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Date: 2008-12-02 Finally pleased I received my first TV just as advertised. Great picture and everything was good for a couple of days. Then I started having problems. TV would turn off and on. I upgraded the firmware, but that did not solve the problem. The problem got worse with the picture locking up and making a loud buzzing noise, then turning off and on. Called Samsung and they said they would get back to me in 3 business days with a repair. They did not call back, so I called them. They were unable to find anyone in my area to make the repair so their rep. said I would get a refund. Called them back and they had no record of that conversation and still wanted me to wait on repair man. I called Amazon and they were great. They sent me a new TV quicker than I got the first one. I have had it for a couple of weeks now and everything seems fine with it. The picture is great and everyone comments on how clear it is. I would recommend this TV and I have. I am skeptical of Samsung service. A repair man did finally call me back...the same day I got the new TV. I will do business with Amazon again. Date: 2008-12-02 Excellent TV! This is a great quality TV with an amazing picture quality. My only warning is that if the tv with be in a room with alot of light you may see alot of glare. The bezel touch of color is very subtle and barely noticeable while viewing. Overall, I am very satisfied and happy with this TV. Date: 2008-12-02 My Samsung TV Review i bought this television about 4 months ago. It is the best tv i have ever bought. In this tv they advertise the 120Hz, they advertise this to make it seem very face(which it is) BUT with turning the settings up u tend to get large pixals infront or behind a object. So i have my settings on low. I have also bought the Best Buy calibration, the factor calibration is all right but the screen is SO bright which causes your tv's life to decrease. Also with the calibration i have saved 8$ in my electric bill each month and that is always nice. I suggest the Best Buy calibration for this tv u will see SUCH a big difference. Date: 2008-12-01 Samsung 650 lcd tv Love this tv. Great picture, enough inputs, does just what I needed to handle digital photos as well. Only bought it a month ago, and no problems at all so far. Delivery was prompt, set was put on the base, the only problem was that the bottom of the box was very dirty, requiring local cleaning of our carpet. Didn't realize how dirty till the box was moved after opening. Date: 2008-11-30 Blown away This is the first HDTV I've ever bought, and I'm utterly stunned at how beautiful 1080i and 1080p feeds are. My primary uses for the TV were originally just going to be gaming (xbox360) and watching Blu-Ray movies, but after seeing the local news broadcast in HD, I called up my cable company and ordered an HD-DVR and HD cable because of how amazing it looks. After seeing the Georgia Tech football game in HD, it convinced me even more. I really like the wealth of options you can change, although I found the picture settings to be perfect right out of the box. I find myself switching AutoMotion+ on and off pretty frequently depending on what I'm doing - for normal TV and movies it looks really fake, so I turn it off, but for sports and video games it looks amazing, so that's really the only time I ever put it on (I put it at medium, sometimes the screen gets a little choppy when I put it on high... not sure if it's just my eyes playing tricks or if it's an issue with the TV). It's true, the remote is a little lame, but the remote that comes with the Samsung BD-P1500 works well with the TV and is a little better designed for basic tasks. I mean, I bought the TV for the picture, not the remote. No big deal. The speakers are surprisingly good. I turned on the TruSurround feature and I'm very pleased. Of course, it can't compete with a dedicated home theater setup, but it will tide me over nicely until I decide on which HT system to buy down the road. As for the reflection issues, I have two large windows with direct sunlight that shine onto my TV screen, and while I can see a perfect reflection on the screen when the TV is off, when the TV is on the picture is so bright and vibrant that you seriously don't see any reflections at all. The exception is when you are watching something with lots of dark colors - then you can see the reflections, but it really isn't bad enough to bother me at all. The black levels on this TV are --AMAZING--. The deepest blacks are just as dark as the bezel around the screen, and the sheer amount of black shades this TV can produce is mindboggling... it's light years ahead of other LCDs. I watched Sunshine on Blu-Ray and the frequent space shots (it's a sci-fi movie) were incredibly realistic because of how perfect the black levels were. It's great for gaming, too - I played Dead Space on xbox360 for a few hours and there are frequent times when the lights go out and lighting is minimal. On my computer's LCD screen (a Hanns-G 22 incher) I could barely see anything because of how bad the black levels used to be, but on this Samsung I can see everything perfectly without any of the washed-out black levels I was used to on the other screen. Simply beautiful. The touch-of-color looks cool when the TV is off, but I never even notice it unless I'm consciously looking for it. It's a purely aesthetic thing, and it adds to the glossy beauty of the screen and bezel. Connectivity is perfectly adequate, and it's very easy to navigate inputs. No cons here. My only true complaint about this TV isn't even confined to just this TV - it's more so for all HDTVs. This is my first HDTV, and I was worried when I kept reading that non-HD (standard definition) broadcasts look bad on HDTVs. Well, they were right. Regular cable channels look really bad on HDTVs, but HD cable channels are unbelievably pretty. It's kind of strange how bad some of the non-HD cable channels look, but I can say that as bad as they look on this Samsung, they actually look better on here than on any other HDTV I researched. I looked at a Polaroid and a Phillips LCD HDTV with non-HD cable broadcasts and it was truly unbearably bad. With this Samsung, it's only slightly disappointing. So, while it's a con, this TV actually does it better than the other ones I've seen. The only thing that can slightly rectify some of the poor standard-def quality issues is changing the aspect ratio from 16:9 to 4:3. It looks smaller, obviously, but sometimes it makes a difference. All in all, I couldn't be more pleased with this TV. It's truly beautiful, and I am so glad I waited to pull the trigger long enough to grab a TV like the LN46A650. Blu-Ray and Xbox360 have never looked so amazing, and Amazon had the cheapest price hands down (it's cheap to begin with here, but the free $200 Blu-Ray player was the icing on the cake).
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