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Date: 2008-04-07 Great Picture !! Too bad it only lasted four days.... Great Picture, but after four days the LCD circuit board blew. Part is on back order and will take seven days to get. OUCH! I will say Samsung Service Dept. was very friendly and within three days had a Repair Rep.out to diagnose the problem. Will give more feed back when T.V. is fixed on Thur. Date: 2008-04-05 Awsome TV I guess I am one of the lucky ones, I checked out alot of TV's before I made my decision, I chose this one for the LED technology. Despite some bad reviews for the halo effect experienced by other people, I haven't had a bit of problem with this set. My family loves it and the picture is perfect. Don't be discouraged by reading some of the reviews, don't just read the bad ones read the good ones also. I made my decision based on the reviews, Buy this TV, you won't be disappointed. Date: 2008-04-04 For a year now I've had this TV. HD Movies, Video Games, HD Sports... all look AMAZING. I got this TV back in July of '07. Before it I had a 65 inch Toshiba Rear Projection HDTV. I loved my older TV. But after seeing Fight Night on the Xbox 360 on someone else's new plasma, I knew that my TV was just not good enough anymore. In my opinion that is. So I started to look for a new TV and I really liked the DLP's. Very nice picture for not that much money...unlike Plasma or LCD. I was down to either buying a Samsung or a Mitsubishi. In the end I went with the Samsung because I've always liked them over Mitsubishi. When it arrived at the house (I ordered through Amazon), the delivery guys brought it in and asked if I wanted it opened and put anywhere. I declined since I hadn't bought my stand yet (which I promptly left and bought). It arrived with no faults, no scratches, and no dings. Great delivery. Now I have two roommates. And one of them kept bugging me about me getting the new TV. "Why are you buying a new tv?", "You're TV looks just fine", "Is it really gonna be that much different?", "You could use the money for something else you know"...blah blah blah. I thought I had a new long term relationship I didn't know about. When the TV was hooked up, and the lights dimmed down, is when the magic began. Turning the TV on about blew my eyes out of my sockets. It just happened to be on MHD (Cox Cables HD music channel) with a white background (their commercials look amazing). Everyone in the living room couldn't see anything (in a good way...I think... heh). Then I switched it over to ESPNHD. What I got to see was the repeat of Barry Bond's record breaking homerun trot around the bases over and over in 1080i. My mouth dropped. And then my one roommate said "Wow...no friggin wonder you bought a new TV". I stayed up with my TV for about 48 hours. Playing games... watching HD movies... watching just regular HD TV. It was great. As for gaming. I have a 360 elite, PS3, and a Wii all hooked up via HDMI except for the Wii which can only be hooked up to component and can only broadcast in 720p. Let me tell you something...there just ain't any turning back from this TV once you've seen it. Sure you can go forward...but no turning back. Games I've played for the PS3 would be Ratchet and Clank, and Drakes Fortune, and Motorstorm. All look incredible. We had the PS3 hooked up to the Toshiba at first because we ran out of HDMI spots on the TV, then we swapped it over to the Samsung and BOOM...a MUCH MUCH better picture. So crisp... so clear. So vibrant. The 360 games are also amazing. I stick to the 360 more because of usually better PQ and frame rates (99% of the time at least). Assassin's Creed, D.I.R.T., NCAA, Fight Night, Call of Duty 4, Rainbow 6 Vegas....*sigh*... all look amazing. Sometimes you just have to see it to believe it. The Wii, even though it can only go up to 720p, still looks nice. Such as Zelda and Mario Galaxy and even the dated Resident Evil 4. Nothing spectacular, but still nice. As for movies. My HD-DVD's and Blu-Ray's look phenomenal...depending on if the transfer was done right. Most of the time it's your transfer on your disc or either your player that is making the movie look like crap. But movies such as Bourne (whichever), Transformers, Matrix (whichever), and Batman look superb on HD-DVD. Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End and Sunshine (god the Sun has never looked more beautiful) look amazing in Blu-Ray. When Capt Jack Sparrow was sniffing for the peanut at the beginning of the movie on the boat in the deserted desert, you could see every black pore on his nose. Even regular movies look great up-converted in my HD-DVD player (Toshiba's HD-XA2). As for HD-TV: Well since I started watching HD channels, I can not seem to bring myself to watch any SD channels (well almost any). So I would have to miss certain TV at the time. Thankfully Cox Cable is getting more channels every month in HD and now I can almost watch everything I want to. I hate seeing a fuzzy picture that's also not widescreen. It's just so ugly to see. Most of the HD channels look amazing... such as Discovery, ESPN, MusicHD, and many others. Even though the channels are broadcasting in 1080i, it's still a great picture. Most people cant even tell a difference between 1080i and p anyways. As for Sports in HD: There really are no words to explain this. If you haven't seen sports in HD, then you are sadly missing out on one of the best inventions ever. I barely even go to the bar anymore because they don't have HD. I'll only go if my team isn't being broadcast on cable. Only a couple things I found that I don't like in over a year. 1. This is probably the worst and I am almost sure it's the TV's DLP technology that does it. Sometimes on certain movies or TV shows, it seems like the way the movie or show was filmed causes a blurring effect or either like a washed out effect on the TV. Two examples I can think of is one movie named Dog Soldiers and one TV show called Journeyman (the main actor is both actually). I've SOMETIMES seen it on Heroes, but not nearly as bad as Journeyman. I don't think it's the rainbow effect that I've heard about DLP's (especially since the LED engine was supposed to prevent that in most people). One of my friends doesn't notice it until I point it out. Then it becomes annoying almost. Like I said though... this barely happens. I've never seen it on a videogame. Never on an HD or Blu movie. Rarely on a DVD. And sometimes on TV... and it's usually the same shows which makes me believe its how it was filmed (the film... frame rate... lighting... coloring... something is doing it and I don't know what) I watch a lot of movies just so you know. 2. A shimmer effect occurs when lines become to close together. Imagine an umpire who has much thinner black and white lines and many more of them on his uniform. There would be a slight shimmer effect that occurs because when up close to the TV, you can tell the lines are slightly curvy, like the letter `S', so it shimmers like the light bouncing off a snakes skin. It doesn't bother me that bad, but I notice it. 3. More HDMI ports would've been nice. That's for sure 4. I'm not a fan of that bright white light that comes on when the TV is on. Sure it looks `fancy' and `hi-tech' I guess...but it annoys me. Plus when the TV is all black on the screen, you can sometimes notice the white light on the screen. Irritates me more than anything. *EDIT on 6th Apr* Thanks to Daniel in the comments section, I've learned that you can turn this light off which I'll promptly do when I return home. Other than that, I don't have many gripes for over the year I've had it. I got the TV for about 2100 bucks from Amazon, and I love it. If you're upgrading your TV, then you will not be upset about purchasing this sweet work of art. Definitely go for it. Date: 2008-03-30 TV is awesome.....BUT, if you have FiOS and want to see your signal through HDMI you are screwed!! I contacted Verizon and Samsung and they both confirmed that there is an "incompatabilty" with the fiber optics and Samsung televisions. Neither of them would give any clue as to how one or the other was going to remedy it (via hardware/firmware upgrades, replacement parts/boxes, etc.). Basically I can obtain the best signal only through component, which is fine, but it's not HDMI. Other than that, the TV performs great. My XBOX 360 and Wii games look awesome! Hopefully others can benefit from this small bit of warning if they already have FiOS before they hunker down almost $2k and realize that it won't work via HDMI, OR if you already have the TV, you may want to subscribe to a different provider so you can utilize HDMI. Date: 2008-03-28 GREAT !! What a great deal , I've been looking at this model for a year now. I was a little worried about spending so much over the internet. But WOW. I saved over $800.00 from what best buy was asking ( the same day). My new TV was delivered in less than 1 week. The colors are great , Blacks are Blacker than I've ever seen. The ONLY con so far is that the sound is not all that good , but I matched it up with a new Sammy home theater.
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