Thứ Tư, 30 tháng 10, 2013

Samsung UN32F6300 32-Inch 1080p 120Hz Deal

Kevin Rogers (Massachusetts): I just upgraded to a larger living room, and my old Samsung 46" CCFL-backlit LCD did not cut it. I couldn't even read the text on the screen when browsing the web. So I drew up some diagrams, did some trigonometry, and decided that I needed at least a 60 or 65" TV. Being out of the TV market for several years, I didn't keep up with all the new features and marketing lingo, so I visited a few big box stores to get information on what all of this new "Smart" features, CMR, micro-dimming, etc. Turns out CMR is just a combined rating of processor speed, micro-dimming, dynamic contrast, and other various stuff. Apparently micro-dimming on Samsungs is all software. Why? Because these babies are all edge-lit. They don't have "real" local dimming, only "fake" local dimming.

 U Lala (Orange County, CA - USA):The 6300 doesn't come with the smart remote, which is a bummer because I rather liked that feature. But I wasn't going to pay 400 extra to get the next model up just to have the remote. In fact, I like the 6300 model more than the 6400, 7100, 7500, or 8000 because of the matte screen. I have a window right behind me, and from various angles other windows coming from the sides, so not having nasty reflections on black screens (or anything that happens to be black on the screen) is a big deal to me. I just don't like seeing my own face in the middle of a movie.

Patsfan: This is my first review on Amazon and I normally dont do this, but I feel compelled to write one because most of the reviews on this fabulous TV are missing a key Demographic...GAMERS!!! Skip down to the 2nd paragraph for gaming if you dont want to real this background paragraph. To start off, I purchased the Samsung UN46F6300 46 inch LED TV solely for the purpose of Video gaming, but also for streaming Netflix and Cable TV. With the new XBOX One coming out I knew I had to upgrade from my Dynex 40 Inch LCD TV I purchased before I went away to school in 2009. I did a lot of research and was split on buying an LED TV that was either 120 HZ refresh rate or 240 HZ. After learning that the human eye can barely tell the difference between 120 HZ and 240 HZ I decided to go with 120 HZ because its cheaper and the technology is better developed than 240 HZ.

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Andrew Beasley (Vienna, VA USA) : I love this TV!!! The picture is very clear and nice. Also, the whole complaint about the default setting making everything look to soap opera like is true but it only looks that way because it makes every person or channel look as if the action is happening right in front of you in real life. Even old movies look good on this TV. So, yes you can change the defaults to look more tv like but then what's the point of buying an HDTV when you want the picture to look like an old style tv. The whole point of HD is to have everything look as real as possible and this TV delivers that greatly. If you have no interest in 3D tv then this is the tv for you even if you want a 3D tv all you would have to buy is a 3DFury adapter and it can make this or any other TV a 3D TV in seconds for an extra couple of hundred bucks. So, if you do that, you'd have a $6k Samsung TV for this TV's price. Basically, the best TV choice you could make is this TV.

Suzanne Hurrle: Like all recent Samsung LCD TVs, this is capable of producing a really fantastically lovely image once its settings are adjusted, but the settings it comes with from the factory are just terrible. The first thing to do is to turn off, or use the Custom setting to turn way down, the motion-smoothing effects, which otherwise ruin the depth and look of every camera pan or track. Next, adjust the backlight all the way up, and change color, contrast, and brightness to taste. I found I needed to reduce the contrast and brightness significantly below the maximum, while using the black-level controls as well, to get a less artificially "poppy" image than the unit's default settings.

Anonymous (USA): We ordered this TV after asking a lot questions at local stores and reading many, many reviews. We really wanted JUST a TV, no Smart Technology. When we received the TV, it has been shipped in just the regular box. The back of the box had been damaged and the bottom portion of the TV had a big dent. I filled out the exchange information online and within a few hours we received an email from Amazon that they had shipped another TV overnight and sent a call tag for the pick up of the damaged one.

