my plans to get an upconverting DVD player because, frankly, I don't feel that I need one. The image from my nearly free Toshiba progressive scan is thrilling enough for now. In fact, I am much comforted by my Toshiba DVD player, because I have come to the conclusion that Blu-Ray is not ready for prime time. I was on the very verge of buying a Samsung P1200 player until I read the scathing reviews here at Amazon. "Okay," I said, "I'll bite the bullet, pay a couple hundred more and get the P1400." Then, again, I looked at the Amazon reviews. Then I looked at the Sony reviews. The thing to remember about a Blu-Ray player is that it is a little computer. It does not play the disk as it goes along, but uploads the content into its memory, THEN plays the program. The player is controlled by firmware which seems to be revised every 25 minutes or so. Depending on the player you get, You might have version 1.0, 1.1, 1.3...whatever. There is a good chance that right out of the box, with the plastic dust cover still on the player, the piece is already obsolete --either incompatible with older Blu-Ray disc releases, or forward incompatible -unable to play the newest releases. Now the manufacturers have a simple fix: load new firmware. Panasonic's is downloadable on a PC and you then burn it onto a CD that you feed into the Blu-Ray. Samsung is putting Ethernet ports on their machines, so you can download the new firmware versions right into the machine. Other manufacturers will mail you a new firmware CD. Trouble is, some brands and models upload the firmware better than others. Some reviewers report their Blu-Rays working worse after the "upgrade." In any event, after dropping $399 or $499 or $1099 for a Blu-Ray deck, it would be nice if the thing worked with out all the rigmarole. I believe Blu-Ray should be ready for serious consideration by consumers after the Christmas season of 2008. By then (if they don't want to breathe life back into the corpse of HD-DVD), I am hoping the manufacturers will offer us a fully debugged version 2.0 firmware, and players that are, frankly, much better constructed and much more reliable than the current crop. It would also be nice if the players were affordable. This is not the kind of economy, right now, where you want to sell a mass market item, like video software, on the back of unaffordable, unreliable hardware. So I am waiting for the Spring of 2009, God willin' and the river don't rise, before I go Blu. In the meantime I am going to let Cable HD and my fifty-buck progressive scan Toshiba provide the thrills.
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