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Summary: Best LCD picture for a 37 inch on the market, BEWARE OF THE SOUND
Comment: This LCD when used with a HD signal is the best in the 37 inch class. It has all the connection ports you could need, with 3 HDMI ports included. No other LCD could compare in picture quality at this price. But you must have a HD signal, and you must subscribe to a provider that offers 100% digital. Otherwise, all of your channels will look terrible except for the HD channels. If you have Comcast forget about watching anything other then the HD channels. I cannot write enough good things about the picture quality. However, how Samsung allowed this model to reach the consumer market with its audio system is disturbing. This TV "HAS NO BASS"!!!!!!! My PC speakers sound like a multiplex theater compared to these! Honestly, if anyone writes that bass quality is an individual taste, and writes that this TV has "just fine" bass, DO NOT BELIEVE THEM. THIS TV HAS NO BASS, EVEN WHEN USING THE EQUALIZER BLASTED AT FULL CAPACITY! I GUESS SAMSUNG JUST WANTED YOU TO INVEST IN A THEATER SYSTEM TOO. MY WIFE LOVES THE PICTURE QUALITY SO MUCH, I GUESS ITS A KEEPER. Since we use this tv in the bedroom, a theater system is totally out of the question. I plan to buy the gigaworks T40s as "plug-n-plays". Amazon has a great deal on them.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Monitor set
Comment: I have had this set for 3 weeks now, I loveit, great value for money. Unfortunately, my cable provider is not great in broadcasting HD Channels for me to experience the full glory of this set. Nonetheless, happy with my purchase.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Earns its five stars
Comment: This unit has far exceeded my expectations. The HD picture quality is superb, with Dish Network being my primary source, and deep blacks are so black it looks like the set is off. I also love getting full HD resolution when I plug my MacBook into the VGA input.
As others have said, though, the built-in speakers are poor. Since I don't have room for a full surround sound system, my solution was to get Bose Companion 3 speakers which simply plug into the headphone jack. Although they're technically "computer speakers," they sound great with the TV and have plenty of volume.
The "white glove" delivery worked out well; they showed up when they said they would and set it up for me.
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Summary: Outstanding, phenomenal 1080p set for the money
Comment: This is an outstanding, phenomenal set for the money.
Its only real shortcoming is that it will show up the mediocre quality of any sub-1080p legacy devices you connect to it. You will also have to make sure that you grasp the interconnectedness of the various modes and picture adjustments so as to get the very best out of whatever you are playing through it. Well transferred DVDs, with a good upscaling 1080p DVD player, will look stunning. Mediocre DVDs will look at least much better than you thought possible. Older 480p progressive scanning DVD players will look, well, mediocre.
Standard definition cable TV through the RF antenna input looks amazingly good, all things considered, if you take the time to tweak the display profiles to accommodate the very limited, narrow bandwidth palettes of those sources.
That said, it's a real stunner with a good 1080p player. There is a noticeable quality difference between 1080i component video and 1080i or 1080p HDMI video. You should try and use the HDMI inputs whenever possible.
Samsung claims that the set has an almost 180 degree viewing range. If by that they mean that you can stand at extreme angles and still see a useable picture, that is correct. But if you assume that means that it will be as good as a plasma, or old style CRT, which has almost no loss at all at the most extreme angles, you will be disappointed. Although LCD manufacturers have made great strides in extending the viewable angle for LCDs, they are LCDs, not plasmas or CRTs. This set still has a noticeable "sweet spot" were the picture looks the very best. Standing up, or moving off the to side produces a noticeable loss of contrast.The difference is slight, but noticeable. It's no where near as bad as earlier sets.
But there is a sweet spot. Viewing in bright environments where the contrast and lamp level of the set have been cranked up to compete with the ambient brightness will probably mask this effect. Viewing in subdued to dim lighting environments, like you would want for watching films, with the set adjusted to output subtle tones and the very best movie quality image, tends to call attention to it. That said, the set has robust but very subtle color and excellent blacks and contrast range if properly adjusted.
If anyone had suggested three years ago that you would be able to get this level of technology and sophistication at about one-thousand dollars, no one would have believed it possible.
It is a great set.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Too much picture distortion
Comment: None of the available picture configurations other than 4:3 looks natural, which isn't true of my Samsung 40" set.
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