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Georgia (Denver, CO USA): However, you should still buy this TV. It costs about $100 more than the 6300 (or 6350) but is well worth it? Why? Because for that money you get "micro-dimming". This feature is worth it! The blacks are really black and the picture works well even in a brightly lit room (and my room has lots of windows). Also, the micro-dimming removes glare. Here is how that works. When the TV is off, there is a lot of glare on my screen. Turn on the TV and the glare disappears. Amazing.

Mobed: Finally decided to upgrade from a 4 year old Samsung LCD 6 Series and thought this would be the perfect replacement. Picture quality is crisp and I've yet to throw something at it that it couldn't handle with a 120hz refresh rate although 240hz seems to be the new hype I have trouble really seeing a difference which makes it hard to justify the premium price for it, although this TV is a little on the pricey side it's great for what you pay. Can't judge 3D capability entirely but gave it a whirl using a PlayStation 3 and I must see for at home 3D it's pretty impressive. The TV has an abundance of apps ranging from Facebook to Amazon on demand with more being added as they go. For its size the TV feels incredibly light and is sleek and very thin. The functionality of the remote is a great idea, touch pad, voice recognition, I figured the voice recognition would have been shoddy but it seems to usually get things correct.

Tee4me (Snipeville, OK): I bought this TV for the plethora of glowing reviews it received for its picture performance. I also bought it because it had built-in Wi-Fi. The picture quality is simply amazing! Scenes broadcast in HD look as if they're almost 3D, and by that I mean everything is so clear with unbelievable depth that it makes it look like people and things being broadcast are in the room with you! I previously owned a Panasonic Viera plasma TV, and I can honestly say this Samung LED TV has an even better picture. I didn't think any other current TV technology (except 4K) could touch a plasma. I was wrong. I can't say enough about the picture quality.

Thứ Năm, 17 tháng 10, 2013

Samsung UN50EH5300 50-Inch 1080p 60Hz Deal

G. Peck (Illinois): Samsung's 2012 line of LCD televisions focuses primarily on switching their backlighting from CCFL to direct-array LED. Unlike CCFL lighting, LEDs don't diminish in brightness over time and have an incredibly long lifespan. Additionally, these sets are significantly lighter than their old CCFL counterparts which makes moving them around easier. However, this model is not edge-lit which means it's not really thinner despite the weight savings. The lights are directly behind the screen (i.e. direct-array), which many video purists prefer since it makes the lighting more even. This model does not support local dimming.

R. W. Cope II (Philadelphia, PA): I bought this model not only for the great picture, but for its ability to connect to services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. They work well, though they are bit slow to launch. Finding content using the remote that comes with this TV is a bit tedious. I recommend using a computer to find what you want to watch on those services, and adding it to your queue. Then you can launch the app on the TV, bring up your queue, and start watching more easily.

jon J. Fields : I purchased two of these Samsung 32EH5300s over the holidays, and I am greatly impressed with them. The "full-array" LED lighting makes the TV a bit deeper than the typical edge lit LED TV, but in return you get much more even lighting and an overall better viewing experience. I was also surprised to see how good the Samsung does with standard def (SD) signals - of course not as good as HD quality but much better than the horrible quality I've seen on some LCD / LED TVs in the past.

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LCS007 (Bixby, OK, US): So here's the bottom line. Once I discovered the nuances of my Samsung, dialed in the settings I wanted (don't ask, total trial and error) I could not be happier. The picture clarity is outstanding but does adjust according to the source. For instance my setting for watching a Bluray. The TV remebers that setting and then switches when I go back to TV. Pretty cool! I've found my best picture seems to come from Hulu but it could just be me. Oh, I watched football this weekend, over the air HD quality and I cannot believe the picture.

Bread N' Butter "Pete" (TX): I got this TV a week ago and immediately loved that I could turn it on and immediately use Netflix without having turn on other devices and use a different remote. My girlfriend and I started watching Breaking Bad, but a few episodes in, I noticed the audio was a split second delayed from the video. My girlfriend noticed this too. We switched shows to "Orange is the new black" and the sync issue was even worse. I fired up my PS3 and streamed netflix from that and there were no sync issues. I played netflix shows on my ipad, and again, no sync issues. So I fired up the TV once more and put on a movie called "The Awakening" and the severe audio sync issues came back. This is very frustrating.

Jennifer Heaney : The 3D works fantastic, it is truly amazing to see, better than in the theater. The glasses are light and comfortable and pair up extremely easily with the TV. The TV itself has a beautiful style and looks very expensive,
but I just cannot get over the quality of the 1080 p picture, it may help that we used very high end cables and we also have Direct TV where everything is broadcast in HD, but whether you are watching TV, streaming a movie, watching a DVD, the picture quality is just outstanding, crisp, clear perfect edges, no blurry ness, just like your there.

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Georgia (Denver, CO USA): However, you should still buy this TV. It costs about $100 more than the 6300 (or 6350) but is well worth it? Why? Because for that money you get "micro-dimming". This feature is worth it! The blacks are really black and the picture works well even in a brightly lit room (and my room has lots of windows). Also, the micro-dimming removes glare. Here is how that works. When the TV is off, there is a lot of glare on my screen. Turn on the TV and the glare disappears. Amazing.

John A. Johnson (State College, PA USA): The icon for the panel screen you are currently viewing is encircled with a hexagon. So, when you first turn on the TV, the blue TV icon has a hexagon around it, indicating that the OnTV screen panel is active. You can navigate around the SMART HUB with either the left-right arrows on the Samsung keyboard (or remote--but I always use the keyboard) and hitting the Enter key to select the icon for the screen panel you want, or by using the mouse pad on the keyboard to move the pointer to the icon and tapping the pad to select. Or, if you are scrolling across the main screen with the left or right arrows and continue past the edge of the screen, this will take you to the next panel.

Gerriet Bolt "Pop Lifer" (IOWA CITY, IA United States): My last 2 TVs have been plasmas, and while I adored the picture quality and natural, cinematic motion, I grew annoyed with having to obsess over the possibility of burn-in or image retention. I know, I know... today's plasmas are practically worry-free in the area of burn-in. Except that my 2011 Samsung got it from some weather delay announcements during the break-in period (when I wasn't around to monitor). It's still on there to this day, though luckily you have to look pretty hard to notice. Plus there was the infamous "buzz" noise that many plasma owners have had to suffer through, seemingly at random (some people hear it, others don't, it depends on elevation or your viewing angle, etc., etc.). Plus the super glossy screen basically turned into a flashlight during the day, reflecting any and all light sources coming from the window.

Samsung UN46F5500 46-Inch 1080p 60Hz Deal

Gotham Observer "porkboy" (NYC, NY):  I have a set of computer speakers that I plugged into the mini jack audio out of the TV. You cannot control the external speakers with the TV remote by this method. Since my computer speakers do not have a remote it means I have to get up and walk across the room to turn the volume down or just use the TV speakers which are pretty worthless due to the nature of every flat screen TV - they must have the speakers in the back by design. I contacted Samsung support and they confirmed that the mini jack audio out is a fixed volume and cannot be altered with the remote.

Charles S. Yordy III "Charlie" (Arlington, VA): Just got this last night at a big box store. So far I have no complaints. The picture looks even better in my home than it did at the store, where the contrast and vibrancy of colors "popped" far more than comparable models around it. This TV replaces a Samsung LN32A450 32-Inch, bought end of 2008, and is our main living room TV.

Thomas P. Krafft "thomaskrafft" (Eaton, Colorado): I mainly used it for netflix/hulu/amazon/youtube streaming and it works great. It reads my portable hard drive quite well too. The picture quality is great and the apps work awesome so far. I tried the web browser with the remote and it was painful, I would definitely invest in a keyboard (perhaps the logitech k400r - usb) if I was going to browse the web with it.